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Beginning in December last year, Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks was concentrated to the word “DEPIN” and re -stood on the popular topic list of the Web3 world.
Based on the blockchain network to build a data layer and incentive system, special software and hardware are provided to provide users to contribute extra computers, networks, and even energy resources. They are sold to individuals or enterprises in need, and DEPIN applicants will form a commercial closed loop.
Among more than 650 DEPIN projects, the decentralized wireless network in 2017 and the transformation of Web3 in 2017, HELILIUM has attracted much attention. The project focuses on the two popular scenes of the “Internet of Things and 5G”, attracting 405525 HELIUM IoT equipment and equipment and4958 HELIUM 5G mobile devices join the network.
The important foundation of Helium’s success is the most popular and more needed scene of “wireless network”. Internet applications and Internet of Things require wireless networks. More new DEPIN applications also target this “the easiest to get”.Resource characteristics to push the layout of the equipment/node to the general public.
Recently, another wireless network DEPIN application “Metablox” has built 2,9009 own WiFi node devices, which is 5.4 times the number of Helium 5G subnet devices.Metablox is providing enterprise -level WIFI roaming for global users around the wireless network resources that rely on these node devices.
Go to the central wireless network and get the world.Metablox penetrates this trick, and is using low -threshold access methods, preferential marketing and incentive plans in the brewing to attract wireless network resources.
Break the new DEPIN volume WiFi sceneUse cases and scenarios to connect the real world. DEPIN looks easier for ordinary users to understand and experience Web3 applications such as DEFI, Gamefi, SocialFi, etc., and can build a business model without the help of Web3’s universal pure financial gameplay.Capital has seen the growth space of the DEPIN track, and about $ 10 billion of venture capital funds have been rushed into the DEPIN project with a market value TOP 10.
Filecoin, the old web3 storage facility, has attracted $ 250 million in financing. Now, Helium, Web3 wireless network facilities, has reached the same level.
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Helium financing 250 million US dollars (from Messari)
Among the new DEPIN unicorns, the most popular Helium.
In 2017, he entered the HELIM of the Web3 World and deployed its own decentralized wireless network infrastructure. It is the world’s largest LORAWAN (remote wide -area network) standard network. It mainly supports the two scenarios of the Internet of Things and 5G for users to buy and connect themselvesTo build a network, participants will get encrypted assets incentives, and then Mobile, which is hotly stated by the encrypted asset market, is the incentive token of the Helium 5G subnet.
Sharing and incentives, after the launch of Helium, some IoT and 5G software and hardware service providers quickly access the network.At present, the number of equipment of Helium Internet of Things is 40,5525, while the number of 5G devices of Helium mobile is 4,958.
According to data in April 2023, Helium has deployed nearly 1 million hotspots (HOTSPOTs) since its launch, covering more than 77,000 towns and cities in 192 countries, forming a extensive decentralized WIFI network.At the end of last year, the US $ 20/month 5G telecommunications service launched in the United States came out of low price.
Helium’s success also verifies the effectiveness of the web3 model for the use of wireless network resources, and more DEPIN infrastructure with wireless networks as the scene.
On the third -party DEPIN data website, Wireless Network (WiFi) is becoming the most DEPIN scene after the server is becoming the server. Among them, Helium has the highest attention and market value, and WiFi Map and Wicrypt follow, more wireless wireless wirelessThe network DEPIN is already on the road. The biggest feature of the latecomers is that it is new enough, and the important indicator of “new” is to motivate Token to be listed.
Among the many wireless network scenarios, a Metablox network has a trend of rising. It highlights the number of nodes. At present, 29009 Metablox has its own WiFi node. This data is 5.5 times that of Helium and continues to risehigh.
According to Metablox’s official website, Metablox provides free enterprise -level security WIFI roaming services for global users, and its performance indexes are comparable to or even more than 5G mobile honeycomb networks.
Today, with the endless WEB3 applications, Metablox provides a WIFI bridge that does not need to log in, unsophisticated and safely for traditional world users to migrate.On the other hand, the Metablox Wifi router and its natural geographical location attributes provide the most direct cooperation platform and drainage channels for other DEPIN infrastructure project parties and Layer2 applications.
Simply put, users can not only achieve hardware Miner rewards on Metablox’s WIFI router, but also participate in network co -construction or completion of other tasks through the Metablox App.Since this network also serves the Web3 scene, users also have the opportunity to get the SocialFi and DEFI applications that they support.
Furthermore, we want to understand Metablox, which has been farming for more than two years, why can we lay more than 30,000 nodes distributed in 98 countries in a short period of time?Can it surpass Helium as another big Web3 WIFI supplier?
