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What is DePIN?
DePIN (Decentralised Physical Infrastructure): a crypto AI term, explained in plain English.
Crypto networks that pay people in tokens for providing real-world equipment, such as GPUs, storage, wireless hotspots or sensors.
Crypto + AI Drafted with AI help · Reviewed by Keshav Aggarwal · Updated
In simple words
Imagine neighbours sharing their spare rooms as one big hotel, and getting paid in hotel points.
DePIN does this for machines: people share their computers or devices and earn tokens.
The technical side
DePIN projects use tokens to reward people who run hardware and to charge users for the service. Examples include Filecoin (storage), Helium (wireless coverage), and Render and io.net (GPU computing for graphics and AI). The name became common in 2022 and 2023.
The model can grow a network fast, but rewards often depend on the token price, and real paying demand is much smaller than token values suggest for many projects.
DePIN kya hai?
DePIN mein log apne GPU, storage ya device network ko dete hain aur badle mein crypto token kamate hain. Kai AI projects isi pe chalte hain.
Not investment advice. Crypto tokens can lose all their value. Read the risk disclaimer.
Related terms
- GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)AIA computer chip that does thousands of small calculations at once. First made for video games, it now trains and runs most AI models.
- AI Token (Crypto)AIA crypto token linked to an AI project, used to pay for AI services, reward people who share computing power, or vote on the project.
- BlockchainCryptoA shared record of transactions, copied across many computers, where each new block of entries is linked to the one before it.