You’ve probably heard people talk about “DePIN” the way they once talked about “mining crypto in your garage” — it sounds technical, people throw around buzzwords like hotspots and infrastructure, and almost nobody explains what it means in plain language. This edition changes that.
Crypto 101 is an educational series designed to make complex blockchain and decentralized infrastructure ideas feel approachable. Each edition takes one topic, breaks it down from first principles, and then shows how it comes to life in the Nodle ecosystem.
In edition 13, we look at Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks — DePIN for short. These are networks where real‑world infrastructure like connectivity, storage, or sensors is built and maintained by everyday participants, coordinated and rewarded through tokens on a blockchain. We’ll zoom in on a simple but powerful question: do you need to buy special hardware to join, or can you participate with the smartphone you already own?
Along the way, we’ll see why a lot of DePIN projects quietly re‑introduce a hardware gatekeeper, and how Nodle takes a different path by turning billions of smartphones into a decentralized wireless and sensor network. In other words: from “buy a box and hope it pays off” to “install an app and you’re in.”
Let’s start at the beginning.
Learn about DePIN, the Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network, and its potential to change the digital landscape. Our blog post delves into how blockchain development is integral to DePIN's framework.
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, or DePINs, use blockchains to coordinate the build‑out and operation of real‑world infrastructure such as connectivity, storage, compute, and sensors. Instead of one company owning the towers, servers, or devices, communities contribute resources and earn tokens for the value they provide.
Analysts often distinguish between Physical Resource Networks (PRNs), which rely on location‑bound hardware like antennas, energy devices, or sensors, and Digital Resource Networks (DRNs), which provide fungible digital resources such as compute or storage. Within this, several categories dominate today: wireless networks that crowdsource connectivity, compute networks that pool CPUs and GPUs, sensor networks that collect real‑world data, storage networks that decentralize cloud storage, and energy networks that coordinate distributed renewables.
On paper, this is a story of empowerment and inclusion. In practice, one design choice often decides who can really participate: the hardware.
Many DePINs assume that participants will buy and install dedicated devices — hotspots, routers, camera rigs, vehicle dongles, weather stations, or server racks — before they can contribute. This sounds straightforward until you look at the actual numbers.
Public pricing shows that indoor IoT gateways typically cost between 200 and 500 units of local currency, while outdoor units with weatherproof enclosures and higher‑gain antennas cluster around the 500 mark. Small‑cell‑style radios and antennas for mobile coverage can range from 1,500 to 3,500. High‑end GPU servers for compute DePINs can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars in upfront spend, and even single‑GPU setups carry substantial ongoing power and cooling costs.
A Forbes Technology Council article bluntly notes that this hardware burden is one of the main reasons DePIN has struggled to break into the mainstream, alongside complex UX and speculative token dynamics. A separate analysis on DePIN adoption challenges points to high initial cost of hardware, software, and connectivity as the top barrier organizations face when experimenting with these networks. When joining requires a four‑figure device, “decentralized” can quietly become a synonym for “limited to those with spare capital and technical skills.”
The optimistic view is that this is a solvable problem — if we change where the hardware line is drawn.
Most of today’s dedicated DePIN hardware is single‑purpose. A long‑range IoT gateway forwards small sensor packets. A mapping camera records the road. A vehicle dongle reads telemetry from one car. A weather station tracks temperature and humidity. Each device is excellent at one job and hard to reuse if conditions change.
That single‑purpose design has two downsides. First, it increases risk for participants. If a network changes its tokenomics, faces regulatory pressure, or simply loses momentum, there may be little secondary market for its custom devices. Second, it limits the creative surface area of the network. A device that only sends one kind of packet or captures one kind of measurement constrains which new use cases can be added later.
This is where Nodle takes a fundamentally different path: instead of asking people to buy more hardware, it starts from the device they already own.
Nodle’s architecture is built around a simple idea: treat the smartphone as the default node for DePIN. Rather than deploying a new layer of hardware into the world, Nodle taps into the most widely distributed computing device in human history.
According to the GSMA’s Mobile Economy 2025 report, mobile technologies and services now generate 5.8% of global GDP, and by the end of 2024, 5.8 billion people were mobile subscribers. Estimates suggest there are well over seven billion smartphones in active use, meaning the vast majority of adults worldwide already carry a powerful, connected computer. Instead of asking them to buy yet another device, Nodle simply asks them to install an app.
In its Vision and Mission, Nodle highlights four properties that make smartphones ideal DePIN building blocks.
