Decentralized smartphone APhone and Aethir have jointly launched a new scaling solution that promises to increase APhone’s user capacity by 10x and bring greater scalability to the decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) industry.
The new scaling solution will allow APhone to support over 800,000 concurrent daily users while reducing its monthly user cost from over $6 to less than $0.60 – a cost savings of over 90%.
According to William Paul Peckham, Aphone’s chief business officer, the significant cost savings were achieved through Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud computing network. He told Cointelegraph:
“(Aethir) has been able to reduce costs by streamlining operations and negotiating favorable deals with hardware manufacturers and data centers. Their technology allows them to virtualize and partition hardware without sacrificing capacity, allowing them to provide superior quality of service without requiring additional hardware.”
The new scaling solution will save over $3.2 million per quarter thanks to Aethir’s distributed GPU infrastructure.
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Aethir Edge AI, Powering Web3 Mobile Applications
As part of the strategic partnership, the decentralized smartphone will integrate Aethir Edge, an enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) device integrated into the platform’s cloud infrastructure.
Aethir Edge will play a key role in Aphone’s operating framework by improving the speed and efficiency of Web3 applications.
Aethir Edge hosts instances of APhone, ensuring low latency and smooth performance for resource-intensive decentralized applications (DApps) such as Web3 games or metaverse platforms.
According to Mark Lydon, Aethir co-founder and head of strategy, Aethir Edge will also improve security and network performance.
In a statement shared with Cointelegraph, Rydon wrote:
“By assigning a unique IP address to each cloud smartphone, Aethir Edge provides tremendous benefits to applications that require a unique network identity, such as gaming, IoT, and decentralized finance platforms.”
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The DePIN industry could reach $3.5 trillion by 2028.
DePIN is one of the fastest growing industries, with an estimated total addressable market size of over $2.2 trillion.
According to a report released by Messari in January 2023, the DePIN industry is expected to surpass $3.5 trillion by 2028, representing an increase of over $1.3 trillion.
According to APhone’s Peckham, that ambitious milestone could be reached within the next four years if appropriate regulatory and technological advances occur.
“Messari’s $3.5 trillion 2028 forecast is ambitious, but reaching that valuation will require regulatory developments, technological advancements, and widespread adoption across industries. DePIN is increasingly valuable for scaling enterprises by eliminating the costs of intermediaries while enhancing the security of the network.”
Others are also optimistic about the future of the industry. For example, Uplink co-founder and CEO Carlos Lei Santos predicts that the next trillion-dollar company will come from the DePIN sector.
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