# Does open-source AGI need a token? "Not yet" — but Bittensor's emissions fund open AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-07-17
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Evolution to AGI Panel at Web3\_AI Day \| Encode Club \| Linera, Ritual, Nillion, Akash Network (Linera: Real-Time Blockchain)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:09 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfPrBtBiKA&t=909s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-07-17-does-open-source-agi-need-a-token-not-yet-but-bitt-ajq2/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Does open-source AGI need a token? "Not yet" — but Bittensor's emissions fund open AI," Evolution to AGI Panel at Web3\_AI Day \| Encode Club \| Linera, Ritual, Nillion, Akash Network (Linera: Real-Time Blockchain), 17 Jul 2024, 00:15:09. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfPrBtBiKA&t=909s

## Quote — verbatim

> Does it need a token? I don't think so, not yet... Bittensor is doing interesting work — Bittensor emissions are like billions of dollars per year, right? So those incentives are going to amazing folks that are doing open source AI and giving them a monetization mechanism.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Also name-checks Nous Research's decentralized training work; declines to pick a single winner because "too much work is happening."