A smartphone is a computing machine. For many people, it is the most powerful computer they own, capable of running complex apps, handling cryptography, and processing data locally at the edge.
A smartphone is connected. Every modern phone can reach the internet via WiFi, LTE, or 5G and communicate with nearby devices via Bluetooth Low Energy and other short‑range protocols, acting as both client and micro‑base‑station.
A smartphone has many sensors. Cameras, microphones, accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS, magnetometers, barometers, and light sensors are all standard on modern smartphones, creating a dense sensing platform in each pocket.
There is typically a one‑to‑one relationship with its owner. Most people have exactly one main phone, which naturally ties the device to a specific human being and enables long‑term reputation and trust.
Participation in the Nodle network is therefore reduced to something familiar and low‑friction: download an app on iOS or Android, grant permissions, and let it run. There is no box to buy, no antenna to mount, and no new cabling to install.
From a connectivity perspective, Nodle leans on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), which every modern smartphone supports by default. BLE offers medium bandwidth, very low power consumption, and low‑latency communication over distances typically between 10 and 50 meters indoors and up to around 120 meters in open environments. It was designed for efficient, intermittent communication between devices — the same qualities that make it ideal for wearables and smart home devices also make it an excellent fit for proximity‑based connectivity networks.
Long‑range protocols like LoRaWAN, by contrast, prioritize distance over data rate. They can cover one to ten kilometers with extremely low power use, but only by sending very small packets with relatively high latency. That is perfect for simple sensor readings in remote areas, but not for richer, interaction‑heavy use cases. Just as importantly, LoRaWAN typically depends on dedicated gateways and antennas that must be purchased and physically installed, whereas BLE connectivity comes “for free” with every smartphone.
This difference translates directly into accessibility. A BLE‑based, smartphone‑native network like Nodle asks users to do something they already know how to do — install an app — instead of asking them to become amateur radio engineers. It opens participation to billions of people, not just those able to host specialized hardware.
Because Nodle runs on smartphones, connectivity is just the first layer. The real power is in the sensor super‑stack that every participant already carries.
Research on smartphone sensing shows that modern phones can continuously monitor motion, orientation, ambient conditions, sound, and location with high fidelity. Industry studies from firms such as McKinsey highlight how the convergence of cheap sensors, pervasive connectivity, and edge computing is unlocking new business models in IoT and AI. Smartphones sit exactly at that intersection.
The Nodle SDK turns this sensor stack into a programmable platform, allowing developers to build applications that rely on proximity events, location proofs, or environmental context. Nodle’s Proof of Connectivity mechanism combines BLE proximity data with cryptographic attestations and other sensor signals to verify that reported connections really happened in the physical world. That makes it much harder to fake participation compared with a simple radio relay.
This multi‑sensor capability opens the door to optimistic, future‑oriented use cases: safer cities through better asset tracking, smarter mobility data, more granular environmental monitoring, and new forms of location‑aware experiences — all without forcing users to purchase new hardware.
The Click camera app is a concrete example of what becomes possible when DePIN is built on top of smartphones instead of boxes. Click uses the phone’s camera together with Nodle’s ContentSign pipeline to attach tamper‑evident metadata — including device details, timestamps, and geolocation — to every photo or video captured through the app.
These “content credentials” follow the C2PA standard, co‑developed by Adobe, Microsoft, Intel, and the Linux Foundation, and they are anchored to the blockchain. That means anyone can later verify where and when a piece of media was created, which device captured it, and whether it has been edited.
Traditional media organizations are moving in the same direction. Reuters, Canon, and Stanford’s Starling Lab have piloted C2PA‑based authentication systems to secure photo capture, storage, and distribution, explicitly citing the rise of AI‑generated fakes as a motivation. Deutsche Welle’s innovation lab has described such digital seals as a “new hope for rebuilding trust in news media,” while also noting how limited support is in legacy camera hardware.
Click addresses that limitation directly. As the Content Authenticity Initiative notes, it is among the first apps to bring Content Credentials at the moment of capture to anyone with a smartphone. In practical terms, this means a student, a citizen journalist, or an NGO worker can generate cryptographically verifiable media using nothing more than the device they already own.
This is the optimistic promise of smartphone‑native DePIN: advanced capabilities that once required expensive, specialized equipment become ordinary app features.
Mining hardware is anonymous by default. A rack of gateways or servers has no natural link to a specific person; a single operator can run dozens or hundreds of devices. That makes Sybil resistance — stopping one actor from pretending to be many participants — a constant challenge for hardware‑centric networks.
