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DePIN — Decentralised Infrastructure
DePIN (Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Networks) is one of the most tangible applications of crypto. Real hardware. Real services. Token incentives replacing venture capital.
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What you'll understand after this path
- What DePIN means and why it's different from software-only crypto
- How Helium built a wireless network from crowdsourced hotspots
- How Filecoin and Arweave create decentralised data storage
- How Render and Livepeer commoditise GPU and video compute
- How token incentives replace the capital investment of traditional telecoms
- The genuine limitations — Proof of Coverage gaming, reliability concerns
- How to evaluate which DePIN projects are building real value
Curriculum — 7 pages, read in order
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1What decentralised physical infrastructure is and why it's a distinct crypto category.Read page →
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2Decentralised storage marketplace. Storage providers, retrieval miners, proof of spacetime.Read page →
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3Permanent storage. Pay once, stored forever. Blockweave, SPoRA, endowment model.Read page →
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4Decentralised GPU rendering. How idle GPUs become distributed cloud compute.Read page →
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5Decentralised video transcoding. Probabilistic micropayments and AI compute expansion.Read page →
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6Crowdsourced wireless. LoRaWAN, 5G, Proof of Coverage, Data Credits.Read page →
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7Blockchain data indexing as infrastructure. Subgraphs, GraphQL, the query market.Read page →
Progress is saved in your browser only — no account, no tracking. All pages use official sources — whitepapers, academic papers, government publications. Three reading levels on every page: Curious (plain English), Exploring (practical), Deep Dive (technical).