About

Hey, I'm Zach. I'm based in NYC, and the Head of Marketing for Overclock Labs — a venture-backed startup building at the frontier of decentralized compute for AI and machine learning. We're the creators of Akash, the world's premier decentralized compute marketplace.

I'm most active on X, @zacharyhorn.

If you would like to connect in person, I'll be attending the following conferences:

Upcoming

Past

  • Cornell Blockchain Conference 2025
  • Yale Blockchain Conference 2025
  • NeurIPS, Vancouver
  • EthDenver '25, Denver
  • NVIDIA GTC '24, San Jose
  • Consensus '24, Austin
  • Korea Blockchain Week, Seoul
  • Token2049, Singapore
  • Messari Mainnet '24, New York City
  • Permissionless III, Salt Lake City
  • Cosmoverse '24, Dubai
Presenting the "State of Akash" with Greg Osuri at Mainnet '24 in New York City.

Here's a selection of my most recent writing:

a/acc: Akash Accelerationism
How strategic progress in 2023 laid the foundation for rapid acceleration in 2024 and beyond.
Brev.dev Leverages Akash Network’s Permissionless GPU Infrastructure to Seamlessly Scale
Prime Intellect Integrates Permissionless Akash GPUs
Today, high-performance GPUs from the Akash Supecloud, including NVIDIA H100, A100, and more, have been added to the Prime Intellect platform.
Akash Accelerate ’24: The Path Forward for Permissionless Compute
On Tuesday, May 28th, the Akash core team and community held the network’s first-ever full-day summit focused on the growth of permissionless compute and Decentralized AI (DeAI).
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