Akash Network
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE, but here is why I’m bullish on Akash Network($AKT)
- Akash Network is a decentralized cloud computing platform that aims to provide a faster, cheaper, and more efficient alternative to traditional cloud services. It leverages the world's underutilized server capacity to create a secure, low-cost, and censorship-resistant cloud infrastructure.
- Unique Selling Point: Akash Network's unique decentralized model guarantees high efficiency and affordability, distinguishing it in the cloud computing market.
- Cost-Efficiency: Akash allows for unused cloud capacity to be turned into a marketplace, which drives down costs. GCP, Azure, and AWS have a monopoly, and the barrier to entry makes it hard for competition. Here is a cost breakdown by Binance research
- Scalability: The Akash Network is designed to automatically scale applications, ensuring seamless performance even during peak times.
- Community: Akash has an active, growing community that is supportive and dedicated to the project's success. They have a strong community on Reddit and Discord along with educational resources on Youtube and an open source GitHub.
- Potential: As more businesses move towards decentralization and blockchain solutions, Akash Network is well-positioned for growth. Companies that host open source models like Replicate.ai could quadruple their margins by deploying on Akash.
- Improvements: In order for real growth, Akash still needs a catalyst. In my opinion the skyrocketing costs of gpu time and the AI boom will do a lot for this chain. But, in order for real success, they need to gain trust and prove that they can provide the same uptime and efficiency as large providers.
- Tokenomics: All of $AKT has been unlocked, and they just recently implemented their fee structure. AKT is inflationary at about 13% to incentivize adoption, but the inflation rate exponentially decays daily and is supposed to half every two years.
- Because providers will receive incentives for maintaining high utilization rates on their CPU/GPUs, this will encourage them to bid even lower on leases, further reducing costs for tenants.