Did Solana DePIN track achieve a new monthly revenue high for the year? A review of the main projects' performance in April.

Original author: Syndica

Compiled by: Zen, PANews

The Solana ecosystem's DePIN sector revenue has reached a new high since the beginning of the year, with cumulative monthly revenue of 458,000 USD in April, a year-on-year increase of 33%, marking the best performance this year. This is mainly attributed to the stable growth of projects such as Helium, Render, Hivemapper, and XNET.

However, the number of active contributors to the DePIN protocol has actually seen a slight decline. Helium, Hivemapper, Nosana, Render, Sallar, Sourceful, and XNET combined maintain around 87,000 active contributors.

In April 2025, the number of contributors to small DePIN protocols saw significant growth, with Nosana's growth rate exceeding 100%, while larger protocol contributors like Helium and Hivemapper experienced stable or slightly declining growth.

The following is a performance review of major DePIN projects:

Dabba Network

Dabba Network is a DePIN exclusive to the Indian market based on Solana, aiming to deploy Wi-Fi hotspots across India by leveraging a "managed deployment" model in collaboration with local cable operators, providing users with high-speed, low-cost internet access services. From March to April, its cumulative data consumption surged to 8000 TB, achieving a 2x growth; during the same period, device sales increased by 29%, further expanding the network scale.

Helium Mobile

Helium Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator under the Helium network, which combines community-deployed Wi-Fi hotspots with cellular base stations from partner operators to provide users with low-cost mobile data and voice services.

After Helium Mobile opened its free mobile plan to all users, new subscription users surged by 125%, reaching 36,000, setting a new historical high. Correspondingly, Helium Mobile's revenue hit a record $250,000. The monthly revenue measured by data point destruction increased by 34%, reaching a new high of $250,000, of which data offloading accounted for 79%.

(Note: When users are using a mobile network, some of the traffic is "offloaded" to the hotspots of the Helium network for transmission and billing, and this part of the traffic is called "offload data" - that is, "offloaded data volume" or "data offload traffic")

In addition, Helium Mobile's average daily unsubscription volume increased by 65%, and the unsubscription data volume grew 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, stabilizing at around 75,000 active contributors.

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 volume increasing by 16%, marking a steady upward trend in data offloading for XNET over the past 8 months. Furthermore, despite a 6% decrease 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, with the total number of protocol nodes approaching 4 million and the number of users nearing 3 million. Although the monthly user sign-in volume decreased by 19%, the cumulative sign-in count has exceeded 300 million, demonstrating 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

Hivello, as a DePIN aggregation platform, is used to monetize idle resources. The online duration in April 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, focusing on providing a distributed computing power market for AI inference workloads. In April, the job completion volume of Nosana (every time an AI client submits an inference request in the Nosana network, the network will allocate that request to one or more GPU nodes for execution. The entire process from the start of computation to the return of results is referred to as a "job") saw a slight increase along with contributor rewards, while the GPU nodes remained stable; the newly launched Gaianet AI collaboration project allows AI agents to run on Nosana's infrastructure or promote job growth.

Sallar.io

Sallar is a platform that builds distributed computing nodes by connecting the idle computing power of devices such as smartphones to the network, thereby supporting high-performance computing needs. In April, Sallar's dollar rewards increased by 27% month-on-month. As a protocol for sharing device computing power to complete AI tasks, the dollar rewards in April rose to $11,800, with the number of active wallets remaining stable.

Grass

Grass provides a foundational data source 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 historic high of 34.5 million GB.

Wingbits

Wingbits is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) project based on the Solana blockchain, which collects real-time data from aircraft such as airplanes, helicopters, and drones through ADS-B hardware deployed by global users, and uploads this data to the blockchain in exchange for native token rewards. Since November 2024, the number of tracked flights on the Wingbits network has increased to 150,000, and daily data points collected have risen to 9 billion, representing increases of 7% and 29%, respectively; the number of contribution sites has also increased by 43%, reaching 3,000.

Hivemapper

Hivemapper is a decentralized mapping network where users collect street-level images through dashcams to earn HONEY token rewards. The team continues to iterate on the product side, and 20-30% of the monthly Beekeeper platform fees will be used to burn $HONEY, which will further promote growth.

Hivemapper's monthly mapping mileage remained stable in April, and its AI-driven platform Beekeeper for fleet management officially launched that month, which will 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

The NATIX Network aims to collect 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. Participants can earn token rewards for data contributions. The ecosystem remained stable in April, with user-driven mileage sustaining at 11 million kilometers for the third consecutive month.

Sourceful Energy

Sourceful Energy focuses on decentralized virtual power plants (VPP), connecting distributed energy resources (such as solar panels, electric vehicles, and energy storage batteries) for residential and commercial use to the Solana blockchain network. Participants who contribute electricity or data can receive token incentives. In April, Sourceful Energy's electricity output grew by 30%, and with the newly launched Zap smart energy efficiency analysis devices receiving 500 pre-orders, the growth trend is expected to continue.

AmbiosNetwork

Ambios Network has built the world's largest environmental monitoring DePIN by deploying low-cost air quality and environmental sensors to provide real-time, hyper-localized environmental data that supports businesses, AI, and public services. Sensor owners can receive token rewards. In April, Ambios Network's cumulative user ecosystem data sign-in exceeded 2 million times, with a 12% growth in ecosystem data sign-ins; the total number of platform users increased to 45,000, a year-on-year growth of 2%.