By Greg Osuri
The Unstoppable Update: May 2020
We’ve witnessed how our centralized systems, organizations, and governments were slow to coordinate and share life-saving information during the pandemic. We’re seeing more of the ways we connect and collaborate move to the cloud.
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By Maly Ly
Introducing Artur Troian: Senior Software Engineer
“I'm excited to join Akash to help achieve 100% utilization of all cloud compute resources around the world.” Our vision is to enable architects and builders of the internet greater freedom to improve the human experience. This week, we’re excited to welcome an incredibly talented architect and builder, Artur Troian, to our team.
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By Maly Ly
The Unstoppable Cloud Partner Profile: Forbole
“Start at any time. We are all learning and developing something new for the next generation, so never think that you are too late.” - Kwun Yeung, Cofounder Forbole We’ve been fortunate to partner with leading companies and teams who share our vision for an open, safe, and unstoppable cloud that enables the creators of the future more freedom to build, and gives people sovereignty over their data.
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By Maly Ly
The Akashian Challenge Phase 1: Sirius Release Update
With 3,000,000 AKT rewards and Supermini prizes at stake, the competition is heating up as we enter Sirius, the second release of Phase 1.
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By Michael Gushansky
The Akashian Challenge Phase 1: Centauri Release Update
With 185 registrants from around the world and 3,000,000 AKT at stake, The Akashian Challenge Phase 1 is underway!
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By Maly Ly
The Akashian Challenge Incentivized Testnet LIVE
Node Operations today. Phase 1 is the start of our three phase incentivized testnet challenge that will take place over the next eight weeks, with 3,000,000 Akash Tokens (AKT) at stake, and special prizes like our Akash Supermini. Use your technical and strategic prowess to out-maneuver opponents on your way to ultimate victory!
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By Maly Ly
The Akashian Challenge Token Rewards & Prizes Schedule
Last Thursday, we announced open registration for The Akashian Challenge, our incentivized testnet. With a sprawling challenge that encompasses three phases over eight weeks, and massive token rewards-- 3,000,000 Akash Tokens (AKT) or 3% of the 100,000,000 AKT that will ever be pre-mined at genesis--, the competition has attracted registrations from individuals and teams from around the world. Inspired by ecosystem projects from our partners and friends, such as Cosmos Game of Stakes, Solana Tour de Sol, and Kava Founder Rewards, The Akashian Challenge enables us to strengthen the scalability, security, and usability of our platform, and help us grow a vibrant and robust community.
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By Greg Osuri
Announcing The Akashian Challenge: Incentivized Testnet
Akash means “open space, sky” in ancient Sanskrit. As a decentralized system, and the world’s first distributed peer-to-peer open cloud computing marketplace, our aim is to materialize the vision of an open cloud that’s as boundless and free as the sky.
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By Greg Osuri
Akash Q1 Recap & Special Unveil
Greetings,
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By Maly Ly
Battling COVID-19 with Blockchain, AI, and Cloud Computing
We’re just beginning to experience the “new normal” of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing, of a complete disruption to our way of living and our way of working. Each week, we have more colleagues, neighbors, friends, and loved ones getting infected, or felled, by a virus we still don’t fully understand.
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By Boz Menzalji
Reducing Cloud Costs for Machine Learning
The full global economic impact of the coronavirus is hard to put into words or fancy graphs. At best, we can guess with some degree of confidence what a multi-trillion dollar stimulus package and unlimited money printing will do in the mid and long term to prop up the economy.
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By Greg Osuri
Akash Partners with Solana to Bring Web-Scale Smart Contracts to Supercloud
Today, I’m excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Solana to bring web-scale smart contracts to Akash Supercloud. Akash provides a serverless platform where users can run any application currently running on the cloud while leveraging the benefits of decentralized computation enabled by the Akash blockchain.
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