# Akash will launch "the world's first GPU marketplace" fed by post-Merge Ethereum GPUs

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-05-12
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** "Base Layer Episode 209: Greg Osuri, Founder of Akash Network on Decentralizing Compute" (Base Layer)
- **Watch at:** 00:28:26 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/base-layer-episode-209-greg-osuri-founder-of-akash/id1445373535?i=1000521492647
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-05-12-akash-will-launch-the-world-s-first-gpu-marketplac-bsm3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash will launch "the world's first GPU marketplace" fed by post-Merge Ethereum GPUs," "Base Layer Episode 209: Greg Osuri, Founder of Akash Network on Decentralizing Compute" (Base Layer), 12 May 2021, 00:28:26. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/base-layer-episode-209-greg-osuri-founder-of-akash/id1445373535?i=1000521492647

## Quote — verbatim

> We'll be launching the world's first GPU marketplace. So that's going to be very exciting because there's an enormous amount of GPUs that are getting essentially unlocked with Ethereum and a lot of these networks going to proof of stake... currently GPUs are extremely expensive on Amazon.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Roadmap question. A year-plus ahead of the Merge (Sept 2022) he predicts stranded mining GPUs will need a marketplace; Akash's GPU marketplace ultimately shipped in 2023.