# Block rewards will buy the network properties you want, Helium-style

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-08-02
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri of Akash on Unlocking DePIN Capabilities for AI Model Training (Nebular)
- **Watch at:** 00:33:58 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWKVdqzUBAg&t=2038s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-08-02-block-rewards-will-buy-the-network-properties-you-ryon/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Block rewards will buy the network properties you want, Helium-style," Greg Osuri of Akash on Unlocking DePIN Capabilities for AI Model Training (Nebular), 2 Aug 2024, 00:33:58. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWKVdqzUBAg&t=2038s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.