# Helping Solana scale from 1,000 to 10,000 validators

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-07-15
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** "Akash Network Deep Dive: The Unstoppable Cloud, Powered by Cosmos!" (Cryptocito)
- **Watch at:** 01:04:06 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iInoQojyg&t=3846s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2021-07-15-helping-solana-scale-from-1-000-to-10-000-validato-2s46/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Helping Solana scale from 1,000 to 10,000 validators," "Akash Network Deep Dive: The Unstoppable Cloud, Powered by Cosmos!" (Cryptocito), 15 Jul 2021, 01:04:06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iInoQojyg&t=3846s

## Quote — verbatim

> The goal for \[the\] Solana-Akash partnership is to decentralize Solana much further by reducing the cost of node infrastructure — and one-third is \[an\] amazing cost reduction — and hopefully help them to scale to about ten thousand validators from a one-thousand validator set right now.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Says Solana production nodes await Akash GPU support; also claims Akash pricing is about one-third of Amazon's (00:42:39) and mentions a Serum UI running on Akash.