Current status

B3IQ is a pilot network. Local inference, hosted gateway foundations, real routed traffic, signed receipts, customer usage rows, node payout rows, and payout settlement pilots exist. Production network claims still depend on provisioning and update trust, broader durable supply, production gateway controls, abuse controls, and recurring protocol automation.

In the press

Fortune

Startup B3IQ has found a new AI niche: Supplying rent-to-own machines to privacy-conscious university researchers. August 11, 2026.

Pantera Capital

Why AI Builders Need to Own Their Compute with B3. An interview on the investor's own channel.

What B3IQ does

Run a local node Your provisioned machine runs the host agent: it inventories hardware, serves the setup wizard, manages local API keys, and exposes local OpenAI-compatible inference.

Call standard endpoints Use HTTP directly. B3IQ keeps SDKs and adapters out of scope so the contract stays endpoint-first and portable.

Understand route readiness See why a node or model is not earning yet: heartbeat, route, runtime, benchmark, queue, and customer policy all have explicit blockers.

Trace protocol evidence Public surfaces expose safe commitments such as receipt hashes, payout roots, readiness status, and reputation inputs without raw prompts or outputs.

Get a machine Buy a dedicated GPU server that B3IQ racks and operates, or enroll hardware you already own. Either way, your machines serve your OpenAI-compatible traffic free.

Product surface

Host agent Linux Go service, supervised by systemd, for identity, inventory, local APIs, model jobs, receipts, heartbeats, and command polling.

Wizard React setup flow for claiming a node, choosing mode, creating local auth, installing models, and checking readiness.

Gateway Hosted OpenAI-compatible model and chat endpoints backed by router policy, own-account routing, and receipts.

Protocol Node registry and registration/onboarding state, payout settlement commitments, public explorer views, and future reputation roots.

Network signals

B3IQ enrolled nodes illustration

Enrolled nodes Claimed machines with signed identity and public-safe inventory.

B3IQ online now illustration

Online now Recent heartbeats, route posture, and operator-visible network health.

B3IQ GPU inventory illustration

GPU inventory Accelerator count, memory class, driver posture, and serving backend.

B3IQ runtime ready illustration

Runtime ready Backend probes and model install state before a node can serve routes.

B3IQ CPU cores illustration

CPU and edge Lower-tier capacity that still needs explicit policy and benchmark gates.

Explorer surface

B3IQ protocol explorer home page

System map

B3IQ System Loop
uses (B3IQ-provisioned)claimslocal APIsigned heartbeatsoutbound commandssanitized public dataproofs + settlement Operator Claims and uses host Host Agent Local identity, runtime, receipts Setup Wizard Local UI at /setup Control Plane Enrollment, router, settlement b3iq.org Public-safe network status Settlement Network Registry, registration state, payout roots

Read these first

Quickstart Claim your provisioned node, create a local key, and make a local chat request.

Hosted Gateway Call B3IQ through OpenAI-compatible hosted endpoints served free by your own machines.

Roadmap Track what is live, what is gated, and what must land before production launch.

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