It’s a common mistake to think that DePINs, or Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, are decentralized at birth. The great hope of all DePINs is to come up with a network that doesn’t have centralized control, where fairness is baked in and anyone willing to pay a market-set price can participate without asking a single by-your-leave. […]
Designing for Profligate Perfection
by Nik Hawks & Max Gold One useful way to think about DePINs is what you might learn by considering an example from Nature. The growth structure of a well formed DePIN reflects a common pattern in Nature; profligate seeding. One seahorse will give birth to 2,000 babies, a common octopus will lay 100,000 to […]
The Globe & Stick
Why thinking of Helium as a failure is dangerous by Nik Hawks, Josh Rosenthal, Max Gold A common theme Max & I encounter in conversations with DePIN founders is the idea that Helium (the decentralized wireless network that kicked off the modern DePIN ecosystem off) was a failure. Founders think of Helium as a failure […]
A Rough Guide To Helium Mobile
by Max Gold & Nik Hawks With a couple of hundred Helium IoT and Mobile deployments under our belt, and Mobile fast becoming of serious interest to lots of folks new to the space, we thought we’d quickly lay out how to use the Helium planner to estimate future rewards. If you’d prefer a deeper […]
Shake Those HIPs: A Guide To Helium Mobile
by Max Gold & Nik Hawks Helium’s Mobile network (and corresponding $MOBILE token) has been developing for the past few years; it’s not a particularly new thing. Still, it started attracting serious notice in the past few weeks after the first bump in the crypto market convinced many people that the bull market is coming, […]