# Smart contracts on Ethereum cost $13,000/MB vs \~$25 on Akash

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-11-09
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Serverless Panel: Komal Mangtani, Greg Osuri, Guillermo Rauch, Gwen Shapira (Kong)
- **Watch at:** 00:20:27 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GOaS_SQWuE&t=1227s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2018-11-09-smart-contracts-on-ethereum-cost-13-000-mb-vs-25-o-pjbx/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Smart contracts on Ethereum cost $13,000/MB vs \~$25 on Akash," Serverless Panel: Komal Mangtani, Greg Osuri, Guillermo Rauch, Gwen Shapira (Kong), 9 Nov 2018, 00:20:27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GOaS_SQWuE&t=1227s

## Quote — verbatim

> Today, as it stands, it's unaffordable... give an example: a one megabyte of smart contract on Ethereum network costs $13,000, when on Akash network costs about $25. Any programmer in the right mind wouldn't deploy a smart contract expected to run... most of the \[blockchains\] happen to be a monolithic and homogenous architecture, so it's a socialistic model — everybody shares the costs and somebody has to pay.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Arguing blockchain compute economics were broken by monolithic architectures treating every application the same; decoupling execution (Akash's model) fixes cost variance. Captions garble "Ethereum" as "a theorem" and "Akash" as "a u.s.".