In-depth interview with Titan CEO: The A-round financing is currently progressing smoothly, and funds will be used for mainnet launch, TGE, listing, market making, resource sales, marketing, operations, and growth.
Capital planning: The A-round financing is currently progressing smoothly, and funds will be used for mainnet launch, TGE, listing, market making, resource sales, marketing, operations, and growth.
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From the 'idle device revolution' to the trillion-dollar cloud service market, how do we reshape the internet?
A dialogue about the future
Did you know? In Bangkok, Thailand, a cybercafe owner made a few hundred dollars a month by renting idle computers; in the slums of Brazil, workers mined with old mobile phones to buy their first electric vehicle.
The Titan Chinese community visited Titan headquarters, where CEO Neo showcased real cases in an office filled with server models. This distributed network composed of 670,000 nodes is rapidly expanding and quietly rewriting the underlying rules of cloud computing.
In this dialogue, we will unveil eight core puzzles:
1. Titan Node Scale: Covering over 670,000 independent nodes in 146 countries
2. Testnet position: Ranking among the global top 10 DePIN projects
3. Commercialization path: All testnet MRR of $100,000 will be invested in project development.
4. Enterprise market: Introduce over 100 multinational customers in the first year of the mainnet.
5. Strategic Goals: Emerging market dominance + complete decentralized cloud services
6. Capital Planning: The A-round financing is progressing smoothly; funds will be used for mainnet launch, TGE, listing, market making, resource sales, marketing, operations, and growth.
7. Technological Vision: Upgrade to a super high-performance public chain
8. Data on-chain solutions: Smart contract-driven to meet TPS demands
Hello Neo! The competition in the DePIN track is currently very fierce. How do you think Titan can stand out with its advantages? What aspects reflect its core competitiveness?
Neo: Host, I believe the reason Titan can stand out is mainly reflected in the following five core competitive advantages.
1. Full hardware support:
Titan is committed to solving the shortcomings of traditional cloud service models through blockchain technology and distributed systems, such as low resource utilization, high costs, and centralization.
We aggregate the resources behind various hardware such as idle home computers, routers, enterprise servers, and mobile phones through the Titan Protocol, converting them into standardized services.
2. Comprehensive Resource Support:
Taking the decentralized cloud disk project as an example, 80% of the costs come from the consumption of decentralized bandwidth resources, while 20% come from storage, and computing accounts for a very small part.
Traditional DePIN projects with single resources often cannot independently solve problems. Titan, through the flexible and versatile advantage of providing various digital resource services in a one-stop manner, can also innovatively achieve WEB3 data sovereignty, data freedom, and other functions, contributing to the accelerated development of the next generation of the internet.
3. A vast user-driven device network:
Titan has over 670,000 independent nodes, with daily active nodes reaching 96,000, covering 146 countries. This scale of user participation has significant advantages in the DePIN track.
4. Mature commercial landing capability:
Titan is currently in the testnet node stage, having entered the top 10 DePIN projects, and is continuing to maintain rapid business growth, with current MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) reaching $100,000, achieving bandwidth cost savings of approximately 78.52% for top global companies such as TikTok, Tencent, iQiYi, and Lenovo.
5. Low-threshold participation: Install to Earn.
Titan supports stable access to the network for ultra-lightweight node devices, leveraging idle resources to create a wide node network and an active user base, providing us with a strong resource foundation and network effect.
Can you briefly introduce the backgrounds of the current team members of Titan Network and what advantages our team possesses in the blockchain field?
Neo: Titan's core team brings together elite talents from top global tech companies and the blockchain field, with members from renowned companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, Coinbase, Ledger, and Protocol Labs, deeply engaged in distributed systems, cloud computing, and blockchain underlying technologies. The team possesses dual capabilities in technical research and commercialization, and is equipped with a strategic advisory group composed of academic experts, fintech leaders, and industry influencers.
Core member highlights:
Neo Ge (Co-founder and CEO)
Former co-founder and vice president of IPFS Main, leading the GLIF protocol's ecological expansion in the Asia-Pacific region, with in-depth insights into distributed storage and blockchain technology ecology.
