Decentralized cloud marketplace Akash has entered a pivotal new phase after switching on a token-economic framework designed to tie real network usage directly to token value—an attempt to turn compute demand into sustained ‘AKT buy pressure’ and potential ‘deflationary supply’ over time.
In a May 15 report, Messari Research analyst Eric Manoukian detailed how Akash activated a ‘Burn-Mint Equilibrium’ (BME) model via its Mainnet 17 upgrade on March 23. The change links all on-chain compute spending to market purchases of Akash (AKT) followed by token burns—marking the network’s first… Read more





