By Maly Ly
Cosmos Validator Sikka aka Sunny Aggarwal of Tendermint/Cosmos Joins Akash as Advisor
Last week, we announced that Jack Zampolin of Pylon Validation Services and Tendermint joined Akash as an Advisor, and today, we’re excited to announce that the number one Cosmos validator Sikka aka Sunny Aggarwal of Tendermint/Cosmos has joined Akash as an Advisor. Validators are essential to ensuring the sovereignty and security of Akash’s platform.
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By Maly Ly
Announcing Our Third Founding Member Challenge!
Congratulations to those of you who completed the first two challenges of the Akash Founding Member Rewards Program! Today, we’re excited to announce the third and final challenge.
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By Maly Ly
An Invitation to Akash Validators Genesis 10
With the cloud infrastructure market expected to exceed $198 billion by 2024 and an estimated 85% of server capacity in 8.4 million data centers underutilized, we started Akash Network to offer developers an open, permissionless, and secure cloud marketplace for unused compute cycles – in essence, a supercloud.
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By Maly Ly
Earn 1,000 Tokens and the Akash Founder Level 2 Badge!
Thank you for participating in the Akash Founding Member Rewards First Challenge! For those of you just tuning in, the Akash Founding Member Rewards Program is for early contributors to Akash’s testnet.
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By Maly Ly
Become an Akash Founding Member and Earn Token Rewards
As the world’s first supercloud for serverless computing, Akash needs your support to materialize our vision of empowering the architects and builders of the internet with greater access, freedom, and efficiency to create products that improve the human experience.
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By Greg Osuri
Akash Network Validator Rewards
Akash employs a blockchain secured by a Proof-of-Stake consensus model, managed by 128 independent Validators. Validators perform the vital role of providing economic security to the Akash blockchain. To participate, validators ‘stake’ Akash tokens (AKT).
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By Greg Osuri
Decentralized Serverless Computing Coming to Cosmos
In a market expected to exceed $198 billion by 2024, the leading cloud providers–Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure–dominate the market with 56% market share, and this figure is expected to increase. This accelerated growth is tied to increased consumer demand for throughput and content, a global surge of smartphones, rapid development of web and mobile applications, and high costs of DevOps for on-premise server management.
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By Greg Osuri
Bootstrapping a Free Market by Borrowing from the Future
The survival of an early market economy depends on its ability to solve the cyclical dependency of demand and supply until a healthy equilibrium can be achieved to unlock its network effects.
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By Greg Osuri
The Economics of Akash Network and Token
With 8.4 million data centers, an estimated 85% of server capacity underutilized, and accelerated global demand for cloud computing, Akash aims to create efficiencies in the cloud hosting market through algorithms for allocating compute resources that go to waste in the current market.
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By Nick Alesandro
Akash vs The Grid
At Akash, we do quite a bit of thinking,writing, and presenting on decentralized infrastructure. It’s our business after all – Akash is a decentralized marketplace and deployment platform for cloud compute.
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By Allison Silber
Akash at TokenFest
Last month we attended the inaugural TokenFest held right here in San Francisco. We have become more familiar with the conference circuit having attended a handful of them this year alone.
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By Allison Silber
Akash at BlockDev
As you may know, we are working hard to build Akash, the open, decentralized marketplace for cloud compute. As much as we are in product mode at the moment, we also love the opportunity to connect with the community, check out other exciting projects and discuss the ever-changing blockchain world.
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