# TSM perpetual > The TSM perpetual on Hyperliquid: one TSMC ADS, five Taiwan shares of the foundry that fabricates and packages every NVIDIA and AMD accelerator, and what it is exposed to. Updated 2026-09-06. Canonical: https://gpuquant.com/docs/instruments/tsm A perpetual on one TSMC ADS (NYSE: TSM), five Taiwan common shares, of the foundry that fabricates and packages every NVIDIA and AMD accelerator. Equity exposure, not a GPU rental price. ## What it is TSMC fabricates every NVIDIA and AMD accelerator and packages them with its CoWoS process, the step that has rationed accelerator supply more than wafer capacity has. This perpetual references one American depositary share, which represents five Taiwan common shares. It is a claim on the price of that ADS, quoted in dollars on Hyperliquid and cash-settled, with none of the rights a share carries. ## Its place in compute TSMC is the bottleneck the whole supply chain runs through. How many accelerators can exist in a quarter is decided in its fabs and its packaging lines, so its share is a claim on the volume of compute being built rather than on the price of renting it. The map on this site draws its fabs and packaging plants on the facility layer. > **Not a GPU price** > > This row is a claim on a token or a company, and a perpetual on it is a leveraged view on that claim. It is not a GPU rental price and it tracks none of the indices on Market Data. ## The contract A perpetual listed by trade.xyz on Hyperliquid's builder-dex layer under the name `xyz:TSM`. A perpetual on one TSMC ADS (NYSE: TSM), five Taiwan common shares, of the foundry that fabricates and packages every NVIDIA and AMD accelerator. 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 TSM to 3 decimals, 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 reference price](https://gpuquant.com/docs/market-data/h100-reference-price): The list price of an hour of the part TSMC made. - [H100 forward curve](https://gpuquant.com/docs/market-data/h100-forward-curve): What the market expects that hour to earn, which is what decides how many more parts get ordered. - [The map](https://gpuquant.com/docs/map): Where the fabs and the packaging lines are, on the facility layer. ## 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](https://gpuquant.com/docs/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 ADS trades when the Taiwan market is closed, so it can move on a day the underlying share did not, and the two reconverge when Taipei reopens. Nothing on this site is investment, legal or tax advice. The full terms are on [Terms and risk](https://gpuquant.com/terms). ## Sources - [TSMC](https://www.tsmc.com), the project or company behind the underlying. - [Hyperliquid](https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/trade/xyz%3ATSM), the venue's own view of the market. - [Open an account at Hyperliquid](https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/join/GPUQUANT), with GPUQuant's referral code. - [Tradable Compute](https://gpuquant.com/docs/tradable-compute), how every instrument is executed, funded and charged from this site.