For the past few years, most DePIN projects focused on one thing: bootstrapping supply.
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Binance can afford to recover from a massive hack. Most crypto startups can't.
Credit to @binance for protecting users, but an industry's security can't depend on who can afford the losses.
With AI changing the threat landscape, there's a huge opportunity for builders.
Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, in what analysts say is the biggest crypto hack ever, an attack that could prompt investors to rethink the risks of owning digital assets https://t.co/0oa56SQpJj
65% is no longer โoffload.โ
When Wi-Fi is carrying the majority of traffic in active zones for an operator serving hundreds of millions of subscribers, it stops looking like a fallback network.
It becomes part of the capacity equation.
The next challenge isn't proving Wi-Fi can carry carrier traffic.
-> It's making more qualified Wi-Fi infrastructure discoverable, measurable and commercially accessible to carriers.
@WBAlliance guest article by @hfclg :
https://t.co/hrAZZjtc08
Mobile data traffic on @deutschetelekom's network during Oktoberfestโs opening weekend has more than doubled in three years, from 28.5 TB in 2023 to 57.7 TB in 2026.
This year, Deutsche Telekom brought in more than a dozen additional temporary mobile sites to help handle the load.
This is the capacity problem Wi-Fi offload is built for. When tens of thousands of people concentrate in one place, cellular demand can spike far beyond what the surrounding network normally needs to support. Instead of solving this with cellular infrastructure alone, operators can reduce the load on cellular networks by redirecting data onto local Wi-Fi networks.
The more mobile data demand grows, the more valuable that additional capacity becomes.
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AI isn't just changing how we work: it's changing how much data everything we do consumes.
Networks weren't designed to carry this much. The current scaling model can't keep up.
That's the gap the Uplink Marketplace closes.
Weโve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
Weโre grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
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Demand is outpacing new infrastructure.
Wi-Fi already exists almost everywhere. Most of it sits underused.
Trusted. Seamless. Measurable. Payable. That's the hard part, and it's what the Uplink Marketplace solves.
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Mobile data demand is outpacing what cellular networks were built to carry. Today, that pressure lands hardest in cities.
Earlier this week, India's leading broadband policy forum responded to the country's public Wi-Fi consultation with a direct verdict: mobile networks alone cannot meet the demand. For any major city, Wi-Fi offload is a structural necessity.
In most high-density urban markets, the infrastructure to support that offload already exists. Where it doesn't exist at scale, countries like India with a population of 1.4 billion people are actively working to build it, specifically because mobile networks can't carry the load alone.
The barrier to greater adoption worldwide isn't physical. It's commercial.
Connecting existing Wi-Fi supply to carrier demand still requires bilateral agreements: one per carrier, per venue, per market. That model doesn't scale. Uplink is the marketplace that connects supply to demand directly. One integration. Automated settlement. No bilateral stack.
India is formalising the need. The problem exists everywhere. Uplink is built to solve it.
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Wi-Fi has the coverage. It has the standards (Passpoint, OpenRoaming).
What it's lacked is the same clearing infrastructure that made cellular roaming scale.
Not a new network. A marketplace layer that verifies supply, coordinates demand, and settles automatically.
That's what Uplink does.