Are We Measuring Crypto Resilience All Wrong? NodeOps CEO Says On-Chain Metrics Miss The Point
As decentralized infrastructure shifts from cloud-based nodes to real-world deployments, the traditional reliance on staking to guarantee network trust is being called into question.
Naman Kabra, CEO and co-founder of NodeOps, says the future of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) will depend less on how much capital is locked and more on provable, real-world performance.
“DePIN makes infrastructure tangible again,” Kabra said in an interview with Benzinga. “It shifts the focus from simply running validator nodes in the cloud to physically anchoring networks in the real world — through bandwidth, compute, sensors, and storage.”
NodeOps, which Kabra describes as building the “operating system” for the next generation of decentralized infrastructure, is targeting a key gap in the current ecosystem: trust.
Many DePIN protocols still depend on staking as their primary security model, but Kabra believes this approach has become a form of “security theater.”
“Slashing assumes bad intent — but what about poor performance?” he said. …
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