Solana DePIN sector's income hit a new high in April, with major projects performing impressively.

The Solana ecosystem's DePIN sector delivered an impressive performance in April. Data shows that the total revenue for the month reached $458,000, a year-on-year increase of 33%, marking the highest level so far this year. This gratifying growth is primarily attributed to the steady development of core projects such as Helium, Render, Hivemapper, and XNET.

Despite record high revenues, the number of active contributors to the DePIN protocol has slightly declined. The total number of active contributors from major projects such as Helium, Hivemapper, Nosana, Render, Sallar, Sourceful, and XNET remains at around 87,000.

It is worth noting that in April 2025, the number of contributors to small DePIN protocols showed significant growth, 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.

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

Dabba Network

As a DePIN project focused on the Indian market, Dabba Network utilizes a "managed deployment" model in collaboration with local cable operators to deploy Wi-Fi hotspots across India, providing users with high-speed, low-cost internet access services. During the period from March to April, its cumulative data consumption increased by 200%, reaching 8000 TB; simultaneously, device sales grew 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 with 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 saw a surge of 125% in new subscribers, reaching a record high of 36,000 users. Correspondingly, its revenue for the month also set a new record of $250,000. The revenue measured by data credits burned increased by 34%, with data offloading accounting for as much as 79%.

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

It is worth mentioning that since 2025, the overall number of active contributors to Helium has shown a slight downward trend and has currently stabilized 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 offloading volume increasing by 16%, marking that XNET has maintained a steady upward trend in data offloading 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, 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 nodes in the protocol close to 4 million, and the number of users close to 3 million. Although the monthly user check-in volume decreased by 19%, the cumulative check-in count has exceeded 300 million, demonstrating that user engagement 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 broadcasts, with a total duration of 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. 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 saw a slight increase along with contributor rewards, while 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 idle computing power from 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, reaching $11,800, while the number of active wallets remained stable.

Grass

Grass connects the idle internet bandwidth of user devices 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, totaling 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 users globally. 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 map network where users collect street-level images using dashcams to earn token rewards. In April, Hivemapper's monthly mapping mileage remained stable, and its AI-driven platform for fleet management, Beekeeper, 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

NATIX Network aims to collect street view and geographic data through smartphones and dedicated devices, providing high-precision positioning and imaging support for mapping, 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, integrating distributed energy resources into the Solana blockchain network. In April, Sourceful Energy's power output increased by 30%, and with the new Zap smart energy efficiency analysis device receiving 500 bookings, this growth trend is expected to continue.

AmbiosNetwork

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