# Open systems don't need token mergers

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-03-30
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** X Spaces with Akash Network: Democratizing Compute on Subnet 27 (Nodexo)
- **Watch at:** 00:45:47 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77HfFvrhmsQ&t=2747s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-03-30-open-systems-don-t-need-token-mergers-xaoo/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Open systems don't need token mergers," X Spaces with Akash Network: Democratizing Compute on Subnet 27 (Nodexo), 30 Mar 2024, 00:45:47. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77HfFvrhmsQ&t=2747s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.