Akash has run its own blockchain for years. Its core team now says it never needed one.
Proposal 346, posted Oct. 26 and sitting near 98% yes with voting open until Nov. 2, would move the decentralized GPU marketplace off its Cosmos chain and onto Solana. The case: about 100 validators bond AKT just to secure consensus, while the team maintains its own forks of cosmos-sdk and CometBFT. On Solana, the whole marketplace's network fees come to about 0.075 SOL a day.
AKT converts 1:1 through a one-way portal open for two years. No path back. Staking rewards end at cutover, and validators lose the job 90 days later.
Sovereignty, it turns out, was a line item. Solana quoted a few dollars a day.