Let’s first ask Akash CFO Cheng Wang to give a brief introduction.

下面首先请Cheng Wang和大家打个招呼， 并做个简要自我介绍。

How does AKash DeCloud for DeFi work?

AKash的去中心化云DeCloud如何为DeFi赋能？

It's no secret DeFi is disrupting traditional finance at an atomic speed and AKash has the best possible solution to make DeFi truly censorship-resistant and reduce gas and development costs. A permissionless and decentralized cloud infrastructure is imperative to ensuring DeFi remains sovereign and becomes more accessible.

It made complete sense for us to serve the industry we're in first. That's why we are going to offer a vertically integrated, easy to use, and hyper-scalable DeFi backed by AKash Platform.

The AKash Supercloud will enable DeFi projects to decouple from the big cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google, etc., reducing their costs and moving towards true decentralization and community empowerment.

AKash captures value using AKT, where 20% of revenues (from hosting fees) are distributed to Stakers. AKT holders benefit the more demand there is from DeFi applications on AKash.

众所周知，DeFi正在以惊人的速度抢占传统金融的市场份额。AKash拥有最好的解决方案，让DeFi真正具有抗审查性，并减少gas费和开发成本。无许可和去中心化云基础架构，能够确保DeFi保持主权并变得更易于访问。

这对DeFi行业很有意义，我们将提供由AKash平台支持的垂直集成，易使DeFi更简单实用且可扩展。

AKash 超级云将使DeFi项目与AWS、Azure和Google等大型云提供商脱钩，从而降低其成本，并实现真正的去中心化化和社区授权。AKash使用AKT来获取价值，其中20％的收入（来自托管费）被分配给持币人。AKT持有者将从Akash上的DeFi应用中获得更多需求，从而从中受益。

What are the advantages of AKash's decentralized cloud and the existing model? Why use decentralized cloud?

AKash的去中心化云和现有模型的优势是什么？为什么要使用去中心化云？

Cloud infrastructure -- the back bone of the Internet -- is increasingly becoming centralized, controlled by an oligopoly of four companies (Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft’s Azure and Alibaba).

The mission of AKash is to break this oligopoly using a decentralized network of computing clusters (data centers), and offering resources in a peer-to-peer marketplace to build resilient and unstoppable applications at 10X to 15X less than what you would pay in the market today.

AKash offers a unique set of value propositions to customers currently using the cloud:

1. Lower cost: AKash users set the price, providers compete to win the work at that price. This way the price is always lower because it’s naturally driven by the laws of demand and supply.

2. Unstoppable: an application running on AKash can only be stopped by its owner. This ensures resiliency.

3. Improved productivity: A human centric design that lets developers do more with less.

4. Private and Permissionless: The application is secured even with someone who has physical access to the server and no one can stop you from using AKash

AKash also provides the world's most sophisticated tool chain that’s optimized for modern workflows where developers can achieve their goals with the least number of steps possible.

云基础架构是互联网的关键，云基础设施越来越中心化，被亚马逊AWS，谷歌云，微软Azure和阿里云垄断。

AKash的使命是使用去中心化的计算集群（数据中心）网络来打破这种寡头垄断，并在点对点市场中提供资源，以比大家现在支付给现有云提供商的价格便宜10到15倍，且可用于构建有弹性且不可阻挡的应用。

AKash向云客户提供了一套独特的价值主张：

1，更低的成本：AKash用户确定价格，提供商竞争以该价格赢得作品。这样一来，价格始终会较低，因为它自然受到需求和供应规律的驱动。

2，不可阻止：在AKash上运行的应用只能由其所有者停止。这样可以确保弹性。

3，提高效率：以人为本的设计，使开发人员事半功倍。

4，用户主权：即使有人可以物理访问服务器，该应用也受到保护，没有人可以阻止使用AKash。

AKash还提供了世界上最精致的工具链，这个工具链在现代工作流程上进行了优化，开发人员可以使用最少的步骤来实现其目标。

How does AKash Cloud ensure that every user uses at the lowest cost?

AKash云如何确保用户的成本最低？

2. Suppliers of cloud compute are not like AWS, Alibab, or other large centralized cloud providers, so they will naturally want to charge cheaper rates to have their excess capacity sold.

3. Most powerfully, with blockchain, our token economic incentives create subsidies that exponentially reduces compute costs. Without blockchain, we can save developers 2-3X on their cloud bills. With our tokenomics, those savings can reach as high as 15X.

1.  因为市场参与者可以积极要求降低成本。

2.  云计算的供应商不像AWS，阿里云或其他大型中心化云提供商那，他们会希望以更便宜的价格来出售多余的容量。

3.  借助区块链，AKash的代币经济激励措施创造了补贴，从而成倍地降低了计算成本。如果没有区块链，我们可以节省开发人员2-3倍的云账单。但是现在借助通证经济，可以降低高达15倍的成本。

How to understand AKash as "unstoppable cloud"?

如何理解AKash是不可阻止的云？

There are two things that make AKash "unstoppable"

1. True decentralization making censorship and network shutdown impossible b/c our network will be fully distributed globally and not under anyone's control. Cloud applications hosted on AKash are censorship resistant, meaning the applications can be controlled only by the owner of the key-pair.

