Next 12 months: managed-services marketplace makes Akash a "network of networks" and pays open-source creators
Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace (The Crypto Conversation (Brave New Coin))
“Akash is introducing [a] Managed Services Marketplace. Now it transitions from a service that offers compute… to a network of networks… the creators of Postgres, or creators of MySQL… offering their services… and get a cut for their creation. So we’re empowering open source creators with a business model because open source cloud needs open source software to function.” — 00:29:26
Context: The mid-term path to AWS parity (Amazon’s ~500 managed services); quote spans into the 00:30:06 block, with the 12-month shipping timeline stated at 00:30:06.