# If Akash isn't successful in five years, it would move to Solana

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-09-29
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Akash Network - Chat With a Founder Greg Osuri (Don Cryptonium)
- **Watch at:** 00:19:18 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDA9wqZmsY8&t=1158s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2023-09-29-if-akash-isn-t-successful-in-five-years-it-would-m-7e6n/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "If Akash isn't successful in five years, it would move to Solana," Akash Network - Chat With a Founder Greg Osuri (Don Cryptonium), 29 Sept 2023, 00:19:18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDA9wqZmsY8&t=1158s

## Quote — verbatim

> If Akash is not successful in, let's say, five years — if there's no traffic, we haven't met any thresholds that we need to meet in order to consider to be successful — we'll move to Solana.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

A conditional trade-off of sovereignty for cost: a native token adds security but users pay validators; he's long shared-state tech on a 5-10 year horizon despite staying sovereign today.