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| 0.43% | 5.30% | 48.12% | 71.48% | 65.43% | 29.40% |
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PIPE is used for paying bandwidth and storage services, node staking collateral, and governance voting. Under a PoUW model, tokens are minted only after on-chain verification of useful work; nominal inflation has a cap that declines yearly to a floor, and users burn PIPE for data credits in a burn-to-credit offset.
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About Pipe Network
Pipe Network is a decentralized content delivery network built on Solana, serving content and data from edge nodes close to users. Traditional CDNs place points of presence in a handful of large cities, so latency suffers in remote regions and at peak load, and a single vendor carries the whole failure risk. Pipe pushes nodes into communities, verifies delivery with zero-knowledge proofs and settles bandwidth and storage in tokens, serving video streaming, game assets and AI inference requests.
Its tie to Solana goes beyond settlement: SolanaCDN, released on 26 February 2026, is a free open-source validator client with a CDN acceleration layer built in, so validators no longer rely only on the base network's gossip when propagating shreds. Measured shred propagation was about 3.8 times faster than the standard implementation, which distinguishes it from general CDNs by improving the chain itself.
Mechanics and progress: PIPE's mainnet and token launched in October 2025 with a burn-to-credit model, so burns scale with real usage; nominal inflation starts at 12% in year one, falls 18% a year to a 1.5% floor, and actual issuance is capped near 51.5% of the monthly limit. The site moved to an AI-cloud pitch in July 2026 and to "storage, compute, hosting and AI" in October, while the P1 compute module is still unlaunched.
Valuation: 100 million of 1 billion tokens circulate; market cap was about $2.41 million on September 29 at $0.024, down 89% over a year.
In 2026 Pipe Network pivoted from a decentralized CDN into The AI Cloud, and offers an OpenAI-compatible inference API (e.g. the pipe/deepseek-v4-flash model) billed per token via pipenetwork.ai. In 2026 it launched SolanaCDN, a free open-source validator client that improves block-history snapshot sync and acceleration across the Solana ecosystem. The upcoming P1 compute module will join the existing CDN and Firestarter storage to form a three-in-one delivery, storage, and compute decentralized cloud.
Pipe Network's Future strategy and roadmap: Strategically, Pipe advances on two tracks: geographic expansion and full-stack cloud. In 2026 it targets high-growth regions such as South Korea, India, and Egypt, deploying hyperlocal PoP nodes via its DePIN model to cut latency and bandwidth cost; the network grew from 24,000 nodes in December 2025 to 35,000+ by February 2026. Once P1 compute ships, it closes the delivery-plus-storage-plus-compute loop, broadening addressable market and PIPE utility; a burn-to-credit model ties real resource consumption to token demand, upgrading the distributed PoP network from CDN into AI-workload cloud infrastructure.
David Rhodus — Founder & CEO; leads the build-out of a global network of 35,000+ edge PoP nodes; raised a 0M Series A in 2024.