Bootstrap the marketplace by "borrowing from the future"
"Hashing It Out #70 - Akash Network - Greg Osuri" (Hashing It Out (The Bitcoin Podcast Network))
“My thesis was, in a two-sided marketplace, the first challenge the market has to solve is the demand supply paradox. What comes first?… when you bootstrap supply to a point that it’s extremely attractive to the demand — let’s say cost, for example — the demand side will catch up… really, you’re borrowing from the future to bootstrap the present.” — 00:30:22
Context: Summarizing his paper “Bootstrapping a free market by borrowing from the future” (quote spans the 00:31:06 and 00:31:48 blocks): inflation-funded supply subsidies de-risk providers until network effects arrive — the template later used for Akash’s provider incentives.