DePIN, a decentralized physical infrastructure network, is an emerging concept in the blockchain field. Through the token incentive mechanism, users are encouraged to share physical resources and jointly build and maintain network infrastructure. This model transforms the services traditionally provided by centralized institutions into distributed users participating in multiple fields such as wireless networks, storage, and computing. In other words, each user's personal computer can be used as a "mining machine" to obtain project points in return by providing network, storage, computing and other resources. At the end of October this year, the Grass project airdrop was issued, which completely boosted the popularity of the entire DePIN track. The token price of the Grass project also soared from the initial $1 to a historical high of $3.9. This exciting growth not only demonstrates the huge potential of the DePIN project, but also brings considerable returns to investors. So in addition to Grass, what other DePIN projects are worth paying attention to, and how to participate in the early stage? This article will take you through a comprehensive overview of DePIN's zero-cost projects and get early airdrops. Friends who have already started hanging up can compare to see if there are any missed ones. A portion of time/electricity bills should be exchanged for the maximum return!
Grass
Grass, also known as "Little Grass", is a decentralized protocol based on the Solana network. It aims to combine AI, decentralized infrastructure (Depin) and Solana technology to build a powerful AI data layer.
Financing:
According to ROOTDATA data, the Grass project has successfully raised US$4.5 million through two rounds of financing, with major investors including Polychain Capital and Tribe Capital.
Recently, Rootdata announced that Grass had completed a new round of financing in September, led by Hack VC and Delphi Digital, with a reported amount of US$20 million.
The first phase of Grass airdrop has been completed, and the price of the coin has increased fivefold in ten days since it was listed on the exchange. The second phase is currently underway, and the official plan is to launch more products, with another 17% of tokens to be airdropped later. It is still worth continuing to participate.
Nodepay
Nodepay is a network infrastructure that provides decentralized bandwidth for AI training. By connecting to the Nodepay network, users will be able to sell unused internet to AI companies, enabling efficient transmission of public training data, labels, model sharing, and remote distributed training.
The popular concept of AI+Depin has brought a lot of traffic to Nodepay. As of November 1, Nodepay already has more than 500,000 nodes, and its official Twitter followers have reached 607,000 users.
Nodepay officially announced on social media Twitter on November 11 that it will launch TGE and launch an airdrop for users with accumulated points. The condition for the airdrop is that users must obtain the "Proof of Humanhood" badge.
The first season has just ended and the points distribution for the second season has begun. Users who have not participated yet still have a chance! Get Nodepay points at no cost!
This project has high network requirements and it is easy to be unable to access the Dashboard. You can try to switch to several proxy IPs.
DAWN
DAWN is a decentralized wireless network for providing internet services, developed by the Andrena team, that gives property owners or residents the opportunity to buy and sell internet capacity in their surrounding areas – enabling users to operate as their own internet provider.
Unlike other DePIN projects, this project has its own hardware products and closed-loop business, and is more favored by capital.
The DAWN project has achieved significant financing achievements in the past two years, raising a total of US$33 million, a figure that even exceeds the Grass project.
In February 2023, DAWN completed a $15 million Series A financing, and in August this year, the DAWN project completed another $18 million in financing. This round of financing was led by DRAGONFLY, and followed by many well-known VC institutions such as 6MV, Wintermute, ParaFi Capital, Robot Ventures, and Escape Velocity.
Bless
Bless Network (formerly Blockless) is a platform for launching, securing, and integrating network neutral applications (nnApps) at unprecedented speed, aiming to pioneer the modular application paradigm in Web3.
Bless enables everyday devices to power the websites and services they participate in, converting unused computing power into active participation and passive income, putting power and profits back into the hands of users. Points will be exchanged for native BLESS tokens when the mainnet is launched.
On May 21, 2024, Blockless completed a total of US$8 million in pre-seed and seed rounds. NGC Ventures led the pre-seed round of financing, M31 Capital and Frachtis co-led the seed round of financing, and No Limit Holdings, MH Ventures, Interop Ventures and Plassa Capital participated in the investment.
The financing background is not inferior to Xiaocao! It has obtained investment from 11 institutions including M31 and NGC. It is expected to be airdropped by TGE in the first quarter of 2025, with a proportion of 80%.
BlockMesh
BlockMesh, a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) project, has gained attention for winning the Solana Renaissance Hackathon.
BlockMesh uses artificial intelligence technology to create a decentralized monitoring model, enabling users to monetize idle bandwidth and computing resources to earn passive income. At the same time, Blockmesh ensures that AI activities are monitored to reduce the risk of false information and privacy violations. The project attracted more than 60,000 participants to participate in the airdrop plan.
A project like BlockMesh Network has copied Grass's successful experience. Similar to Grass's approach, it uses the network bandwidth that is collected but not used by users, tokenizes it, and sells it to companies that consume a lot of network resources to earn income.
