IREN perpetual
The IREN perpetual on Hyperliquid: one share of IREN, a bitcoin miner turning its power into GPU clusters, and what it is exposed to in the compute economy.
A perpetual on one share of IREN (Nasdaq: IREN), a bitcoin miner turned GPU cloud. Equity exposure, not a GPU rental price.
What it is#
IREN, formerly Iris Energy, is a bitcoin miner with sites in Canada and Texas that began renting NVIDIA GPUs in 2024 and has been shifting its power and its sites toward AI clusters since. Its asset is power: contracted, cheap and already connected, which is the scarce input for a datacenter of either kind.
This perpetual is a claim on the price of one IREN share, quoted in dollars on Hyperliquid and cash-settled, with none of the rights a share carries.
Its place in compute#
IREN is exposed to two prices at once: the bitcoin hash price its miners earn and the GPU rental price its clusters earn, with the same power feeding either. IREN is not among the providers GPUQuant reads into the neocloud index, so the index is the market it sells into rather than a figure it contributes to.
The contract#
A perpetual listed by trade.xyz on Hyperliquid's builder-dex layer under the name xyz:IREN. A perpetual on one share of IREN (Nasdaq: IREN), a bitcoin miner turned GPU cloud. It is quoted in US dollars and settled in USDC, and it confers nothing the share does: no ownership, no vote and no dividend. Its collateral sits in a separate pocket of the account at the venue, which the order panel calls the Equities balance, or is drawn from the account's one balance where the account is set to trade every market from it.
A perpetual has no expiry. Instead, funding is paid every hour between longs and shorts, in whichever direction pulls the perpetual’s price toward the venue’s index of the underlying, and the panel shows the current rate and the countdown to the next payment. The venue’s market stays open when the listing’s stock exchange is closed, so the perpetual can move while the share cannot, and funding pulls the two back together when the exchange reopens.
The venue's maximum leverage on it is 10x, margin is isolated only, so each position is backed by the margin posted to it and nothing else, sizes are in IREN to 1 decimal, and the smallest order the venue accepts is $10 of notional. Prices are quoted to 2 decimals.
Hyperliquid charges its own trading fees, 0.045% on a taker fill and 0.015% on a maker fill at its base tier, and the panel shows the rates that apply to your account where the venue reports them. GPUQuant adds 0.01% of the filled notional, charged by the venue on the fill and never on an order that does not fill. An account enabled from this site is referred by GPUQuant at the venue, which lowers the venue’s own fees; the terms page says by how much.
Reading it beside the data#
- H100 neocloud index: The rental price of the capacity a converted mining site sells.
- H100 forward curve: What that rental price is expected to be over the life of the GPUs being bought.
Trading it here#
From the row on Tradable Compute, with an order signed in your own wallet and executed by the venue. The address you log in with is your account at the venue; your collateral stays there and never passes through GPUQuant. The first order signs two one-time approvals, a ceiling on GPUQuant's fee and an agent key held in your browser that signs orders and cannot withdraw; after that every order is signed locally, and what the venue reports as filled is what the page shows.
Funding the account, the approvals, the order types and the fees are described once for every instrument on Tradable Compute.
Risks#
A perpetual is a leveraged contract. At the venue's maximum leverage a move of a fraction of the price against you liquidates the position, and a fast market can lose more than the margin posted. The liquidation price shown before you confirm is an estimate from the venue's own formula; the venue's engine decides. Prices on the page come from the venue's public feed and can lag or drop, and a market order fills at the book's prices up to the slippage limit shown, not at the price you saw.
The share carries bitcoin’s price and the mining economics beside its GPU business, so it can move on a day when no compute price moved.
Nothing on this site is investment, legal or tax advice. The full terms are on Terms and risk.
Sources#
- IREN, the project or company behind the underlying.
- Hyperliquid, the venue's own view of the market.
- Open an account at Hyperliquid, with GPUQuant's referral code.
- Tradable Compute, how every instrument is executed, funded and charged from this site.