Dear Builders, Breakers, Strivers, and People Who’ve Been Controlled by the Cloud…

Let’s start with the obvious:

The world’s compute is held hostage.

Not metaphorically. Literally.

A tiny cartel decides whether your model trains today, tomorrow, or if they’re feeling spicy (never).

If compute is the new oil, then congratulations:

you’ve been living in a world where only three companies own all the pumps, set all the prices, and occasionally tell you,“Oops, we ran out. Try again next quarter.”

That’s the problem we got sick of.

How This All Started

DePINed didn’t begin as a carefully crafted business plan.

It began with a series of “Wait, why is this so stupid?” moments.

  1. Why are AI teams stuck behind queue systems longer than passport offices?
  2. Why does a simple render cost more than a weekend trip to your fav spot?
  3. Why are we all pretending that needing the cloud’s “permission” to innovate is normal?

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It wasn’t an epiphany. It was irritation.

The kind of irritation that makes you build something just to stop being annoyed.

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So we said screw it.

Let’s build a compute network that nobody can choke, price-manipulate, or gatekeep.

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And thus: DePINed.

Not a rebellion. Just common sense.

Our Mission

We’re here to make compute:

  • abundant,
  • fairly priced,
  • globally distributed,
  • and impossible to monopolize.

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That’s it.

That’s the pitch.

Everything else is just engineering.

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We’re building a decentralized compute mesh protocol that taps into GPUs from everywhere: people’s homes, enterprise data centers, dormant hardware, underutilized rigs; and turns it all into a resilient, reliable, sovereign compute fabric.

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What does that unlock?

Anything centralized clouds currently slow down, overcharge for, or quietly ration.

AI inference, rendering, training, simulations: if it needs compute, it needs freedom.

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And freedom needs a better network.

Our Values

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1. Autonomy > Dependency

If your entire business collapses because of AWS hiccups, you don’t have a business.

You have a hostage situation.

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2. Vertical Integration Is Our Superpower

We build the compute.

We build the products.

We build the value loop.

No waiting for someone else’s server farm to approve our urgency.

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3. Community Is Infrastructure

This network is powered by people.

Not a corporation.

Not a committee.

Not a compliance department in Seattle.

Humans. Machines. Contributors. Builders.

Everyone participates. Everyone earns. Everyone benefits.

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4. Alignment Beats Extraction

Traditional clouds extract.

Decentralized networks reward.

Pick your economics.

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5. Pragmatism Always Wins

We don’t worship decentralization.

We worship what works.

This is infrastructure, not ideology.

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Real-World Implication

Right now, the world has two kinds of compute:

  1. Hyperscalers: the Big Three. They run at ~70% utilization, which is why everything is expensive, rationed, and constantly “at capacity.”
  2. Everyone else:  hospitals, small datacenters, universities, enterprises, GPU farms, studios. They run at ~25–30% utilization.
  3. Translation: 70% of global compute sits idle, doing absolutely nothing except depreciating.

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That’s the absurd gap we’re fixing.

Even in testnet:

  • Traditional compute providers are plugging in their underused infrastructure and earning on hardware that normally collects dust.
  • A hospital can literally earn on the 75% of machines they don’t use.
  • A small datacenter finally has a monetization route that isn’t “hope AWS buys us.”

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And on the crypto side?

Our protocol treasury changes the entire game.

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The Invitation

Look,  this isn’t just about tech.

This is about sovereignty.

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Do we want a future where three clouds effectively control who gets to innovate?

Who trains what?

Who scales?

Who stays stuck?

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Or do we want a world where compute; the lifeblood of AI; is open, abundant, and powered by the people who actually use it?

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If the second option sounds like the only sane choice, then welcome.

You’re already aligned with everything we’re building.

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Plug in. Run a node. Build on the network.

Or just stick around and watch the monopoly tremble.

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This is the GREAT reset of the world’s compute economy.And we’re building it together…. one GPU at a time.

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Check it out here: https://app.depined.org/onboarding

— The DePINed Team

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