# Would launch Akash on Solana today, not a sovereign chain

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-02-26
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Everything Bagel: Open Source AI, Security, and Decentralization with Greg Osuri, Founder at Akash (The Index Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:12:22 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJaABZMi9c&t=742s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2025-02-26-would-launch-akash-on-solana-today-not-a-sovereign-us3v/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 26 Feb 2025, 00:12:22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJaABZMi9c&t=742s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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?

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.