Akash

Akash Network positions itself as the following: Akash Network is the world’s first decentralized and open-source cloud, accelerating deployment, scale, efficiency, and price performance for high-growth industries like blockchain and machine learning/AI. Akash has a goal to be similar to the Airbnb of Cloud Computing. They allow companies, individuals, and investors to provide extra computing capacity up for rent and allow people building products to therefore rent that. Think about the value of Airbnb for a second; say someone owns a vacation home and they use it in totality about 9 weeks out of the year. That leaves 43 weeks where their home could be rented out for a brand new source of income. This is the first category of service providers and similar to this think of companies who either have the general open capacity or maybe seasonality trends. Now think of the other group of Airbnb providers. These are people who go out and analyze the profitability and decide to purchase a home just to provide it on Airbnb for a profit, equity in the home, or whatever their reason is. This is another group of people for Akash if investors large or small see an opportunity they can provide the service. This could be done through large investments or things like the concept of the Akash Supermini Computer that was at one point discussed. This model similar to Airbnb helps drive down costs and decentralization. With Airbnb, it does not just help drive down costs but it gives more control and decisions on where you will stay. This analogy is similar to Akash where it helps companies/projects to get more optionality such as censorship resistance, greater potential uptime, and other features while claiming to be 2-3x cheaper than other cloud providers. This model of DeCloud could become critical to moving decentralized projects off of a centralized fail point. DeCloud could start in things like DeFI, DEXs, Crypto Mining, and general Web 3.0 projects and over time try to expand into general Web 2.0 with their cost efficiencies.