# $300M in on-chain incentives to bootstrap GPU supply, pilot Q1 2024

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-01-09
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri \| CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:32:24 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gI5CWNpDgw&t=1944s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-01-09-300m-in-on-chain-incentives-to-bootstrap-gpu-suppl-wnqg/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "$300M in on-chain incentives to bootstrap GPU supply, pilot Q1 2024," Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri \| CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast), 9 Jan 2024, 00:32:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gI5CWNpDgw&t=1944s

## Quote — verbatim

> We're releasing a pilot in Q1 2024, ideally January... that's going to massively bootstrap supply on Akash, and we have about $300 million in budget on chain for deploying these incentives.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The headline forecast of the episode; paired with the 2024 theme "Akash accelerates" — supply via incentives, demand via better UX.