# IBC is the TCP/IP of blockchains

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-03-24
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** AKASH NETWORK (AKT) - Decentralized clouds, Staking, Cosmos & more! - Interview with CEO Greg Osuri (Michaël van de Poppe)
- **Watch at:** 00:28:41 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY33CFNI-OE&t=1721s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2021-03-24-ibc-is-the-tcp-ip-of-blockchains-o6cn/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "IBC is the TCP/IP of blockchains," AKASH NETWORK (AKT) - Decentralized clouds, Staking, Cosmos & more! - Interview with CEO Greg Osuri (Michaël van de Poppe), 24 Mar 2021, 00:28:41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY33CFNI-OE&t=1721s

## Quote — verbatim

> The way to scale massive systems is through interoperability... if you think about that, IBC is the TCP/IP of blockchains. It's \[an\] interconnectivity system, and Akash now is the second chain to connect to IBC.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On IBC's launch; he predicts cross-chain atomic composability (borrow on one chain, deposit on another) and an "interoperable de-cloud" where one token pays for compute, storage, and DNS across networks.