Solana DePIN track monthly revenue hit a new high this year? Inventory of performance of major projects in April

Original author: Syndica

Compiled by: Zen, PANews

The revenue of Solana Eco DePIN track hit a new year-to-date high, with cumulative monthly revenue reaching US$458,000 in April, a year-on-year increase of 33%, setting the best result of this year. This is mainly due to the stable growth of projects such as Helium, Render, Hivemapper, and XNET.

However, the number of active contributors to the DePIN protocol actually fell slightly. Helium, Hivemapper, Nosana, Render, Sallar, Sourceful and XNET together maintained approximately 87,000 active contributors.

In April 2025, the number of contributors to small DePIN protocols increased significantly, with Nosana growing at more than 100%, while the growth of contributors to large protocols such as Helium and Hivemapper remained flat or slightly lower.

The following is a review of the performance of each major DePIN project:

Dabba Network

Dabba Network is an exclusive DePIN for the Indian market with Solana as the underlying layer. It aims to use the "hosted deployment" model in cooperation with local cable operators to deploy Wi-Fi hotspots across India and provide users with high-speed and low-cost Internet access services. From March to April, its cumulative data consumption jumped to 8,000 TB, achieving a 2x growth; equipment sales increased by 29% during the same period, further expanding the network scale.

Helium Mobile

Helium Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator under the Helium network. It combines community-deployed Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular base stations of partner operators to provide users with low-cost mobile data and voice services.

After Helium Mobile opened its free mobile phone package to all users, the number of new subscription users surged by 125%, reaching 36,000, a record high. Accordingly, Helium Mobile earned a record $250,000. Revenue measured as data points destruction increased by 34% to a new high of US$250,000, of which data offloading accounted for 79%.

(Note: When a user uses a mobile network, some traffic is "offloaded" to the hotspots of the Helium network for transmission and billing, and this part of traffic is called "offload data" - that is, "unload data volume" or "data offload traffic")

In addition, the average daily uninstallation subscription volume of Helium Mobile rose by 65%, and the uninstallation data volume increased by 32%, both of which set new historical records.

It is worth mentioning that since 2025, Helium's active contributors have generally shown a slight downward trend, and the number of Helium's active contributors has stabilized at around 75,000.

XNET

XNET is a decentralized mobile network built on the Solana blockchain. In April, XNET data unloading continued to grow, with the average daily unloading volume increasing by another 16%, marking the steady upward trend of XNET's data unloading that has lasted for 8 months. Additionally, despite the 6% drop in rewards, XNET Mobile's active contributors rose 6% to 732, a record high.

Roam

In April, Roam added 535,000 WiFi nodes (the second highest in history) and 87,000 new users, with the total number of protocol nodes approaching 4 million and the number of users approaching 3 million. Although the monthly user sign-in volume has dropped by 19%, the cumulative number of sign-in times has exceeded 300 million times, demonstrating that user stickiness is still strong.

Shaga

The Shaga protocol uses idle GPU computing power to support Web3 gaming, currently covers 74 GPU models, provides 33.12 TB of storage and 15.27 Gbps throughput, and has high performance computing capabilities. Within two months, Shaga achieved 4.5 thousand interactive game live broadcasts, with a total duration of up to 50,000 hours, and the audience can control and participate in the anchor game in real time.

Hivello

As a DePIN aggregation platform, Hivello is used to monetize idle resources. The online duration in April doubled compared with March, and more nodes joined the contribution network.

Nosana

Nosana is a decentralized GPU computing network built on the Solana blockchain, focusing on providing a distributed computing power market for AI inference workloads. In April, Nosana's job completion (in the Nosana network, whenever an AI client submits an inference request, the network assigns the request to one or more GPU nodes for execution. This request has increased slightly from the start of calculation to the return of the result, known as a "job") and GPU nodes remain stable; the newly launched Gaianet AI collaboration project allows AI agents to run on the Nosana infrastructure or drive job growth.

Sallar.io

Sallar is a built-in to connect idle computing power of devices such as smartphones to the network to form distributed computing nodes, thereby supporting high-performance computing needs. In April, Sallar's US dollar reward rose 27% month-on-month. As a protocol for sharing device computing power to complete AI tasks, the US dollar reward increased to $11,800 in April, and the number of active wallets remained stable.

Grass

Grass provides an underlying data source for AI training, data crawling and proxy services by connecting the idle Internet bandwidth of user devices to the network, and rewards participants in the form of on-chain tokens. In April, Grass data collection hit a new record high, reaching 34.5 million GB.

Wingbits

Wingbits is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) project based on Solana blockchain. It collects aircraft data such as aircraft, helicopters and drones in real time through ADS-B hardware deployed by global users, and uploads this data to the chain in exchange for native token rewards. Since November 2024, the number of Wingbits network tracking flights has increased to 150,000, and the daily data collection points have increased to 9 billion, up 7% and 29% respectively; the number of contributing sites has also increased by 43%, reaching 3,000.

Hivemapper

Hivemapper is a decentralized map network where users collect street-level images through dash recorders to receive HONEY token rewards. The team continues to iterate on the product side, and the monthly Beekeeper platform fee will be 20–30% to destroy $HONEY, which may further promote growth.

Hivemapper's monthly mapping mileage remained stable in April, and its AI-driven platform for fleet management, Beekeeper, was officially launched that month, which will bring new growth momentum as more fleets join. Since February, the number of Hivemapper active map contributors has stabilized at about 5,000.

NATIX Network

NATIX Network aims to collect street scene and geographic data through smartphones and dedicated devices, providing high-precision positioning and image support for map production, autonomous driving and physical AI, and participants can receive token rewards for their data contribution. The ecosystem remained stable in April—user-driven mileage remained at 11 million kilometers for the third consecutive month.

Sourceful Energy

Sourceful Energy is centered on decentralized virtual power plants (VPPs) and connects household and commercial distributed energy resources (such as solar panels, electric vehicles, energy storage batteries, etc.) to the Solana online network. Participants can receive token incentives for contributions to electricity or data. Sourceful Energy's power output grew by 30% in April, with the growth expected to continue as the newly launched Zap smart energy efficiency analysis device received 500 pre-orders.

AmbiosNetwork

Ambios Network has built the world's largest environmental monitoring DePIN, which provides real-time, hyper-local environmental data by deploying low-cost air quality and environmental sensors to support enterprises, AI and public services, and sensor owners can receive token rewards. In April, Ambios Network's cumulative user ecological data check-in exceeded 2 million times, and the number of ecological data check-in increased by 12%; the total number of platform users increased to 45,000, a year-on-year increase of 2%.