Applications for DePIN Base Camp are open!
Transforming the platform economy to pave the way for revolutionary Web3 products.
Base Camp Summary
Starting on: End of February
Duration: 10 weeks
Application close: Mid February 2025
Where: Fully remote
Investment: Up to $200,000
Official Ecosystem Partner
peaq joins again as Ecosystem Partner, powering innovation through its decentralized, community-driven infrastructure. They’ll support teams in leveraging the peaq ecosystem to create impactful, community-owned applications.
Official Venture Partner
1kx joins as Venture Partner, offering their expertise in scaling Web3 projects and fostering community-driven networks. They’ll provide strategic guidance to help teams build the next generation of crypto platforms.
DePIN in The Post Web
DePIN powers The Post Web by delivering foundational resources such compute & storage, latency & connectivity, data, and energy.
Cusp of Strong Market Fit: DePIN is driven by a self-reinforcing flywheel, aligning supply and demand dynamics for scalable growth.
Demand-Side Drivers: Surging AI resource needs (compute, data, storage) and financial incentives (subsidies, token rewards) accelerate adoption.
Supply-Side Drivers: Declining hardware costs and new revenue streams enable participation from both individuals and corporations.
New Digital Commodities: DePIN resources are emerging as liquid, fungibly traded assets with strong fundamentals like physical commodities.
Market Resilience: DePIN revenues are detached from crypto price volatility, driven instead by revenue, pointing to resilience in bear markets.
DePIN Base Camp is a Post Web Verified Program
We have highlighted DePIN Base Camp as a “Post Web Verified” accelerator program, acknowledging its critical role in shaping the future of the internet. By merging decentralised systems, AI innovation, and scalable infrastructure, DePIN drives the creation of a more secure, adaptive, and user-centric ecosystem – directly aligning with our Post Web thesis.
Read The Post Web thesis
DePIN is set to become the backbone of a future where machines and devices transact autonomously. We are at the forefront of Web3’s next big wave, mature enough to disrupt massive industries and agile enough to reshape markets.
In Web3, you can’t build in isolation — the pace is just too fast. With the right ecosystem, expert guidance, and partners, you can scale in a fraction of the time. The DePIN cohort is where true acceleration begins.
Riccardo Pagano
Accelerator Lead, DePIN Base Camp
Why Now?
Web3 technology underpinning physical infrastructure has been built out over the past cycles. We believe now is the time for the space to go mainstream driven by the following trends:
Cost curves: Cost curves of compute and hardware have come down drastically, making small scale node operation economically viable.
Usability: AI-enabled front-ends are falling into the hands of consumers, improving decision making and management of DePIN networks and tokens.
Privacy & Security Concerns: Since the diffusion of Gen AI across billions of users globally, the concerns with privacy and security of data and services has drastically increased, leading to more user exploration for alternative solutions like DePIN.
Data Generation: There is an increase in data generation across network nodes propelled by the movements of AI and open-source.
Utility tokens: tokenomics create the backbone of the incentive structure behind DePIN. After a few cycles, we believe that the expertise to create utility tokens structures is mature enough for many DePIN networks to successfully be bootstrapped.
What projects are we looking for
Hardware-Centric Innovations
Startups with a strong emphasis on developing or leveraging advanced hardware solutions
- Sensor-Based Infrastructure
- Edge Computing Devices
- Robotics and Automation
- Decentralized Connectivity Hardware
Bring-Your-Own-Device Ecosystem (BYOD)
Mobile-first or BYOD applications that harness user-owned devices for scalable, decentralized data generation or consumption.
- Crowdsourced Data Platforms
- Personalized Connectivity Solutions
- Environmental Sensing and Tracking
Agent-to-Machine Economies (A2M)
Exploring interactions between autonomous agents and
machine-driven systems.
- Autonomous Financial Systems
- Decentralized Coordination Protocols
- Synthetic Agent Interfaces
- Tokenized Resource Sharing
Read our thesis!
In the Post Web, decentralised resources orchestrated through DePIN networks, such as compute, memory, and connectivity, will emerge as new digital commodities.
By leveraging DePIN, these resources will be liquid and fungibly traded, creating efficient markets that enable seamless access and scalability
What do startups get out of the program?
Week 1-2
Helping you to maintain focus on OKRs & Web3 Readiness Framework and ensuring you’re optimally leveraging our network.
Week 3-6
Building your knowledge and refining your idea through workshops and 1:2:1 meetings with our Subject Matter Experts across token, design, legal, engineering, fundraising and more.
Week 7-10
Having learned and refined your idea in the first six weeks, the final weeks of the program are tailored towards supporting the key areas needed to bring product to market.
An opportunity to showcase your product to the wider Outlier network and 2 months fundraising support.
- 360 support from 40+ experts on token, product, legal, fundraising, etc.
- Access to a mentor network of industry leaders in the Web3 space
- Opportunity to build alongside a cohort of cutting-edge teams
- Fundraising support tailored to your needs
Our partners have helped us accelerate for our 350+ portfolio companies
Testimonials
FAQs
- Funding in exchange for 6% of your company and 6% of future token supply
- 10 weeks fully remote accelerator program
- Access to in house specialist operational, legal, commercial, and co-marketing support
- Token engineering support and business model testing to pinpoint product-market fit
- An active global mentor, partner and investor network featuring over 400+ mentors and 180+ alumni companies in Web3
Our Base Camp program is designed to nurture teams whose business potential best leverages either the program’s protocol or partner strengths, base camp thematic fit and also aligns with Outlier Ventures’ Post Web Thesis.
Participating startups will gain exposure to both Outlier Ventures’ and the partners ecosystems, offering an unparalleled opportunity for founders to scale their technology and grow their business.
If you’re a founder looking to accelerate the scaling of your business and deeply connect within the web3 ecosystem, get in touch!’
The Base Camp Accelerator is a fully remote and virtual program. This allows us to recruit and work with the best teams wherever. We have invested in companies across all continents. Our strength lies in the diversity of founders that we accelerate across the globe.