Hello from the edge. I haven’t posted in a while, but there’s a lot to share. Titan Network crossed 1,700,000 registered nodes. We launched our browser-based IP extension. The whitepaper is out. Real DePIN is here, and we’re just getting started.

DePIN is not just a new way to distribute hardware, it is a new way to think about strategy. Instead of asking how many data centers you can afford, you ask how many people you can empower. Each new contributor brings capacity closer to users and makes the network harder to

In February I want to keep coming back to a simple question. Are we making decentralized infrastructure easier, safer and more useful for real people. If the answer is yes, the metrics will follow eventually. If the answer is no, no amount of narrative will save it. This

I think about Titan less as “a project” and more as an ongoing negotiation between three groups: Contributors, developers, and enterprises. Contributors want safety and fair rewards. Developers want simple primitives they can rely on. Enterprises want predictable performance

In 2026, I expect fewer empty promises and more receipts. Enterprises will ask for proof of delivery, contributors will ask for transparent payouts, and regulators will ask for auditable flows. Blockchain is useful here not because it is fashionable, but because it can settle

I keep coming back to a simple idea: participation should not feel heroic. Running a node, sharing bandwidth, or contributing compute should feel as normal as installing an app. If we can make that true, networks like Titan can scale at the speed of human habit, not at the

The most interesting conversations lately are not “what if DePIN works” but “how do we plug it into what we already run”. Teams are asking about hybrid setups, gradual migrations, and which workloads to move first. That is a healthy sign. It means the question is shifting from

We talk a lot about decentralization as a principle. I am more interested in it as an insurance policy. Distributed infrastructure means a single policy change, outage, or pricing decision cannot hold your entire architecture hostage. Resilience is not a slogan, it is the

One of my goals for 2026 is very simple: make decentralized infrastructure boring to adopt. If a team has to read three whitepapers to run a pilot, we failed. If they can plug into a network, see latency improve and costs drop, and forget that it is DePIN at all, we are getting

This year will not be decided by the next headline, but by a thousand small design choices. How easy is it to join a network. How fair is the contribution measurement? How simple is it for an enterprise to test, integrate, and scale. DePIN wins when it feels less like a leap

January is a good reminder that cycles are loud, but infrastructure is quiet. Prices reset, narratives rotate, yet the same questions remain: are workloads running, are contributors earning, are users getting faster and cheaper services. That is the scoreboard that matters for

The biggest misconception about decentralized infrastructure is that it’s a charity project for idealists. Enterprises are not paying for ideals. They pay for outcomes: speed, reliability, compliance, and predictable unit economics. The uncomfortable truth is that traditional

When people ask why DePIN matters, I try to remove the crypto words and keep the physics. The internet is constrained by distance, congestion, and cost. Centralized clouds solve this by concentrating capacity in a few places and moving traffic across long paths. It works

If you are building in DePIN, your job is to turn volatility into irrelevance. Ship during noise. Improve reliability during quiet. Let markets do what they do. The network has to keep delivering.

A simple test for whether a project is infrastructure: does it matter when the market is quiet. When the hype is gone, are tasks still being served, data still being delivered, and users still getting value. The networks that compound through cycles are the ones that

Centralization optimizes for control and convenience until it doesn’t. A single incident, a single policy change, or a single outage can ripple across millions of users. Decentralized networks distribute risk and distribute ownership. In practice that means more redundancy,

A lot of networks try to grow by incentives first. The better approach is to grow by usefulness first, then let incentives follow the value you created. The loop we care about is straightforward: more contributors add coverage, better coverage improves performance, better

The most underrated part of decentralized infrastructure is measurement. If you cannot prove delivery, you are selling promises. If you can prove delivery, you can automate payments, reduce disputes, and move faster as an ecosystem. Proofs are not a feature. They are the

Most people think clouds scale by buying more servers. Titan scales by activating what already exists: idle devices at the edge. When capacity shows up where demand lives, latency drops and costs follow. That is the DePIN cheat code. Not ideology, just placement and

Most networks scale with procurement. DePIN scales with participation. Traditional growth depends on bigger contracts, more hardware, and longer planning cycles. Participation flips the model. It lets anyone add capacity where it is needed, when it is needed, without waiting

We treated cloud like real estate for a decade. Bigger buildings, bigger bills, bigger distances to the user. The next phase is coordination, not construction. Put workloads where demand lives. Run compute at the edge on devices, ISPs, and micro data centers. Route