# Authorized spend unlocks credit-card payments on Akash

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-04-24
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** "Akash Weekly: Testnet 3, Week 1 Challenges" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:39 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=197CuLD5Ahw&t=639s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2022-04-24-authorized-spend-unlocks-credit-card-payments-on-a-q3go/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Authorized spend unlocks credit-card payments on Akash," "Akash Weekly: Testnet 3, Week 1 Challenges" (Akash Network), 24 Apr 2022, 00:10:39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=197CuLD5Ahw&t=639s

## Quote — verbatim

> This also lets us do amazing things — like we can actually now implement amazing UIs where we can process payments using credit cards... the teams can still operate on the Akash network without having to deal with tokens.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining the authorized-spend feature (payer/deployer decoupling for enterprise teams); an early statement of his recurring thesis that token mechanics must be abstracted away for mainstream users.