DePIN Summit

From the island of Zanzibar to the heart of innovation. DePIN Summit Africa 2025 carried the movement forward, where culture and technology met under the stars. Watch the story continue ⚡ Made possible by @EV3ventures @threefold_io Produced by @Proof_Coverage #DePINSummit #DePINSummitAfrica

From the shores of Mombasa to the future of DePIN. DePIN Summit Africa 2025 began with a spark; now it’s a movement. Watch the story unfold ⚡ Made possible by @EV3ventures @shareinternet Produced by @Proof_Coverage #DePINSummit #DePINSummitAfrica

🔗 Register now: lu.ma/4yb0uttm 🌐 More info: depinsummit.xyz

🚀 Catch Neil Chatterjee @neilc_dawn, co-founder of @dawninternet, at the upcoming DePIN Summit 2025 in Kenya & Zanzibar! 📅 July 2 – Mombasa, Kenya 📅 July 4-5 – Zanzibar 🌍 Co-hosted by @EV3ventures, @shareinternet, and @threefold_io Registration link below 👇

🚀 Catch Alireza Ghods @AlirezaGhods2, CEO of @NATIXNetwork, at the upcoming DePIN Summit 2025 in Kenya & Zanzibar! 📅 July 2 – Mombasa, Kenya 📅 July 4-5 – Zanzibar 🌍 Co-hosted by @EV3ventures, @shareinternet, and @threefold_io Registration link below 👇

Announcing: DePIN Summit Africa in Kenya and Tanzania in July 2025 Hosting @DePINSummit has been one of my favorite highlights of building @EV3Ventures over the past few years. DePIN, or Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, use crypto to scale critical infrastructure like wireless, electricity, or compute in a peer-to-peer manner. By cutting out the middle-man, DePINs provide cheaper and more reliable services than the current incumbents. In other words, DePIN is all about putting power back into the hands of users. 2023's Summit showed that DePIN is a MOVEMENT: for the very first time, 100+ DePIN founders and investors sat in the same room, in Menlo Park, all with a shared vision for the future of what decentralized infrastructure networks will become. 2024's Summit showed that DePIN is INEVITABLE: with more than 350 founders, investors, and operators coming together on a summer Saturday, in NYC, to discuss humanity’s urgent need for digital infrastructure networks that can scale to serve exponentially-growing demand decades in the future. In July 2025, DePIN Summit Africa will show that DePIN is GLOBAL by bringing the community together in Mombasa, Kenya and Zanzibar, Tanzania. We are excited to be collaborating with our on-the-ground partners @shareinternet and @threefold_io to make the event truly special, bringing together DePIN entrepreneurs and investors from abroad, alongside local industry and government leaders who are eager to understand how DePIN can serve their communities. DePIN has been mostly a US-based phenomenon to date, by almost any metric you can pick: number of projects, total capital raised, etc. A few protocols are bucking the trend and showing how DePIN can serve users in emerging markets: for example, local ISPs in Ghana are using @dawninternet to provide internet services, one of the largest telcos in Mexico is offloading its customers traffic onto @helium, and grid-scale solar farms in India are mining on @GlowFND. But by and large, DePIN activity is focused on developed markets, and specifically the US.... DePIN in the US is a huge opportunity, but it’s not the only one! Emerging markets are a different ballgame: the end-user demand for more reliable, performant, scalable digital infrastructure in growing economies is enormous across virtually every sector of DePIN: wireless, energy, compute, sensors, logistics, identity, etc. In East Africa, consumers spend 10-20% of their monthly income on internet service for only 3-4 GB of capacity. The user behaviors, unit economics, and regulatory hurdles are fundamentally different than other markets. With DePIN Summit Africa 2025, we hope to bridge that gap and help plant the seeds for DePIN to expand its reach globally, and specifically into East Africa going forward. We’re excited to be joined by headline speakers including: - Kristof De Spiegeleer, co-founder of @threefold_io's decentralized cloud computing network - Neil Chatterjee, co-founder of @dawninternet's decentralized fixed wireless internet - Jose Aycart, co-founder of @shareinternet's decentralized internet and compute infrastructure - Alireza Ghods, co-founder of @natixnetwork's decentralized digital mapping network - Robin Wingardh, co-founder of @wingbits's decentralized flight tracking to Africa - Fredrik Ahlgren, co-founder @srcful's decentralized virtual power plants - Raullen Chai, co-founder of @iotex_io's modular DePIN L1 and development platform If you’d like to join us and help accelerate the growth of DePIN in emerging markets, please apply below 👇

