1/ September 2025 was a record month for @Solana DePIN.
Ecosystem revenue surpassed $2.5M, @helium_mobile topped $1M, and contributor networks expanded across compute and mapping.
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2/ @Solana DePIN revenue hit a monthly ATH.
@helium, @rendernetwork, @Hivemapper, @UpRockCom, @NATIXNetwork and @GEODNET_ collectively earned $2.5M for the month of September, breaking past $2M monthly revenue for the first time.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ 3/ Large and small-device protocols drove most growth.
In September 2025, the >1M-device and <100k-device cohorts each added 2k new devices, while mid-size cohorts grew by less than 1k.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ 4/ Deployer rewards dropped from July levels.
In September 2025, @helium, @Hivemapper, @rendernetwork, @ionet, @GEODNET_, @NATIXNetwork, @sallar_io, @UpRockCom, and @WayruNetwork paid out $4.6M to deployers, representing an 11% month-over-month decrease.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ @ionet @sallar_io @WayruNetwork 5/ Rewards stayed steady but varied sharply by protocol.
In June–September 2025, @ionet led with more than $2k per contributor, while the lowest-paying protocols averaged less than $10.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ @ionet @sallar_io @WayruNetwork 6/ @nosana_ai demand hit a new record.
September 2025 marked Nosana’s second 200k+ jobs month, lifting 2025 totals to 1.4M. The protocol became available in the @Solana dApp Store where users can run AI workloads up to 6x cheaper via mobile.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ @ionet @sallar_io @WayruNetwork @nosana_ai 7/ Demand on @ionet stabilized.
In September 2025, compute hours fell 20% to below 1.5M and revenue declined 35% to $842k. The protocol dropped three new OSS LLMs, which could spur usage.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ @ionet @sallar_io @WayruNetwork @nosana_ai 8/ @inference_net staking accelerated as operator pools scaled.
Total staked $INT hit 489M with about 3.5k GPU operators staking; momentum built steadily before an end-August surge. Inference-trained and deployed Grass’s ClipTagger-12B, showcasing end-to-end execution.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ @ionet @sallar_io @WayruNetwork @nosana_ai @inference_net 9/ @dephynetwork staking surged after mainnet beta launch.
DePHY is a decentralized infra platform for scaling DePIN via hardware that bridges devices to blockchains.
Mainnet Beta launched Aug 5, 2025; staked supply quadrupled by Sept with the Official Delegation rollout.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ @ionet @sallar_io @WayruNetwork @nosana_ai @inference_net @dephynetwork 10/ @helium_mobile on-chain revenue surged to a record high.
Revenue reached broke past $1M for the first time at $1.5M, over 65% the prior month. Mobile subscriber payments overtook carrier offloading in terms of revenue share for the first time.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ @ionet @sallar_io @WayruNetwork @nosana_ai @inference_net @dephynetwork @helium_mobile 11/ @helium_mobile exceeded 450k subscribers.
New subscribers climbed 6% to 53k, supported by an $11M MrBeast livestream donation last August.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ @ionet @sallar_io @WayruNetwork @nosana_ai @inference_net @dephynetwork @helium_mobile 12/ @helium_mobile data offload grew for the sixth consecutive month.
In September 2025, the network averaged 1.5M daily offload subscribers and handled 49 TB daily of offloaded data.
@solana @helium @rendernetwork @Hivemapper @UpRockCom @NATIXNetwork @GEODNET_ @ionet @sallar_io @WayruNetwork @nosana_ai @inference_net @dephynetwork @helium_mobile 13/ @DabbaNetwork recorded a surge in hotspot deployments.
New hotspots in September 2025 were 56% greater than August. Data consumed from the network also increased by 3.6x.
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