# Giving away 5% of the network to developers as the bootstrap mechanism

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2020-07-06
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash AMA Livestream (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:29:41 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFtDmsCGNc&t=1781s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2020-07-06-giving-away-5-of-the-network-to-developers-as-the-2slt/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Giving away 5% of the network to developers as the bootstrap mechanism," Akash AMA Livestream (Akash Network), 6 Jul 2020, 00:29:41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFtDmsCGNc&t=1781s

## Quote — verbatim

> For our developer incentives, we're giving away five percent of the network — last testnet we did was two percent, this testnet is three percent — so we are very committed to ensuring the developers \[are\] incentivized early. That will be our bootstrapping mechanism before the value of the network actually occurs in the token.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing remark on how Akash planned to bootstrap supply and demand before mainnet token utility existed.