Renting Nvidia's newest AI chip now costs 79% more than it did 3 months ago. The existing supply chain cannot keep up with the extraordinary demand for super intelligence.

Renting a closed model + a brittle, overfit harness only gets you so far. Routing to open models helps quality, cost, and latency, but you hit a ceiling. Most ambitious AI teams train their taxonomy, style, and judgment into models they own. Read more:

DeFi is renting its TVL and calling it growth. Emissions start. TVL rises. Dashboards light up. Rewards stop. The capital leaves. The protocol bought a spike, not a resident. For teams allocating incentive budgets, the real scorecard begins after emissions: → Wallet quality → Position duration → 30/60/90-day survival → Source attribution → Cost per retained dollar Our latest piece in The Defiant explains how targeting, campaign structure, caps and post-campaign measurement can turn incentives from rented liquidity into an accountable retention system. You paid for TVL. Do you know what you bought?