# Studio-driven chains risk losing decentralization

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-03-02
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Network (AKT) Explained: Everything You Need To Know Before Investing by Founder Greg Osuri (Founder School)
- **Watch at:** 00:41:24 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328BxcY4ec4&t=2484s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2025-03-02-studio-driven-chains-risk-losing-decentralization-t74k/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Studio-driven chains risk losing decentralization," Akash Network (AKT) Explained: Everything You Need To Know Before Investing by Founder Greg Osuri (Founder School), 2 Mar 2025, 00:41:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328BxcY4ec4&t=2484s

## Quote — verbatim

> There is a chance the studio will go so big that they determine the protocol completely... I think there's a heavy risk now that it may lose its decentralization nature... and if that model is going to be exported for the rest of the crypto ecosystem — which most likely it looks like it is — then we're in big trouble.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Naming Polygon (with stated respect for its BD team) as the example of labs/studios accruing power over protocols; contrasts with Akash's radically open model — "make better mistakes tomorrow." Quote spans into [00:42:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328BxcY4ec4&t=2526s).