Nvidia dominates AI infrastructure, maintaining US hegemony over global compute
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The chipmaker's stranglehold on AI accelerators has massive implications for crypto's decentralized compute narrative and the tokens riding Nvidia's coattails.
+65.5% (FY ended 2026-01-25 vs FY ended 2025-01-26) 10-K
Annual net income
120,067,000,000 USD (FY ended 2026-01-25, attributable to the company) 10-K
Annual operating margin
60.4% (FY ended 2026-01-25)
Forward P/E
Unavailable: no dated forecast source
Gloria daily close for session Oct 27, 2026. Market cap and trailing P/E use this close with the SEC share total and trailing diluted earnings, each dated next to its figure. Annual revenue, revenue growth, net income and margin show their own fiscal period and link the 10-K. Current context may postdate this article.
4,335,000,000FY ended 2025-12-27, attributable to the company · 10-K
10.7%FY ended 2025-12-27
Missing figures stay unavailable. Forward P/E requires a dated source. Annual revenue, revenue growth, net income and margin come from each company's own 10-K, in US dollars, and each row shows that fiscal year. Revenue growth compares the fiscal year with the prior year stated in the same 10-K. Net income is the full year amount attributable to the company, or available to common stockholders where the filing states only that, or consolidated net income. Each row names its basis. Trailing P/E reads "Not meaningful" when the dated trailing diluted EPS is a loss or zero. An operating margin appears only when the filing states both the operating income and the revenue for the same year.
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Token vs underlying stock
Current comparison for NVDA. Historical observations may postdate this article.
Split-adjusted regular-session stock closes from the existing Gloria shared history, paired only with an observed token price within 45 minutes of 16:00 New York time. Up to 60 matched sessions. No interpolation or missing-date fill. Weekends and known early closes are omitted. Token units are not adjusted for issuer multipliers or dividend treatment. This compares quoted prices, not fair value, executable premiums or arbitrage returns. Solid line: token. Dashed line: stock. Exact quote times and values appear below. Historical observations. Retrieval refers to the token source. Token quote times use UTC. The fixed cohort shows its oldest member fetch.
Nvidia token vs Nvidia stock: exact source values
Date (UTC)
Token (USD)
Stock close (USD)
Token quote (UTC)
2026-08-04
212.33
211.94
2026-08-04 20:00
2026-08-05
219.87
219.22
2026-08-05 20:00
2026-08-06
219.15
218.99
2026-08-06 20:00
2026-08-07
223.93
223.96
2026-08-07 20:00
2026-08-10
217.66
217.55
2026-08-10 20:00
2026-08-11
217.53
217.50
2026-08-11 20:00
2026-08-12
224.12
224.09
2026-08-12 20:00
2026-08-13
225.42
225.30
2026-08-13 20:00
2026-08-14
225.34
225.16
2026-08-14 20:00
2026-08-17
225.13
225.01
2026-08-17 20:00
2026-08-18
219.70
219.74
2026-08-18 20:00
2026-08-19
217.76
217.56
2026-08-19 20:00
2026-08-20
216.79
216.85
2026-08-20 20:00
2026-08-21
214.85
214.72
2026-08-21 20:00
2026-08-24
208.75
208.48
2026-08-24 20:00
2026-08-25
213.16
213.05
2026-08-25 20:00
2026-08-26
210.06
209.66
2026-08-26 20:00
2026-08-27
227.96
227.98
2026-08-27 20:00
2026-08-28
217.74
217.55
2026-08-28 20:00
2026-08-31
220.91
220.78
2026-08-31 20:00
2026-09-01
217.58
217.44
2026-09-01 20:00
2026-09-02
224.46
224.41
2026-09-02 20:00
2026-09-03
228.90
228.45
2026-09-03 20:00
2026-09-04
230.35
230.36
2026-09-04 20:00
2026-09-08
225.69
225.73
2026-09-08 20:00
2026-09-09
223.89
223.67
2026-09-09 20:00
2026-09-10
218.70
218.36
2026-09-10 20:00
2026-09-11
218.92
218.29
2026-09-11 20:00
2026-09-14
211.47
210.96
2026-09-14 20:00
2026-09-15
212.34
212.17
