This article analyzes the different performances of humanoid robots in fighting arenas from the perspective of decentralized cloud computing, combined with robots, AI models and algorithms.

The article explores the impact of decentralized cloud computing (DePIN) on humanoid robots' performance in fighting arenas, highlighting how blockchain technology is transforming traditional infrastructure into distributed, flexible, and cost-efficient systems.
Nova Labs' COO, Frank Mong, emphasized at Consensus 2025 that decentralized telecom networks offer economic benefits for both SMEs and large telecom companies, leveraging blockchain to decentralize resources like bandwidth and computing power.
DePIN enables individuals and small entities (e.g., coffee shops, home workstations) to contribute idle computing power, earning income while enhancing local computing availability, democratizing access previously dominated by large data centers.
Decentralized cloud computing outperforms traditional models in resource elasticity, cost efficiency, and anti-censorship, particularly for latency-sensitive tasks like AI training and edge computing, exemplified by 3A gaming without expensive hardware.
DePIN bridges Web3 with the real economy, embedding blockchain incentives into physical infrastructure (e.g., communications, storage), expanding participation to remote developers and users, and generating $7.1 billion in on-chain market value by April 2025.
Projects like Helium and Render have driven $6 million in on-chain revenue, showcasing DePIN's real-world applicability, with future growth expected as AI and public chain infrastructure mature.

At the Consensus 2025 conference held in Toronto, Canada recently, Frank Mong, COO of Nova Labs, the founding team of Helium Wireless Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN), said that decentralized infrastructure has economic benefits for both small and medium-sized enterprises and telecom giants, and the decentralization of telecommunications networks can benefit both small and medium-sized enterprises and large telecommunications companies economically.

Traditional Internet communication infrastructure such as communication networks, bandwidth storage, and operation computing are now making centralized resources distributed, flexible, cheap, and efficient with the help of blockchain. And with the gradual improvement of blockchain infrastructure (such as account abstraction, the popularization of ZK technology, etc.), DePIN is ushering in a booming trend.

Taking decentralized cloud computing power as an example, in the distributed computing power ecosystem running on the chain, whether it is a coffee shop, home workstation, convenience store, or individual developer, they can contribute local idle computing power resources and participate in the distributed computing network to earn income, while improving the computing power availability in their area. As an important force in promoting the transformation of digital infrastructure, individual entrepreneurs, small studios, and large technology companies will be able to find opportunities for economic incentives and resource optimization in this ecosystem.

In the DePIN era, computing power is no longer the exclusive asset of large data centers. Anyone with a stable network connection and certain computing resources can become a node operator of the cloud computing network.

The transformation of decentralized cloud computing power

Compared with traditional cloud computing services that are often concentrated in large-scale data centers controlled by a few major vendors, decentralized cloud computing networks have higher resource elasticity, lower marginal costs, and stronger anti-censorship capabilities. In the context of Web3, this network architecture is particularly suitable for processing tasks that are sensitive to latency or require distributed resource collaboration, such as generative AI training, edge computing, and graphics rendering.

Taking the most common scenario of playing 3A games that requires high-performance hosts and graphics cards as an example, decentralized cloud computing power aggregates the idle computing power resources of large and medium-sized enterprises through the concept of "computing power sharing", and uses the distributed computing power nodes based on the blockchain to perform edge computing, thereby bringing players computing performance that is not inferior to traditional cloud computing power.

In the traditional model, players need to buy high-performance hosts, graphics cards and other expensive equipment to play 3A games. With the decentralized cloud computing power ecosystem, users no longer need to purchase extra equipment. They only need to connect to the computing power ecosystem to enjoy high-performance, low-latency computing power resources and be charged on time.

Not just the price of the currency

Web3 has always been known for its practical applications such as on-chain finance and voting. DePIN represents an important direction for blockchain to move from finance to the real economy. It embeds blockchain native mechanisms (incentive distribution, consensus verification) into real resource networks, such as communications, electricity, storage and computing power, to bridge the digital world with the real world. For the first time, developers, device owners, and ordinary users in remote areas have the opportunity to participate and benefit from it.

Web3 is no longer just about coins, but about how to reconstruct the infrastructure itself with incentive mechanisms. DePIN is also continuing to demonstrate how blockchain technology can create value in the real world, making existing infrastructure more resilient in the face of downtime, interruptions, censorship or serious failures.

As of April 2025, the total on-chain market value of global DePIN projects (excluding independent project L1/chain) has reached US$7.1 billion, mainly distributed in five major fields such as computing, wireless, sensors, servers, and AI. Projects such as Helium, Render, and Hivemapper have generated nearly US$6 million in on-chain network revenue, revealing the fit between DePIN projects and the real product market.

In the future, with the improvement of public chain infrastructure and the completion of AI technology, DePIN may be even more powerful, further providing market demand and expanding its market share.

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