DePIN Digest

July 11th, 2025

GM and happy Friday! Matt here, excited to be cooking another issue of DePIN Digest! 👨‍🍳

Tuesday’s pilot newsletter noted several reports predicting massive growth for DePIN, and today’s Digest vindicates! Enterprise adoption hits the gas, with Hivemapper acquiring yet another massive customer – Volkswagen’s ADMT. 🐝

IoTeX shared experiences from the ETH Community Conference in Cannes, as Cudis sponsors the upcoming Malaysia Blockchain Week on July 21-22, putting the “P” in “DePIN”! 🤝

Research firm House of Chimera highlights the massive success of DePIN startups, such as:

• Datagram’s recent $4 million pre-seed funding round. 💸

• Peaq reaching 5m+ live addresses

• Natix Network maps over 185 million kilometers

Needless to say, it’s been a big week.

🛠️ Hardware & Infrastructure

Capital inflows are helping make huge leaps in product launches and protocol upgrades, notably Grass network’s Grashopper device and recent Android app release. 🦗

Numerous upgrades are now on the grid, as Chain4Energy turns on the ChargEra app, IoTex pushes v2.2 Protocol Upgrade, and Titan launches a beta test for Titan Edge Extension. Additionally, Ping Network went live with NCN Mainnet, and Session introduced their new Pro Beta Service. 

🤝 Partnerships & Integrations

Not only are software and hardware getting some love, but companies are forming industry bonds:

🤝 Wingbits X DeCharge + GEODNET (partnership)
🤝 Datagram X Session (partnership)
🤝 Datagram X MyCoralApp (partnership)
🤝 Hongik University X Theta Network (partnership)
🤝 Roam Network X Peaq (partnership)
🤝 DePIN Union X GEODNET (partnership)
🤝 Charge.xyz X BrushO (partnership)
🔌 Power Ledger X ERCOT (integration)

Teamwork makes the dream work!

🌐 DePIN Sectors

Several DePINs made big moves, with Telecoms leading the charge as WiFiMap grabbing the #15 spot on DappRadar, while Helium proudly revealed a total of 98,246 hotspots deployed. Not to be outdone, Wayru Network advertised staggering 50% discounts on their hotspots! Get 'em while they’re hot! 🔥

MapMetrics charted a new course in mapping, while Natix Network released a June recap with data metrics. In computing, Impossible Cloud Network gives away 10TB of free cloud storage, and Ionet hits a milestone of $16m in total network earnings. 📊

Environmental projects generated an electric buzz as Nubila Network announced their Global Tour, BloXmove updated us on 2025’s progress, and Energy Web took a big step toward Proof-of-Stake! ⚡

💡 Spotlights & Recaps

Farmsent’s recent “Grow with DePIN” chat highlighted community-building tips, featuring Wingbits, EnviroBLOQ, NetSepio, and FryNetworks. Several projects are shining a bright light on their recent progress:

• 🤖 XmaquinaDAO details the robotics boom and its importance for DePIN

• 🐍 Sallar’s AMA Recap reveals a promising project

• 🌐 DATS releases project statistics

• 🤫 Silencio’s SoundCheck is live on Product Hunt

• ➕ Combinder launches a crowdsourcing campaign for deep device discounts

• 📡 Parasail wraps up Season 1 with over 123k+ participants

• 🛠️ DeEEP Network recaps in their June review

• ⚪ DeNet features a transformative Q2

• ⭐ Teneo polishes off June with a look back on their progress

💎 Tokens & Incentives

Our friends over at DepinPulse note an increase in the DePIN market cap since Tuesday, totaling $17.4 billion at the time of writing. That’s a 9% growth in just a few days – we’re growing stronger. 🦾

Peaq released its Q2 recap, showcasing 5M+ live addresses, 14M+ transactions, and over 1.4B $PEAQ staked! That’s not all for Peaq – Pulsar launched a validator node, OKX announced wallet support for $PEAQ token, and the network released support and trading for $AUKI. 

Speaking of ecosystems, GLIF’s DeFi for DePIN introduced optimized ICNT staking, and Theta noted recent milestones, including the launch of an AI powered mascot and integrations with AI startups. 🤖 

Hivello released details of Airdrop #2, while NodeGO’s token distribution event (TGE) recently concluded, and Arkreen announced a retroactive value booster to bolster support for long-standing miners. ⛏️ 

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