# Storage networks, Solana validators, and full nodes will run on Akash

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-04-24
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** "Akash Weekly: Testnet 3, Week 1 Challenges" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:17:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=197CuLD5Ahw&t=1025s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-04-24-storage-networks-solana-validators-and-full-nodes-xdh3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Storage networks, Solana validators, and full nodes will run on Akash," "Akash Weekly: Testnet 3, Week 1 Challenges" (Akash Network), 24 Apr 2022, 00:17:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=197CuLD5Ahw&t=1025s

## Quote — verbatim

> You'll be able to run a lot of the storage networks... running on top of Akash, and you're going to see other validators like Solana, which have huge storage requirements, running on Akash. You're going to see full nodes in the entire Cosmos ecosystem.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On what persistent storage unlocks; he calls it the feature that "completes a big gap" with traditional cloud. Later predicts Lumen and Chia miners will "flood the market with cheap, high-performance storage" ([00:39:54]).