The future of Akash verification is TEE (a reversal he concedes)
Leveraging Incentives to Build with Your Community | Open AGI Summit | Brussels 2024 (Open AGI)
“We are working right now with hardware verifications using trusted execution environments — which I was vehemently against, but I kind of gave up my fight and I started accepting TEEs as a way to go… the future of Akash verification is TEE now, and there’s a proposal out there that will be enabled very soon.” — 00:05:10
Context: On verifying general-purpose compute where the platform can’t see source code. Notable because two weeks later (Sahara AI/ALL Summit panel) he again emphasized TEE hardware vulnerabilities — he holds both positions with visible reluctance.