The urgent need for DePIN.

Opinion by: Carlos Lei, co-founder and CEO of Uplink

Seeing Spain, Portugal, and France go dark recently? Sure, millions lost power. It was a connectivity collapse, showing just how brittle communication lifelines become when the power dies.

Don’t think for a second this is just a European problem. The same script plays out all over. South Africa’s endless power woes. Pakistan’s massive blackout in 2023. Then there was that crazy Texas freeze in 2021. Another time, locals in Houston melted snow off their roofs into buckets just to flush toilets for an…