Akash Network Approves 24-Month Migration to Solana Ecosystem

Decentralized compute platform Akash announced on Nov. 2, 2026, that it will migrate its blockchain infrastructure to Solana over the next 24 months ¹. The move follows the passage of Akash community Governance Proposal 346, which was formally ratified with 97% of participating token holders voting in favor ¹. Under the approved plan, existing $AKT token holders will be able to convert their holdings to an SPL-format $AKT token on a 1:1 basis through a dedicated migration portal ¹. At the time of writing, $SOL traded at $92.66, down 2.1% over the prior 24 hours.

The initiative will shift Akash's core decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) stack—including the Akash Marketplace, the AkashML AI inference platform, and Akash Homenode compute contributor tools—natively onto Solana ¹. Akash leadership stated that the decision followed an internal assessment citing Solana's lower transaction costs, existing DePIN network activity, onchain liquidity, and user base ¹. Technical planning and initial transition coordination between Akash and Solana teams have commenced ¹.

Compute Infrastructure Integration

Akash founder Greg Osuri framed the migration as an effort to turn artificial intelligence compute into a liquid onchain commodity by leveraging Solana's ecosystem of applications, capital markets, and autonomous AI agents ¹. Rishin Sharma, head of AI growth at the Solana Foundation, confirmed the foundation's support for the transition, pointing to growing enterprise and developer demand for open-access inference capacity ¹.

Technical milestone schedules and instructional guidance for the 1:1 token migration will be released through Akash's official channels as deployment phases progress across the multi-year transition window ¹.