The Helium network, which launched its mainnet in 2020, is a community-driven network that has significantly rewarded citizen network suppliers while lowering costs and increasing accessibility for users (in certain regions anyway). A notable early example of wireless networking. Its Helium Mobile service, still powered by TMobile, continues to go from strength to strength and was recently said to have 335,000 subscribers. Many people are also familiar with early decentralized storage networks such as Filecoin, Storj, and Arweave. They are becoming increasingly essential to the advancement of AI due to their scalability, cost efficiency, and decentralization.
