The decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) sector has reached a monumental milestone as peaq officially initiates its production Layer 1 mainnet genesis. Supported by more than $20 Million in venture capital led by Generative Ventures and Borderless Capital, peaq establishes the global settlement layer for the emerging machine economy.
Over 40 leading DePIN protocols—spanning decentralized ride-sharing, noise pollution sensing, solar microgrids, and mobile broadband—have integrated peaq native Machine IDs (peaq ID) and automated micropayment channels. The network's high-speed architecture achieves over 10,000 transactions per second with sub-second finality while supporting both Substrate and EVM smart contracts.
Genesis token distributions and staking reward phases have begun onboarding decentralized collators. Community participants running verified hardware nodes and staking native tokens are positioned for ongoing ecosystem incentives across connected machine applications.
