Solana DePIN Ecosystem Revenue Reaches All-Time High, April Major Project Performance Analysis

The DePIN track in the Solana ecosystem achieved its best performance of the year in April, with monthly total revenue reaching $458,000, a year-on-year increase of 33%. This growth is mainly attributed to the stable development of projects such as Helium, Render, Hivemapper, and XNET.

However, the number of active contributors to the DePIN protocol has slightly decreased. Projects such as Helium, Hivemapper, Nosana, Render, Sallar, Sourceful, and XNET together maintain approximately 87,000 active contributors.

It is worth noting that in April 2025, the number of contributors to small DePIN protocols significantly increased, with Nosana's growth rate exceeding 100%. In contrast, the number of contributors to larger protocols like Helium and Hivemapper remained stable or slightly declined.

The following is a review of the performance of major DePIN projects in April:

Dabba Network

Dabba Network is a DePIN project exclusive to the Indian market based on Solana. 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, its cumulative data consumption doubled to 8000 TB; 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, combining community-deployed Wi-Fi hotspots with cellular base stations from partner operators to provide users with low-cost mobile data and voice services.

In April, after Helium Mobile opened free mobile plans to all users, new subscription users surged by 125%, reaching 36,000, setting a new historical high. Revenue for the month grew by 34%, reaching a new high of $250,000, of which data offloading accounted for 79%.

In addition, Helium Mobile's average daily uninstall subscription volume has increased by 65%, and the uninstall data volume has grown by 32%, both setting new historical records.

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

XNET

XNET is a decentralized mobile network built on the Solana blockchain. In April, the data offload of XNET continued to grow, with an average daily offload volume increasing by 16%, marking that XNET has maintained a steady upward trend in data offload for 8 consecutive months. Despite a 6% decrease in rewards, the number of active contributors to XNET Mobile in April still rose by 6%, reaching 732, 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 volume decreased by 19%, the total number of check-ins has exceeded 300 million, showing 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. Within two months, Shaga achieved 4,500 interactive game live streams, 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. In April, the online duration doubled compared to March, and more nodes joined to contribute to the network.

Nosana

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

Sallar.io

Sallar is a platform that supports high-performance computing needs by connecting the idle computing power of devices such as smartphones to the network, forming distributed computing nodes. 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 connects user devices' idle internet bandwidth to the network, providing a foundational data source for AI training, data scraping, and proxy services, and rewards participants in the form of on-chain tokens. In April, Grass's data collection reached a historic high of 34.5 million GB.

Wingbits

Wingbits is a decentralized physical infrastructure network project based on the Solana blockchain, which 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, with daily data points collected rising 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 via dashcams 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, bringing new growth momentum as more fleets join. Since February, the number of active map contributors on 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 location and imaging support for map making, autonomous driving, and physical AI. The ecosystem remained stable in April, with user-driven mileage maintaining at 11 million kilometers for the third consecutive month.

Sourceful Energy

Sourceful Energy focuses on decentralized Virtual Power Plants (VPP) to connect household and commercial distributed energy resources to the Solana blockchain network. In April, Sourceful Energy's power output increased by 30%, and with the newly launched Zap smart energy efficiency analysis device receiving 500 pre-orders, the growth trend is expected to continue.

AmbiosNetwork

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