The Helium Network is a decentralized, blockchain-based wireless infrastructure project that allows individuals and organizations to deploy and operate wireless networks through token incentivization.
- daily users
- 1M
daily users
Build Physically.
Distribute Digitally.
Scale fast by decentralizing your physical infrastructure or hardware. Lower your costs, serve more people, and access robust capital markets.
$400m
Rewards per year
2m
DePIN transactions per month
1.5M
Peak users
2025 DePIN Report
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What is
DePIN?
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) let anyone earn rewards by powering real-world infrastructure – like WiFi, data storage, or computing power – from using their own hardware. DePINs build resilient, cost-effective networks that scale fast and give every day people the chance to team up and compete against big corporations.
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ecosystem & impact
Hivemapper is a crowdsourced map, built by a community of thousands of people who take images of the world while they drive. It’s the fastest growing mapping company in history.
- of the world’s roads mapped
- 30%
of the world’s roads mapped
GPU rendering platform designed to supercharge creative workflows. Harness idle GPU power worldwide, providing near-limitless rendering capacity at a fraction of the usual cost.
- frames rendered
- 50M
frames rendered
Grass is a network of millions of people who are earning rewards for sharing unused internet bandwidth with the Grass network.
- scraped per day
- 1B GB
scraped per day
The world’s largest and most accurate navigation network, powering autonomous vehicles, drones, robots, and the metaverse.
- satellite reference stations
- 18,000
satellite reference stations
DePIN Toolkit
Solana has dozens of turnkey products to make it easy to integrate blockchain into your DePIN.
Wallets
Build your own, add social logins, or use MCP.
cNFTs
Map devices 1:1 at scale for cheap.
Tokenization
Launch and reach millions of DeFi users.
zkCompression
Distribute token rewards effortlessly and cheaply.
Mobile
Access crypto’s biggest phone install base.
Token Extensions
Customize and stay compliant.
DePIN lives here
Hear from the pioneers transforming global markets and why they’ve chosen Solana.
PodcastGPU rendering at a fraction of the cost
Jules Urbach & Trevor Harries Jones, Render CEO & COO
InterviewThe fastest growing mapping company in history
Ariel Seidman, Hivemapper CEO
OriginalsWhy Helium migrated to Solana
Abhay Kumar, Helium Foundation CEO
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