Solana DePIN track revenue hits a new high, multiple projects perform excellently

In April 2025, the Solana ecosystem's DePIN track achieved its best performance of the year. Monthly total revenue reached $458,000, a year-on-year increase of 33%, setting a new high for the year. This achievement is mainly attributed to the stable development of projects such as Helium, Render, Hivemapper, and XNET.

Although revenue has reached a new high, the number of active contributors to the DePIN protocol has slightly decreased. The total number of active contributors to major projects such as Helium, Hivemapper, Nosana, Render, Sallar, Sourceful, and XNET remains at around 87,000.

It is worth noting that the number of contributors to small DePIN protocols significantly increased in April, with Nosana's growth rate exceeding 100%. In contrast, the number of contributors to larger protocols such as Helium and Hivemapper remained stable or declined slightly.

The following are the specific performances of some major DePIN projects:

Dabba Network

Dabba Network is a DePIN project in the Solana ecosystem aimed at the Indian market. By collaborating with local cable operators, it deploys Wi-Fi hotspots across India to provide users with high-speed, low-cost internet services. From March to April, the cumulative data consumption of Dabba Network doubled, reaching 8000 TB. During the same period, device sales increased by 29%, further expanding the network scale.

Helium Mobile

As a mobile virtual network operator under the Helium network, Helium Mobile combines community-deployed Wi-Fi hotspots and 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's new subscriber growth surged by 125%, reaching 36,000 and setting a historical high.

In April, Helium Mobile's revenue also set a new record, reaching $250,000. The monthly revenue measured by data points burned increased by 34%, with data offloading accounting for as much as 79%. In addition, Helium Mobile's average daily offloading subscription volume rose by 65%, and the offloaded data volume increased by 32%, both setting historical records.

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

XNET

XNET is a decentralized mobile network built on the Solana blockchain. In April, the data offloading of XNET continued to grow, with an average daily offload increasing by 16%, marking XNET's steady upward trend in data offloading for 8 consecutive months. Despite a 6% drop in rewards, the number of active contributors to XNET Mobile in April still rose by 6%, reaching 732, setting a new historical high.

Roam

In April, Roam added 535,000 WiFi nodes (the second highest in history) and 87,000 new users, bringing the total number of protocol nodes close to 4 million and the number of users close to 3 million. Although the monthly user check-in amount decreased by 19%, the cumulative check-in times have exceeded 300 million, indicating that user stickiness remains strong.

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. In two months, Shaga achieved 4,500 interactive game live broadcasts, totaling 50,000 hours, allowing viewers to control and participate in the host's games in real time.

Hivello

As a DePIN aggregation platform, Hivello is used to monetize idle resources. In April, Hivello's online duration doubled compared to March, with more nodes joining to contribute to the network.

Nosana

Nosana is a decentralized GPU computing network built on the Solana blockchain, focused on providing a distributed computing power market for AI inference workloads. In April, the job completion volume of Nosana saw a slight increase along with contributor rewards, and the GPU nodes remained stable. The newly launched Gaianet AI collaboration project allows AI agents to operate on the Nosana infrastructure, which is expected to drive job growth.

Sallar.io

Sallar is a platform that connects the idle computing power of devices such as smartphones to the network, forming distributed computing nodes to support high-performance computing needs. In April, Sallar's dollar rewards increased by 27% month-on-month, rising to $11,800, while the number of active wallets remained stable.

Grass

Grass provides a source of underlying data for AI training, data scraping, and proxy services by connecting the idle internet bandwidth of user devices to the network, rewarding participants in the form of on-chain tokens. In April, Grass's data collection volume reached a new historical high of 34.5 million GB.

Wingbits

Wingbits is a decentralized physical infrastructure network project based on the Solana blockchain that collects aircraft data in real-time through ADS-B hardware deployed by global users. Since November 2024, the number of flights tracked by the Wingbits network has increased to 150,000, and the daily data points collected have risen to 9 billion, representing increases of 7% and 29%, respectively; the number of contributing sites has also increased by 43%, reaching 3,000.

Hivemapper

Hivemapper is a decentralized mapping network where users collect street-level images through dash cams to earn HONEY token rewards. In April, Hivemapper's monthly mapping mileage remained stable, and its AI-driven platform for fleet management, Beekeeper, officially launched that month, expected to bring new growth momentum as more fleets join. Since February, the number of active map contributors for Hivemapper has stabilized at around 5,000.

NATIX Network

NATIX Network collects street view and geographic data through smartphones and dedicated devices, providing high-precision positioning and imaging support for map making, autonomous driving, and physical AI. In April, the NATIX Network ecosystem remained stable, with user-driven mileage maintaining at 11 million kilometers for the third consecutive month.

Sourceful Energy

Sourceful Energy focuses on decentralized virtual power plants, integrating distributed energy resources into the Solana blockchain network. In April, Sourceful Energy's power output increased by 30%, and the newly launched Zap smart energy efficiency analysis device received 500 pre-orders, with growth expected to continue.

Ambios Network

Ambios Network has built the world's largest environmental monitoring DePIN by deploying low-cost air quality and environmental sensors, providing real-time, hyper-local environmental data. In April, Ambios Network's cumulative user ecological data check-ins exceeded 2 million times, with a 12% increase in ecological data check-ins; the total number of platform users reached 45,000, a year-on-year increase of 2%.