# Studio-driven chains risk losing decentralization

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-02-25
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Network Live with Greg Osuri: Akash's progress in 2023, open community development, and more (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:41:00 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-Oara8i78&t=2460s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2023-02-25-studio-driven-chains-risk-losing-decentralization-k7nr/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Studio-driven chains risk losing decentralization," Akash Network Live with Greg Osuri: Akash's progress in 2023, open community development, and more (Akash Network), 25 Feb 2023, 00:41:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-Oara8i78&t=2460s

## Quote — verbatim

> I do have little concerns with Polygon sometimes... there is a chance the studio will go so big that they determine the protocol completely... I think there's a heavy risk now that it may lose a decentralization nature... and if that model is going to be exported for the rest of the crypto ecosystem — which most likely it looks like it is — then we're in big trouble.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Names Polygon (with stated respect for its "world-class" BD team) as an example of labs/studios accruing power over protocols; contrasts with Akash going "from the corporate to the commons" — "make better mistakes tomorrow." Quote spans into [00:41:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-Oara8i78&t=2503s).