App-chain regret: use shared chains first, scale to sovereignty later
How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs | Greg Osuri (0xResearch)
“If I were to do it again I would always use a shared service, like the Solanas of the world or the layer twos of the world today… the pattern should be using a shared service, hitting the limits of scale, and then moving to an app chain.” — 00:41:10
Context: CryptoKitties’ 40,000 users crashed Akash’s 2017-18 Ethereum prototype, forcing an app-chain; he says early networks can’t justify the security budget. Also reveals an experiment using Bitcoin as an archival chain for old Akash transactions (00:41:53) and predicts the modular design space “five years from now is going to be very different” (00:42:37).