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Akash ticker AKT

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  • 6 reviewed developments
  • 33 cited sources

Summary

Proof-of-stake application chain (akashnet-2) built on the Cosmos SDK with CometBFT consensus. It records a compute marketplace: tenants post deployment orders, providers bid, accepted bids become leases, and payments stream from on-chain escrow accounts. The containers themselves run off-chain on provider hardware. AKT is staked to up to 100 active validators; a block commits once validators holding more than 2/3 of voting power precommit it, assuming less than 1/3 is byzantine. Akash is secured by its own validator set, not by Cosmos Hub stake. 12313272829

Design

System
Layer 1 blockchainAkash runs today as a sovereign Cosmos SDK chain (chain ID akashnet-2) secured by its own AKT-staked validators. Its AEP-79 migration documents (draft version 0.9, August 2026) plan to wind this chain down and re-implement the marketplace on Solana or on an Ethereum layer 2; no target had been chosen and no date set when reviewed, and no community signal proposal on the migration had been submitted on chain as of 27 September 2026 (the latest proposal was number 341), so the class describes the chain as it currently operates.
Settlement family
Cosmos SDK
Scarce resource
Stake (proof of stake)
State model
Accounts
Finality
Economic finality
Who makes blocks
Validators take turns proposing in a weighted round-robin, so a validator with more voting power proposes more often. The active set is capped at the top 100 validators by stake; a public node query on 27 September 2026 showed 82 validators in the active set.
Fork choice
No fork choice in the Nakamoto sense: each height is decided by more than 2/3 precommits. Conflicting commits would need at least 1/3 of voting power to double-sign, which Akash's documentation says is slashed and permanently barred. If more than 1/3 of voting power is offline the chain stops producing blocks rather than forking.

Qualifications

Tradeoffs

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Emphasizes
Security and Decentralization
Gives up
On-chain scale and capital efficiency. The chain only keeps marketplace bookkeeping while the compute runs on providers it cannot verify; the validator set is capped at 100; blocks stop if more than 1/3 of voting power is offline; and Akash's own migration proposal calls the staking capital needed to secure a sovereign chain inefficient, which is the stated reason it plans to move.Decentralization here refers to running validators and full nodes, not to the compute market, whose provider concentration was not reviewed. Whether providers actually deliver the resources they lease rests on audits, reputation and, for some workloads, hardware enclaves rather than on consensus.
Full node at home
Practical at home 3457Akash's node-operator guide lists 4 to 8 CPU cores, 16 to 32 GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD (1 TB recommended) for a full node, and its build guide gives a lower minimum (4 cores, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, 1 TB recommended) and offers an hourly snapshot of about 15 GB compressed. The Mainnet 18 upgrade guide recommends 32 GB RAM, 8 or more cores and 1 TB or more. Validators are told to plan for 128 GB RAM. Figures differ between Akash pages.
Throughput claims
No classified figure recorded

Scaling layers

No scaling layer recorded in this profile.

