Crypto solves open-source sustainability (Docker/Kubernetes failure)
Agents Unleashed - Progress In The Decentralized AI Stack (Training, Fine-Tuning, Inference) (Olas)
“Crypto is actually a way to solve open source sustainability. Even companies like Docker couldn’t exist because they were following the old model — the old model doesn’t work anymore. Docker ran out of business, they sold… for peanuts, and Kubernetes is having a crisis with their contributors… because there’s no way for people to work on something full-time and get paid for it.” — 00:26:41
Context: On open governance: Akash has ~480 contributors, only ~20 at Overclock Labs (“90% of the contributors have no direct control”), public product meetings, and a public goods fund — crypto incentives as the fix for open-source funding.