A 2026 comparison of DePIN data API pricing across providers. We break down per-query costs, subscription tiers, and free credit structures so developers can estimate the real cost of powering their apps and agents.
New to decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN)? This guide explains what DePIN is, how the major networks work, and why supply data is the thing every developer needs to understand first.
Why verifiable data provenance matters for DeFi — how Bitcoin-anchored, Merkle-rooted data prevents manipulation, supports auditability, and lets on-chain applications trust off-chain telemetry.
Autonomous AI agents are starting to make real infrastructure decisions — where to run compute, which network to use, what to pay. That requires DePIN data they can trust. We explain the data requirements agents have and how verifiable supply data enables them.
Best practices for building on DePIN supply telemetry APIs — caching for freshness, verifying sources with verify_urls, normalizing units, and designing for agents. A practical checklist for production-ready integrations.
DePIN data API vs raw on-chain analytics — a practical comparison for developers. We break down freshness, coverage, provenance, and cost so you can choose the right data layer for dashboards, agents, and trading systems.
800 decentralized infrastructure networks cataloged, 327 carrying live data, every value traceable to its upstream source and Merkle-rooted to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps. The DePIN Intelligence API is now publicly available.
A developer tutorial for querying Filecoin storage capacity data via API — total and active storage, registered capacity, and utilization. Includes curl examples, unit normalization (PiB vs EiB), and verifiable sources.
How AI agents discover and use MCP servers in 2026 — discovery mechanisms, capability advertisement, and integration patterns. A practical guide for developers exposing DePIN data to autonomous agents via Model Context Protocol.
On 2026-08-17 our DePIN catalog held 745 entries; only 263 carried live data and 171 exposed first-party supply telemetry. We examine the 482 networks with no free public feed, argue why explicit null-coverage bounds outperform modeled estimates, and introduce the not_covered map as an epistemic boundary layer for DePIN research.
A systematic comparison of 31 DePIN networks that expose public API endpoints for supply telemetry. Which networks serve first-party data, which require on-chain reads, and which have no public feed at all. Our catalog, ranked by data accessibility.
DePIN token prices move fast, but valuation lives in the supply data underneath. We explain why circulating vs. total supply, utilization, and protocol fees matter more than the last price print — and how to source them verifiably.