Bollcoin, Oct. 26: a16z recently submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in response to the agency's request for comment on the listing of compute derivatives contracts. The firm said it supports building a regulated compute derivatives market in the U.S., arguing such derivatives help AI startups and cloud service providers hedge compute price, utilization and tenor risk, and lower financing costs for AI infrastructure.