Akash Network
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Akash Network is an online marketplace where people can rent out or buy computer processing power. Of the 20 things it promised, it delivered 10, 5 are past due and not yet checked, 5 are still open (1 with no date); the next dated step is 29 September 2026. It trades at $0.5262, #204 of all coins by size, 93% below its highest ever price.
This week Nothing changed on its record.
A real job, real backing. Delivered 10 of 20, 5 past due, not yet checked. Next step in 14 days. #2 of 7 cloud compute networks. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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Passes all four
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: AI services
- ✓Real backingBacking: trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken
- ✓Something aheadAhead: next dated step 29 September 2026; 10 of 20 promises delivered
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $156.7M, 5 times smaller than Render, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Cloud compute)
Listed on 5 big exchanges
- Origin6 April 2021about about 5 yearsFrom US (CoinGecko)akash.network, GitHub
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode last changed 1 day ago
- BackingNo named investorListed on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, KuCoin
- Standing on the record10 of 203 confirmed by outside news, 5 past due, not yet checked2 headlines last month111,949 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
- Real-world purpose: AI services
- Backing: trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken
- Ahead: next dated step 29 September 2026; 10 of 20 promises delivered
- Room: worth $156.7M, 5 times smaller than Render, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Cloud compute)
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Cloud compute ($69.89M). To match the leader, Render ($708.22M), its price would need to rise 352%, to about $2.38.
Still to check
- No named investor among its tags
- Only 2 headlines named it last month
What to do Add it to My coins and come back on 29 September 2026, when it says it will deliver: Akash promised to replace its Console's Build and Deploy feature with a new pipeline that supports more programming languages. That step adds use of the coin, which is what a bigger market cap has to come from. If it lands, the record moves; if it slips, so does the case.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
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Does it deliver?
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10 of 20
promises delivered, by the project's own pages
3 of those confirmed by an outside news report
Promises by the year they were due
delivered open past due
delivered open past due, not yet checked today. Click a point to open that promise.
- Past due29 May 2026Akash promised a new way to verify provider hardware using Trusted Execution technology instead of manual checks by auditors.109 days overdue, not yet checkedProof No article or release reports it shipping. Checked 12 September 2026.
Details
“Currently, hardware provided by a provider is verified using a decentralized network of Auditors on Akash. While this approach is practical for a limited set of providers, the manual verification is proving challenging at scale, even more critical when incentives go onchain and are distributed without a human in the loop. Hardware Verification using Trusted Execution minimizes trust required to verify the accuracy of hardware provided by the providers on Akash network and serves as a fundamental building block for enabling Confidential Computing capabilities, as detailed in AEP-65.”
- Past due30 May 2026Akash promised to notify users when a provider is going offline for maintenance or has an outage.108 days overdue, not yet checkedProof This may report it shipping, not yet checked by a person: release v3.0.0-a0 11 June 2026
- Past due29 June 2026Akash promised to let tenants get SSL/TLS certificates for their own custom domains so their deployments can use HTTPS.78 days overdue, not yet checkedProof No article or release reports it shipping. Checked 12 September 2026.
- Past due29 July 2026Akash promised to build private networking between different tenants' leases on the network.48 days overdue, not yet checkedProof No article or release reports it shipping. Checked 13 September 2026.
- Past due29 August 2026Akash promised to let users deploy virtual machines, not just containers, on the network.17 days overdue, not yet checkedProof No article or release reports it shipping. Checked 12 September 2026.
- Open29 September 2026Akash promised to replace its Console's Build and Deploy feature with a new pipeline that supports more programming languages.14 days away
Details
“This AEP proposes **replacing the current "Build & Deploy" feature in Akash Console with a Cloud Native Buildpacks** (buildpacks.io) pipeline. The existing flow — referenced via `CI_CD_TEMPLATE_ID` in `apps/deploy-web/src/config/remote-deploy.config.ts` — is in a broken state, hard-coded to a small set of JavaScript web frameworks, and relies on language detection that only reads `package.json`. Anyone deploying a Python, Go, Ruby, Java, Rust, .NET, or PHP application currently has to abandon the flow and produce a Dockerfile manually.”
- Open14 December 2026Akash promised to build a marketplace for managed backend services, like databases, that anyone can offer without needing special permission.90 days away
- Open30 December 2026Akash promised to build an on-chain system that rewards people for providing compute resources to the network.106 days away
- Open30 December 2026Akash promised to move the network onto a shared-security arrangement, with details tracked in a separate migration document.106 days away
Details
“> **Migration documentation:** For details about the migration and the current process, see doc/README.md — the Akash Chain Migration Program document set, which specifies the migration to execution depth and supersedes this RFP where the two conflict.”
