# DAOs owning physical infrastructure through self-repaying AKT loans

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-01-13
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Comdex Mainnet Launch Party \| Panel-1 \| The rise of DeFi in the Cosmos Ecosystem (Comdex)
- **Watch at:** 00:17:46 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4jPJjJz0vo&t=1066s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2022-01-13-daos-owning-physical-infrastructure-through-self-r-md3l/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "DAOs owning physical infrastructure through self-repaying AKT loans," Comdex Mainnet Launch Party \| Panel-1 \| The rise of DeFi in the Cosmos Ecosystem (Comdex), 13 Jan 2022, 00:17:46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4jPJjJz0vo&t=1066s

## Quote — verbatim

> I actually got a brilliant idea after listening here... you can create DAOs that will own infrastructure, that purchase infrastructure — actual hardware — using, let's say you have AKT and you collateralize AKT in a self-paying loan using AKT. So you essentially get free infrastructure that \[the DAO\] now can own and will be paid off eventually, because \[it's\] a loan, and then you're just making profit running infrastructure.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Improvised on-stage after Tushar Aggarwal described liquid-staking self-repaying loans; an early sketch of DeFi-financed physical compute (DePIN financialization).