The DePIN Library

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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…