How did Roam, the leading DePIN company, achieve the top spot on Solana’s official list and access to 1.28 million devices worldwide?

DePIN was very prosperous in the past two years, with many star projects emerging.

With the rapid development of AI technology, the market's attention has shifted to the AI ​​track. So what is the current situation of the DePIN track?

In fact, the DePIN track is not static, and it is also seeking new narrative support. The latest trend is to combine it with AI, and the representative project is Roam.

We can use the Roam project to see specifically what changes are taking place in the DePIN track.

1. What exactly is DePIN?

The full name of DePIN is Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, a decentralized physical infrastructure network.

Simply put, it is a decentralized hardware network that encourages users to share personal resources through token incentives to build infrastructure networks, including storage space, communication traffic, cloud computing, energy and other fields.

The most essential core of DePIN is resource integration: users are encouraged to share resources through tokens, so that resources can efficiently flow to the hands of demanders.

DePIN projects are mainly divided into three categories:

(1) Storage category (such as Filecoin): Provides cloud storage services similar to Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services;

(2) Computing power category (such as Render Network): decentralized GPU rendering platform;

(3) Network category (such as Helium): Use token incentives to attract users around the world to participate in purchasing WIFI equipment to form a network;

DePin is actually very similar to Bitcoin. You need to invest in purchasing physical equipment first, and then continue to mine. This is different from purely on-chain projects. Because it is connected to the physical world, it is not a closed system, which brings benefits to the entire industry. positive externalities.

DePIN capitalizes on the paradigm shift in the existing blockchain ecosystem, with Solana becoming the platform of choice due to its high-speed blockchain and features. The synergistic power generated by the combination of Solana blockchain and DePIN protocol.

This is why there was a wave of DePIN craze before.

2. What is the current market structure of DePIN?

According to data on DepinScan, DePIN has nearly 4.56 million devices in about 196 countries or regions, with a market value of US$7.1 billion. Among them, Roam has the largest number of DePIN devices, with 1.18 million.

As can be seen from the number of DePIN devices, there are already many giants in the DePIN track, including Helium, IoTeX, etc., but now the new leader is Roam. More importantly, Roam is the only DePIN project that has not yet issued coins. , ordinary users can still participate now, and there may be good fortune in playing the airdrop.

The geographical distribution of DePIN equipment is also very interesting. DePIN hardware equipment is mainly concentrated in three areas: the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

Among them, Southeast Asia has a very high concentration, including India, Vietnam, Philippines, South Korea, Japan, etc.

Among these countries, South Korea is the highest. It can be seen that the atmosphere of the Crypto industry in South Korea is very strong.

Generally speaking, DePIN has brought about a new round of wealth creation effect. Southeast Asia is fully investing in this track by taking advantage of its manufacturing and manpower advantages.

3. What is the new leading Roam project?

Roam belongs to the network segment in DePIN. In one sentence, Roam is a combination of Web3+WIFI, a decentralized wireless network, and a decentralized telecom operator.

Roam ranks first in Depinscan node data and is already the leader on the DePIN track. @weRoamxyz @weRoamCN

Roam provides a variety of products, starting with WIFI hardware. Users can purchase proprietary hardware for mining. Later, it expanded to eSIM cards. Users can apply for eSIM cards and obtain free traffic by completing various tasks.

Using Roam APP, you can connect to nearby WiFi networks for free, and you can also get Roam Points or eSIM rewards by adding WiFi or checking in WiFi (you can choose one of these two rewards, you can choose by yourself), and Roam Points generated by the Roam router. It's the same.

In Roam's technical architecture, Roam Telecom Data Layer is a key concept and is the data and service layer in the decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) built by Roam.

This data layer implements its functions through four main ecological modules:

(1) Roam Network - Focuses on the physical and digital infrastructure construction of the network to ensure the coverage and service quality of global Wi-Fi networks.

(2) Roam Growth - Encourage users to participate in network construction through incentive mechanisms (such as providing eSIM and data rewards) to achieve continuous income for network participants.

(3) Roam Discovery - aims to support and incubate new projects or applications that can operate in the Roam ecosystem and promote broader technology and service innovation.

(4) Roam Community - focuses on the construction and governance of the community, provides a platform for user participation, feedback and co-governance, and enhances the activity and autonomy of the community.

Roam Telecom Data Layer provides a new paradigm for the DePIN track.

In its future planning, there are two main directions: one is to accelerate the implementation of Roam Telecom Data Layer, and the other is to deeply integrate Roam and AI.

4. How does Roam integrate with AI?

If Roam only stays on the DePIN track, it will have no differentiated advantages from other projects.

Roam is integrating with AI and taking advantage of its communication data to provide high-quality available data for AI projects.

AI projects have three key elements: computing power, algorithms and data.

Data is currently a key sticking point in the AI ​​​​track, especially communication data, which is currently in the hands of traditional communication operators and will not be open to the public.

In other words, in the AI ​​era, the data monopoly of traditional giants hinders comprehensive model training and global data integration.

Roam’s innovation lies in solving one of AI’s most pressing data challenges: the unavailability of carrier-grade data.

Users who participate in the construction of OpenRoaming will receive free eSIM traffic rewards. When users go to any country, the eSIM Top Up product can automatically convert the traffic into local traffic.

Roam has opened up a channel, which is to provide operator services through WEB3 means. In return, the data generated in the process can become the data source of all AI companies under privacy protection.

Roam's provision of data does not mean that user privacy will be exposed, because it uses decentralized identity (DID) and verifiable credentials (VC) technology, and integrates ZK (zero-knowledge proof)

Roam Discovery Program is actively expanding its service boundaries and ecosystem scope by strategically integrating and connecting multiple DePIN ecological partners to jointly build a rich and diverse AI training data set ecosystem. This multi-party cooperation model not only expands the breadth of data sources, but also improves the depth of data quality.

Roam's data services go far beyond providing basic operator-level data for AI to use. It is building a comprehensive data ecosystem.

Through in-depth cooperation with ecological partners in various fields, Roam can integrate and provide multi-dimensional data resources, including but not limited to real-time weather monitoring data, globally distributed CDN service data, renewable energy usage data, and decentralized identity Verification records, innovative payment and lending behavior data, and more.

What’s more noteworthy is that Roam can also collect and process behavioral data generated by AI agents during social interactions and payment transactions, as well as operating status information of various intelligent systems, providing comprehensive data support for the training and optimization of AI models.

This diversified data integration capability provides unprecedented data dimensions and depth for AI model training.

AI+DePIN is building decentralized infrastructure in the AI ​​era.

5. How can ordinary users participate in DePIN?

After talking about so many projects, how can ordinary users participate?

Before knowing how to participate, you can first take a look at how Roam developed rapidly?

The core strategies of Roam are two: free + airdrop.

Traditional telecom operators charge traffic fees, while decentralized telecom operator Roam directly gives users free traffic, and they can obtain traffic by completing tasks, which is very attractive.

On the other hand, purchasing special hardware can speed up mining, but you can also participate in this project without buying hardware. As long as you share your WIFI, you can also earn points and participate in future airdrops, which greatly lowers the threshold.

Free + airdrop is the big killer of the Web3 project. It acquires users through direct profit incentives and takes the subsidy war in the Web2 industry to the extreme.

Of course, this is also an opportunity for us ordinary users.