# Crypto's real gift is planetary-scale coordination, not finance

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-10-06
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - October 5th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:51:29 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NZhdhw5f4s&t=3089s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2022-10-06-crypto-s-real-gift-is-planetary-scale-coordination-ypve/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Crypto's real gift is planetary-scale coordination, not finance," Akash Weekly - October 5th 2022 (Akash Network), 6 Oct 2022, 00:51:29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NZhdhw5f4s&t=3089s

## Quote — verbatim

> What crypto allows us to do is coordination — permissionless coordination at planetary scale... I think it's very, very important for us to shift our focus away from finance and think about what we can do beyond finance.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing AMA exchange agreeing DeFi has become boring; he floats life extension as the kind of problem planetary coordination plus decentralized infrastructure could tackle. (Quote begins at the end of the [00:50:40] block.)