50% utilization is the marketplace sweet spot
Akash Network founder Greg Osuri - Building a Decentralized Computing Marketplace (Crypto Nuggets)
“I think 50% is an ideal sweet spot in terms of utilization rate, wherein the suppliers have enough confidence that they will be able to clear the inventory… tenants have enough confidence that they’ll be able to find compute to scale. That’s the sweet spot — we want to keep the network at 50% and scale accordingly.” — 00:17:21
Context: Explaining supply-first marketplace bootstrapping after Foundry’s GPUs appeared organically; GPU utilization was ~45% lifetime, ~60% that day.