Decentralize what is abundant and idle
DePIN: Hype or the Next Trillion-Dollar Market? - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2025 (TOKEN2049)
“DePIN shines when it mirrors its own design — like countless small parts, like trees in a forest or neurons in a brain… fragmented assets like GPUs or rooftop solar or Wi-Fi routers or city sensors… the line is simple: decentralize what is abundant and idle, and centralize what is scarce and indivisible.” — 00:14:42
Context: His answer to “when does DePIN make sense”: tokens are “the protocol layer that reduces entropy”; nuclear plants, hydro dams and submarine cables should stay centralized. (Quote begins at the end of the [00:13:58] block.)