New Trends in the DePIN Field: A New Paradigm Integrating with AI

DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) was once in the spotlight, attracting significant attention. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, the market focus has gradually shifted towards the AI sector. However, DePIN has not stagnated; instead, it is seeking new development directions, with the most notable being its integration with AI. The Roam project is a representative of this trend.

The Essence of DePIN

DePIN is a token incentive mechanism that encourages users to share personal resources to build infrastructure networks. It covers multiple areas such as storage space, communication traffic, cloud computing, and energy. The core of DePIN lies in resource integration, efficiently directing resources to those in need through incentives.

Mainly divided into three categories:

1. Storage Category: Provides cloud storage services
2. Computing Power: Decentralized GPU Rendering Platform
3. Network Category: Forming a global WIFI network through incentives

DePIN is similar to Bitcoin in that it requires an initial investment to purchase physical equipment, followed by continuous mining. As it connects to the real world, it is not a closed system and brings positive impacts to the entire industry.

Current Status of the DePIN Market

According to the data, DePIN has nearly 4.56 million devices in about 196 countries and regions worldwide, with a market value of 7.1 billion USD. The devices are mainly distributed in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia, with a particularly high concentration in Southeast Asia. South Korea stands out in this field, demonstrating the country's strong atmosphere in the cryptocurrency industry.

Introduction to the Roam Project

Roam is a representative project of network type in DePIN, which can be seen as a combination of Web3 and WIFI, and is a decentralized wireless network and telecom operator. Roam offers various products, including WIFI hardware and eSIM cards. Users can mine by purchasing hardware or obtain free data by completing tasks.

The core of Roam is the Roam Telecom Data Layer, which operates through four main modules:

1. Roam Network: Responsible for network infrastructure construction.
2. Roam Growth: Promote user participation through incentive mechanisms
3. Roam Discovery: Supports the development of new projects
4. Roam Community: Focused on community building and governance

The Integration of Roam and AI

Roam is deeply integrating with AI, leveraging its communication data advantages to provide high-quality data for AI projects. In the development of AI, data is a key bottleneck, especially since communication data is often monopolized by traditional operators. Roam provides operator services through a Web3 approach, while using the generated data as a data source for AI companies, all under the premise of protecting privacy.

Roam uses decentralized identity (DID), verifiable credentials (VC), and zero-knowledge proof (ZK) technologies to protect user privacy. By collaborating with multiple DePIN ecosystem partners, Roam is building a diverse AI training data set ecosystem.

User Participation Methods

The rapid development of Roam relies mainly on two strategies: free services and airdrops. Users can earn free traffic by completing tasks, and they can also earn points by sharing WIFI to participate in potential future airdrops. This low-threshold participation method greatly increases the project's appeal.

Overall, the combination of DePIN and AI is paving new development directions, providing new possibilities for the application of decentralized infrastructure in the AI era.