# Liquidity mining for GPUs

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-01-16
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** "Akash: The Crypto-Powered Decentralized Supercloud" (The Edge Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:53:39 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-the-crypto-powered-decentralized-supercloud/id1671489227?i=1000641868294
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-01-16-liquidity-mining-for-gpus-bfpp/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Liquidity mining for GPUs," "Akash: The Crypto-Powered Decentralized Supercloud" (The Edge Podcast), 16 Jan 2024, 00:53:39. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-the-crypto-powered-decentralized-supercloud/id1671489227?i=1000641868294

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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]).