- Openno dateAkash promised to make akt the one official command-line tool for interacting with Akash.
- Delivered22 March 2026Akash promised to build a Burn Mint Equilibrium system so that lease payments keep a stable, USD-like price instead of moving with AKT's price.delivered 22 March 2026Confirmed by Binance, 21 March 2026Proof Why Akash Network (AKT) Is Surging — Burn-Mint Equilibrium Upgrade and Key Breakout Explained Binance, 21 March 2026 · release v2.0.0 21 March 2026
Details
“AKT is the native cryptocurrency of Akash Network and was initially conceived as the sole payment method. When a lease is established, tenants and providers agree on a price in AKT. These leases are open-ended, continuing until either party terminates them. However, the fluctuating value of AKT presents a challenge. Participants typically anticipate stable pricing equivalent to USD, and AKT's price instability compromises its utility as a payment mechanism.”
- Delivered22 March 2026Akash promised to add support for CosmWasm smart contracts on its network.delivered 22 March 2026Confirmed by release v2.0.0, 21 March 2026Proof release v2.0.0 21 March 2026
Details
“This AEP proposes enabling CosmWasm smart contract functionality on Akash Network to unlock programmable decentralized cloud infrastructure, enabling automated resource management, advanced settlement mechanisms, and on-chain governance capabilities. This enhancement leverages Pyth Network as a price oracle to support AEP-76's Burn Mint Equilibrium (BME) mechanism and extends Akash's capabilities beyond simple compute marketplaces into a fully programmable cloud platform.”
- Delivered22 March 2026Akash promised to build an on-chain oracle module that supplies price data to its blockchain.delivered 22 March 2026Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
Details
“This proposal introduces `x/oracle`, a native Cosmos SDK module that provides trustworthy, aggregated price data for on-chain consumers. The module accepts price submissions from authorized CosmWasm contracts, calculates Time-Weighted Average Prices (TWAP), enforces staleness and deviation health checks, and exposes aggregated prices to other modules via keeper queries. A custom CosmWasm querier and message filter allow smart contracts to both read oracle parameters (including Wormhole guardian sets) and submit verified prices — forming the on-chain backbone for the Burn-Mint Equilibrium (AEP-76) and external oracle integrations such as Pyth (AEP-81).”
- Delivered22 March 2026Akash promised to integrate Pyth Network's price feeds to provide a verified AKT/USD price.delivered 22 March 2026Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
- Delivered29 April 2026Akash promised to build a first version of Homenode, software that lets people rent out their home computer's spare GPU power to the network.delivered 2 June 2026Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
Details
“Enabling the average "home" user to participate in Akash as a provider is critical to both - scaling the supply side of the network as well as positioning the network to lead in the shift away from large data center compute in response to the oncoming energy crisis”
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The Jun 2026 post describes Homenode's pilot as 'early access is live with rigorous testing underway before the full alpha release.' source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-12
- Delivered18 May 2026Akash promised to remove self-custody wallet features from its main Console on a set date and move them to a new, separate product called Console Air.delivered 20 July 2026Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
- Delivered10 June 2026Akash promised to change how providers get back resources when a lease ends.delivered 10 June 2026Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
- Delivered16 July 2026Akash promised to add a bid-screening feature to Akash Console.delivered 16 July 2026Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
- Delivered16 July 2026Akash promised to let tenants request confidential-computing workloads that run inside hardware-protected environments by setting one option in their deployment file.delivered 28 July 2026Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
Details
“This AEP defines how tenants request confidential computing workloads on Akash Network and how providers advertise confidential compute capabilities. Tenants set `params.tee` in their SDL to either `cpu` or `cpu-gpu` to request confidential compute. The provider determines the actual TEE platform (AMD SEV-SNP or Intel TDX) at deployment time based on its hardware. Workloads run inside Kata Containers (micro-VMs) on TEE-capable providers. The spec covers CPU-only and GPU confidential computing, NVIDIA GPU passthrough to Kata VMs, attestation sidecars, and combined CPU+GPU attestation.”
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The same post said attestation tooling to verify the enclave was still being built. source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-12
- Delivered30 July 2026Akash promised to add confidential computing support so workloads can run without the hardware's operator being able to see the data.delivered 28 July 2026Confirmed by release v2.2.0-a0, 14 July 2026Proof release v2.2.0-a0 14 July 2026
Details
“Public clouds (like AWS, Azure and GCP) support Confindential Computing because some customers request this before they agree to migrate workloads from their own DCs to public cloud infrastructure. While a vast majority of users don't ask the public clouds for this (and just blindly "trust" them) this is likely to become a challenge for Akash's growth particularly because infractstructure on Akash is owned by 10s if not 100s of independent providers.”
source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-12
Delivered as part of the same confidential-compute launch as AEP-83. source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-12
What is next, and when?
