# Staking will evolve from security to direct exposure to AI compute

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-10-20
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Founder: Why We're Leaving our Sovereign L1 Behind (Akash Alpha)
- **Watch at:** 00:23:41 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRIa6PhO8Q&t=1421s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2025-10-20-staking-will-evolve-from-security-to-direct-exposu-2vin/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Staking will evolve from security to direct exposure to AI compute," Akash Founder: Why We're Leaving our Sovereign L1 Behind (Akash Alpha), 20 Oct 2025, 00:23:41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRIa6PhO8Q&t=1421s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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]).