2026-09-15 20:00
2026-09-16
214.25
213.90
2026-09-16 20:00
2026-09-17
219.68
219.34
2026-09-17 20:00
2026-09-18
222.24
222.27
2026-09-18 20:00
2026-09-21
227.69
227.38
2026-09-21 20:00
2026-09-22
229.20
228.87
2026-09-22 20:00
2026-09-23
225.44
225.51
2026-09-23 20:00
2026-09-24
224.87
224.58
2026-09-24 20:00
2026-09-25
225.29
225.07
2026-09-25 20:00
2026-09-28
228.97
228.86
2026-09-28 20:00
2026-09-29
227.95
227.21
2026-09-29 20:00
2026-09-30
229.85
228.38
2026-09-30 20:00
2026-10-01
231.18
230.86
2026-10-01 20:00
2026-10-02
234.38
233.95
2026-10-02 20:00
2026-10-05
239.30
238.90
2026-10-05 20:00
2026-10-06
239.71
239.24
2026-10-06 20:00
2026-10-07
237.80
237.47
2026-10-07 20:00
2026-10-08
230.81
230.48
2026-10-08 20:00
2026-10-09
229.70
229.28
2026-10-09 20:00
2026-10-12
226.87
226.32
2026-10-12 20:00
2026-10-13
228.73
228.52
2026-10-13 20:00
2026-10-14
221.56
221.30
2026-10-14 20:00
2026-10-15
217.48
217.23
2026-10-15 20:00
2026-10-16
214.56
214.13
2026-10-16 20:00
2026-10-19
217.41
217.09
2026-10-19 20:00
2026-10-20
216.69
216.47
2026-10-20 20:00
2026-10-21
222.20
221.97
2026-10-21 20:00
2026-10-22
212.42
212.21
2026-10-22 20:00
2026-10-23
211.27
210.96
2026-10-23 20:00
2026-10-26
216.15
216.00
2026-10-26 20:00
2026-10-27
218.06
217.94
2026-10-27 20:00
Stock history: Gloria · Retrieved Oct 28, 00:31 UTC. Token history: CoinGecko NVDAx.
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Nvidia commands over 75% of the global AI accelerator market as of mid-2026. While China’s labs have been shipping increasingly impressive models, from DeepSeek to Moonshot AI to z.ai, the silicon those models train on remains overwhelmingly American. US entities control roughly 75% of global AI-ready GPU cluster performance.
The trillion-dollar backlog
During GTC 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an estimated $1 trillion in AI chip demand projected through 2027. That’s not revenue. That’s backlog, meaning customers lining up with purchase orders that Nvidia hasn’t even fulfilled yet.
The demand is being fueled by a spending arms race among America’s largest tech companies. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Google have collectively committed hundreds of billions of dollars to expanding domestic data center capacity. Private AI investment in the US hit $285.9 billion by 2025, a figure that exceeds China’s AI investment by more than 23 times.
US export restrictions on advanced Nvidia chips to China, which began in October 2022 and were adjusted with revenue-sharing arrangements in 2025, have further cemented this asymmetry.
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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 in July 2026, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model that immediately claimed the top spot in frontend coding benchmarks. The Kimi K3 release triggered a semiconductor selloff that drew direct comparisons to the DeepSeek-induced crash of January 2025. That earlier event erased roughly $600 billion from Nvidia’s market value in a single trading session.
Where crypto enters the picture
Nvidia’s dominance has become a direct catalyst for a specific corner of the crypto market: decentralized AI and compute tokens. GTC 2026 was a textbook example. Huang’s $1 trillion demand projection and his emphasis on agentic AI triggered immediate rallies in AI-linked crypto tokens.
For crypto investors, AI token prices are downstream of Nvidia’s narrative cycle. Major Nvidia events, earnings calls, product launches, and export policy shifts all function as leading indicators for decentralized AI token volatility. The next major Chinese model release will probably hit AI tokens harder than it hits Nvidia stock. Nvidia has $1 trillion in backlog to cushion the blow.
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