Liquidity mining for GPUs
"Akash: The Crypto-Powered Decentralized Supercloud" (The Edge Podcast)
“Similarly, Akash will have pools. A pool one could be A100 with [NVMe] storage, with PCI card, with X amount of memory, X amount of bandwidth, and certain characteristics of a provider that are preset, and a set of tokens can distribute to this pool… in the early days when there are a few participants, they’re going to get significantly outsized rewards.” — 00:53:39
Context: Osmosis-style incentive pools applied to physical GPU supply; a $5M 90-day pilot was launching that month with “about $400 plus million dollars unminted on-chain incentives” in reserve ([00:55:40]), against 90%+ A100 utilization ([00:52:58]).