# Governance stake should be participation, not capital

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-15
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Key Challenges in Building Decentralized AI Infrastructure \| AI / ALL Summit (Sahara AI)
- **Watch at:** 00:23:41 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6pynSNjmw&t=1421s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-10-15-governance-stake-should-be-participation-not-capit-fnjs/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Governance stake should be participation, not capital," Key Challenges in Building Decentralized AI Infrastructure \| AI / ALL Summit (Sahara AI), 15 Oct 2024, 00:23:41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6pynSNjmw&t=1421s

## Quote — verbatim

> The current system... proof of stake... is heavily focused on capital as the stake, but I think we definitely need to rethink some of these systems where the stake is not necessarily capital but actual participation in the network... you could tokenize usage, you could tokenize attention... systems should be governed by the people that use it, and people that have significantly higher involvement by using the system should have a higher say.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Governance question; he tempers it with lessons from Akash's ~250 proposals — anonymous voting lacks accountability and recourse, so "it's going to take a while to really understand and nail what works."