Opinion: Yanal M. Hammouda, head of market expansion at Wingbit
The Decentral Physical Infrastructure Network (DePin) has witnessed $ 150 million of capital flow during the first quarter of 2025, with the expected market size of 3.5 trillion dollars by 2028. However, the most important development is not the capital that was raised but as these networks operate.
Emerging markets such as the Middle East, Southeast Asia and South America – instead of Silicon Valley – lead the future of DePin adoption.
The Depin and Blockchain market dynamics prefer areas with gaps in infrastructure and progressive Web3 regulations. DePin groups flourish as traditional infrastructure has failed, when residents are forced to find community -based solutions instead. DePin investors and builders should search for these market conditions outside the United States.
Dib sand boxes
The historical success of Silicon Valley in Web2 is equipped with historical regulations such as Section 230 and the Publishing Rights Law for digital millennium. However, in WEB3, the United States this year only submitted a genius law, and the White House digital asset report was the first federal recognition of the value generated by DePin. While the United States has just started a DePin trip, the prospective ecosystems in other places show that their success depends on organizational clarity.
Dubai The regulatory authority of virtual assets (VARA)It was established in 2022, creates specific sand boxes for Web3 infrastructure projects. The Monetary Authority in Singapore (MAS) is actively supporting the world’s realistic assets through initiatives such as Project Guardian and Singapore Blockchain Innovation.
Meanwhile, the country’s regulatory box is clearly determined by Blockchain experimentation parameters.
In South Korea, the giant telecommunications company LG U+ was Blockchain -based border -based boundaries experience Since 2018, he could have faced years of approval under the rules of the US Federal Communications Committee. The country witnessed 15 % growth on an annual basis in the number of Blockchain service providers in 2023.
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Vietnam Blockchain National StrategyIt was launched in late 2024, explicitly provides the legal clarity of Blockchain applications in financing, logistics, agriculture and data management. The government is currently experimenting with its NDACHAIN platform, which is the National Blockchain that aims to strengthen e -government and the digital economy while identifying the decentralized identity of citizens.
Deeper pockets for DePin projects
While the Gulf region still gets 24 % of $ 368 billion in global investment capital financing in 2024, Blockchain real capital flows elsewhere.
The third United Arab Emirates (the United States comes in fourth place) in the Henley Crypto accreditation index, which establishes the encryption currency and the integration of Blockchain across countries. With up to 7100 million new millionaires that are expected to flow to Dubai in 2025, the expatriate community in the Gulf – with its highly available income and bullish stances towards emerging technologies such as DePin – continues to grow.
Abu Dhabi $ 500 million Digital Energy Infrastructure Fund Specifically targets “Blockchain, DePin, AI, Cloud, Cloud and other calculations applications” in its investment thesis. The United Arab Emirates appears as a pioneer in the WEB3 space by placing the motor force behind the DePin applications in the sectors in which the traditional infrastructure has failed to keep pace with the demand.
State funds in Singapore, Timassic and the government of Singapore Investment Company (GIC), focused on the infrastructure infrastructure infrastructure outside traditional technology centers. In recent years, GIC $ 70 million has invested at the Hong Kong -based BC Group, the parent company of Crypto Exchange OSL.
In comparison, Temasek led a $ 110 million financing round in Hong Kong, its headquarters Animoca brandsThe Blockchain investment company is highlighted in Asia. Sovereign wealth funds are a strategy for a future based on digital infrastructure.
Building necessities on luxuries
The New York and Silicon Valley were once celebrated as the only places to expand the web3 product useful. Not anymore.
Although most of the 380,000 decentralized hotspots are still present within the United States, new publishing operations quickly expand user coverage in Southeast Asia and South America.
During the helium pilots in Mexico, the average number of subscribers in the wireless telecommunications company was 390 MB, or seven hours of web browsing, from daily data on the helium network, indicating how DePin can solve real communication challenges.
The Depin Builders and businessmen’s message is clear: a design for users who need your infrastructure, and not those who may find interesting at the Palu Alto Café. For investors, the opportunity to identify projects that solve real problems in markets with increased and increasing adoption. Politics makers can facilitate this using the frameworks that accommodate new Blockchain projects instead of trying to force them to get strict categories.
In Asia, the mobile revolution for the year 2010 has led in response to a loss on the desktop, and the creation of giants such as WeChat, Gojeck and Kakao, which now makes those markets close to the silicon Valley. Countries like the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Singapore are now providing similar progress in this long -term market, and web3 companies must pay attention to what this will mean within five to 10 years.
Opinion: Yanal M. Hamadad, head of market expansion at Wingbit.
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