New Trends in the DePIN Industry: Integration with AI

The Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network ( DePIN ) has experienced rapid development in recent years. Although recent market attention has shifted to the AI field, the DePIN industry has not stagnated but is actively seeking integration with new technologies. Currently, the fusion of DePIN and AI has become a new development direction, with the Roam project being a typical representative.

The Essence of DePIN

The core of DePIN is to encourage users to share personal resources to build an infrastructure network through a token incentive mechanism. This includes multiple areas such as storage space, communication traffic, cloud computing, and energy. The DePIN project is mainly divided into three categories: storage, computing power, and networking.

Unlike pure on-chain projects, DePIN requires the investment of physical devices and connections to the physical world, making it an open system that can bring positive externalities to the entire industry. A certain blockchain platform has become the preferred choice for many DePIN projects due to its high-performance characteristics.

Current Market Landscape

According to industry data, DePIN has nearly 4.56 million devices across approximately 196 countries and regions worldwide, with a total market value of $7.1 billion. Among them, Roam ranks first with 1.18 million devices.

From a geographical distribution perspective, DePIN devices are mainly concentrated in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia, with Southeast Asia having particularly high concentration, and South Korea being in a leading position. This reflects that the Southeast Asia region is fully leveraging its manufacturing and human resource advantages to invest wholeheartedly in the DePIN track.

Roam Project Introduction

Roam is a representative of the network segment in DePIN and can be seen as a combination of Web3 and WIFI, aiming to establish a decentralized wireless network. Roam offers various products, including WIFI hardware and eSIM cards. Users can mine by purchasing hardware or apply for eSIM cards to complete tasks and obtain free data.

The core of Roam is its Telecom Data Layer (, which functions through four main ecological modules: network construction, user growth, project incubation, and community governance. This architecture provides a new paradigm for the DePIN industry.

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The Combination of Roam and AI

Roam is actively exploring the integration with AI, leveraging its advantages in communication data to provide high-quality data for AI projects. In the development of AI, data is one of the key elements, and communication data is often monopolized by traditional operators. Roam offers operator services through Web3, providing valuable data sources for AI companies while protecting user privacy.

Roam adopts decentralized identity )DID(, verifiable credentials )VC(, and zero-knowledge proofs )ZK( technologies to ensure that data sharing does not infringe on user privacy. In addition, Roam is building a comprehensive data ecosystem that integrates multidimensional data resources, including weather monitoring, CDN services, renewable energy usage, authentication, payment behavior, and other aspects of data.

This diversified data integration capability provides unprecedented breadth and depth for AI model training, promoting the development of AI + DePIN in building decentralized infrastructure for the AI era.

User Participation Opportunities

Roam's rapid development is mainly attributed to two strategies: free services and airdrops. Unlike traditional telecom operators, Roam provides users with free data through a task completion mechanism. At the same time, users can earn points by sharing WIFI or purchasing dedicated hardware to participate in potential future token airdrops.

This low-threshold, high-incentive model greatly reduces the barriers for user participation, allowing ordinary users to easily join the DePIN ecosystem. By attracting users through direct incentives, Roam has maximized the subsidy strategy of the Web2 industry, creating potential participation opportunities for users.

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