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5 statements · 2020–2020
Open-source SGX runtimes will arrive within a year
"Hashing It Out #70 - Akash Network - Greg Osuri" (Hashing It Out (The Bitcoin Podcast Network))
“We haven’t seen any major open source implementation for SGX yet. So I think the technology is like still early and under development. But that’s, I’m pretty certain that’s going to change in like the next year.” — Greg Osuri, 00:26:28
Context: From the recovered span (quote ends in the 00:27:12 block), discussing SGX as a live primitive on Akash (bring-your-own runtime; he recommends Anjuna’s, notes MobileCoin building one) — a dated, checkable early-2020 forecast on confidential-computing tooling.
Mainnet expected within a month to six weeks
The Akashian Challenge Phase 2 Livestream (Akash Network)
“When can we expect mainnet? We’re working on final details on that now, and TLDR should be sometime within the next month to six weeks… it will be soon.” — Jack Zampolin, 00:34:48
Context: Speaker: Jack Zampolin, not Greg — answering a community question; Akash Mainnet 1 launched in late September 2020, slightly beyond this window.
China's machine-learning market as a target for Akash capacity
Akash AMA Livestream (Akash Network)
“It’s been quite a long [time] since a new project like Akash has been used in a Chinese market, so we’re very excited… considering China is also a gigantic market for machine learning and they’ve been leading quite a bit in that space, Akash would be a great addition to their capacity in general.” — Greg Osuri, 00:08:47
Context: After the Chinese community launch AMA drew 5,000+ attendees; an early (2020) signal that Greg saw ML workloads as a core demand driver for Akash.
Ethereum runs 60% on AWS — "we'll change that very soon"
"The Akashian Challenge Livestream: Phase 3 Week 1" (Akash Network)
“Most of our community is not very pro-AWS, unlike Ethereum community which has 60% of the nodes on AWS. We’ll change that very soon.” — Greg Osuri, 00:05:43
Context: After an AWS outage during testnet revealed only 10-15 of ~100 Akash validator nodes went down; the centralization stat is his recurring critique of proof-of-stake infrastructure.
Akash testnet developer traction exceeded Polkadot's monthly actives
"The Akashian Challenge: Closing Live Stream" (Akash Network)
“About 3,600 app deploys… and about 460 or so unique developers. To put this number into context, DOT [Polkadot], which is a very popular project, has about 430 monthly active developers.” — Greg Osuri, 00:04:26
Context: Greg’s week-two testnet recap, arguing the SDL configuration abstraction level was validated by the breadth of deployed apps.