# Stakers will take 20% of hosting fees — the $300B math

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2020-12-10
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** "The Akashian Challenge Livestream: Phase 3 Week 1" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:51:21 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x1ct2eC_Nw&t=3081s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2020-12-10-stakers-will-take-20-of-hosting-fees-the-300b-math-yvbg/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Stakers will take 20% of hosting fees — the $300B math," "The Akashian Challenge Livestream: Phase 3 Week 1" (Akash Network), 10 Dec 2020, 00:51:21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x1ct2eC_Nw&t=3081s

## Quote — verbatim

> It takes about twenty five thousand dollars to run Ethereum — twenty percent of that will go to Akash stakers... the industry being 300 billion dollars, do the math: 20% of that at 100% market penetration — that's quite a lot of money.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked about the business model; Overclock Labs takes no cut and profits by staking AKT, with inflation rewards designed to give way to a fee share.