# Only 1-2% of GPUs on incentive-driven DePIN networks are real

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-04-23
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** The Infrastructure Behind Agentic Finance, with Shashank Yadav and Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Fraction AI)
- **Watch at:** 00:19:35 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59w3DyJWAQc&t=1175s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2026-04-23-only-1-2-of-gpus-on-incentive-driven-depin-network-bwdn/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Only 1-2% of GPUs on incentive-driven DePIN networks are real," The Infrastructure Behind Agentic Finance, with Shashank Yadav and Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Fraction AI), 23 Apr 2026, 00:19:35. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59w3DyJWAQc&t=1175s

## Quote — verbatim

> There's a lot of, quote unquote, DePIN networks that came about and just incentivized left and right all kind of GPUs, and we noticed — according to them, talking to them — only about 1% to 2% were actually real... or with a degree of quality that's acceptable.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Why Akash incentivized enterprise GPUs in data centers ("pips"/pilots) rather than home GPUs; quality verification in distributed environments is unsolved.