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14 days
until 29 September 2026: Akash promised to replace its Console's Build and Deploy feature with a new pipeline that supports more programming languages.
Everything still to come, soonest first
- 29 September 2026Akash promised to replace its Console's Build and Deploy feature with a new pipeline…14 days
- 14 December 2026Akash promised to build a marketplace for managed backend services, like databases, that…90 days
- 30 December 2026Akash promised to build an on-chain system that rewards people for providing compute…106 days
- 30 December 2026Akash promised to move the network onto a shared-security arrangement, with details…106 days
Recorded 12 September 2026. Date moved 0 times. The ring is how much of the time between the promise and its date has passed.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
Ai services
19 coins we checked say they are for AI services, worth $5.68B together. #8 of 19 by worth.
Cloud compute: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
Akash Network$156.7Mthis coin−2.8%77% out10 of 20 delivered
Render$708.22M4.5× bigger, +$551.52M−2.3%, gap +0.581% outnone dated
Golem$116.3M1.3× smaller, −$40.4M−3.5%, gap −0.8no max0 of 4 delivered
Aethir$88.44M1.8× smaller, −$68.26M−4.0%, gap −1.248% outno record
io.net$51.34M3.1× smaller, −$105.36M−0.3%, gap +2.550% outno record
Nosana$27.67M5.7× smaller, −$129.03M−2.5%, gap +0.2100% outno record
iExec RLC$23.87M6.6× smaller, −$132.83M−0.9%, gap +1.9100% outno record
Cloud compute: this coin next to Render, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Akash Network says
- Akash Network is an online marketplace where people can rent out or buy computer processing power.
- Render says
- Render describes itself as a network that connects people who have spare computer graphics-card power with people who need it to render 3D graphics and other digital content.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
Akash Network is an online marketplace where people can rent out or buy computer processing power.
Its listing puts it this way: What is Akash Network? Akash Network is spearheading a paradigm shift in cloud computing, disrupting conventional cloud services, and pioneering a revolution in access to essential cloud resources.
Problem it says it solves: AI services. 37 coins we have checked say the same; together they are worth $24,708,545,527.
Where it trades: Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, KuCoin, Upbit
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
Nothing printed today
None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.
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Cloud compute: this coin next to the group's largest, Render.
| Akash Network | Render | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 5 years | 6 years |
| Major exchanges | 5 | 9 |
| Named backers | 0 | 1 |
| Headlines, last month | 2 | 11 |
| Promises delivered | 10 of 20 | no record |
What it says is different: What is Akash Network? Akash Network is spearheading a paradigm shift in cloud computing, disrupting conventional cloud services, and pioneering a revolution in access to essential cloud resources.
It is 22.1% the size of Render. On the facts above it is behind on major exchanges, named backers, headlines, last month. For that gap to close, the record would need news that names it. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.
The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $8.07 on 6 April 2021. Today is 7% of that.
77%
of all AKT that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 297.82M coins.
23% (90.72M coins) is not yet created or held by the project. That is a small share. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
Its pages do not say what holding it gets you
That is worth knowing before buying. A coin nobody needs is priced on hope.
- Nothing the project's own pages spell out.
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- of the maximum supply is in circulation: 297.82M of 388.54M.
- 90.72Mcoins still to be released, 23% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- of its all-time high of $8.07 on 6 April 2021. That is −93.5% from the top.
- #204by market cap, $156,701,014.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
What the news says
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Headlines per day, last 30 days
2 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
- Akash Network Token Jumps 12% On Renewed Decentralized Cloud Demand
- Akash Network Token Jumps 12% On Renewed Decentralized Cloud Demand
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
Akash Network is an online marketplace where people can rent out or buy computer processing power.
“Akash Network - Decentralized Compute Marketplace”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-12
Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.
10 of 20 promises delivered. 5 past due with no delivery recorded, not yet checked by a person. 5 open.
Others in ai networks: Internet Computer 20 of 23, Nockchain 20 of 30, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance 7 of 43, Basic Attention 2 of 7, and 13 more.Last code change on the main repository (akash-network/node): 1 day ago, on 14 September 2026.
The project's blog-1 page last changed on 14 September 2026.
Next deadline: 29 September 2026, in 14 days.
This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.