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Solana-based decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) project NATIX has announced a strategic partnership with Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant Grab to expand high-precision mapping services into the U.S. and European markets.

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🌍 Global Expansion of Decentralized Mapping

This collaboration aims to combine NATIX's distributed data collection network with Grab's hardware and AI analysis technology. By leveraging crowdsourced street view data collected via smartphones, the partnership seeks to build decentralized maps essential for autonomous driving and smart city applications.

"We're starting in the markets of the EU and US, where [Grab] is not present. So this is us combined with Grab, going for global expansion," said Alireza Ghods, co-founder of NATIX.

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🔧 Technical Synergy

Under the partnership, NATIX will handle data collection, while Grab will provide hardware and AI technologies to analyze the images for building maps and navigation services. This integration enhances the accuracy and efficiency of map