{"id":406159,"date":"2025-09-25T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/depin-fees-hit-all-time-high-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:49:15","slug":"depin-fees-hit-all-time-high-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/depin-fees-hit-all-time-high-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"DePIN Fees Hit All-Time High &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Helium continues to lead the DePIN sector, gaining momentum from its partnership with the Solana Seeker phone.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) tokens have struggled so far in 2025, but activity in the sector continues to grow, pushing fees generated to all-time highs over the last month.<\/p>\n<p>The sector picked up in mid-August, boosted by a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/helium_mobile\/status\/1956401343796535765\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">partnership<\/a> between decentralized wireless provider Helium and the Solana Seeker mobile phone. As a result, Helium fee generation increased, lifting the relatively small sector\u2019s total metrics along with it. <\/p>\n<p>Over the last five weeks, Helium has generated between <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/app.artemisanalytics.com\/sectors?tab=depin\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">$330,000 and $370,000<\/a> per week in fees, accounting for roughly 60% of the market\u2019s average fee income.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">DePIN Fees &#8211; Artemis Terminal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Geonet, Akash Network, and Hivemapper are the next largest DePin protocols by fee income, accounting for a collective $181,000, or 32% of the total fees produced over the last week.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rising activity, DePIN project tokens have continued to do poorly. Leading DePIN coins from projects such as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/render\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Render<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/filecoin\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Filecoin<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/helium\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Helium<\/a> are all down between 40% and 70% over the last year, highlighting a stark disparity between product and token performance.<\/p>\n<figure><img alt=\"HNT Chart\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1168\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mx-auto\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 1600 1168'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/jpeg;base64,\/9j\/2wBDAAYEBQYFBAYGBQYHBwYIChAKCgkJChQODwwQFxQYGBcUFhYaHSUfGhsjHBYWICwgIyYnKSopGR8tMC0oMCUoKSj\/2wBDAQcHBwoIChMKChMoGhYaKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCj\/wAARCAAHAAoDASIAAhEBAxEB\/8QAFgABAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEI\/8QAGhAAAgIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIBAxEhIv\/EABUBAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB\/8QAFxEBAQEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQACEf\/aAAwDAQACEQMRAD8A1BUjVrPWSS+wChHXb\/\/Z'\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E\")\" srcset=\"\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.thedefiant.io%2Fpasted-1758749161166-png-3090f25d-fd8d-4c64-b4f3-4b320351551a.png&#038;w=1920&#038;q=100 1x, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.thedefiant.io%2Fpasted-1758749161166-png-3090f25d-fd8d-4c64-b4f3-4b320351551a.png&#038;w=3840&#038;q=100 2x\" src=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.thedefiant.io%2Fpasted-1758749161166-png-3090f25d-fd8d-4c64-b4f3-4b320351551a.png&#038;w=3840&#038;q=100\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">HNT Chart &#8211; CoinGecko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helium continues to lead the DePIN sector, gaining momentum from its partnership with the Solana Seeker phone. Decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) tokens have struggled so far in 2025, but activity in the sector continues to grow, pushing fees generated to all-time highs over the last month. The sector picked up in mid-August, boosted by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-406159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406161,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406159\/revisions\/406161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}