Decloud Nodes Lab

Greg Osuri built the case for decentralized AI in three layers in under 5 minutes. Layer one: access. Anthropic's Claude is the best coding model available. OpenClaw is the most successful open-source project in history. Anthropic just announced they're banning OpenClaw usage. The most powerful model cutting off the most loved tool. The company that controls the best intelligence can revoke your access whenever their interests change. Layer two: transparency. You have no idea what biases Anthropic has built into Claude. If AI models directly impact how you think, the decision tree needs to be visible. Closed-source models with hidden biases making decisions that shape your worldview isn't a feature, it's a risk. Layer three: compute. Amazon may be picking winners in AI by controlling compute allocation. Cloud companies stopped being neutral marketplaces and started giving GPUs to the companies they've bet on. Amazon overwhelmingly backing Anthropic might have contributed to Claude's dominance. The cloud is no longer a utility. It's a kingmaker. @gregosuri's conclusion: intelligence should be free like water and air. Decentralized AI isn't ideology. It's the only architecture where the model can't ban your tools, the biases can be audited, and the compute isn't allocated by a company picking favorites.

In the first 90 days of 2026, Akash shipped the biggest upgrade in $AKT’s economic history, crossed 1.7 billion tokens a day on OpenRouter, opened Homenode beta to GPU owners worldwide, and celebrated @AkashStudents win two separate hackathons in the same weekend. The network shows no sign of slowing down. Here is everything that shipped… ↓ Full Q1 report akash.network/blog/akash-net…

Come meet the Akash team at the 2026 Penn Blockchain Conference from March 27-28! Register here: pennblockchain.com

The wait is over. The Burn-Mint Equilibrium (BME) proposal is going onchain for a vote today, with an upgrade scheduled for March 23rd at 14:00 UTC. BME restores direct utility to $AKT, anchoring token value to real network usage, where every $AKT used for deploying will be burnt. This upgrade also introduces WASM smart contracts to Akash - a foundational step that enables the Core Team to iterate and build faster without full chain coordination. Cast your vote & track the proposal live on Mintscan ↓ mintscan.io/akash/proposal…

Akash Mainnet 16 upgrade will occur at block #25789395 on Wednesday, March 4th, at 14:00 UTC. This upgrade enables: - Lease closed reason, allowing providers to specify why a lease was closed (e.g., Unstable). - CometBFT Tachyon advisory fix CSA-2026-001. - Migration of deployment and market module stores from manual KVStore key encoding to cosmossdk .io/collections.IndexedMap, replacing hand-rolled prefix keys with type-safe, indexed collections. - Secondary indexes (State, Owner, Provider) enabling efficient filtered queries without full-store iteration. Current deployments will NOT be affected. mintscan.io/akash/proposal…

What happens when your Akash deployment goes down at 2am? AkashGuard handles it automatically. This autonomous agent checks the health of all your services every 30 seconds, diagnoses issues using Llama 3.3 70B on AkashML, and if confidence is above 70%, it automatically closes the deployment, spins up a new one, accepts a bid from a provider, and waits until the new service is live. Once restored, Venice AI’s vision model takes a screenshot and verifies everything is actually working. Self-healing infrastructure, no human required. Full Project Overview: devpost.com/software/akash…

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