DePIN Reality Check: Gaps, Fixes, Future
DePIN is hard. The speakers on this roundtable are builders who’ve spent years in the trenches: shipping real networks, creating infrastructure where there was none, and discovering the limits of the current tech stack the hard way. In this session, they’ll talk candidly about what actually works, what’s broken, and what they need from infra and the broader ecosystem to push DePIN to its next stage.
Public roundtable conversation structured in two parts:
The Reality & Gap: WeatherXM and Glow share what they do, where it hurts today, and what they wish existed in the DePIN stack.
The Fix & Future: Akave, Ramo, Fluence and Filecoin respond with what’s possible now and what’s on their roadmaps to meet those needs and avoid everyone reinventing the same primitives.
Throughout, we’ll keep the session open and interactive: live Q&A, audience prompts, and concrete call-to-actions between projects. The goal is not another hype panel, but a working session in public: aligning needs and capabilities, sparking collaboration, and sketching a direction for how DePIN should evolve as adoption grows.
Who this is for
Founders and builders working on DePIN networks or real-world crypto applications
Infra teams serving DePIN (data, storage, compute, orchestration, rewards, dev tooling)
Researchers, investors, and community members who want to hear directly from DePIN OGs who’ve shipped and scaled
What you’ll walk away with
A clear map of the major pain points DePIN projects face at different stages (from first rollout to global scale)
A snapshot of the infra that exists today across storage, compute, orchestration, and funding – and what’s missing in DePIN
Concrete ideas and potential collaborations between projects and infra providers
A sharper sense of where the DePIN space should be heading over the next few years