DePIN's 2025 Victory Lap 🏆

January 2nd, 2026

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DePIN Digest
January 02, 2026

GM, happy New Year, and happy Friday. Matt here, cracking open a bottle of DePIN achievements and pairing it with a taste of the year ahead. Let’s kick off 2026 right! 🍾

Growth is on the menu as we wrap up 2025: Helium stands at $20.9M in annualized revenue, more than every other DePIN project combined.

They’re not the only ones earning, though, as Peaq’s first-ever tokenized robot began paying out token holders recently.

Messari marked down that over 100 teams now test the Filecoin Onchain Cloud across various applications as adoption of the distributed cloud storage network accelerates.

Silencio, meanwhile, is prepping for a loud 2026 after receiving positive feedback on its Voice AI campaigns. Payouts begin soon, so make sure your wallet is set up to connect you to your funds.

🔌 Integral Integrations

While we’re on the subject of connecting, let’s talk integrations:

🔌 AIOZ Storage x Kova Network - Object Storage for Privacy AI Agents
🔌 Gradient x AWE Network - Powering the Agentic Future
🔌 Qualoo x IoTeX - Onchain Security
🔌 XNET x Cambium Networks - Southlake Mall Deployment

XNET is plugging in for 2026. We’ll keep you updated on their next big install. 📶

💡 Fresh Off The Wire

We’ll also bring you the latest and greatest from projects across the board, such as Karrier One hitting 736 deployed WiFi nodes, Nosana’s network earning $2M in December, and AIOZ ranking in the Top 20 DePIN projects on BNBChain.

USDai got a commendation recently as well, grabbing Innovation of the Year 2025 from OAK Research. ANyONe Protocol threw their name in the hat, submitting a proposal to DeBank DeFi for integration into their portfolio tracker.

A quick heads up, NodeOps announced a required Node Migration for 0G Labs Alignment Nodes.

Back to it, Arkreen gave us an update on remote miners, Chirp tweeted its recent changelog, and DecentralGPT updated us on the comparison between its platform and traditional LLMs (LLMs are traditional now? Just goes to show how fast this space moves!). 

Some app updates from DeepLink, including Android App v1.2.06 and Windows Client v1.0.8.1, went live. 

For those tracking their health, CUDIS began shipping Sui Limited edition rings this week. Meanwhile, Nubila Network is monitoring validator node operations live on Monad’s mainnet.

📅 2025 In Review

Speaking of monitoring, let’s take inventory of DePIN’s 2025 achievements.

Aethir went all in on recap content, celebrating its AI Unbundled Alliance and members, reflecting on Aethir Forge, and celebrating its Aethir Tribe community and airdrop campaigns. The Checker Node Buyback Program was crossed off with pride, and, capping off the year, Aethir delivered a total of 1,592,804,327 compute hours.

So many other great projects progressed this year:

⭐ 0G Labs - Recapped AI Vibe Coding Session in Seoul & 2025 Stats
⭐ Peaq - Year Full of World-Firsts & DEX for Machine Economy
⭐ Acurast - Year-End Stats, 300k Deployments, 561m Transactions
⭐ 375ai - Capital Raises, $1m In Devices Sold, LA & NY Metro Installs
⭐ Render - Top 10 Moments
⭐ Crust - Collaborations & More Collaborations
⭐ Dabba Network - Video Recap, 60,000 TB consumed, 250k+ Daily Active Users
⭐ Filecoin - Proof of Data Possession (PDP) Recap
⭐ Nosana - Partnerships, Events, Mainnet Launch
⭐ U2U - Messari Recognition as Top 3 Infrastructure, 1.4M+ Users
⭐ AYDO - Partnerships and Community
⭐ ASI:Cloud - From Early Access to Full-Stack Infrastructure
⭐ GLIF - TGE, Staking, Loyalty Program, Community
⭐ NATIX Network - Mapping Milestones, Token Burns, VX360 Camera
⭐ Hypercycle - DApp, Infrastructure for IoAI
⭐ CUDIS - Winter Wellness Walk Off Challenge
⭐ Livepeer - 2024 & 2025 Review, Advisory Boards
⭐ Minima - Q4 Roadmap Review
⭐ Flux - Partnership with Akash, Mega-Article Exploring Compute Cartel
⭐ Combinder - Community, 2026 Teasers
⭐ Hivello - Airdrops, Withdrawals, Community, 2026 Sneak Peek

Here's to every milestone hit. 🥂 

🔮 Looking Ahead to 2026

As a plus, projects are already sharing their 2026 plans.

Karrier One teased details through its KNS Dashboard 2.0, highlighting crypto transactions as easy as sending a text. They also teased physical SIM cards coming early in the year.

💎 Start The Year Right

DePIN is all about tokenization and rewarding participation:

👋 Thanks For Being Here

Thanks for kicking off the new year with us. DePIN's just getting started. Tell a friend!

Stay plugged in: follow Matt, Will, and the Digest on X, and catch us live on Spaces. See you next week! 🍾