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 […]
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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 […]
The DePIN Lifecycle: State of the Art
by Nik Hawks & Max Gold As a business model, DePINs are new. We have not yet completed a cycle where a project has reached escape velocity, moving from crypto experiment to a real world going concern. We have, however, seen the beginning and probably well past the midpoint of a cycle. While the old […]
Success From The Bottom: Building In A Bear
by Nik Hawks & Max Gold In a DePIN bear market, the only thing that matters is whether or not you’re improving the key aspects of your project. Let’s go through what you need to be doing to maximize your project’s chance of success. Deploy miners where it counts. Every network has an optimum topology. […]