6 use cases for DePIN

Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) are presented as an alternative to monopolistic, opaque infrastructure, with use cases across six categories: energy, telecom, transportation, AI, robotics and healthcare. The article cites Daylight, which is building a protocol that lets owners of solar panels and other grid-connected devices sell energy and information back to energy companies. It describes Helium as the first at-scale decentralized telecom network, which began with a LoRaWAN network for IoT devices and later added a 5G cellular network. For AI, it says DePIN can aggregate unused chips from gaming PCs and data centers into a permissionless compute marketplace.