Morpheus Tang (Co-founder and COO)
Tencent Lightspeed Operations Head, with 20 years of experience in technology R&D management, previously co-founder and CTO of New Web Group, proficient in the integration of technology and business.
Konstantin Tkachuk (Co-founder and CSO)
Former entrepreneurial operations director at Protocol Labs, providing strategic consulting to over a hundred Web3 startups, with a wealth of industry resources and partner networks.
Logan Lin (CTO)
Former senior R&D leader at Huawei, previously CTO of a listed gaming company, deeply involved in optimizing the Filecoin protocol, proficient in distributed system development and performance enhancement.
Titan Network's core competitive advantages
1. Industry authority recognition and capital support
International top-tier institutional investment
In 2022, Titan received $1 million in grants from Protocol Labs (the parent company of the IPFS protocol), validating its technological innovation capabilities; in September 2024, a seed round financing led by North America’s leading blockchain investment institution Arrington Capital was completed, laying the foundation for global layout.
Top Incubator Endorsement
In early 2024, Titan broke through from over 2,000 global projects to rank among the top 20 internationally renowned incubators and was invited to participate in a closed-door incubation camp in Silicon Valley, showcasing its technological landing potential.
2. Endorsed by a top-notch advisory team
Strategic and academic dual empowerment
The project has received strategic support from Singapore Fintech leaders Professor David Lee and Mr. Chia Hock Lai. Both are not only authoritative scholars in the blockchain and FinTech fields but have also personally invested in Titan, demonstrating confidence in the project's long-term value.
Mr. Chia Hock Lai is the current CEO of Switchnovate and a senior advisor at Tembusu Partners (Blockchain Fund II). In addition to being the founding chairman of the Singapore Fintech Association, a founding member of the Global Fintech Institute, and a co-chairman of the Singapore Blockchain Association, he is also a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN), a member of the Advisory Committee of the IEEE Computer Society Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Standards Committee (IEEE CIBDL), a council member of the Singapore-Sichuan Trade and Investment Council, a member of the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Strategic Connectivity Demonstration Project (CC) Financial Subcommittee Advisory Group ('CAG'), a researcher at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), a member of the Banking and Finance Research Institute (BF) - Technology and Operations Industry Working Group, a member of the Banking and Finance and Fund Industry Group at Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP), and a startup advisor.
3. Industry ranking and ecological scale
Benchmark position in the DePIN field
According to the latest report from Messari in 2024, the number of Titan nodes has stabilized in the global top ten and is expected to rank among the top ten in monthly revenue, confirming its rapid growth in ecological scale and commercialization capabilities.
Titan Network, with its 'tech experts + industry leaders' hybrid team, continuous support from top international institutions, and cutting-edge practices in the DePIN track, is gradually becoming a benchmark project in the blockchain infrastructure field. In the future, the team will rely on technological advantages and ecological resources to drive the large-scale application of decentralized networks.
We understand that during the fourth test phase, Titan is mainly focusing on bandwidth resource monetization. Are there plans to expand more types of resource channels in the future? If so, what specific directions will it involve?
Neo: During the fourth test phase, Titan focuses on bandwidth resource monetization, and in the year following the mainnet launch, it will focus on promoting global layout for enterprise users, planning to introduce over 100 enterprise clients and achieve market dominance in emerging markets by expanding the number of nodes.
In the future, we will gradually expand more types of resource channels. Titan's resource monetization will also include computing, storage, IP, GPU, TEE (Trusted Execution Environment), etc. These resources have run through small income cases, and if we can find long-term stable and large demand, we can achieve large-scale resource monetization. However, finding large demand and matching resources and services is not an easy task.
While waiting for opportunities, one of our main directions is to first utilize the massive hot storage resources aggregated to improve the multi-point download and upload capabilities of Titan Storage, enabling a decentralized storage experience to achieve full-speed uploads and downloads on local networks. This will be complemented by exclusive support for data sovereignty and data freedom, attracting Web3 attention and traffic, opening up a large number of storage application needs, and ultimately achieving monetization channels for storage resources.
Titan plans to gradually expand its business scope to provide complete decentralized web services, thus becoming a leading comprehensive cloud service provider in emerging markets. More directions can be referenced in the upcoming white paper.
