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New leases increased 28% QoQ, rising from 26,800 to 34,300, extending the recovery in deployment activity after earlier declines in the year.
Network revenue fell 46% QoQ in USD due to the 65% drop in AKT’s price, but AKT-denominated revenue increased 16% QoQ and 229% YoY, indicating continued network activity.
GPU usage declined 46% QoQ, while capacity fell 16% QoQ to 587 GPUs. However, GPU capacity remained 1.7% higher YoY, indicating stable long-term infrastructure growth.
The Mainnet 14 upgrade migrated Akash to Cosmos SDK v0.53, while AkashML introduced a managed inference layer to simplify AI deployment on decentralized GPUs.
A total of seven governance proposals were approved in Q4. Governance proposals during the quarter funded protocol upgrades, engineering development, and operational support, including coordination of the Mainnet 14 migration and subsequent upgrades.