The DePIN Library
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Gristle Crüe — Silencio Brief
A few of the Silencio team came on to brief us on the latest with their project, and we got to have a great Q&A with ’em! June 20th Thomas — CEO & bizden Theo — COO Christopher — marketing & biz dev Eric — CPO, engineer, created a crypto exchange Florian — youngest brother, software dev Notes…
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Citizen Science: The Next DePIN Frontier
Now that Helium has shown the world how to deploy a global network of physical devices at a low capex, and Hivemapper, GEODNET, and WeatherXM (among many others) following suit, what should we expect to see in the next year? My guess is we’ll see the rise of DePIN/CS, for Decentralized Physical Infrastrucutre Networks/Citizen Science. Many…
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Improving Chirpstack for Helium
The most important person reading this may be non-technical. While technical expertise is critical to accomplish the goals set out below, much of the initial work done will be “imagination work”, trying to figure out how we as a community want to work with, in, and around a new form of access into Helium. Let’s…
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Riding The Downlink — A Rough Guide To Browan Tabs
What is a downlink, why would you want one, and how can you use ’em? With Helium being a permissionless network, we’re going to have a ton of people who are not LoRa wizards trying to use a LoRaWAN, including downlinks. I thought I’d write up a few articles on how to solve some of…
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A Rough Guide to Chirpstack on Helium
At the beginning of Helium’s LoRaWAN, the ability to route a packet from a device through the Hotspot network to wherever you wanted it to go was a service provided either Helium Inc or eventually, the Helium Foundation. That routing happened through the Helium Console, which was a custom built LNS (LoRaWAN Network Server). An…
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Gristle Crüe — Group Catch Up
Checked in with the Crüe on what everyone is doing and we’re a busy hustling group! From soil sensors to MOBILE deployments to new LNS and announcing that Crüe will now have early access to DePIN State calls, we’re all going hell for leather in this land of giant opportunities! Roundtable check in — what…
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The Solana Transition & The Staking Pie
Now that Helium is on Solana, what’s next? Let’s start with the big ones: All actions are now way faster than they were. Need to transfer tokens to someone? Should take about 30 seconds. Want to update info on your Hotspot? Same time. No more waiting 40 minutes or a few hours, or even a…
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Gristle Crüe — Solana Transition & Biz Idea
This week we focused mainly on the transition from the Helium L1 to Solana and went through answering basic questions. We also talked about drones and working to get MapMetrics on next week’s call, as well as a business idea right on the edge of a legal boundary. Rock ‘n roll! The chat txt file didn’t…
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Gristle Crüe Call — Alec from Spexigon
Got a chance to get some early insight into what Spexi is doing as they ramp up for their alpha launch. Super fun to get the rundown from Alec and hear what’s coming down the pipe. Takeaway? I’ll prolly pick up a drone. 🙂 10:03:32 From Lee (Team Gristle King) : https://www.spexigon.com/10:04:03 From Lee (Team Gristle King)…
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Let’s Talk NanoTags on Helium
One of the core benefits of a global LoRaWAN network like Helium is the ability to track assets across a large area. Now, tracking isn’t magic, it’s engineering, and it always comes down to fundamentals: How are you getting your location? How long do you need your tracker to run? How often should it ping? As…