# Web3 must decouple from finance and showcase infrastructure

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-28
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - July 27th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:13:36 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iom_BfWzk40&t=816s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2022-07-28-web3-must-decouple-from-finance-and-showcase-infra-7dj4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Web3 must decouple from finance and showcase infrastructure," Akash Weekly - July 27th 2022 (Akash Network), 28 Jul 2022, 00:13:36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iom_BfWzk40&t=816s

## Quote — verbatim

> It's very important for us to decouple finance from Web3 technologies and showcase these technologies like Akash and like storage technologies... and infrastructure technologies such as libp2p and whatnot.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Reacting to the Celsius/Voyager collapses inviting "bad regulation"; Greg argues Web2 engineers care about deeply useful tech like cloud, not finance, so infrastructure must become Web3's brand.