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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By Allison Silber
Akash at the Silicon Valley Institutional Investors Meetup
We are thrilled to share that Greg will be speaking at the upcoming Silicon Valley Institutional Investors event on Wednesday, April 11th. This event will feature a handful of discussions including how institutional investors are investing in the blockchain space and future trends of blockchain/crypto.
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By Greg Osuri
My testimony as an expert witness for the first ever blockchain bill (AB 2658) introduced in the state of California
The most significant hurdle for blockchain today is legislative as US companies today face an uncertain legal regime. Regulators need tools that only legislators can provide.
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By Allison Silber
Akash at Block2TheFuture
Akash is heading to Block2TheFuture, the blockchain festival and token conference taking place on the USS Hornet in Alameda, CA on April 5-6. Yes, it is on a warship!
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By Nick Alesandro
Introducing Akash
This week we introduced The Akash Network to the world with a press release and the open sourcing of our software. You can learn about Akash to your heart’s content by visiting our site or reading our light paper (a friendly version of the traditionally-impenetrable crypto whitepaper), so I’ll dispense with a long description of Akash to focus instead on something more meta
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By Nick Alesandro
Decentralized Infrastructure is a Moral Imperative
As businesses across the globe adopt cloud-based infrastructure strategies, three providers (Amazon’s AWS, Google’s GCP, and Microsoft’s Azure) have solidified their positions as dominant players in the $247 billion-dollar cloud infrastructure market.
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