Helium community, which launched its mainnet in 2020, is a notable early instance of a community-driven wi-fi community that rewarded its citizen-network-suppliers considerably whereas decreasing prices and rising accessibility for customers (in sure geographies anyway). Its Helium Cell providing, whereas nonetheless augmented by TMobile, continues gaining traction and was just lately cited to have 335,000 subscribers. Many are additionally conversant in early decentralized storage networks reminiscent of Filecoin, Storj, and Arweave, which have gotten extra important to the development of AI attributable to their scalability, value effectivity, and decentralization.
