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Seeker will be more permissive about third-party apps gaining access to its "digital exhaust" like GPS data, cellular data and compute that device manufacturers usually lock down.
This comes with tradeoffs. Usually, devices treat this internal intelvery carefully for privacy and other concerns. But all that data is valuable, especially for crypto projects building decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN).
Solana Mobile consulted with user-bootstrapped cellular network Helium and other Solana DePIN teams to figure out what sensor data they might want to harness in Seeker. Otherwise forgettable "digital exhaust" data points might help a team better track the growth and performance of their physical infrastructure, for example.
"We think that those are going to be unbelievable opportunities for our users to earn and engage and interact.