Trial wallets will unlock a significant demand increase within months
More than Decentralised Compute | Converge @ EthCC 2024 (Caladan)
“The way trial wallets work is very simple: you get a trial wallet for every user that comes — that alleviates the need to install a wallet or get some AKT to deploy. So we think that’s going to significantly increase activation rate… In the next couple of months we’re going to see a significant increase in demand for Akash because we can solve this problem. It’s easy to convince anybody to come and look at you when you say you have A100 for 80 cents… but it’s really hard to get a user to use you.” — 00:18:02
Context: Previewing account abstraction (a term he says he hates) and defining “activation” as the user running nvidia-smi and seeing their GPU. Notable price point: A100s at ~$0.80/hr on Akash in mid-2024.