4.1 Tokenomics Enabled Flywheel

As discussed in Chapter 2, the key to the success of a DePIN project is to kick-off the network building flywheel properly. What does this for Roam is the community. Riding the wave of WiFi 6 / 6E upgrades and supporting 5G deployment are two motivations for building the network. However, the mining incentives are also very important, particularly in the bootstrap phase. Thanks to this decentralized model for OpenRoaming deployment, network coverage can be improved and devices can be upgraded at a low cost. This DePIN model also turns customers into Web3 users when they visit OpenRoaming sites hosted by businesses.

It is clear that properly designed tokenomics is necessary to the network’s bootstrap and growth phases. Strong tokenomics is also valuable for promoting the development of applications based on the decentralized OpenRoaming networks.