IPs are scarcer than gold
"Keynote from Greg Osuri: \"Journey to Acceleration & Beyond\" - Akash Accelerate '24" (Akash Network)
“Akash is one of the largest IP address marketplaces — we don’t really talk much about it… IPs are more scarce than gold, think about it. It’d be cool to have an IP coin someday that’s backed by IP addresses. It’s a really scarce namespace.” — 00:10:02
Context: Aside while listing post-mainnet capabilities (persistent storage, IP-address-based discovery).