# The Cosmos model failed: sovereignty before product-market fit

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-12-03
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI)
- **Watch at:** 00:29:37 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA3IAr9sc4&t=1777s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2025-12-03-the-cosmos-model-failed-sovereignty-before-product-cwl6/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The Cosmos model failed: sovereignty before product-market fit," The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI), 3 Dec 2025, 00:29:37. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA3IAr9sc4&t=1777s

## Quote — verbatim

> I think the Cosmos model in general has failed — this is coming from someone who's been in the space for a long time, Akash being one of the first Cosmos chains. The model where it failed is sovereignty before product market fit. It should be flipped... You don't go build your own data center when you're shipping an app.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining the "shared security migration" off Akash's own L1 — 18 chains reached out; an 18-month Cosmos SDK upgrade delivered "zero customer features"; validator costs were forecast to balloon.