Product
By Maly Ly
Akash Network to Integrate Chainlink Oracles to Power Pricing Data
Akash Network operates a decentralized exchange (DEX), which is at the core of matching buyers and sellers on our decentralized cloud computing marketplace. Initially, our native utility token, Akash Token (AKT), will be used to purchase cloud compute on our platform.
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By Greg Osuri
Announcing Akash Mainnet Live and BitMax IEO
The primary listing of AKT is one of the most important projects of BitMax.io in Q3. BitMax.io applauds the Akash team for bringing a DeCloud alternative to the booming Cloud Service Provider (CSP) market.
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By Maly Ly
Akash to Integrate Kava Labs's USDX
Today, we’re excited to announce an integration with Kava, the first cross-blockchain DeFi platform, to enable Kava’s stablecoin USDX as the first coin for fee settlement on Akash’s DeCloud platform. The integration with Kava will also enable Akash Token (AKT) to be used as collateral for USDX loans.
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By Boz Menzalji
Akash Mainnet Launch Update
As our CTO Adam Bozanich shared in his Mainnet Overview article last Thursday, Mainnet is the beginning of Akash DeCloud, our decentralized cloud marketplace. By enabling staking and governance, it will unlock value for the network, and accelerate growth for our community.
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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 Jack Zampolin
Akash Partners with Cosmos’s Interchain Foundation
For blockchain based systems to gain wider adoption and achieve consumer scale in high growth industries like decentralized finance (DeFi), we need to quickly solve the scalability problems that have plagued the space since its inception. The industry, and our team at Akash, has tried many different approaches to solving this problem.
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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 Boz Menzalji
Akash Network Announces Integration Partnership with Lunie Wallet
We’re very excited to have Akash as integration partners. Lunie benefits from a rich, diverse and engaged user base as well as strong stakeholders when it comes to networks and node operators.
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By Greg Osuri
Akash Q1 Recap & Special Unveil
Greetings,
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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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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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