Open systems don't need token mergers
X Spaces with Akash Network: Democratizing Compute on Subnet 27 (Nodexo)
“We don’t need mergers… we build open systems, so we can build open systems on open systems. You don’t need a token merger or any other nonsense to work together… really open systems that are built to be open, permissionless, don’t need permission — you don’t need mergers, you don’t need partnerships.” — 00:45:47
Context: Asked about the Fetch/SingularityNET/Ocean “ASI” merger; he adds “there has not been a successful token merger in my opinion” (citing Keep/threshold) and argues ASI is really trying to compete with Bittensor as an AI operating system.