Smartphones behave differently. For most people, there is a natural one‑to‑one relationship between person and device. Nodle’s vision docs explicitly call this out: each smartphone typically has a single primary owner, which makes it a powerful anchor for identity and reputation within the network. At the same time, Nodle does not require personally identifiable information (PII) to participate in network missions. You do not need to register with your name or email, and you can create an anonymous wallet in the app.
Location data is treated with the same care. As Nodle’s app documentation and privacy materials explain, the phone’s location is used only to compute rewards based on your contribution to coverage and to help locate Bluetooth IoT devices for their owners — not to build advertising profiles or sell user data. This aligns with broader research on privacy‑preserving IoT, which emphasizes using changing, pseudonymous identifiers instead of static personal IDs wherever possible.
Over time, this enables a more human‑scale trust layer. Devices that consistently provide valid connectivity data, accurate sensor readings, or authentic media build a behavioral history that other applications can reference — without ever tying that history to traditional PII. Rather than trusting a faceless “miner address,” systems can reason about long‑lived, pseudonymous device identities that have earned credibility through years of honest participation.
That combination — low entry barrier, strict privacy by design, rich sensor capabilities, and natural one‑person‑one‑device mapping — is what makes Nodle’s smartphone‑centric architecture so promising as a foundation for future DePIN applications.
Zooming out, the macro trends are on DePIN’s side. Ericsson forecasts that cellular IoT connections alone will reach billions in the coming years, while broader IoT device counts are expected to surpass 40 billion by 2030. At the same time, reports from McKinsey, MIT Technology Review, and others highlight how edge computing and AI at the device level are becoming central to digital transformation.
The opportunity is clear: build networks that harness these devices in a way that is open, verifiable, and economically aligned with the people who use them. The constraint is equally clear: if joining your network requires buying and installing specialized hardware, adoption will always lag behind what is technically possible.
Nodle offers an optimistic alternative. By treating the smartphone as the core unit of participation, it removes the hardware gatekeeper and leans into an infrastructure that already exists at global scale. BLE connectivity, a deep sensor stack, tools like Click for authenticated media, and a natural one‑person‑one‑device trust layer all come together to form a DePIN that fits in your pocket.
That’s it for Crypto 101, edition 13. We’ve gone from the promise of DePIN in theory, through the very real friction of expensive, single‑purpose hardware, to a model where your everyday smartphone can be the entry point into decentralized connectivity.
The through‑line is simple: each new wave of infrastructure makes participation more accessible. First came specialized boxes you had to buy and mount. Now, networks like Nodle build on devices people already carry — using BLE, sensors, and cryptography to turn a phone into a node in a global trust and connectivity layer.
If you want to see what that feels like in practice, install the Nodle app, and when you’re ready to explore authenticated media, open the Click app, take a photo, swipe to sign, and you’re already part of the story.
Disclaimer: This article is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research before making any financial decisions.
DePIN Networks where real‑world infrastructure (like WiFi, sensors, or storage) is built and run by many people, coordinated by blockchain instead of a single company.
PRN (Physical Resource Network) A DePIN that depends on physical things in specific places, such as antennas, energy devices, or sensors installed in the real world.
DRN (Digital Resource Network) A DePIN that provides digital resources like computing power or storage that are not tied to one location.
BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) The energy‑efficient Bluetooth in your phone that connects to headphones, wearables, and nearby devices over short distances.
LoRa / LoRaWAN A long‑range wireless technology used to send tiny bits of data from simple sensors over kilometers using very little power.
Edge Computing Doing the data processing directly on nearby devices (like your phone) instead of sending everything to big cloud servers.
Proof of Connectivity Nodle’s way of proving that a phone was really close to a device or signal at a certain time, using Bluetooth and sensor data.
Nodle SDK A toolbox for app developers that turns smartphones into Nodle nodes that can scan, prove, and talk to the Nodle network.
You’ve probably heard people talk about “DePIN” the way they once talked about “mining crypto in your garage” — it sounds technical, people throw around buzzwords like hotspots and infrastructure, and almost nobody explains what it means in plain language. This edition changes that.
Crypto 101 is an educational series designed to make complex blockchain and decentralized infrastructure ideas feel approachable. Each edition takes one topic, breaks it down from first principles, and then shows how it comes to life in the Nodle ecosystem.
