Block rewards will buy the network properties you want, Helium-style
Greg Osuri of Akash on Unlocking DePIN Capabilities for AI Model Training (Nebular)
“When we start doing block rewards, we’ll start incentivizing the properties that you want… you can create a configuration pool that says hey, we want a server in LA or New York… an incentivized pool to attract that particular compute… like Helium did it pretty well with network coverage. That way we can actually get the low-latency network.” — 00:33:58
Context: Answering a cloud-gaming latency question; AI isn’t latency-sensitive so it’s the current focus, but planned incentive pools would bootstrap geographic/latency coverage for gaming.