Capabilities

Capabilities of Akash: how each one is provided, or its research status
CapabilityHow it is providedNotes and sources
Account abstractionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Atomic swapsUnknownNo hash-locked or equivalent trust-minimized swap mechanism was found for Akash. IBC token transfers and the AKT-to-ACT burn and mint are not atomic swaps between parties.
Authenticated data publicationUnknownNot yet assessed under the current definitions; no feature was found through which a publisher makes data available for others to retrieve and check against a chain-recorded commitment. The oracle module accepts signed AKT/USD prices relayed from Pyth into chain state, a single price feed, which does not count as publication. Absence was not exhaustively verified, so the rule that absence needs a source makes this unknown rather than not present. 9
Light clientsBuilt into the protocolLimited scopeCometBFT consensus produces the validator-signed commits that IBC light clients check. IBC on Akash uses the on-chain Tendermint light client to verify counterparty chains; relayers carry proofs but do not replace verification. Limited: this light verification serves IBC, where counterparty chains' on-chain light clients check Akash's commits; no user-facing light client for Akash itself was reviewed. 1320
Native staking or delegationStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
On-chain governanceStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Parallel executionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Payment or state channelsUnknownNo payment or state channel layer anchored to Akash was found. Lease charges accrue per block against an on-chain escrow account and are settled on chain when the provider withdraws or the lease closes; that is ordinary on-chain settlement, not a channel. 813
Programmable spendingPartial (layer not stated) Earlier definitionStandard Cosmos SDK tools give some spend conditions beyond a single key: authorization grants that let one account spend or deposit for another within limits, fee grants and vesting accounts. Akash includes CosmWasm, but new contract code can only be uploaded through governance (the live upload permission is set to nobody), and the migration team's code review says CosmWasm exists only to host the Pyth price contracts, with a filter blocking most actions contracts could take. General user-written spending logic is therefore not available. 21332
Protocol-verified messagingStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Reversible transfers or recoveryUnknownNot yet assessed under the current definitions; Akash uses standard Cosmos SDK account types including vesting accounts, which time-lock grants rather than letting a sender cancel a payment or an owner recover an account. No feature for reversible or delayed transfers, or for recovery of ordinary accounts, was found. 2
RollupsNone found Earlier definitionNo rollup settles to Akash in reviewed sources. The migration draft considers moving Akash's own marketplace onto an existing Ethereum rollup, which would make Akash a user of a rollup, not a host for one. 14
Shielded transfersStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Signed partial offersUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition.
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Structured assessment pending
The shared review has not assessed this feature for any chain yet (Account abstraction, Native staking or delegation, On-chain governance, Parallel execution, Protocol-verified messaging and Shielded transfers). That does not mean it is absent, and a chain’s profile may already describe it.
Unknown
The review has not established this for this chain under the current definition; the note beside it says why. Unknown is not absent and not a low score. A feature reads “Not present” only when a source shows it is absent.
Earlier definition
Payment or state channels, Programmable spending and Rollups keep the earlier definition until the next fact-check. There, “Native” does not separate the protocol from core-team software, “Ecosystem software” does not say who publishes it, and “Partial” does not say which layer.
Reading across rows
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Definitions, schema version and review history

Ecosystem & custody

Ecosystem products for Akash
Product typeStatusNotes and sources
Automated market makersUnknownThe review did not verify absence on Akash, so the rule that absence needs a source makes this unknown rather than not present. Earlier finding: no exchange running on Akash itself was found, and contract uploads require governance approval. AKT trades on Osmosis, a separate chain, and on centralized exchanges. The burn-and-mint specification names an Osmosis 30-minute price average as one oracle input, but the live oracle settings list only Pyth price contracts as sources. 210111331 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Issuer-native stablecoinsNone foundACT is a protocol-issued compute credit worth one US dollar, but it cannot be transferred between accounts and only pays for leases, so it is not recorded as a stablecoin. Circle's USDC list does not include Akash; USDC arriving over IBC would be a voucher from another chain. 111322 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Algorithmic stablecoinsNone foundACT's peg is maintained by burning AKT at an oracle price, holding it in a vault, slowing new ACT when the vault's value falls below 95% of outstanding ACT and stopping new ACT below 90%. That resembles an algorithmic design, but ACT is non-transferable and does not circulate, so none is recorded here. 11 As of Sep 27, 2026.
BridgesNative to the protocolIBC token transfers (ICS-20)Akash runs IBC token transfers only, with the Tendermint light client. The migration rollout names Osmosis and Cosmos Hub as counterparties where AKT vouchers would need to be returned. No other bridge to Akash was verified. Risk: Each IBC path depends on the counterparty chain's validators, correct light-client updates and working relayers; AKT held on another chain is a claim on Akash-side escrow. If the migration proceeds, the draft asks holders to return those vouchers before the cutover snapshot and mentions a redemption process for vouchers left behind and a channel wind-down; those details were not reviewed and are not final. 131520 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Block explorersEstablished in the ecosystemMintscan, Ping.pub, ATOMScan, ezstaking, Stakeflow, staking-explorer.com, WhisperNode, Crouton DigitalThe Cosmos chain registry record for Akash lists twelve explorers, including these eight (the others are Decloud Nodes Lab, Arcturian Tech, Valopers and moon-runners); Akash's own upgrade page links Mintscan for proposals. Listing is not a quality or completeness check, and explorer data is provider-indexed. 61821 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Hardware walletsUnknownSee custody rows: Trezor states it does not support Akash, and Ledger Wallet's Cosmos chain list does not include Akash. A Keplr-with-Ledger path is plausible because Keplr supports Ledger for Cosmos app chains, but no page confirming it for Akash was found, so no hardware-wallet surface is recorded as verified. 232425 As of Sep 27, 2026.