2. Scalability. With 85% of underutilized cloud capacity in 8.4 million data centers, AKash provides unlimited access to all network resources at any time–thus removing barriers to scalability

这两点可以确保AKash永远不可阻挡：

真正的去中心化。AKash能够做到抗审查且永远无法被关闭，因为AKash网络在全球范围内全面分布，不受任何人的控制。AKash上托管的云应用具有抗审查性，这些应用只能由密钥所有者控制。

可扩展性。 AKash利用了840万个数据中心85％的未充分利用的云容量，因此可随时提供对所有网络资源的无限制访问，从而消除了可扩展性的障碍

Why does AKash provide proprietary hardware Supermini? Which scenarios or users are suitable for purchasing Supermini?

为什么AKash提供专有硬件Supermini？哪些用户需要购买Supermini？

The supermini is a mini supercomputer for the home that allows anyone to plug-in-and-earn by supplying compute capacity to the network. The supermini can be used by anyone, even non technical people. Our inspiration comes from the incredible work done by the Helium team with their Hotspots.

supermini是微型超级计算机，任何人都可以通过向网络提供计算资源来实现即插即用。任何人，甚至非技术人员都可以使用supermini。 

How deep is AKash's cooperation with BSN, COSMOS, IRISENT, etc.? Could you explain in detail?

AKash与BSN，COSMOS，IRISENT等的合作有多深？您能详细解释一下吗？

COSMOS: AKash Network’s partnership with Cosmos’s Interchain Foundation (ICF), and our integral contribution to the development of IBC protocol will enable us to adopt and benefit from interchain technologies faster than any other company.

BSN: we cannot really talk about anything here yet because discussions are still ongoing! We will keep everyone posted.

COSMOS：前不久AKash与Cosmos的Interchain基金会（ICF）战略合作，我们也会为IBC协议的开发作出不可或缺的贡献，相比于其他公司，我们会更快以及更好地使用该技术。

BSN：我们目前还不能讨论这件事，我们和BSN的合作还在进行中。

Could you predict the value of token in the future?

请展望一下AKT未来的价值。

Predicting the future is hard and it's not something we will do, but we have covered the value proposition of AKash and the earning potential of AKash at length here: https://AKash.network/blog/the-earning-potential-of-AKash-token/

预测未来很难，这不是我们当下专注的事。但这篇文章详细介绍了AKash的价值主张和Akt的盈利潜力：《Akash 通证的收入潜力》

Could you briefly introduce the AKash token model?

可以简单介绍一下AKash的通证模型吗？

AKash is a sovereign, Proof-of-stake chain that uses a native token AKT as the primary means to secure the blockchain and provide a default mechanism to abstract (store/exchange) value.

AKash also supports a multi-currency settlement mechanism to solve for velocity and volatility of exchanging value. However, the market order book uses AKash Token (AKT) as the reserve currency of the ecosystem. AKT provides a novel settlement option to lock in an exchange rate between AKT and the settlement currency. This way, providers and tenants are protected from the price volatility of AKT.

Additionally, the AKashian model also bootstraps early supply by subsidizing using inflation (i.e., borrowing from the future), and activates an incentive structure that not only fairly distributes, but will unlock network effects to accelerate growth. (

The intrinsic value of AKT is derived from the earning potential, which has three main contributors that include a) Transaction Fees, b) Take Income from GMV (~20%) and c) Inflationary Rewards (54% at Genesis).

For more details on the earning potential, please see this post.

[https://AKash-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/AKash-econ.pdf].

AKash是一条主权的。权益证明链，原生代币AKT是保护区块链并提供默认机制来提取（存储/交换）价值的主要手段。

AKash还支持多种货币结算机制，以解决交换价值的速度和波动性。但是，市场订单使用AKash通证（AKT）作为生态系统的储备货币。AKT提供了一种新颖的结算选项，可以锁定AKT与结算货币之间的汇率。这样，可以保护提供商和租户免受AKT价格波动的影响。

此外，AKashian模型还通过使用通货膨胀补贴（即从未来借款）来引导早期供应，并激活了不仅公平分配而且将释放网络效应以加速增长的激励结构。（AKT的内在价值来自其盈利潜力，它具有三个主要贡献者，其中包括交易费用，从GMV收取收入（约20％）通货膨胀奖励（创世纪时为54％）。

更多关于AKT赚钱前景的资料，请查阅通证模型白皮书

[https://akash-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/akash-econ.pdf].

AKash has made some progress in late 2020, and what plans will it have in the coming time?

AKash在2020年末取得了一些进展，未来将有什么计划？

In 2020 we completed a migration to the CosmosSDK, launched the AKashian Challenge testnet, closed our funding round and grew our team by 3x! We’ll be launching our Mainnet and AKashian Challenge Phase 3 soon. Check out our update for more details: https://AKash.network/blog/AKash-q4-2020-roadmap-update/

2020年，我们完成了向CosmosSDK的迁移，启动了AKashian Challenge测试网，结束了融资，并使团队增长了3倍！我们将很快启动主网和AKashian挑战阶段3。 

更多详细信息请查看：https://akash.network/blog/akash-q4-2020-roadmap-update/