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2024 was a banner year for Auki. In addition to our TGE, we launched our retail solution, hit numerous development milestones and pulled the curtain back on our robotics project. A big part of our success can be attributed to our amazing and hard working community.
Any DePIN project relies heavily on its community to build, operate, and maintain the physical and digital infrastructure that powers its ecosystems. Auki is no exception. The Auki network is supported by community members contributing their resources, bandwidth, and energy in return for tokens. Our innovative deflationary Burn-Credit-Mint economy is designed to reward our community as early adopters and “allow for the bootstrapping of civilization-scale infrastructure owned and operated by the people”.
We believe this decentralized approach is crucial for privacy and autonomy in a future with AI agents and robots imbued with spatial awareness. Community involvement also fosters innovation, as our community can develop applications or enhancements that add value to the network. This collective participation is essential for the success and resilience of DePIN projects.
To highlight the incredible work that our community does, we will feature a series of interviews with members from every part of our diverse community.
First up is an interview with a node operator, Husky. Node operators are the backbone of the Auki network. They run the relay servers which route network traffic and the domain servers which host the domains, the digital representation of a space. With new node types on the way, having enough node operators is vital.
Q1: How did you first hear about Auki?
Husky: Almost four years ago in a crypto friends group. It’s amazing how connections like that can lead to discovering incredible projects.
Q2: What attracted you to the project?
Husky: Crypto is an amazing phenomenon, but there’s a lack of truly “real” companies in the space or at least, they don’t always get the attention they deserve. I’ve had the privilege of seeing Auki grow from its Matterless roots into what it is today. Watching the team’s passion and innovation in spatial computing, AI, and now robotics is nothing short of inspiring.
Q3: What was your background? Had you been involved in web3 projects before?
Husky: I bought some coins in 2019 but didn’t pay much attention to them afterward. I got back into crypto during the SafeMoon era probably one of the biggest scam projects, haha! It was a crazy time, and yes, I lost my entire investment. But it reignited my interest, and not long after, I shifted my focus to node-running projects like Helium. That’s where my real journey began.
Q4: When did you first get involved? What did you do?
Husky: I quickly pivoted from speculative projects to ones with real utility. Running nodes became a way to explore and support promising ideas in web3.
Q5: Why did you decide to start running nodes? Were you already running nodes for other web3 projects?
Husky: Running nodes felt like a solid way to contribute to projects I believe in while also trying to build something in crypto. I had already been running nodes for projects like Helium, so it was a natural progression to get involved with Auki. I am running other nodes as well... Currently for Quilibrium, Satori, Brinx, crynux and some others.
Q6: What does your typical day look like in terms of running nodes? How much of your time does it take up?
Husky: To succeed in crypto, you’ve got to be almost 24/7. There’s no "off" button. Here’s what my typical day looks like:
Right now, my focus is entirely on crypto and dogs for the next few months.
Q7: How has your experience been?
Husky: It’s been incredible! Seeing the network grow and being part of its development feels rewarding. Every new step Auki takes shows me how much potential the project has. I never expected the Auki airdrop for running nodes to be this amazing! Of course, it was a long journey I had the nodes running for over two years without knowing what would come of it. But if you believe in something, trust your gut, and stay focused. It works! Focus! Focus!
The total value of the airdrop is now over 6 digits. That’s just incredible!
Q8: What are your plans for the future with the Auki network?
Husky: I’ll keep supporting the project and trying out new nodes as they roll out. AUKI TO THE MOON!
Q9: What excites you most about the project?
Husky: The innovation. Auki isn’t just another crypto project it’s building something groundbreaking with the Auki network, decentralized spatial computing, and even robotics. Watching this technology unfold and knowing I’m part of its journey keeps me motivated every day.
Community members like Husky are massively contributing to Auki’s success. Their contribution is central to the resilience and scalability of DePINs. The market is only now beginning to catch up with the importance of DePINs and decentralized machine perception networks in particular. The Auki network aims to bring shared spatial awareness to AI and robots and we couldn’t do it without our community.
Stay tuned for the next community interview.
Auki is building the posemesh, a decentralized machine perception network for the next 100 billion people, devices and AI on Earth and beyond. The posemesh is an external and collaborative sense of space that machines and AI can use to understand the physical world.
Our mission is to improve civilization’s intercognitive capacity; our ability to think, experience and solve problems together with each other and AI. The greatest way to extend human reach is to collaborate with others. We are building consciousness-expanding technology to reduce the friction of communication and bridge minds.
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The Posemesh is an open-source protocol that powers a decentralized, blockchain-based spatial computing network.
The Posemesh is designed for a future where spatial computing is both collaborative and privacy-preserving. It limits any organization's surveillance capabilities and encourages sovereign ownership of private maps of personal and public spaces.
The decentralization also offers a competitive advantage, especially in shared spatial computing sessions, AR for example, where low latency is crucial. The posemesh is the next step in the decentralization movement, responding as an antidote to the growing power of big tech.
The Posemesh has tasked Auki Labs with developing the software infrastructure of the posemesh.
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