In edition 13, we look at Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks — DePIN for short. These are networks where real‑world infrastructure like connectivity, storage, or sensors is built and maintained by everyday participants, coordinated and rewarded through tokens on a blockchain. We’ll zoom in on a simple but powerful question: do you need to buy special hardware to join, or can you participate with the smartphone you already own?
Along the way, we’ll see why a lot of DePIN projects quietly re‑introduce a hardware gatekeeper, and how Nodle takes a different path by turning billions of smartphones into a decentralized wireless and sensor network. In other words: from “buy a box and hope it pays off” to “install an app and you’re in.”
Let’s start at the beginning.
Learn about DePIN, the Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network, and its potential to change the digital landscape. Our blog post delves into how blockchain development is integral to DePIN's framework.
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, or DePINs, use blockchains to coordinate the build‑out and operation of real‑world infrastructure such as connectivity, storage, compute, and sensors. Instead of one company owning the towers, servers, or devices, communities contribute resources and earn tokens for the value they provide.
Analysts often distinguish between Physical Resource Networks (PRNs), which rely on location‑bound hardware like antennas, energy devices, or sensors, and Digital Resource Networks (DRNs), which provide fungible digital resources such as compute or storage. Within this, several categories dominate today: wireless networks that crowdsource connectivity, compute networks that pool CPUs and GPUs, sensor networks that collect real‑world data, storage networks that decentralize cloud storage, and energy networks that coordinate distributed renewables.
On paper, this is a story of empowerment and inclusion. In practice, one design choice often decides who can really participate: the hardware.
Many DePINs assume that participants will buy and install dedicated devices — hotspots, routers, camera rigs, vehicle dongles, weather stations, or server racks — before they can contribute. This sounds straightforward until you look at the actual numbers.
Public pricing shows that indoor IoT gateways typically cost between 200 and 500 units of local currency, while outdoor units with weatherproof enclosures and higher‑gain antennas cluster around the 500 mark. Small‑cell‑style radios and antennas for mobile coverage can range from 1,500 to 3,500. High‑end GPU servers for compute DePINs can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars in upfront spend, and even single‑GPU setups carry substantial ongoing power and cooling costs.
A Forbes Technology Council article bluntly notes that this hardware burden is one of the main reasons DePIN has struggled to break into the mainstream, alongside complex UX and speculative token dynamics. A separate analysis on DePIN adoption challenges points to high initial cost of hardware, software, and connectivity as the top barrier organizations face when experimenting with these networks. When joining requires a four‑figure device, “decentralized” can quietly become a synonym for “limited to those with spare capital and technical skills.”
The optimistic view is that this is a solvable problem — if we change where the hardware line is drawn.
Most of today’s dedicated DePIN hardware is single‑purpose. A long‑range IoT gateway forwards small sensor packets. A mapping camera records the road. A vehicle dongle reads telemetry from one car. A weather station tracks temperature and humidity. Each device is excellent at one job and hard to reuse if conditions change.
That single‑purpose design has two downsides. First, it increases risk for participants. If a network changes its tokenomics, faces regulatory pressure, or simply loses momentum, there may be little secondary market for its custom devices. Second, it limits the creative surface area of the network. A device that only sends one kind of packet or captures one kind of measurement constrains which new use cases can be added later.
This is where Nodle takes a fundamentally different path: instead of asking people to buy more hardware, it starts from the device they already own.
Nodle’s architecture is built around a simple idea: treat the smartphone as the default node for DePIN. Rather than deploying a new layer of hardware into the world, Nodle taps into the most widely distributed computing device in human history.
According to the GSMA’s Mobile Economy 2025 report, mobile technologies and services now generate 5.8% of global GDP, and by the end of 2024, 5.8 billion people were mobile subscribers. Estimates suggest there are well over seven billion smartphones in active use, meaning the vast majority of adults worldwide already carry a powerful, connected computer. Instead of asking them to buy yet another device, Nodle simply asks them to install an app.
In its Vision and Mission, Nodle highlights four properties that make smartphones ideal DePIN building blocks.
A smartphone is a computing machine. For many people, it is the most powerful computer they own, capable of running complex apps, handling cryptography, and processing data locally at the edge.
A smartphone is connected. Every modern phone can reach the internet via WiFi, LTE, or 5G and communicate with nearby devices via Bluetooth Low Energy and other short‑range protocols, acting as both client and micro‑base‑station.
A smartphone has many sensors. Cameras, microphones, accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS, magnetometers, barometers, and light sensors are all standard on modern smartphones, creating a dense sensing platform in each pocket.
