Would launch Akash on Solana today, not a sovereign chain
Everything Bagel: Open Source AI, Security, and Decentralization with Greg Osuri, Founder at Akash (The Index Podcast)
“If I were to do it today, I would most likely do it as Solana or one of these shared-state chain systems… when you do sovereign, yes, you have the benefits of control, but if you ask yourself deeply, do you really need that control in the early stages?” — 00:12:22
Context: Reflecting on lessons from launching Akash as the first Cosmos chain in an era when Ethereum’s gas fees made it unusable; a notable revision of his own architecture choice.