Insights
By Maly Ly
Wen Marketing? Growing the First Open-Source Cloud
Wen Marketing?
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By Kelsey Ruiz
A Vision of the Decentralized Web with Chjango Unchained
The train doesn’t stop at DeFi or NFTs. We’re headed for destination dWeb.
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By Greg Osuri
2020 to 2021: Acceleration to the DeCloud
In 2020, the pandemic shifted more of our work and personal lives online, accelerating explosive demand for cloud computing and services, projected to be a $370 billion market by 2022 (IDG 2019).
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By Adam Bozanich
Akash DeCloud: Mainnet Overview
Driven by increased consumer demand for throughput, a global surge of smartphones, rapid development of applications, and high DevOps server management costs, the cloud computing industry, projected to be a $370 billion market by 2022 (IDG 2019), is dominated by an oligarchy of four cloud service providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Alibaba Cloud).
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By Greg Osuri
Akash DeCloud for DeFi
Finance—an industry that is expected to reach $26.5 trillion by 2020—is being disrupted at an atomic speed by its degenerate cousin, decentralized finance or simply DeFi.
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By Maly Ly
A Primer on the First Decentralized Cloud Marketplace
The Market Landscape for Cloud Computing
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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 Maly Ly
The Rise of Tokens in Blockchain
What is a Token?
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By Maly Ly
How Blockchain is Transforming Cloud Computing
Today’s market for cloud computing is heavily consolidated, with the top 4 cloud service providers, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud dominating 70% of the entire market as of the end of 2019 .
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By Greg Osuri
A Founder's Guide to The SEC's Safe Harbor Proposal for Utility Tokens
It’s no secret the regulatory regime in the US hasn’t been friendly to budding decentralized projects. This is because the SEC has tried to apply Howey analysis to crypto projects that effectively classify any token that requires management as a Security.
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By Maly Ly
Brave New World of Staking: A Primer on Proof of Stake (PoS)
Proof of Stake (PoS) mechanisms are steadily expanding in their use across a variety of blockchain applications. Superiority in their energy efficiency, lower barriers to entry, and governance aspects like a lower tendency for centralization make PoS an increasingly popular alternative to Proof of Work (PoW), which is leveraged to reach consensus in current iterations of Bitcoin and Ethereum, for example.
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