“Wait… people are running decentralized Uber, decentralized Airbnb, and even decentralized WiFi… and getting paid for it?”
That’s the vibe sweeping crypto Twitter right now. DePIN — short for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks — has gone from niche buzzword to one of 2025’s hottest crypto narratives.

We’re not just talking about trading tokens on a screen anymore. This is about owning a piece of the real-world infrastructure you actually use every day — from internet access to energy grids. And the kicker? You get rewarded in tokens for contributing.

So, What Happened?

For years, crypto was mostly about speculative finance: coins, NFTs, yield farms, rinse and repeat. Then along came DePIN, promising…