This past week we had the honor of hosting the 2025 @DePINSummit in Mombasa - a 3-day experience filled with innovation, impact, and one united mission: to build infrastructure that works for Africa, led by Africans.
1/ New episode – Announcing DePIN Summit 2025 in Africa in July!
Hosted by: @EV3ventures, @threefold_io, @shareinternet@danconia_crypto, @FlorianRRF, and @selamooon joined @richhomiecon to discuss:
- Why they’re taking DePIN’s flagship event to Africa this year
- Why emerging markets are RIPE for DePIN disruption
- How DePIN is saving lives and powering economies in Kenya and Tanzania
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
03:01 - DePIN: A Global Perspective
05:55 - The Significance of Africa for DePIN
08:49 - Building Infrastructure: Local Engagement and Government Relations
12:11 - Innovations in Internet Connectivity in Africa
15:09 - The Future of DePIN: Vision for the Summit
18:02 - Excitement for the Upcoming DePIN Summit
20:51 - Conclusion
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Announcing: DePIN Summit Africa in Kenya and Tanzania in July 2025
Hosting @DePINSummit has been one of my favorite highlights of building @EV3Ventures over the past few years. DePIN, or Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, use crypto to scale critical infrastructure like wireless, electricity, or compute in a peer-to-peer manner. By cutting out the middle-man, DePINs provide cheaper and more reliable services than the current incumbents. In other words, DePIN is all about putting power back into the hands of users.
2023's Summit showed that DePIN is a MOVEMENT: for the very first time, 100+ DePIN founders and investors sat in the same room, in Menlo Park, all with a shared vision for the future of what decentralized infrastructure networks will become. 2024's Summit showed that DePIN is INEVITABLE: with more than 350 founders, investors, and operators coming together on a summer Saturday, in NYC, to discuss humanity’s urgent need for digital infrastructure networks that can scale to serve exponentially-growing demand decades in the future.
In July 2025, DePIN Summit Africa will show that DePIN is GLOBAL by bringing the community together in Mombasa, Kenya and Zanzibar, Tanzania. We are excited to be collaborating with our on-the-ground partners @shareinternet and @threefold_io to make the event truly special, bringing together DePIN entrepreneurs and investors from abroad, alongside local industry and government leaders who are eager to understand how DePIN can serve their communities.
DePIN has been mostly a US-based phenomenon to date, by almost any metric you can pick: number of projects, total capital raised, etc. A few protocols are bucking the trend and showing how DePIN can serve users in emerging markets: for example, local ISPs in Ghana are using @dawninternet to provide internet services, one of the largest telcos in Mexico is offloading its customers traffic onto @helium, and grid-scale solar farms in India are mining on @GlowFND. But by and large, DePIN activity is focused on developed markets, and specifically the US.... DePIN in the US is a huge opportunity, but it’s not the only one!
Emerging markets are a different ballgame: the end-user demand for more reliable, performant, scalable digital infrastructure in growing economies is enormous across virtually every sector of DePIN: wireless, energy, compute, sensors, logistics, identity, etc. In East Africa, consumers spend 10-20% of their monthly income on internet service for only 3-4 GB of capacity. The user behaviors, unit economics, and regulatory hurdles are fundamentally different than other markets. With DePIN Summit Africa 2025, we hope to bridge that gap and help plant the seeds for DePIN to expand its reach globally, and specifically into East Africa going forward.
We’re excited to be joined by headline speakers including:
- Kristof De Spiegeleer, co-founder of @threefold_io's decentralized cloud computing network
- Neil Chatterjee, co-founder of @dawninternet's decentralized fixed wireless internet
- Jose Aycart, co-founder of @shareinternet's decentralized internet and compute infrastructure
- Alireza Ghods, co-founder of @natixnetwork's decentralized digital mapping network
- Robin Wingardh, co-founder of @wingbits's decentralized flight tracking to Africa
- Fredrik Ahlgren, co-founder @srcful's decentralized virtual power plants
- Raullen Chai, co-founder of @iotex_io's modular DePIN L1 and development platform
If you’d like to join us and help accelerate the growth of DePIN in emerging markets, please apply below 👇
DePIN is coming to Mombasa, Kenya!
We’re excited to co-host #DePINSummit2025 alongside @EV3ventures and @threefold_io as we continue on our mission to scale connectivity in Africa.
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