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[WebX2025] Xenea Co-Founder YUMA Presents the Data Revolution in the Age of AI and DePIN

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The pitch that Yuma presented for Xenea at WebX2025 offered an innovative solution to the data challenges facing modern society.

The management of the massive, ever-changing data generated by AI and DePIN creates three serious challenges: the single-point-of-failure risk of centralized clouds, compliance with emerging regulations like the EU AI Act, and the static nature of existing decentralized systems.

Xenea aims to overcome these issues and redefine the future of digital infrastructure by providing a secure, auditable, and dynamically updatable storage layer. Backed by more than 4 million wallet installs and a strong community, Xenea is actively building the future of data.

Data’s Pain Points: Blind Spots in the Age of AI and DePIN

The immense volume of dynamic data produced daily by AI and DePIN presents challenges that can no longer be ignored by modern digital infrastructure.

  • Risk and Single Points of Failure: Centralized clouds always carry the possibility of large-scale outages, like the incident at Amazon AWS in 2023. Single points of failure are a fundamental vulnerability for data security and availability.
  • Compliance Demands: New regulations, starting with the EU AI Act, impose strict requirements for auditability, verifiability, and provability of data—essential to ensuring the transparency and trustworthiness of AI models.
  • Fit for Workflow: Traditional decentralized systems are too static for live updates and therefore ill-suited to dynamic data environments like AI and DePIN.

Xenea’s Vision for Data: A Live-Auditable Storage Layer

Xenea offers a breakthrough approach that overturns conventional wisdom in tackling these hard problems.

  • Community First, by Design: While many blockchain projects struggle to gain adoption after building infrastructure, Xenea first established a strong community with over 4 million wallet installs. On this foundation, it is building a live-auditable Layer-1 storage for AI and DePIN.
  • No Single Point of Failure, On-Chain Auditing, Dynamic Data Handling: Xenea eliminates single-point-of-failure risks, enables on-chain auditing, and processes dynamic data at high speed.
  • Targeting a Massive Market: The AI storage and DePIN markets are projected to reach the trillion-dollar range in the coming years. Within that, Xenea estimates a $5.5B serviceable market and is targeting $2B in revenue, 15 million wallets, and 50+ enterprise customers by 2028. The combined CAGR of AI storage and DePIN is 35%, indicating strong expansion.

Differentiation: Cloud-Class Performance with Provability

By uniting speed and provability, Xenea sets itself apart from competitors.

  • Performance on Par with the Cloud: While cloud services such as Amazon S3 Express offer millisecond-level access speeds, Xenea aims for “cloud-like performance with proofs.” Concretely, it targets a sub-150 ms median response time and 300–500 ms at the 95th percentile—faster than IPFS.
  • Multi-Gigabit Replication: High-speed replication secures robustness and availability.
  • Unique Advantages:
    • Versus centralized cloud storage: Delivers similar performance while providing data provenance.
    • Versus other decentralized storage: Designed from day one for live updates and provenance.

Technology and Business Model Behind the Innovation

Xenea’s solution is powered by a proprietary tech stack and a simple yet diversified business model.

  • EVM Layer-1 and DACS: The foundation is Xenea’s own EVM Layer-1 integrated with DACS (a decentralized storage network) for durability and delivery.
  • Astro and RapNo Consensus: These consensus mechanisms simultaneously handle finality, confirmations, and wallet rollbacks.
  • Three Simple Revenue Streams:
    • Storage fees
    • Network gas
    • Services (on/off-ramp, payments, card services)
  • Partnership with an AI Startup: Partnering with the rapidly growing generative-AI startup “AI” to integrate AI tools directly into the wallet, making access to AI tools seamless for users.

A World-Class Team and a Vision for the Future

Xenea is led by a globally recognized team of experts.

  • A Global Collective of Specialists: A distributed team across 10+ countries drives development.
  • Technology Led by a Shinkansen Engineer: CTO Dr. Takahashi had a new research paper published just last week. With contributions to the autonomous management systems of Japan’s Shinkansen and foundational research in SUA (Safety-Critical Systems), he brings a discipline that “safety comes first” to decentralized storage.
  • A Grand Vision: Xenea’s vision is both simple and audacious—“ideas that endure for millennia.”
  • Fundraising Target: Xenea is currently aiming to raise $5M at a $50M valuation.

Conclusion

Xenea’s pitch presented a practical yet innovative response to the fundamental data-management challenges in the emerging digital ecosystem shaped by AI and DePIN.

By transcending the limits of existing decentralized systems and combining the convenience of centralized clouds with the trust of decentralization, Xenea seeks to establish a new value standard for data: provability.

With a robust community and strategic partnerships already in place, Xenea is poised to be more than a storage provider—it could become essential infrastructure supporting the growth of AI and DePIN. Its grand vision and its commitment to safety—underpinned by expertise from Japan’s Shinkansen—represent a concrete step toward realizing “ideas that endure for millennia.”

 

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