Your Wallet Stops Working Without Internet 📡
Self custody is supposed to mean nobody can stop you moving your own money, and that holds right up until the network is gone.
There were 313 internet shutdowns across 52 countries last year, more than the year before, and the coalition counting them reported that no single day of 2025 passed without one somewhere.
$HNT is one answer to that gap, with more than 113,000 community hotspots and Helium Mobile past 500,000 sign ups on $SOL where that coverage gets built by people instead of carriers, which is what DePIN was supposed to be for.
Mesh is the other answer, where phones hand a message device to device until it reaches something connected, and it needs no infrastructure at all.
The catch is that every hop belongs to a stranger, so whatever gets relayed can be read by whoever relays it, which is tolerable for a group chat and not for a payment.
Anonmesh is one of the teams on Arcium's ecosystem page, building an offline Bluetooth mesh for Solana transactions and messaging.
The layer it builds on splits a computation into fragments across a cluster of nodes, no single node holds a readable copy of the input, and the correct result still comes back.
Whatever finally reaches the network settles on Solana as an ordinary public transaction, so the chain records a normal transfer without any record of how many phones it crossed.
Arcium's compute layer has been live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2, with more than 2.5 million computations run so far.
Money that only works while the network is up is less sovereign than it sounds, and the projects worth tracking are the ones still working on the days it goes down.
#DePIN #Solana
Self custody is supposed to mean nobody can stop you moving your own money, and that holds right up until the network is gone.
There were 313 internet shutdowns across 52 countries last year, more than the year before, and the coalition counting them reported that no single day of 2025 passed without one somewhere.
$HNT is one answer to that gap, with more than 113,000 community hotspots and Helium Mobile past 500,000 sign ups on $SOL where that coverage gets built by people instead of carriers, which is what DePIN was supposed to be for.
Mesh is the other answer, where phones hand a message device to device until it reaches something connected, and it needs no infrastructure at all.
The catch is that every hop belongs to a stranger, so whatever gets relayed can be read by whoever relays it, which is tolerable for a group chat and not for a payment.
Anonmesh is one of the teams on Arcium's ecosystem page, building an offline Bluetooth mesh for Solana transactions and messaging.
The layer it builds on splits a computation into fragments across a cluster of nodes, no single node holds a readable copy of the input, and the correct result still comes back.
Whatever finally reaches the network settles on Solana as an ordinary public transaction, so the chain records a normal transfer without any record of how many phones it crossed.
Arcium's compute layer has been live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2, with more than 2.5 million computations run so far.
Money that only works while the network is up is less sovereign than it sounds, and the projects worth tracking are the ones still working on the days it goes down.
#DePIN #Solana
