# Akash is the foundational decentralized layer to rebuild web3's centralized dependencies

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-08-12
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - August 10th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:41:41 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqwoP7iMh7g&t=2501s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-08-12-akash-is-the-foundational-decentralized-layer-to-r-d3d2/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is the foundational decentralized layer to rebuild web3's centralized dependencies," Akash Weekly - August 10th 2022 (Akash Network), 12 Aug 2022, 00:41:41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqwoP7iMh7g&t=2501s

## Quote — verbatim

> Using that as a foundation, as a heavily distributed, decentralized system as a foundation — imagine the kind of tools you can build on top of it, all the way from source code hosting to node hosting to shared storage solutions on top of Akash. I think Akash gives you the foundational layer for folks to build additional abstractions on top that is founded on a decentralized base.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Responding to Todd's points that web3 is dangerously reliant on GitHub and Cloudflare (Tornado devs' repos vanished) and that Cosmos validators concentrate in Hetzner data centers.