Roam Research Report: New forces of the DEPIN track

Author: Sun and Moon Source: X,@RiyuexiaCHU>

In this round of bull market, DEPIN is a track that must be involved.Today is a high -quality project that is not well known, Roam.

It is a decentralized WiFi roaming network. At present, the number of global nodes has exceeded Helium Mobile.

For modern humans, air, water and network are the three major necessary for life.We hope that no matter where you go, we can access the Internet conveniently.Honeycomb network (such as 4G, 5G) and WiFi have become the two major ways of surfing the Internet on the Internet.When there is no signal coverage, poor indoor location, crowded people, etc., the honeycomb network cannot be used. At this time, WiFi has become the only renewal medicine.

Roam aims to promote the construction of a decentralized global WiFi roaming network.Other DEPIN projects are mainly decentralized platforms for physical equipment, such as decentralized GPU computing power, decentralized broadband.ROAM is not simply gathered by WiFi provided by users, but uses the web3 token incentive mechanism to encourage users to jointly build a global WiFi OpenRoaming ™ roaming network.In the actual use of WIFI, we often encounter such distress.Different places such as cafes, bookstores or airports, and every new place, we need to find the username and password, which is very troublesome.In addition, WiFi in public places also has security issues.

OpenRoaming ™ program, it is initiated by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), aiming to establish a global WIFI network alliance.Promotes include Cisco, Google, AT & AMP; T, BOINGO WIRELESS, Samsung, etc.In the OpenRoaming ™ network, the WIFI provider will comply with common standards and security agreements.And more importantly, the device can automatically go to WiFi every time the user supports a place supported by OpenRoaming ™ without any operation.Connect Wi-Fi is as convenient as using a 4G/5G honeycomb network.

Such a good thing, in actual promotion, because of the interests, education costs, hardware costs and other reasons, the overall progress is relatively slow.As the only web3 project party in the 11 corporate alliances as the WBA OpenRoaming ™ plan, Roam not only establishes a DEPIN network that integrates OpenRoaming ™, but also uses token incentives to promote the development of the network faster.

The effect is significant. In the past 8 months, Roam’s nodes have increased by 400,000, which has exceeded Helium Mobile and has become the second largest DEWI network.At the same time, Roam users can also use OpenRoaming ™ more than 35 million WIFI nodes.And Roam’s growth space is very large, and the global WiFi scale is 700 million. Now it supports less than 0.5%of OpenRoaming ™.

2 Roam Introduction

Roam aims to build a decentralized global WiFi OpenRoaming ™ roaming network.By using decentralized identity (DIDS) and verified vouchers (VCS), users can seamlessly connect to the public WIFI network.Eliminate the needs of users to log in and register repeatedly.ROAM uses advanced blockchain technology and economic incentive mechanisms to provide users and network providers with safe, efficient and convenient connection services.

ROAM’s main advantage

Global wifi roaming: Through Passpoint and OpenRoaming ™ technology, ROAM realizes automatic roaming between devices between different WIFI networks to provide seamless and secure connection experience.Users can automatically connect to the WiFi roaming network that supports OpenRoaming ™ globally as long as it is registered once.
Decentralized identity authentication: ROAM uses DIDS and VCS to provide security network certification to ensure user privacy and data security.Through zero -knowledge proof technology, users can verify their identity without leaking personal information.
Web3’s tokens economic incentive:Roam uses token incentive mechanisms to reward users and network providers to promote network expansion and maintenance.Users earn ROAM tokens by adding WiFi hotspots, node punching, and participating in network activities.
ROAM mining machine: Roam mining machines provide encrypted mining capabilities and enterprise -level connection security. Users can earn ROAM tokens by deploying mining machines and enjoy stable network connections.

3 Passpoint and OpenRoaming ™

First introduce the core technologies used by Roam, Passpoint and OpenRoaming technology.

Passpoint is a WiFi certification and roaming technology developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2012. It can simplify the process of user connecting the public WiFi network while improving the security and reliability of connection.Passpoint allows the device to automatically find and connect to the Wi-Fi network without user intervention (such as input passwords).Passpoint uses WPA2-ENTERPRISE encryption and EAP (extended certification agreement) to provide a strong security certification mechanism to ensure the security transmission of user data.

