Two Weeks, Zero Chill 🔥

GM and happy Friday! Matt here, back from Denver with the perma-bullish DePINergy you crave.

Funding is the feature this week, with YOM receiving $3m in a strategic round from Avalanche Foundation, Borderless Capital, Outlier Ventures, and others. 

0G Labs got in on the action with its Apollo Accelerator program, offering up to $2m per team, $200k in Google Cloud credits, and expert guidance for AI builders.

Further details were forthcoming on USD.AI’s $500m guidance facility with Qumulus, paired with info about the $CHIP ICO’s venue.

Silencio upped rewards with the SLC Level System, boosting earnings for recurring contributors and expediting payouts in certain regions amid rising client demand. 

Meanwhile, 375ai highlighted updates to its 375go app, which allows users to scan in-store product placements in real time (and get paid for it).

Two weeks gave us a lot to cover, so let’s dive in!

🤝 Partnerships & Integrations

A network is nothing without collaboration, as DePIN well knows:

🤝 NATIX x NomadicML - Video data for AI systems
🔌 Io.net x Charm.land - Intelligence routing
🔌 Spexi x SkyWatch - Drone imagery
🔌 3DOS Network x Gemini Deep Think - Concepts to 3D-printable models
🔌 Teneo x Avalanche - x402 payments
🔌 KYVE Network x Filecoin - Onchain Cloud expansion
🔌 DeEEP Network x OpenClaw - One-click deployment

Partnerships come first, which lead to the integrations that make things work better.

✈️ Signals & Skies

In mapping, Onocoy continues its breakout run, ranking #12 in DePIN revenue with 50% MRR growth in January alone. This brings the network to $345k ARR, following a new Tier-1 client going live on the network. GNSS correction demand keeps climbing; turns out robots and drones need to know where they are, too.

Looking upward, Wingbits rolled out a 3D-mode upgrade for flight tracking, while FliteGrid dropped its documentation on GitBook for builders to dig into.

Over in wireless, Helium is having a moment. The network now boasts 3.4 million phones connected, over 124k hotspots, and 125 TB of daily network traffic. The numbers speak for themselves, but DePIN clearly has PMF in wireless tech. On the governance side, HRP 2026-02 passed, removing CDR verification requirements for Mobile PoC eligibility.

That’s not all for Helium this week; the deployer bootcamp in Washington, DC, educated new and experienced deployers alike as Helium earned a shortlist for Best Mobile Network Infrastructure at the GLOMO Awards. 

A birdie told us that Chirp shipped its Critical Alerts mobile app to the Google Play Store and alerted us to an IoT alerting feature update.

Rounding things out, Dabba Network’s partner Swami Wifi grew more in the past 14 months than in the previous decade since joining the network, in a testament to the power of distributed wireless networks.

💡 Innovation Spotlight

Innovation inflows continue through the bear market:

💡 CUDOS highlights ASI:Accelerator
💡 UpRock adds 26,600+ devices in 7 days
💡 Arkreen launches Power Yield with first solar node in Thailand
💡 Combinder accepted into Avax "Build Games" program
💡 CUDIS launches CUDIS Age biological age metric
💡 CUDIS pre-launches Sporty Series smart ring on Kickstarter
💡 Ar.io passes the torch of the Arweave.net gateway
💡 Teneo introduces mandatory review for Agent Console
💡 BrushO weekly update
💡 Filecoin Weekly Recap
💡 Bless Network Chapter 1 goes live

Speaking of rewards, token and funding action hasn’t slowed much either: 

💎 CUDIS hits 125%+ Kickstarter funding in the first 10 minutes
💎 0G token now available on Ledger hardware wallet  
💎 AIOZ Testnet Faucet goes live
💎 NodeOps weekly $NODE burn: 568K burned vs 113K minted
💎 LayerDrone transitions to USDC rewards on Base mainnet

From solar nodes in Thailand to biological age on your finger, the real-world applications of DePIN just keep getting wilder.

💻 Compute, Secured

The compute sector came in hot this week, as Aethir dropped its 2026 network snapshot with staggering numbers: 441K+ live GPUs, $76.6M ARR, and over 1.73 billion (with a "b"!) compute hours delivered. NodeOps reported $4.58M in total revenue, while Acurast shared post-TGE metrics, including widespread deployments as its $ACU token is now live on six major exchanges. 

For builders, 0G Labs shipped Agent Skills, enabling IDEs such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot to generate TypeScript code across a variety of skills. CUDOS launched a (free) Speech tool on ASI:Cloud, and AIOZ Stream expanded beyond videos.

TeamSpeak 3 and 6 went live on the FluxCloud Marketplace, and Flux's ArcaneOS cleared a Halborn security audit with zero critical vulnerabilities — compute, indeed, secured.

Render Network powered the "Mirror Node" installation at Artechouse NYC, proving (again) that decentralized compute makes art, not just infrastructure. Meanwhile, peaq revealed peaq Escrow, letting robots and machines act as ERC-8004 compatible actors. 

Speaking of robots, XMAQUINA's DAO moved to secure a 20% stake in Robotico following BOT-10 approval. The machine economy is here, folks.

Lastly, IoTeX's mainnet is fully operational following its recent security incident, with services back online across Coinbase, MEXC, Binance, and Upbit. Welcome back.

👋 See ya soon!

Another jam-packed week (or two) for DePIN! From funding rounds and accelerator launches to 441K GPUs humming along and solar nodes settling on-chain, distributed infrastructure doesn't take breaks (even if we do every so often).

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Have a great weekend, and we'll see you next Friday for another course of the DePIN Digest! 👋