"We're not Bitcoin, we're AI" — the AI market demands rapid change
Akash Founder: Why We're Leaving our Sovereign L1 Behind (Akash Alpha)
“Akash is like that very strong blockchain but very hard to make changes. It’s great if you’re Bitcoin — no changes to the blockchain — but we’re not Bitcoin, we’re AI. AI market demands a lot of change. We wanted new incentives, we wanted the burn mechanism… we want all these new capabilities that we said we’re going to do on the roadmap, but we discovered that we can’t really do much without upgrading the blockchain.” — 00:17:12
Context: Justifying the 18-month refactor via a 100-year-old-house analogy; he admits the slowdown “did hurt us quite a bit” as the AI market demanded VMs and verification faster than a decentralized project could ship.