Akash's early architecture: on-chain procurement, off-chain deployment
Panel: Decentralized Storage (Block 2thefuture)
“For us, we’re a decentralized cloud infrastructure marketplace… Akash is where you procure your infrastructure and deploy and you settle — so that’s three pieces of the puzzle: procurement, deployment, and settlement. We use blockchain for procurement as an open marketplace… whereas deployment is off chain; we can’t really use blockchain per se because of performance, security… reasons.” — 00:05:07
Context: 2018 explanation of the Akash design, three years before mainnet — the marketplace-on-chain/workloads-off-chain split that shipped.