#051 - Ready For The DePIN 100? Meet Verified 2.0 ⚖️

Welcome back to the DePIN Hub Newsletter, your bi-weekly EpiPen for FUD-induced paralysis 💉

Credit scores changed finance. Risk frameworks changed DeFi.

Now, it’s DePIN’s turn. ⚖️

This week, we announce Verified 2.0 — our upgrade from Verified Projects!

We’re here to build the foundation for the first-ever DePIN 100. Will you join us?

🔍 Inside this must-read issue:

• Verified 2.0 is here — Discover what it means for you, and how projects can finally prove they’re the real deal. ⚖️
• Giveaway season begins! — we’re dropping a series of exclusive rewards over the next few weeks to celebrate the Verified 2.0 launch. Starting today. 🎁
• New podcast drop 🎙️ — we sat down with Aethir to talk about Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs), the next big wave alongside DePIN, AI, and robotics!

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We Are Celebrating Verified 2.0 With A New Giveaway Series

To celebrate the launch of Verified 2.0, we’re starting a new wave of community giveaways — and this first one’s powered by Acurast and Mawari.

Climb the DePIN Hub Leaderboard beginning today for a chance to earn real rewards from TWO Verified projects! 👀

🏆 Top 20 users will receive special Acurast Discord roles, granting 100 MIST/day and eligibility for their upcoming airdrop.

How to join?

1️⃣ Log into your DePIN Hub Profile

2️⃣ Head to Earn! and start checking in daily

3️⃣ Complete more quests to climb higher on the leaderboard

We plan take a snapshot of the leaderboard around Nov 15 (UTC) and contact winners directly with claiming instructions.

This campaign celebrates the community that makes DePIN real — showing up, staying active and powering the networks that deliver.

Winners will be selected from verified DePIN Hub accounts only. Please make sure your Profile is connected and active on Earn! before the deadline. One prize per account.

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Ready For The DePIN 100? Meet Verified 2.0 ⚖️

TL;DR: DeFi had L2Beat. Finance had the S&P.

DePIN now has Verified 2.0 — the standard for proving who’s real, who’s scaling, and who’s next.

Crypto’s been around for over a decade. Yet one of the top-searched phrases today is still “How do I know if a project’s legit?”

And honestly, fair question.

After years of speculation and vaporware, DePIN has become crypto’s reality check — a sector where value is tied to physical infrastructure that has to work.

That’s why we built Verified Projects. And now, it’s getting its biggest upgrade yet.

Pause. Why does verification even matter in DePIN?

DePIN is booming. Messari lists the sector at $50B and growing toward $3.5T by 2028. But growth without clarity can get messy fast.

For every Helium or GEODNET actually building networks, there are dozens of projects making bold claims with little proof. Investors, builders, and communities all face the same problem: noise.

Traditional finance solved this decades ago — with credit ratings and benchmarks that separated innovation from illusion. DeFi eventually followed suit with frameworks like EEA.

Now, DePIN’s getting its own version of that logic!

Enter Verified 2.0!

Verified Projects started as a framework for transparency, assessing DePINs across eight critical categories.

It worked. Sixteen projects have earned the Verified badge so far, each setting the bar for credible DePIN growth.

But a static badge isn’t enough anymore.Verification has to evolve with the ecosystem.

That’s why we’re launching Verified 2.0 — a living system that tracks progress, not just records it.

Purple and Gold as The Trust Ladder

Verification is no longer one-size-fits-all.

🟣 Purple Verification recognizes early-stage builders already proving themselves in the field.

🟡 Gold Verification is for DePINs scaling to the next level — networks with live deployments and mature economics.

Together, they form the Trust Ladder, a roadmap to what we call The DePIN 100: a living index capturing where every credible DePIN stands.

Beyond the badge

Verification doesn’t end with a sticker.

Behind it is the Verified Partner Network — vetted experts offering everything from liquidity support to audits and storytelling. Projects gain trusted partners, discounted services, and strategic intros that help them grow faster!

And we’re taking it GLOBAL. Through alliances like SEA DePIN, Verified Projects will soon gain visibility across Asia and other emerging hubs, pushing DePIN’s standard of trust into the mainstream.

Come shape Verified 2.0!

Everything you’ve just read is in motion.But it’s still evolving, and we want your fingerprints on it.

Projects, are you ready to get your own verification started? Learn more about our process and apply directly at https://depinhub.io/verified.

For our community, tell us what trust means to you. Join the conversation on Discord and help shape how Verified 2.0 measures real-world impact.

DePIN’s future is about to scale. And it’s gonna be Verified.

In the full blog, you'll be reading about:

• Our new Verified Projects 2.0, now upgraded to serve you — and the entire DePIN ecosystem — better than ever.
• What features Verified 2.0 will come with, including the new trust ladder (Purple and Gold tiers), the Verified Partner Network, and the roadmap to the future DePIN 100.
• Why this matters to both projects and the community, and how Verified creates a flywheel that helps everyone in the space grow in the right direction.
• How traditional finance built its trust systems — and how DePIN is finally getting its own version of that proof!

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Congrats to Our Beamable NFT Winners! 🏆

Our live AMA with Beamable was a hit!

Community members have officially minted their exclusive NFTs, each worth 350 $BMB claimable at TGE!

Another campaign wrapped with huge turnout, and even bigger energy from the DePIN Hub fam. 🚀

Care to join the next one?

Inside Aethir’s $300M Moment 🎙️

What does it look like when Web3 infrastructure starts speaking Wall Street’s language? 👀

In our latest DePIN Hub podcast, Daniel sat down with Mark Rydon of Aethir to unpack the scale behind one of DePIN’s fastest-growing networks — and the launch of its new Digital Asset Treasury (DAT), a first-of-its-kind bridge between institutional capital and decentralized compute.

From $160M ARR and 500,000 GPUs across 93 countries to a model that turns tokenomics into real-world cash flow, this conversation breaks down how Aethir is rewriting what “revenue-backed” actually means in crypto!

Parting Words 👋

Without standards, they all look the same 🤷‍♀️