# Crypto is the sustainability layer for open source

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-09-06
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** "\#3 - Akash Network with Greg Osuri" (Weapons of Mass Adoption)
- **Watch at:** 00:11:06 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-akash-network-with-greg-osuri/id1705930764?i=1000626951051
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2023-09-06-crypto-is-the-sustainability-layer-for-open-source-y7l5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Crypto is the sustainability layer for open source," "\#3 - Akash Network with Greg Osuri" (Weapons of Mass Adoption), 6 Sept 2023, 00:11:06. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-akash-network-with-greg-osuri/id1705930764?i=1000626951051

## Quote — verbatim

> My entire career exists because of open source software, right? So, and if you were to add sustainability to open source software, you need networks. And the only data structure we found where you can have a highly sustainable networks were crypto, right? So, crypto gives sustainability to open source software.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The one-sentence version of his "tokenized open source" thesis, expanded at [00:21:23] ("Open source software with a token adds sustainability, gives permissionless... aligns and attracts developers").