Hardware-wallet custody

Hardware-wallet custody for Akash
Device makerStatusWhat users can and cannot do
LedgerUnknownSame as native: UnknownCannot: Add an Akash account in Ledger Wallet itself; Akash is not among the Cosmos chains in Ledger Wallet's source codeNo Ledger coin page for Akash was found (the address tried returned 404). Keplr, which Akash's self-custody console recommends, supports Ledger's Cosmos app for Cosmos app chains, and Akash uses the same key derivation coin type (118), but signing AKT this way was not confirmed on a page naming Akash. 10182324 As of Sep 27, 2026.
TrezorNone foundSame as native: NoCannot: Manage Akash accounts in Trezor Suite; Trezor's page says it does not currently support Akash NetworkThird-party signing paths for Akash with a Trezor device were not checked. 25 As of Sep 27, 2026.

Public data

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Sourced developments

Developments: Review overdue Reviewed Sep 27, 2026; next review was due Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 UTC.

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Sources

Oldest dated source check: Source checked Sep 27, 2026 Next check due Oct 27, 2026.

All 33 sources were checked in the last 30 days.

  1. Consensus layer (node architecture) (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  2. Application layer (node architecture) (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  3. Node operators: getting started (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  4. Node build: CLI (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  5. Running a validator (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  6. Network upgrades (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  7. Mainnet 18 upgrade guide (v2.1.0) (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  8. Providers and leases (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  9. Hermes price relayer (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  10. Console Air onboarding (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  11. AEP-76: Burn Mint Equilibrium on Akash (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  12. AEP-79: Akash on Shared Security (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  13. AEP-79 migration docs: current architecture (external site)akash-network/AEP maintainers · retrieved
  14. AEP-79 migration docs: target selection (external site)akash-network/AEP maintainers · retrieved
  15. AEP-79 migration docs: rollout and cutover (external site)akash-network/AEP maintainers · retrieved
  16. AEP-79 migration docs: executive summary (external site)akash-network/AEP maintainers · retrieved
  17. akash-network/node releases (external site)akash-network/node maintainers · retrieved
  18. Akash chain registry record (external site)Cosmos chain-registry maintainers · retrieved
  19. Akash asset list (external site)Cosmos chain-registry maintainers · retrieved
  20. IBC overview (external site)Cosmos Labs · retrieved
  21. Mintscan Akash explorer (external site)Cosmostation · retrieved
  22. USDC contract addresses (external site)Circle · retrieved
  23. Ledger Wallet Cosmos chain modules (external site)LedgerHQ · retrieved
  24. Connect your Ledger with Keplr Extension (external site)Keplr · retrieved
  25. Akash Network wallet (external site)Trezor · retrieved
  26. What Burn-Mint Equilibrium Means for Akash (external site)Akash Network · retrieved
  27. Live staking parameters (akashnet-2 chain state) (external site)Polkachu public Akash REST node · retrieved
  28. Live slashing parameters (akashnet-2 chain state) (external site)Polkachu public Akash REST node · retrieved
  29. Bonded validator count (akashnet-2 chain state) (external site)Polkachu public Akash REST node · retrieved
  30. Most recent governance proposals (akashnet-2 chain state) (external site)Polkachu public Akash REST node · retrieved
  31. Live oracle parameters (akashnet-2 chain state) (external site)Polkachu public Akash REST node · retrieved
  32. Live CosmWasm upload permissions (akashnet-2 chain state) (external site)Polkachu public Akash REST node · retrieved
  33. Applied upgrade plan v2.1.0 (akashnet-2 chain state) (external site)Polkachu public Akash REST node · retrieved

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