New Trends in the DePIN Track: The Trend of Integration with AI

Recently, the decentralized physical infrastructure network ( DePIN ) track has been undergoing some interesting changes. Although market attention has at one point shifted towards the AI field, DePIN has not stagnated; instead, it is actively seeking integration with AI technology to open up new development directions.

The Essence of DePIN

DePIN is essentially a resource integration mechanism that incentivizes users to share personal resources through tokens, building a decentralized hardware network. These networks cover multiple areas, including storage space, communication, cloud computing, and energy. DePIN projects are mainly divided into three categories: storage, computing power, and networking.

Unlike pure on-chain projects, DePIN requires users to first invest in physical devices and then continue to participate in "mining". By connecting to the real world, DePIN brings positive externalities to the entire industry.

Market Landscape

The DePIN industry has currently formed a considerable scale. According to statistics from data platforms, there are approximately 4.56 million DePIN devices worldwide, distributed across nearly 200 countries and regions, with a total market value of 7.1 billion USD. The devices are mainly concentrated in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia, with the highest density in South Korea.

Emerging Project Roam

In the DePIN network segment, Roam is rapidly emerging as a new leader. Roam is positioned as a decentralized wireless network provider, offering a variety of products such as WIFI hardware and eSIM cards. Users can obtain free data and reward points by purchasing hardware devices or completing tasks.

The technical architecture of Roam includes four main ecological modules: network infrastructure, growth incentives, innovation incubation, and community governance. This architecture provides a new paradigm for the DePIN track.

Integration with AI

Roam is actively exploring the integration of AI technology, utilizing its advantages in communication data to provide high-quality training data for AI projects. This initiative is expected to address the data acquisition challenges faced in AI development, particularly the data controlled by traditional telecom operators.

Roam provides data services while protecting user privacy through technologies such as decentralized identity and verifiable credentials. Its ecosystem is expanding, integrating multiple DePIN partners to build a rich AI training dataset ecosystem.

How Regular Users Can Participate

Roam adopts a "free + airdrop" strategy to attract users. Users can earn free traffic by completing tasks or sharing their WIFI to earn points, which may be used for future airdrop participation. This low-threshold participation method provides opportunities for ordinary users.

The fusion of DePIN and AI is building a decentralized infrastructure for the AI era, bringing new development opportunities and challenges to the industry.