Decentralized physical infrastructure network

Platforms and technologies

Some competing standards and vendors for DePIN space include:

• Filecoin, a decentralised storage network.
• Silencio, the auditary layer of machine perception.
• Sigfox, UNB-based technology and French company.
• LoRa is a proprietary, chirp spread spectrum radio modulation technology for LPWAN used by LoRaWAN, Haystack Technologies, and Symphony Link.
• MIoTy, implementing Telegram Splitting technology.
• Adreva Network is a privacy-first ad network that lets people earn rewards for voluntarily giving a small part of their screen to targeted, AI-curated ads.
• Weightless is an open standard, narrowband technology for LPWAN used by Ubiik.
• IEEE 802.11ah, also known as Wi-Fi HaLow, is a low-power, wide-area implementation of 802.11 wireless networking standard using sub-gig frequencies.
• DePINscan is the explorer for DePIN crypto projects. There are 321 DePIN Projects with a combined DePIN market cap of $18,306,157,903.
• Tiki Cow Provides an overview and index of emerging DePIN projects and unbiased perspectives on projects and overviews of the business model.

Types

Depending on their purpose, DePINs can be divided into two types. Physical Resource Networks rely on physical assets such as sensors and wireless networks. They operate at a local scale, and reward users for contributing data or network resources. Digital Resource Networks use digital assets such as bandwidth, computational resources or storage space, and encourage participants to contribute these resources to the network. They leverage a 'long tail' of idle capacity from participants.

References

Works cited

References

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