Defining DePIN with @guywuolletjr #DePINSummit @a16z

New Map Unlocked: Compounding Demand Side Growth in Stages | Marketplace vs Network Effects #DePINSummit @shayonsengupta @multicoin

Dispelling the Bittensor FUD | Five Definitions of Bittensor #DePINSummit @Old_Samster @OSSCapital

Ostium x Crucible | Connecting Hedgers and Speculators with Perps #DePINSummit @kaledora @Melt_Dem

Our team also attended this year's DePIN Summit. Eclipse projects @go_daylight and @PluralEnergy were on the panel to discuss Decentralized Energy, moderated by @neelsomani. It was great coming together with the huge community of DePIN founders and infrastructure investors.

ICYMI: Our CEO @rdevaul gave an excellent intro to XNET at the DePIN summit hosted by @EV3ventures. We are building real mobile connectivity with a great economic incentive. Check it out!

more insight from last week's DePIN summit

JDI DePIN Daily Digest: 1.DePIN Summit 2023, hosted by @EV3ventures, concluded successfully. 125 DePIN founders and entrepreneurs participated, with 4 hours of panel discussions and presentations.

本物のビルダー、本物のソリューション、本物の成長。 @ev3venturesによって、#DePINSummit は、この指数関数的な成長の時期に DePIN を前進させる主要な創設者と投資家を集めました。 いくつかのハイライトをチェックしてください⚡️

🗓 On Aug 31, @linyao01 joined DePIN Summit 2023 by @MoneroMahesh @DAnconia_Crypto @EV3ventures.🚀 🤝 60+ DePIN projects, 40+ top Silicon Valley investment giants like @a16z, @multicoin and @MessariCrypto in Mountain View, CA🇺🇸. 🌐 Discussions covered key areas: #wireless, #infrastructure , #Computer & #AI, #energy , and #ID & #location. 💡 Leo actively engaged in the #energy roundtable, sharing insights with DePIN projects, moderated by @neelsomani, founder of @EclipseFND 👉👉We've transcribed highlights from Leo's conversation into text. For details, click the link below. @arkreen/exploring-the-future-of-renewable-energy-arkreen-at-depin-summit-2023-345c8c665bda" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@arkreen/explo… 🎬🎬Watch the event replay: app.beem.xyz/e/DePIN-Summit… #DePINSummit #Arkreen #EV3 🌟🚀🔌📈

@rdevaul, Jim 및 @DAconia_Crypto와의 생각을 자극하는 노변담화🚀 획기적인 DePINSummit을 조직한 @MoneroMahesh와 @DAconia_Crypto에게 큰 감사를 드립니다. 우리 지역 사회가 번성하는 모습을 보니 정말 기쁩니다!

Quick note 02 from @EV3ventures recent #DePIN Summit: 1) Hearing the @wifimapapp plan to loop in points of interest makes WiFi super interesting... 2) Seeing @PluralEnergy and @EntheosNetwork cooperate in the energy space shows we're willing to work together & build; very cool!

Quick note 01 from recent #DePIN Summit put on by @EV3ventures: 1) Lots of DeWi exploring. From @quantumwifi to @karrier_one to @giantprotocol it's clear there's a ton of surface area. 2) Back end for DePIN is the iceberg in the room; you don't see most of it, but it'll be huge. Examples: @EclipseFND @iotex_io @relaywireless

@SolanaLegend saw the depin summit site. some eye catchers. which ones are coming to solana?