One of DePIN’s longest-running projects is entering a brand new era.

After seven years of building and over 10 million nodes online, XYO is no longer just an oracle network. It’s becoming a blockchain — with XYOL1 as its foundation, XL1 as its execution layer, and a Token Generation Event (TGE) that lets anyone join the next phase.

So dust off your history books; we’re here to tour you through DePIN’s next Mount Rushmore. 🏔

By the end, you’ll see why this moment is carving its place in history, and how you can be part of it before the crowds show up… 🤼

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

🚀 How XYO leveled up — from NFC tags and the COIN app to a full-blown blockchain with 10M+ nodes
🔑 The new dual-token setup — why $XYO and $XL1 are both essential, and how staking ties them together
📅 What the TGE means for you — and how to get in on XYO’s biggest milestone yet

What is XYO? What are Oracles in the blockchain?

Blockchains are powerful, but they can’t see the real world on their own.

That’s where oracles come in: systems that bring off-chain information onto blockchains so it can be used in programs, agreements, and decentralized applications.

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Example: If you buy flight delay insurance, the smart contract itself doesn’t know whether your plane was late. An oracle supplies the verified flight data, which then triggers the payout automatically.

Other DePIN projects have shown how impactful this can be in different domains. Silencio, for instance, has built one of the world’s fastest-growing decentralized noise-mapping networks, collecting billions of data points from more than half a million contributors across 190 countries.

Silencio App metrics last year, shared by their team on X!

Their success demonstrates how oracles can unlock entirely new categories of real-world data!

XYO can process virtually any type of data for the use of partnered projects, but are leading experts in a critical type of data: real-world verification. Since 2018, the project has built a decentralized physical infrastructure network with more than 10 million nodes to date.

Making it among the largest DePINs ever built.

Instead of relying on one company’s servers, XYO uses cryptographic techniques (like its proprietary Proof of Location and Proof of Origin) to turn messy real-world signals into verified, tamper-resistant data.

Independent nodes cross-check claims against one another (a process XYO calls a bound witness), filtering out bad reports and reaching trustless consensus on what actually happened.

What this looks like in our actual world:

Got an Amazon package? 📦

“Delivered” doesn’t just mean the driver clicked a button → nearby devices can prove your package really hit the doorstep.

Reckless drivers piss me off! 🚗

Forget “he said, she said” after a fender bender. Location pings tell the REAL story.

I SAID, take me to the nearest grocery, Siri… 🗺

Training models on real signals instead of messy guesses — think maps that actually know where the road is, not where someone thinks it is.

That’s the point of XYO: making the messy real world trustworthy enough for machines and people to act on.

A quick overview of XYO’s suite of products (that you can already earn from right now!)

The entire XYO ecosystem is actually built around two interconnected product families:

COIN App

It’s the app that makes contributing to XYO feel like second nature. 🌍

Walk around, check in, do little tasks — your phone’s basically mining location truth while you live your life. In return, you earn COIN, the rewards token that’s pulled millions of people into Web3 without them even realizing they were “doing crypto.”

The DePIN XYO itself

A set of tools and protocols that process large amounts of real-world data!

It’s built for use cases like AI, asset tracking, mapping, and other services that need information they can actually trust.

Within these suites are key components:

SentinelX NFC

These little cards (literally credit-card sized!) are location truth checkpoints. Tap into the network, and they confirm whether an item or person was really in a spot by cross-checking signals against nearby nodes. The payoff? Boosted rewards for the extra data validation.

Best part — no batteries, no charging, just pure plug-and-play proof.

XYO Layer One

Launched last Tuesday, XYOL1 is the blockchain backbone built for data verification at scale. Think of it as a massive toolkit for accuracy, engineered by the team that’s been scaling real-world data for years. What started as infrastructure to solve XYO’s own needs has now become a decentralized solution ready for any project that needs serious, trusted data.

Two tokens, both awesome!

XYO token → Live since March 2018, it anchors governance, staking, and participation in XYOL1. Most COIN users know it well; over 95% choose to redeem in $XYO, making it the heartbeat of XYO’s DePIN.
XL1 → Born Tuesday with XYOL1 itself. It powers transactions, contracts, and all on-chain activity. While $XYO has a fixed supply, $XL1 flexes: network activity triggers automated burns, keeping supply balanced.