There is typically a one‑to‑one relationship with its owner. Most people have exactly one main phone, which naturally ties the device to a specific human being and enables long‑term reputation and trust.
Participation in the Nodle network is therefore reduced to something familiar and low‑friction: download an app on iOS or Android, grant permissions, and let it run. There is no box to buy, no antenna to mount, and no new cabling to install.
From a connectivity perspective, Nodle leans on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), which every modern smartphone supports by default. BLE offers medium bandwidth, very low power consumption, and low‑latency communication over distances typically between 10 and 50 meters indoors and up to around 120 meters in open environments. It was designed for efficient, intermittent communication between devices — the same qualities that make it ideal for wearables and smart home devices also make it an excellent fit for proximity‑based connectivity networks.
Long‑range protocols like LoRaWAN, by contrast, prioritize distance over data rate. They can cover one to ten kilometers with extremely low power use, but only by sending very small packets with relatively high latency. That is perfect for simple sensor readings in remote areas, but not for richer, interaction‑heavy use cases. Just as importantly, LoRaWAN typically depends on dedicated gateways and antennas that must be purchased and physically installed, whereas BLE connectivity comes “for free” with every smartphone.
This difference translates directly into accessibility. A BLE‑based, smartphone‑native network like Nodle asks users to do something they already know how to do — install an app — instead of asking them to become amateur radio engineers. It opens participation to billions of people, not just those able to host specialized hardware.
Because Nodle runs on smartphones, connectivity is just the first layer. The real power is in the sensor super‑stack that every participant already carries.
Research on smartphone sensing shows that modern phones can continuously monitor motion, orientation, ambient conditions, sound, and location with high fidelity. Industry studies from firms such as McKinsey highlight how the convergence of cheap sensors, pervasive connectivity, and edge computing is unlocking new business models in IoT and AI. Smartphones sit exactly at that intersection.
The Nodle SDK turns this sensor stack into a programmable platform, allowing developers to build applications that rely on proximity events, location proofs, or environmental context. Nodle’s Proof of Connectivity mechanism combines BLE proximity data with cryptographic attestations and other sensor signals to verify that reported connections really happened in the physical world. That makes it much harder to fake participation compared with a simple radio relay.
This multi‑sensor capability opens the door to optimistic, future‑oriented use cases: safer cities through better asset tracking, smarter mobility data, more granular environmental monitoring, and new forms of location‑aware experiences — all without forcing users to purchase new hardware.
The Click camera app is a concrete example of what becomes possible when DePIN is built on top of smartphones instead of boxes. Click uses the phone’s camera together with Nodle’s ContentSign pipeline to attach tamper‑evident metadata — including device details, timestamps, and geolocation — to every photo or video captured through the app.
These “content credentials” follow the C2PA standard, co‑developed by Adobe, Microsoft, Intel, and the Linux Foundation, and they are anchored to the blockchain. That means anyone can later verify where and when a piece of media was created, which device captured it, and whether it has been edited.
Traditional media organizations are moving in the same direction. Reuters, Canon, and Stanford’s Starling Lab have piloted C2PA‑based authentication systems to secure photo capture, storage, and distribution, explicitly citing the rise of AI‑generated fakes as a motivation. Deutsche Welle’s innovation lab has described such digital seals as a “new hope for rebuilding trust in news media,” while also noting how limited support is in legacy camera hardware.
Click addresses that limitation directly. As the Content Authenticity Initiative notes, it is among the first apps to bring Content Credentials at the moment of capture to anyone with a smartphone. In practical terms, this means a student, a citizen journalist, or an NGO worker can generate cryptographically verifiable media using nothing more than the device they already own.
This is the optimistic promise of smartphone‑native DePIN: advanced capabilities that once required expensive, specialized equipment become ordinary app features.
Mining hardware is anonymous by default. A rack of gateways or servers has no natural link to a specific person; a single operator can run dozens or hundreds of devices. That makes Sybil resistance — stopping one actor from pretending to be many participants — a constant challenge for hardware‑centric networks.
Smartphones behave differently. For most people, there is a natural one‑to‑one relationship between person and device. Nodle’s vision docs explicitly call this out: each smartphone typically has a single primary owner, which makes it a powerful anchor for identity and reputation within the network. At the same time, Nodle does not require personally identifiable information (PII) to participate in network missions. You do not need to register with your name or email, and you can create an anonymous wallet in the app.
