# Adoption will climb a credibility ladder, starting with DeFi front-ends

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-02-19
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Akash Mainnet 2 Livestream w/ Greg Osuri and Adam Bozanich (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:35:17 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUeDGAt7IUk&t=2117s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-02-19-adoption-will-climb-a-credibility-ladder-starting-ylrl/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Adoption will climb a credibility ladder, starting with DeFi front-ends," The Akash Mainnet 2 Livestream w/ Greg Osuri and Adam Bozanich (Akash Network), 19 Feb 2021, 00:35:17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUeDGAt7IUk&t=2117s

## Quote — verbatim

> Getting to trust a platform is climbing the credibility ladder. As we prove ourselves that this is a viable alternative, we're going to see a lot more workloads. I think right off the bat we're going to see a ton of decentralized finance front-ends using Akash... a lot of developer tooling... a lot of block explorers and ecosystem tooling.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked about expected customer segments; he also predicts heavy Cosmos sentry-node usage and says start with non-mission-critical workloads like CI servers.