Share WIFI to motivate Metablox “hard and hard” both
Since DEPIN was refined by MESSARI by an encrypted asset research institution at the end of 2022, it has become a track in the field of web3 infrastructure and application, and Wi Wi -Wiper (WIFI) occupies one of the main decentralized physical infrastructure scenarios.
The reason why this scene has attracted a large number of builders to adopt the web3 mode is that the important reason is that the wireless network itself requires many modem, router and other hardware to access the network in a distributed manner.
Wireless network resources are mainly constructed and owned by centralized telecommunications service providers, and then sold to users, including enterprises, government agencies and ordinary users.Users are often paid, and DEPIN wireless network infrastructure such as Metablox is trying to allow downstream resource users to obtain benefits in sharing and the cost of diluted WIFI.
Traditional WIFI has a series of limitations. Due to the decentralized characteristics, in addition to the unbalanced and unstable coverage of WIFI, users are also unwilling to pay for WIFI connection for a single position.It is free, but in fact, the cost of wireless networks is already included in the operating cost of physical merchants, and the speed and security of public WiFi are unable to guarantee.
In order to allow users to use more convenient wireless networks, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) launched the OpenRoaming framework in 2021, which aims to simplify roaming visits between honeycomb, commercial WIFI network and public WIFI hotspots.On the one hand, it can solve the problem that the wireless network connection is always interrupted, and on the other hand, it also allows users to register or log in without frequent registration.
In this framework, Metablox is one of the 9 OpenRoaming service providers designated by WBA. Others include Cisco and BOINGO, which are more familiar with the public, and Metablox is the only group member of the Web3 field.
It took two years, Metablox developed a blockchain -based architecture, and adopted a unified decentralized identity (DID) method and verifiable voucher (VC) system to integrate small residential and commercial places into the OpenRoaming framework (hereinafter referred to as “OR”)middle.
The DID technology adopted by Metablox is a new decentralized identifier that implements verified and decentralized digital status.DID can represent any type of subject, such as data models, reality objects, institutional organizations, etc., and the controller chooses a specific type.
Verifying vouchers (VC) system allows users to independently decide whether to share personal resources, or to choose to share in what circumstances.
More than 3 million OpenRoaming nodes and 2,9009 own nodes. This is the scale of infrastructure accumulated by the Metablox network. The overall node covers about 98 countries. Its purpose is to provide global users with safe and stable WiFi roaming services.
It is worth noting that the HELIUM5G of similar scenarios is limited to the US local market due to the frequency band, rather than global users. The essence is the mechanism of the virtual card operator (centralized card) that grafes on T-Mobile, andIt is HELIUM’s sub -network. Further expansion requires the constant feedback of Helium’s main network ecology.In contrast, the degree of decentralization and coverage of Metablox WiFi are obviously more advantageous.
Promote community participation in WIFI networks that co -build Web3. The method of Metablox is that the software and hardware are drained at the same time.
The hardware is Metablox Wifi router Miner, which has now been upgraded to the second generation.It is also a node hardware that connects or its compatible network.When more people are connected to the OR network, the router will generate MPOINTS rewards.As the Utility Token (intermediate tokens) in Metablox Tokenomics, MPOINTS can not only redeem the reward directly in the Metablox App, but also obtain the use permissions of other cooperation Web3 applications/services.Token.
The online platform is Metablox’s official app.This application supports two registered methods of Web2/Web3; after completing the registration, users can use the global WiFi roaming service currently supported by the currently supported. On the other hand, users can also participate in the Metablox network through the APP -add self -increase selfThere are/public WIFI networks to receive different quantities of MPOINTS rewards.
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Metablox’s mining machine router and APP
Using software and hardware to motivate dual drainage methods, Metablox is still accumulating infrastructure and wireless network resources for the WEB3 global roaming WIFI.
The first router of Metablox has been sold out, and the next generation gives a discount of 50%of the preferential price of $ 249; the governance tokens of Metablox are expected to be launched in the second quarter of 2024. Currently, users will use the routing mining and participate in the network co -construction co -construction.The collected Mpoints is the only channel for governing tokens to obtain tokens through Staking.
Under the expectations of incentive value, Metablox can build more than 3 million OpenRoaming nodes and 29009 Metablox’s own infrastructure scale, which is easy to understand.
Under such infrastructure expansion, Metablox is expected to become another major supplier of DEPIN wireless network services after Helium, and it also provides new choices for WIFI providers and users.More importantly, the WiFi supply under the DEPIN paradigm will promote the balance of wireless network resources, and serve regions with lack of wireless resources, especially wireless resources around the world.
