# Network revenue will eventually exceed staking rewards

- **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:** 00:57:40 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iInoQojyg&t=3460s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2021-07-15-network-revenue-will-eventually-exceed-staking-rew-zvne/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Network revenue will eventually exceed staking rewards," "Akash Network Deep Dive: The Unstoppable Cloud, Powered by Cosmos!" (Cryptocito), 15 Jul 2021, 00:57:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iInoQojyg&t=3460s

## Quote — verbatim

> If you take our growth curve and take the decay curve of staking, there will come a point in the future where the network revenue exceeds \[the\] staking revenue — so till then it's a comfortable hold.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Defending 54%-decaying inflation rewards as bootstrap subsidy (comparing to government subsidies of young industries) until marketplace take-income matures; network revenue then was only ~600 AKT total.