Another feature of Passpoint is to support seamless switching between WIFI networks. Device can automatically switch between different WIFI networks without re -authentication.Therefore, simply speaking, Passpoint technology can realize devices (such as mobile phones and computers) without entering a password to achieve automatic connection.

Then, talk about OpenRoaming ™, which is initiated by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) to build a global network alliance.OpenRoaming ™ connects the access providers (such as public places, retailers, airports and large enterprises) and identity providers (such as service providers, equipment and cloud providers) to provide mobile users with a smooth Wi-Fi access.

PThe combination of Asspoint+OpenRoaming ™ is equivalent to creating a certified device.And all wifi here follow the unified technical standards.Then, if the user uses this network, it can automatically authenticate and connect between different WiFi of the network.Then, every time the user is supported by OpenRoaming ™, the device has automatically served WiFi without any operation.Connect Wi-Fi is as convenient as using 4G/5G.

4 DID and VC

Now that the WiFi Network Alliance has it, it is necessary to solve identity authentication, privacy, and security.The answer to this question is DID and VC

Decentralized identity (DID) is a new, verified, decentralized identifier that is used for authentication.Of course, this identity is broad, which refers to any themes, such as individuals, organizations, equipment.Different from the traditional centralized identity identification system, DID is controlled by the user by themselves: users can generate and manage DID by themselves and store them in a distributed network to ensure the security and irreversibleness of DID data.Avoid the risk of single -point failure and privacy leaks in the traditional identity system.

Verifying vouchers (VCs) are standardized status voucher formats stored on computers or mobile devices in a digital manner, similar to documents with real worlds.For example, I am xiaochu, then I have a group membership card, driver’s license, college graduation certificate, and so on.It realizes more efficient and secure authentication.VC includes

Metadata: Including the issuer information, validity period, voucher ID, etc. of the voucher.
Declaration data: Including the attribute information of the certificate holder, such as name, age, qualifications, etc., and the issuer’s certification of this information.
Certificate of encryption: The signature generated by the encryption algorithm ensures the authenticity and integrity of the voucher, and preventing tampering and forgery

DID and VC form a decentralized identity certificate.In the Roam network, DID and VCs are widely used in security authentication and privacy protection for the implementation of OpenRoaming services.When users access the Roam network, they use DID and VC to perform authentication.The user’s DID and related VCs are stored in the user device, which can prove their identity and voucher validity without leaking sensitive information.

5th generation currency incentive DEPIN network

Roam has built a DEPIN ecosystem, which is driven by the Web3 economic system.Based on this DEPIN network, companies and individual users can add the Roam protocol to OpenRoaming ™ through the ROAM protocol according to their own situation. A simple way can share the hotspot by downloading the ROAM mobile app. You can buy Raineier Max60 router in the professional level.

1 in the app

Users can download Roam’s apps to support Android and iOS.ROAM App not only allows users to connect to OpenRoaming ™ WIFI networks through Roam App.For new users, downloading APPs can get a one -time welcome reward. At the same time, socialized reward mechanisms such as sharing and invitation are set up to inspire users to spread the spread of socialization.At the same time, ROAM, which has hundreds of thousands of users, will also cooperate with other projects. Users can reward the airdrops of other project parties obtained through various activities.

2 Roam router

Professional users can choose the Roam router: Rainier Max60, the official website is priced at $ 499.First, this router can be used as a WiFi router for daily life.Rainier Max60 has the performance of Wi-Fi 6 and supports the data transmission rate of up to 9.6Gbps, which is almost 3 times faster than the 3.5Gbps of WIFI 5.And in a 150 -square -meter space, more than 200 devices can be connected at the same time.

Then, it can be used as a DEPIN device for the Roam network to achieve automatic mining.The important thing is that by running Rainier Max60 and providing users with OpenRoaming ™ Wi-Fi and other services, users can get four times the Roampoints reward at the PRIVATE WI-Fi point.

Roam-Baker-MAX30 will also be listed in the future, with the price only 199 US dollars.

The Roam router itself has excellent performance and continuous economic incentives as daily WIFI, and it will definitely add a large number of WiFi nodes to the OpenRoaming ™ network.

From the data point of view, the addition of the number of wifi wifi in Roam is in rapid growth.The number of wifi connections has now reached 404,000.The number of APP users has reached 523,000.ROAM’s rapid growth began in December 23. In just 8 months, 400,000 have reached.In contrast, OpenRoaming has been built for many years, and the number of nodes is now only 35 million.