# Akash's early architecture: on-chain procurement, off-chain deployment

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-04-23
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Panel: Decentralized Storage (Block 2thefuture)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:07 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTHa7tr277g&t=307s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2018-04-23-akash-s-early-architecture-on-chain-procurement-of-aea7/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash's early architecture: on-chain procurement, off-chain deployment," Panel: Decentralized Storage (Block 2thefuture), 23 Apr 2018, 00:05:07. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTHa7tr277g&t=307s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

2018 explanation of the Akash design, three years before mainnet — the marketplace-on-chain/workloads-off-chain split that shipped.