# Tokens are rocket fuel, not cruise fuel

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-10-10
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** DePIN: Hype or the Next Trillion-Dollar Market? - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2025 (TOKEN2049)
- **Watch at:** 00:31:23 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6ZLHwuo2w&t=1883s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2025-10-10-tokens-are-rocket-fuel-not-cruise-fuel-yq5m/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Tokens are rocket fuel, not cruise fuel," DePIN: Hype or the Next Trillion-Dollar Market? - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2025 (TOKEN2049), 10 Oct 2025, 00:31:23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6ZLHwuo2w&t=1883s

## Quote — verbatim

> Tokens are rocket fuel: they help you launch and bootstrap a network, but once you're in orbit you have to run without the fuel, or like very less fuel... somehow we got to orbit using hot air balloons instead of rocket fuel.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His summary of DePIN token-incentive sustainability, noting Akash reached "orbit" without token-bootstrapped supply.