Together they form XYO’s dual-token ecosystem! Two tokens, two roles, one system that can’t function without both.

🔹 A full DePIN cycle, by the way!

COIN gathers contributions from individuals.

XYO processes and secures that data into something meaningful.

XYOL1 scales it all on-chain — transparent, verifiable, unstoppable.

A Peek Behind the Minds of XYO

How does a DePIN with this scale and maturity come to be?

XYO’s dev team, enjoying brunch in San Diego! | via: @arietrouw on X

For XYO, the story began in 2018 with a mission to solve one of blockchain’s hardest problems: how do you trust real-world data?

Their roots go back to 2012 with XY Findables, Bluetooth and GPS-powered trackers designed for everyday use. By 2017, over a million devices were in circulation.

In 2018, the team gave a live demo of what became XYO’s core breakthrough: bound witness. Two devices met in real life, recorded that event and stored it on-chain as proof. That demo seeded what would become one of the oldest DePINs.

The mission hasn’t changed: making the physical world’s data trustworthy, usable, and verifiable. Today, that mission just scales bigger — with its own blockchain.

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We interviewed the XYO team for a look into their journey to get to where they are now. Below is an excerpt!

Q: What has kept you building for years, long before “DePIN” was even a category?

A: The motivation has always been the same: blockchains cannot reach their full potential without trusted data from the physical world. That insight guided us from the beginning and gave us conviction to keep building through every cycle, even some of the worst bear markets in crypto history. We saw location, origin, and verification as problems that needed decentralized solutions, even when the industry did not yet have a name for that work. The term DePIN came later, but XYO had already proven that a decentralized physical infrastructure network could exist and grow. That belief has been the anchor that carried us forward.

XYO Layer One and the Dual-Token System

A Blockchain for Real-World Truth

Ethereum was built for DeFi. Solana for speed. Filecoin for storage.

XYOL1 is built for trust in real-world data.

It runs on a hybrid consensus model: Proof-of-Stake, Proof of Participation, and XYO’s own Proof of Perfect. This last piece ranks data by accuracy, so the best signals rise above noise. Combined with features like Lookback Windows and Step Hashes, XYOL1 is optimized not for “fastest blocks per second,” but for scaling verified information at global levels.

And while geospatial data is its native territory, XYOL1 is general-purpose. Developers can launch dApps and smart contracts just like on any other L1 — except here, they’re building in an environment tuned for real-world oracle data.

Translation: XYOL1 is the first chain where data truth, not just speed, is the default setting.

Explaining The Dual-Token System

With XYOL1, XYO shifts to a dual-token model that ties its history to its future:

$XYO (the veteran) → Fixed-supply ERC-20. Governance and staking asset since 2018. Stake it to help secure XYOL1.
$XL1 (the newcomer) → Native to XYOL1. Utility + reward token: pays gas, runs smart contracts, and rewards validators.

The relationship is simple: stake $XYO → earn $XL1.

Two staking paths exist:

Node Staking → Higher rewards, but with slashing risk.
System Staking → Safer pooled option with no slashing, open to anyone.

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Start staking now and secure your place in XYO’s next chapter: xyo.network/staking

The Blockchain Launch and TGE

How to join the next chapter?

XYO is launching XYOL1 mainnet and holding a Token Generation Event (TGE) for $XL1.

Here’s what it means in plain terms:

If you already hold $XYO → stake it to earn $XL1.
If you’re new → track $XL1 entry points once the TGE is live.

Participation comes in two flavors: node staking for active operators, or system staking for anyone who just wants to contribute without running hardware.

This isn’t just another token launch. It’s one of DePIN’s oldest projects — 7+ years, 10M+ nodes, $10M+ paid out to contributors — now entering its blockchain era.

The launch of XYO Layer One and the debut of XL1 mark the evolution of the original DePIN into a blockchain ecosystem built for trusted data at scale.

What began with tokens, apps, and devices has grown into infrastructure where anyone can participate by staking XYO, earning XL1, and building on a chain designed for real-world information.

If you already hold XYO, staking is your path into this new era. If you are new to the ecosystem, this is the entry point into a network that has been proving itself for years and is now opening the door to its most ambitious chapter yet.

Learn more and get involved:

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