Staking will evolve from security to direct exposure to AI compute
Akash Founder: Why We're Leaving our Sovereign L1 Behind (Akash Alpha)
“We’re looking at potentially giving direct exposure for stakers into the compute itself, instead of just security right now — because the stakers are staking for security but they’re not directly engaging with the AI compute, which is the bigger sort of opportunity… I’m particularly excited for staking on Akash evolving to a new paradigm.” — 00:23:41
Context: Reassuring stakers: migration is ~1 year out, stake migrates automatically, and he’s keeping his own and his family’s AKT staked throughout — “my entire family’s future depends on the AKT” ([00:26:33]).