DePIN

DePIN

Opinion

2025 Will Be the Year of Decentralization: 5 Predictions

Bitcoin and other decentralized technologies such as DePIN will really come into their own in 2025, forecasts the COO of Unstoppable Domains.

Crystal Ball, Prediction

Markets

Crypto Doesn’t Care About Cash Flow. That Will Soon Change, Says Pantera Capital

Cosmo Jiang, portfolio manager at Pantera Capital, says that crypto investing will get more fundamentals-oriented as the industry matures.

Black Panther (Pierre Lemos/Unsplash)

Finance

Mahesh Ramakrishnan: The DePIN Cheerleader

Decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) took off bigtime this year, and EV3 Ventures’ Ramakrishnan was at the center of it all.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

Greg Osuri: Delivering on DePIN

The co-founder of the Akash Network is utilizing DePIN to make computing power more affordable to individual users.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Opinion

The Next Wave of AI Is Mobile

AI is moving beyond tech giants as everyday smartphones take on complex computing tasks, says Mitch Liu, CEO of Theta Labs.

(Guido Mieth/Getty Images)

Tech

Borderless Capital Introduces $100M DePIN Fund Backed by Peaq, Solana Foundation

DePIN refers to physical infrastructure networks built using blockchain technology and token incentives which other projects can use without having to buy and run their own equipment.

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Finance

DePIN Tech Shows Promise, But Implementation Faces Several Hurdles, Moody's Says

The Wall Street ratings agency's first-ever report about the sector underscores the increased attention towards DePIN apps.

Digital Planet Earth and Global Network (World Map Credit to NASA / Yuichiro Chino / Getty Images)

Opinion

We Need DePIN to Get to Net-Zero Emissions

To achieve the net-zero goal ASAP, we must find a way to actively integrate end consumers into the energy market. The answer is Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, says Kai Siefert, founder and CEO of Combinder, a user-owned distributed energy network.

The non-profit Digital Energy Council asks that the EIA also consider the positive impacts of crypto mining on U.S. energy infrastructure, in a response to the agency's open request for comment. (Matthew Henry/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

How Decentralized AI and Zero-Knowledge Proofs Will Democratize Compute

AI is at risk of the same centralization seen in earlier editions of the internet. But another way is possible, say Mahesh Ramakrishnan and Vinayak Kurup.

(Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

Opinion

Why ‘Universal Basic Compute’ Is a Solution to Economic Inequality

And how DePIN networks could make it possible, according to Mark Rydon, Co-Founder of Aethir.

OpenAI's Sam Altman, who has proposed Universal Basic Compute as a fix for automation-driven global equality. (Village Global/Flickr)