Location data is treated with the same care. As Nodle’s app documentation and privacy materials explain, the phone’s location is used only to compute rewards based on your contribution to coverage and to help locate Bluetooth IoT devices for their owners — not to build advertising profiles or sell user data. This aligns with broader research on privacy‑preserving IoT, which emphasizes using changing, pseudonymous identifiers instead of static personal IDs wherever possible.
Over time, this enables a more human‑scale trust layer. Devices that consistently provide valid connectivity data, accurate sensor readings, or authentic media build a behavioral history that other applications can reference — without ever tying that history to traditional PII. Rather than trusting a faceless “miner address,” systems can reason about long‑lived, pseudonymous device identities that have earned credibility through years of honest participation.
That combination — low entry barrier, strict privacy by design, rich sensor capabilities, and natural one‑person‑one‑device mapping — is what makes Nodle’s smartphone‑centric architecture so promising as a foundation for future DePIN applications.
Zooming out, the macro trends are on DePIN’s side. Ericsson forecasts that cellular IoT connections alone will reach billions in the coming years, while broader IoT device counts are expected to surpass 40 billion by 2030. At the same time, reports from McKinsey, MIT Technology Review, and others highlight how edge computing and AI at the device level are becoming central to digital transformation.
The opportunity is clear: build networks that harness these devices in a way that is open, verifiable, and economically aligned with the people who use them. The constraint is equally clear: if joining your network requires buying and installing specialized hardware, adoption will always lag behind what is technically possible.
Nodle offers an optimistic alternative. By treating the smartphone as the core unit of participation, it removes the hardware gatekeeper and leans into an infrastructure that already exists at global scale. BLE connectivity, a deep sensor stack, tools like Click for authenticated media, and a natural one‑person‑one‑device trust layer all come together to form a DePIN that fits in your pocket.
That’s it for Crypto 101, edition 13. We’ve gone from the promise of DePIN in theory, through the very real friction of expensive, single‑purpose hardware, to a model where your everyday smartphone can be the entry point into decentralized connectivity.
The through‑line is simple: each new wave of infrastructure makes participation more accessible. First came specialized boxes you had to buy and mount. Now, networks like Nodle build on devices people already carry — using BLE, sensors, and cryptography to turn a phone into a node in a global trust and connectivity layer.
If you want to see what that feels like in practice, install the Nodle app, and when you’re ready to explore authenticated media, open the Click app, take a photo, swipe to sign, and you’re already part of the story.
Disclaimer: This article is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research before making any financial decisions.
DePIN Networks where real‑world infrastructure (like WiFi, sensors, or storage) is built and run by many people, coordinated by blockchain instead of a single company.
PRN (Physical Resource Network) A DePIN that depends on physical things in specific places, such as antennas, energy devices, or sensors installed in the real world.
DRN (Digital Resource Network) A DePIN that provides digital resources like computing power or storage that are not tied to one location.
BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) The energy‑efficient Bluetooth in your phone that connects to headphones, wearables, and nearby devices over short distances.
LoRa / LoRaWAN A long‑range wireless technology used to send tiny bits of data from simple sensors over kilometers using very little power.
Edge Computing Doing the data processing directly on nearby devices (like your phone) instead of sending everything to big cloud servers.
Proof of Connectivity Nodle’s way of proving that a phone was really close to a device or signal at a certain time, using Bluetooth and sensor data.
Nodle SDK A toolbox for app developers that turns smartphones into Nodle nodes that can scan, prove, and talk to the Nodle network.
ContentSign Nodle’s technology that stamps photos and videos with secure information about when, where, and how they were taken.
C2PA A standard that lets cameras and apps attach trusted “proof of origin” info to images and videos, so people can check if they’re real.
Content Credentials A small label that shows the history and authenticity of a piece of media, based on C2PA, like a “nutrition label” for images and videos.
Sybil Attack When one person pretends to be many different users or devices in a network to cheat or gain extra power.
One‑Person‑One‑Device The idea that most people mainly use one personal smartphone, which makes it a good stand‑in for a unique, real person.
ContentSign Nodle’s technology that stamps photos and videos with secure information about when, where, and how they were taken.
C2PA A standard that lets cameras and apps attach trusted “proof of origin” info to images and videos, so people can check if they’re real.
Content Credentials A small label that shows the history and authenticity of a piece of media, based on C2PA, like a “nutrition label” for images and videos.
Sybil Attack When one person pretends to be many different users or devices in a network to cheat or gain extra power.
One‑Person‑One‑Device The idea that most people mainly use one personal smartphone, which makes it a good stand‑in for a unique, real person.
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