Ether and APhone unveil 10x scaling solution to reduce mobile user costs by 90%
Decentralized Smartphone APhone and Atir have jointly introduced a new scaling solution that will increase the user capacity of the APhone tenfold and further scale the decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) industry.
The new scaling solution enables APhone to serve more than 800,000 users daily, lowering monthly user costs to less than $0.60 compared to the previous $6 – a cost reduction of more than 90%.
Significant cost reductions are achieved through Aether's distributed GPU cloud computing network, Afon CEO William Paul Peckham told Cointelegraph:
“[Aethir] By streamlining operations and making good deals with hardware manufacturers and data centers, they were able to keep costs down. Their technology allows hardware to be virtualized and partitioned without sacrificing capabilities to provide superior quality for phone service without requiring additional hardware.
The new scaling solution will save APhone more than $3.2 million per quarter, thanks to ATR's distributed GPU infrastructure.
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Aethir Edge AI to improve Web3 mobile applications
As part of the strategic partnership, the decentralized smartphone includes Atir Edge, an enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) tool integrated into the platform's cloud infrastructure.
Aethir Edge plays a key role in Afon's operating framework, enhancing the speed and efficiency of Web3 applications.
Aethir Edge hosts APhone instances, thus ensuring low latency and smooth performance for more resource-intensive decentralized applications (DApps) such as Web3 games or Metaverse platforms.
Atir Edge enhances security and network performance, said Mark Ryden, founder and head of strategy at Atir.
In a statement shared with Cointelegraph, Rydon wrote:
By assigning unique IP addresses to each cloud smartphone, Atir Edge is very useful for applications that require different network identities, such as gaming, IoT, and decentralized finance platforms.
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The depin industry could reach $3.5 trillion by 2028.
Deepening is one of the fastest growing industries with an estimated total addressable market of over $2.2 trillion.
The DePIN industry is expected to reach more than $3.5 trillion by 2028, an increase of more than $1.3 trillion from January 2023, according to a Messari report.
With the right regulatory and technological advancements, it could be a big step forward in the next four years, says APhone's Peckham.
“While Messari's $3.5 trillion forecast for 2028 is ambitious, achieving such an estimate will depend on regulatory developments, technological advancements and broad industry acceptance. DePin removes costs from intermediaries while increasing network security, which is becoming more valuable to scale businesses.
Others are optimistic about the future of the industry. For example, Applink founder and CEO Carlos Ley Santos expects the next $1 trillion company to emerge from the DPin sector.
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