Nvidia GPU rates tokenized by Injective, boosting access for AI compute markets
The Injective Overview - August 25, 2025
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Injective By the Numbers
$INJ price: $13.37 (-3.74%)
Token market cap: $1.31B (-3.61%)
Total $INJ staked: 54.9M (-2.14%)
Staking APR: 12.72% (+2.42%)
Injective daily trading volume: $106.21M (+38.33%)
The percentages and metrics are calculated from its change over a 14-day time frame, unless noted otherwise.
Injecting in the biggest developments
Highlighting some of the largest announcements from Injective.
🥷What’s happening: Injective launched an onchain market for tokenized NVIDIA graphic processing units (GPU).
🥷Why it matters: In a collaboration with Squaretower, a compute markets development company, Injective leverages a custom decentralized oracle to provide real-time price feeds that update every hour. Through this, the network is able to create a market that reflects costs from compute providers and exposure for GPU markets via onchain rails.
This initiative will allow users to trade perpetual contracts based on the hourly rental price of an Nvidia graphics card, or GPU, which is a chip used by PCs, AI models, deep learning and other technologies for performing generative tasks.
Previously, GPU rental markets were inaccessible due to centralized platforms and enterprise agreements which limited participation to solely institutional players or those with significant resources like capital or connections. Now, users can engage with GPU rental markets through tokenized avenues and having its rates onchain.
🥷 The bigger picture: AI compute infrastructure has historically been inaccessible in markets, but transforming it into a tradable instrument showcases Injective’s commitment to creating novel financial strategies across all types of assets.
Specifically for this release, it caters toward the growing demand for AI-related assets. Since users can trade the cost of GPUs, it allows them to make a financial bet within a high demand market.
All in, Injective aims to unlock liquidity for a previously illiquid and inaccessible market, fostering broader participation and potentially driving more attention to onchain markets.
Expanding its financial ecosystem
Updates on the latest network of dApps, validators, builders and more helping Injective expand its financial use cases.
Check out these accelerator programs for Injective ecosystem founders to receive grant funding and mentorship
Cointelegraph Accelerator announced its 12-week program
Outlier Ventures announced its 9-week program
Weekly active users on Injective reached 110K on Aug 17, a new high on the year
Injective recorded 234.53M dApp related transactions on the week, the most among all blockchains
Injective Labs Head of Research Brandon Goss shared the network facilitated $291M in equities and RWA trading onchain
Explore Injective’s institutional overview here
From the Injective ninjas 🥷
Highlighting the builders, communities and ecosystem players within the Injective blockchain.
Yei Finance launched to Injective EVM Testnet, allowing users to earn badges for engaging with the protocol
Learn more about this release via an X space with some of its team members
Timeworx launched its AI data processing layer to Injective mainnet to make machine learning models faster and cheaper
Injective Labs DevRel Brendan Graetz released a video showcasing Injective EVM capabilities and its tools
For more Injective updates, check out its blog here.
Dive deeper into Injective
Want to get involved in the ecosystem? Developers can check out documentation, GitHub and more here. Find the latest job postings on Injective Labs here
Applications for the Injective Ecosystem Builder Catalyst are open for early-stage EVM dApps
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