Solana’s Natix and Grab Forge DePIN Mapping Alliance—US and Europe Next Targets

Solana’s mapping upstart Natix just inked a deal with Grab to turbocharge its decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN). The play? Blanket the US and Europe with crowdsourced geodata—because apparently, Silicon Valley’s ’move fast and break things’ wasn’t chaotic enough.

Grab’s mobility data meets Natix’s blockchain-backed mapping in a classic case of ’we have AI cameras everywhere anyway—might as well tokenize it.’ The partnership sidesteps traditional cartography giants by incentivizing users to upload real-time street-level imagery—paid in crypto, naturally.

Watch for regulators to start hyperventilating by Q3. Meanwhile, Wall Street analysts will pretend to understand DePIN’s tokenomics while quietly shorting the mapmakers they funded in 2021.