Pollen Mobile - Decentralized Wireless Connectivity
A peer-to-peer open-source wireless network that incentivizes individuals with cryptocurrency (Pollen tokens) to deploy and maintain mini cell towers (e.g., hummingbirds, bumblebees, flowers), providing affordable and reliable mobile connectivity, especially in areas with poor traditional coverage.
Opportunity7.2
Why now
Anywhere where there's incentives human incentives crypto can play a role there it's a really great way to incentivize people to do stuff. The specific need for AVs sparked its creation.
Market gap
Lack of decentralized, peer-to-peer mobile wireless networks that offer crypto incentives for infrastructure providers and flexible, on-demand connectivity for users.
Business fit
Type
Web3 protocol, hardware, network infrastructure
Target
Individuals willing to deploy hardware for crypto rewards, companies requiring reliable mobile connectivity for autonomous systems.
Revenue
High (Tokenomics, network usage fees, hardware sales)
Anthony Lewandowski (founder of Waymo, Auto) is building it.
Pollen mobile is a system that creates incentives via cryptocurrency called pollen tokens for people to put up basically little mini cell towers that are going to create wireless connectivity around the area.
helium is the other one that i've seen doing this that was doing the like wi-fi connectivity.
the reason why we did this is simple we needed reliable affordable mobile connectivity for our avs our autonomous vehicles and we couldn't find it so we built our own and realized it could be something others want necessity is the mother of invention
Keyword demand
Keyword
Volume
Growth
Decentralized wireless
10/mo
0% YoY
Crypto incentives
10/mo
0% YoY
Peer-to-peer network
1,900/mo
-45% YoY
5G
27,100/mo
-18% YoY
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Source episode
Will Meta Bounce Back? (with Nikita Bier) | Where It Happens | Bonus Episode45:44
anthony lewandowski is back in the public sphere he started a business i think it's called pronto ai which is also self-driving vehicles um but most interestingly he is now starting something um called pollen mobile... basically a peer-to-peer open source wireless network