The Defiant

The AI revolution runs on GPUs, and right now, demand is massively outpacing supply. Viktoriya Hying, co-founder of B3 Labs, joins Camila Russo to break down B3-IQ: an owner-operated compute network that lets investors and smaller AI labs own NVIDIA's most powerful GPUs, including the H200, for as little as 30% down, then earn passive income renting them out. From competing with AWS pricing to navigating the wild west of AI compute procurement, this episode covers why owning the hardware is the smarter long-term play over renting from hyperscalers, and how B3-IQ is building the transparency layer the industry desperately needs.

Optimism governance approved moving 546.9 million OP from future user airdrops into a Foundation-administered ecosystem fund after a late deciding vote.

The upgrade it wants you to install has not shipped, and what it fixes is under a two-week embargo

Plus 39 state banking groups plan shared rails for tokenized deposits, the SEC's token rulebook, and Maple's Sid Powell on on-chain lending

Robinhood Chain settles $1.49B in a day, Cronos rewinds 11,000 blocks, and Fogo is still dark

Plus: Uniswap Labs bought PONS tokens

London, United Kingdom, September 8th, 2026, Chainwire. Byrrgis, a non-custodial on-chain trading platform, announced that its beta is now open to its full community, bringing together real-time coin scoring, early token discovery and universal multi-ch...

Robinhood began sending a selection of football event contracts to Crypto's CFTC-regulated exchange on Tuesday and will hold stakes in both Crypto and OG, the prediction-market venue being spun out of it at a $5 billion valuation.

Harmony proposed sunsetting its blockchain, airdropping ONE on Ethereum after a final snapshot and redirecting emissions to an AI video business, while urging users to exit smart contracts by Sept. 10.

Sonic SVM and Manic have open-sourced the Trader Intelligence Framework, a method for ranking prediction market wallets by judgment accuracy rather than realized profit. Built on 3,359,388 reconstructed Polymarket positions, it qualified 87 of 3,638 wallet-and-category pairs.