Welcome back to the DePIN Hub Newsletter, delivering privacy strong enough to bury even THOSE files 📶
Still paying for a VPN that slows down and gives you nothing back? Couldn’t be us. 🥱
This week, we’re unpacking dVPNs — the ones that actually gain speed with more users and throw rewards your way — with a closer look at how URNetwork may just be leading the charge.
🔍 Inside this must-read post:
- Why dVPNs are replacing legacy VPNs; and paying you to help do it 📶
- Welcoming our latest Verified Projects of the month ✅
- Our BIGGEST GIVEAWAY yet: a trip to Switzerland with free flights + hotel! ✈
DePIN Hub Leaderboards 🏅
Growth statistics of some standout DePIN projects based on social metrics and token price.
In the News 📰
🔔 Roam Network Introduces Upgraded Points Mechanism
🔔 Auki Labs is Revolutionizing Robot Distribution and Spatial Computing
🔔 XYO’s Token to be Listed on Kraken Exchange, Boosting Liquidity and Trading Activity
Verified Projects of September! ✅
Want to explore DePIN with absolute confidence?
This month, we’re welcoming 3 MORE Verified Projects into our ecosystem — URNetwork, ROVR, and Fluence. From dVPNs to permissionless compute platforms, each one is building something real and hard to fake.
If you want to know which DePINs are legit, start with DePIN Hub’s Verified Projects. It’s our filter for DePIN: surfacing what’s real, early, and full of opportunity; leaving the noise behind!
🎯 Building the real deal? Get your project DePIN Hub Verified on our site! →
Set a reminder for our upcoming X Spaces with Verified Projects!
1. Fluence - Fri, Sep 5 @ 12:00 AM UTC +8
2. AnyOne - Wed, Sep 10 @ 10:00 PM UTC +8
3. GEODNET - Wed, Sep 10 @ 12:30 AM UTC +8
Feature
The State of Decentralized VPNs (feat. URnetwork) 🕵️♀️
TL;DR: Decentralized VPNs are rewriting the rules of online privacy, and opening real earning opportunities along the way.
Come for the tech, stay for the part where your VPN starts paying you. 👀
If you’ve ever used a VPN, you already know the drill: flip the switch, hope your connection doesn’t crawl, and pray to every deity that the provider’s “no logs” claim is actually true.
Useful, sure — but not exactly future-proof. 🛡😓
Enter decentralized VPNs. These aren’t your dad’s sleazy VPN apps; they’re decentralized networks where privacy scales with participation, performance gets better as more people join, and yes: you can actually earn for helping power it!
That matters today, and it matters even more tomorrow when billions of AI agents are flooding the internet and demanding high-quality, private connections.
So who’s building this new layer of the internet?
You’ve probably heard names like Orchid, Mysterium, and Deeper. Each has made strides, but dVPNs are still figuring out the right balance of safety and scale.
A look at URNetwork, a privacy-first VPN 🌍
Here’s a DePIN project our team knows well, and may be worth paying attention to. 👀
Recently passing Verified Projects by DePIN Hub, URNetwork was designed from the ground up to be safe for both users and participants. That’s a big deal: earlier projects like Orchid struggled because running a node wasn’t safe enough to scale.
Here’s a quick peek at how URnetwork tackles this differently:
- Multi-hop, peer-to-peer architecture → privacy baked in
- Industry-low user-to-node ratio (~5:1) → fewer people crowding each node = faster, more reliable connections
- Performance auction protocol → traffic spreads automatically to avoid bottlenecks
💡 Honestly, from a user’s perspective, it feels refreshingly normal.
- A generous free tier (30GB/day)
- A simple $5/month premium option
But digging deeper, if real rewards matter to you just as much a quality connection, it gets even-freaking-better:
- Providers get weekly payouts in USDC
- Rewards come from real subscription revenue, not speculative tokens
- Low lift, high reward — the kind of opportunity DePIN was made for!
That’s what makes URNetwork stand out: it’s not just theory, it’s an actual working system where you can use it and earn from it. 💰
And URnetwork isn’t the only project pushing on privacy. AnyOne is another DePIN we’re watching closely, built on onion routing (the same protocol that powers TOR!) but with an incentivized twist: relay operators actually get rewarded for running the network, making censorship-resistant communication both sustainable and scalable.
Taken together, these projects are proof that privacy DePINs aren’t niche experiments anymore — they’re building the kind of infrastructure both humans and AI agents will rely on in the near future.
Decentralized VPNs are the natural next step: moving from “renting access” to “owning a piece of the network.” And URnetwork is shaping up to be one of the most promising examples in the field.
In the full blog, you’ll be reading about:
- How dVPNs actually get better (and ready for AI hordes) the more people pile in 🤯
- Why URnetwork is shaking things up with multi-hop privacy + weekly USDC 💸
- The quirks dVPNs still need to fix; and why that makes them fun to watch 👀
🎁 Our Biggest Giveaway Yet: Win a Zurich Trip! ✈
We’re raising the bar at Zurich’s Breaking DePIN event! 🚀
One lucky winner will score flights + 2 nights of hotels in Zurich, Switzerland — the heart of where DePIN is making history. 🏔️
This is your chance to join the builders, thinkers, and leaders of DePIN in person; and Trust Square is happy to cover your trip to get there!
How to Enter:
- Go to 👉 depinhub.io/earn
- Scroll down until you see the ✈️ plane GIF under Other Opportunities.
It’s the one you see on top!
- Click the GIF to enter the contest, and read the instructions carefully!
Zurich is calling. Will you answer? 👀
DePIN Hub Podcast 🎙️
💡 URnetwork is a decentralized VPN built for the next generation of internet users and AI agents. Their goal is to give you faster, safer connections by routing traffic through a global network of peers, letting anyone who participates earn rewards along the way.
🎧 Listen to our podcast with URNetwork!
Parting Words 👋
Centralized VPNs can’t hide forever 🔪
