Original Author: Syndica

Translation: Zen, PANews

The Solana ecosystem's DePIN track has set a new high for revenue since the beginning of the year, with a total monthly income of $458,000 in April, a year-on-year increase of 33%, marking the best performance this year. This is mainly attributed to the stable growth of projects such as Helium, Render, Hivemapper, and XNET.

However, the number of active contributors to the DePIN protocols has actually seen a slight decline. Helium, Hivemapper, Nosana, Render, Sallar, Sourceful, and XNET collectively maintain about 87,000 active contributors.

In April 2025, the number of contributors to smaller DePIN protocols saw significant growth, with Nosana's growth rate exceeding 100%, while the contributor growth for larger protocols like Helium and Hivemapper remained flat or slightly declined.

Here is a review of the performance of major DePIN projects:

Dabba Network

Dabba Network is a DePIN exclusive to the Indian market built on Solana, aiming to deploy Wi-Fi hotspots across India in collaboration with local cable operators using a "managed deployment" model, providing users with high-speed, low-cost internet access. From March to April, its cumulative data consumption surged to 8,000 TB, achieving a 2-fold increase; during the same period, device sales grew by 29%, further expanding the network scale.

Helium Mobile

Helium Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator under the Helium network, combining community-deployed Wi-Fi hotspots with cellular base stations from partner operators to provide users with low-cost mobile data and voice services.

After opening free mobile plans to all users, Helium Mobile saw a surge of 125% in new subscription users, reaching 36,000, a historic high. Correspondingly, Helium Mobile's revenue hit a record $250,000. The monthly revenue measured by data credits burned increased by 34%, reaching a new high of $250,000, with offload data accounting for 79%.

(Note: When users use the mobile network, some of the traffic is "offloaded" to the Helium network's hotspots for transmission and billing, and this traffic is referred to as "offload data.")

Additionally, Helium Mobile's average daily offload subscriptions rose by 65%, and offload data volume increased by 32%, both setting historical records.

It is worth mentioning that since 2025, the number of active contributors to Helium has shown a slight downward trend, stabilizing at around 75,000.

XNET

XNET is a decentralized mobile network built on the Solana blockchain. In April, XNET's data offload continued to grow, with the average daily offload volume increasing by 16%, marking eight consecutive months of steady growth in data offload. Furthermore, despite a 6% decrease in rewards, XNET Mobile's active contributors in April still rose by 6%, reaching a historic high of 732.

Roam

In April, Roam added 535,000 WiFi nodes (the second highest in history) and 87,000 new users, bringing the total number of nodes close to 4 million and users nearing 3 million. Although the monthly user check-in volume decreased by 19%, the cumulative check-in count has surpassed 300 million, demonstrating strong user engagement.

Shaga

The Shaga protocol utilizes idle GPU computing power to support Web3 games, currently covering 74 GPU models, providing 33.12 TB of storage and 15.27 Gbps throughput, with high-performance computing capabilities. Over two months, Shaga achieved 4,500 interactive game live streams, totaling 50,000 hours, allowing viewers to control and participate in the streamer's games in real-time.

Hivello

Hivello serves as a DePIN aggregation platform for monetizing idle resources, with online duration doubling in April compared to March, as more nodes joined the contribution network.

Nosana

Nosana is a decentralized GPU computing network built on the Solana blockchain, focusing on providing a distributed computing market for AI inference workloads. In April, Nosana's job completion volume (each time an AI client submits an inference request, the network assigns that request to one or more GPU nodes for execution. The entire process from starting the computation to returning the result is referred to as a "job") and contributor rewards saw slight growth, with GPU nodes remaining stable; the newly launched Gaianet AI collaboration project allows AI agents to run on Nosana's infrastructure, potentially driving job growth.

Sallar.io

Sallar is a protocol built on a distributed computing network formed by connecting idle computing power from devices like smartphones. In April, Sallar's dollar rewards increased by 27% month-on-month. As a protocol for sharing device computing power to complete AI tasks, April's dollar rewards rose to $11,800, with the number of active wallets remaining stable.

Grass

Grass connects users' idle internet bandwidth to the network, providing underlying data sources for AI training, data scraping, and proxy services, rewarding participants in the form of on-chain tokens. In April, Grass's data collection volume reached a historic high of 34.5 million GB.

Wingbits

Wingbits is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) project based on the Solana blockchain, which collects real-time data on aircraft such as planes, helicopters, and drones through ADS-B hardware deployed by global users, uploading this data to the blockchain in exchange for native token rewards. Since November 2024, the number of flights tracked by the Wingbits network has increased to 150,000, with daily data points collected rising to 9 billion, representing increases of 7% and 29%, respectively; the number of contribution sites has also increased by 43%, reaching 3,000.

Hivemapper

Hivemapper is a decentralized mapping network where users collect street-level images through dashcams to earn HONEY token rewards. The team continues to iterate on the product side, with 20-30% of the monthly Beekeeper platform fees allocated for burning $HONEY, which may further promote growth.

Hivemapper's monthly mapping mileage remained stable in April, and its AI-driven platform for fleet management, Beekeeper, officially launched that month, bringing new growth momentum as more fleets join. Since February, the number of active map contributors on Hivemapper has stabilized at around 5,000.

NATIX Network

NATIX Network aims to collect street view and geographic data through smartphones and dedicated devices, providing high-precision positioning and imaging support for mapping, autonomous driving, and physical AI. Participants can earn token rewards for their data contributions. The ecosystem remained stable in April, with user-driven mileage maintaining at 11 million kilometers for the third consecutive month.

Sourceful Energy

Sourceful Energy focuses on decentralized virtual power plants (VPP), connecting household and commercial distributed energy resources (such as solar panels, electric vehicles, and energy storage batteries) to the Solana blockchain network. Participants can earn token incentives by contributing electricity or data. In April, Sourceful Energy's power output grew by 30%, and with the newly launched Zap smart energy efficiency analysis device receiving 500 pre-orders, the growth trend is expected to continue.

AmbiosNetwork

Ambios Network has built the world's largest environmental monitoring DePIN, providing real-time, hyper-local environmental data by deploying low-cost air quality and environmental sensors to support businesses, AI, and public services. Sensor owners can receive token rewards. In April, Ambios Network's cumulative user ecosystem data check-ins surpassed 2 million, with a 12% increase in ecosystem data check-ins; the total number of platform users grew to 45,000, a year-on-year increase of 2%.

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