The project won the first place in the DePIN exchange at Solana’s 9th “Renaissance” hackathon. Although no financing news has been announced yet, it has received attention from Solana officials and founders after its launch, and announced a partnership with BackPack, a well-known exchange on the Solana chain.
Project Participation Tutorial
The only cost of hanging up the DePIN project is the electricity bill. Therefore, the more projects we can hang at the same time, the more benefits we can get on the fixed cost expenditure.
DePIN360 has launched Grass, Nodepay, DAWN, BlockMesh, and Bless projects, supporting multiple mining on one machine and multiple projects to maximize profits.
For the projects mentioned in this article, DePIN360 does not host accounts and assets, but only aggregates management to help achieve the maximum online rate, and all profits are directly reflected in their own accounts.
Participate in the tutorial:
Step 1: Register a DePIN360 account to facilitate the subsequent management of multiple devices and multiple project revenues
Link: https://www.depin360.ai/register?inviteCode=93ca4hil (It is recommended to copy it to a computer browser for the best experience)
Step 2: Download the DePIN360 software and install it on your PC. Follow the prompts to verify the code and bind the device.
Users who have already installed the software can directly click the version number in the client to upgrade to the latest version.
Step 3: After running the hardware detection, bind the Grass, Nodepay and other project accounts and run the startup
AlphaOS
AlphaOS is a one-stop AI-driven solution for the Web3 ecosystem. AI Chat Interface At the core of AlphaOS is its Natural Language Processing (NLP)-based AI conversational interface, which enables users to interact with Web3 services through conversational queries. This AI-driven interface can interpret user intent and perform tasks across a variety of decentralized services quickly and accurately, creating a seamless experience.
Financing:
Alpha Network received a total of US$1.87 million in seed round financing
Participation link:
https://alphaos.net/point?invite=YYU4YS
The DePIN360 client will soon launch mining support for this project! Please stay tuned.
FIELD
Gaea is an open, transparent, community-driven, incentivized DePIN network powered by blockchain technology and decentralized infrastructure. It enables users to share resources, transform public data into valuable AI datasets, and drive the development of innovative AI applications. Users will work together to create a new silicon-based universe where you are the creator.
Financing:
According to Blockbeats, the decentralized AI startup project GAEA has completed its seed round of financing, but the details have not yet been disclosed.
Participation link:
https://app.aigaea.net/register?ref=gaJowkxXMqPCzR
The DePIN360 client will soon launch mining support for this project! Please continue to pay attention.
Gradient
Gradient Network is an open layer of edge computing on Solana. Its operation is similar to Xiaocao. It binds Twitter and DC to earn income by hanging up every day.
Financing background: On September 15, 2024, Gradient Network announced that it had completed a new round of financing, with participation from Pantera Capital, Multicoin Capital, Sequoia Capital, etc. The specific financing amount and valuation data have not been disclosed yet.
GradientSentry's public beta has just been launched for one month, with more than 300,000 users in more than 180 regions and more than 1.5 million successful links established. The popularity is high, and participation is still in its early stages.
How to participate:
https://app.gradient.network/signup?code=H526UT
Special reminder: Currently, the project has high restrictions on network addresses and does not allow VPNs. Overseas users can try using it first. DePIN360 is also looking for technical solutions, so please keep an eye on it.
Uplink
Uplink is the world's first decentralized connectivity ecosystem for existing and new Internet infrastructure, extending Internet access to everywhere. Uplink enables businesses and individuals to seamlessly and securely share Internet connectivity, incentivizes new deployments where needed, and enables communities to build and scale connectivity to meet the connectivity needs of today's world and the world of tomorrow.
Financing background: Depin 0 bandwidth wk project, which is second only to Grass and DAWN in scale, was led by framework in April 2024, followed by Blockchange, Outlier, NxGen, and Stratos with an investment of 10 million US dollars.
Uplink is currently open for router pre-registration. Anyone can become a connectivity provider using an existing Wi-Fi router or deploying a new router, and will immediately receive reward XP points for contributing to the ecosystem. These points will be redeemable for $ULX tokens when the mainnet goes live.
How to participate:
https://explorer.uplink.xyz/register?referralCode=7LytFo
Pipe Network
Pipe Network is a Solana-based decentralized content delivery network (CDN). This secure, scalable, and highly localized solution enables permissionless contributors to deploy Points of Presence (PoPs) in targeted regions, ensuring lightning-fast access to high-quality media and real-time applications.
Now those who participate are the first-time miners, and there are only a few thousand people who have downloaded the mining plug-in. At that time, Xiaocao’s airdrop had a very high proportion in the early stage!
Although it is an idle project, its model is very different from Grass, and it is very likely to be the leader in the future CDN track!
How to participate:
https://pipecdn.app/signup?ref=MTkzMzEyNj
