# Akash is the secondary market for the GPU supply crunch

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-09-29
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Network - Chat With a Founder Greg Osuri (Don Cryptonium)
- **Watch at:** 00:36:42 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDA9wqZmsY8&t=2202s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-09-29-akash-is-the-secondary-market-for-the-gpu-supply-c-ezxl/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is the secondary market for the GPU supply crunch," Akash Network - Chat With a Founder Greg Osuri (Don Cryptonium), 29 Sept 2023, 00:36:42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDA9wqZmsY8&t=2202s

## Quote — verbatim

> Now imagine you paid for something for the whole year which you may or may not know if you have use for it. What do you do? You put them in Akash as a secondary market... if you want on-demand chips, will you come \[to\] Akash? Because Akash is the only place for secondary markets — essentially an unused GPU market. That's what the whole thesis is all about. So Akash is in a very unique position to take advantage of this supply crunch.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The Airbnb-for-idle-GPUs argument: AI startups locked into year-long CoreWeave-style contracts resell unused capacity; Foundry named as a large H100/A100 supplier to Akash.