# Akash plans a futures market for compute

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-12-15
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** DeFi Decoded - Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash on why DeFi needs a Decentralized Internet to succeed (Ninepoint Partners)
- **Watch at:** 00:32:36 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEWlQnQ_8Q&t=1956s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-12-15-akash-plans-a-futures-market-for-compute-hs5m/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash plans a futures market for compute," DeFi Decoded - Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash on why DeFi needs a Decentralized Internet to succeed (Ninepoint Partners), 15 Dec 2021, 00:32:36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEWlQnQ_8Q&t=1956s

## Quote — verbatim

> There's a whole rework happening on economics now for Akash. We're looking at enabling more DeFi primitives into the dCloud, in the sense we want to do futures for compute — a futures market for compute is something that doesn't exist today and it can be great to do it in an open way.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering whether Akash will expand beyond compute; he also foresees Akash exceeding Amazon's ~200 managed services via permissionless composability.