As we understand, Titan's MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) has exceeded $80,000. What are the future directions and plans for MRR revenue?
Neo: The latest news is that we have already surpassed $100,000, and the MRR in the testnet phase will be entirely invested in project development. The expenses will be allocated to the mainnet launch, TGE, listing, and repurchase-related matters. Future supportable areas include technology research and development, market expansion, ecological incentives, community feedback, operational costs, and other expenditures.
Does the official currently sell related hardware?
Neo: The official Titan Network has never authorized or participated in hardware sales activities in any form. All hardware sales behaviors conducted in the name of the official are unauthorized third-party operations. Titan publicly discloses mining participation methods on its official website and provides the necessary software and hardware configurations, which users can fully access for free.
As an international project, Titan's market focus is still in the Asia-Pacific region. Will there be a larger-scale global layout in the future? What specific market expansion plans are there?
Neo: Titan has been actively promoting global layout. The previous tests have actually covered over 100 countries, and the total number of activated nodes has exceeded 670,000.
In terms of bandwidth resource level, influenced by customer demand, although currently only supporting six countries globally, the demand and number of countries will surely increase steadily.
Titan is already at the forefront of global video bandwidth resource demand, and it will seize the first-mover advantage, stabilize development momentum, and continue to expand.
How do you view the future development trends of the DePIN track? How will Titan position and develop under this trend?
Neo: As a pioneer in the field of decentralized physical networks (DePIN), Titan Network has always focused on the industry's cutting-edge dynamics. Regarding the future development of the DePIN track and Titan's strategic layout, Titan Network CEO Neo recently proposed six core trend judgments and clarified Titan's differentiated development path.
Six future trends in the DePIN track
1. Practical transformation: DePIN will shift from concept validation to solving real scene needs, focusing on energy, storage, communication, and other infrastructure fields, providing quantifiable economic value.
2. Comprehensive Resource Integration: Break through the traditional model of single resources such as computing power and storage, integrate diverse resources such as distributed energy, IoT devices, and spatial data, and build a resource network of 'Everything Connected'.
3. Scalable expansion: Drive global coverage of billions of users for the DePIN network through technological innovation and cost optimization, achieving a thousandfold scale growth.
4. Data sovereignty return: Empower users with complete control over data through a decentralized architecture, breaking the monopoly of giants and safeguarding privacy and asset autonomy.
5. Open economic entry: Lower the threshold for crypto technology, allowing global users to seamlessly access Web3 through the DePIN network and share in the digital economy dividends.
6. Accelerate the next generation of the internet: Provide underlying support for Web3.0 through distributed resource scheduling capabilities, promoting the landing of innovative applications such as the metaverse and AI.
Titan's strategic positioning and development path
Based on the above trends, Titan Network will focus on 'building an open, efficient, and secure global distributed resource network' as its core goal, making efforts from the following three aspects:
1. Technology innovation drives value growth
Resource Generalization Capability: Expand support for various types of resources such as energy, storage, and bandwidth, to meet diverse scene needs.
Performance optimization: Improve network efficiency and reduce resource scheduling costs through algorithm upgrades and protocol iterations.
Modular architecture: Design a flexible and scalable underlying framework to adapt to customized needs in different regions and industries.
2. Ecological co-construction and global cooperation
Developer-friendly ecosystem: Provide toolchains and API interfaces, lower the participation threshold for developers, and attract Web2 developers to transition.
User incentive system: Design a transparent revenue distribution mechanism to encourage individuals and enterprises to contribute idle resources and form a positive cycle.
Cross-chain interoperability: Unblock mainstream blockchain ecosystems to achieve multi-chain circulation of resources and value.
3. Compliance-driven sustainable development
Dynamic compliance framework: Establish localized compliance teams to adapt to regulatory requirements in different jurisdictions.
KYC/AML integration: Explore lightweight compliance solutions while ensuring privacy, balancing decentralization and regulatory needs.
Institutional cooperation pilot: Collaborate with leading companies in traditional industries such as energy and telecommunications to promote large-scale commercial verification of DePIN technology.
Anchor the new paradigm of Web3 infrastructure, DePIN is not only a technological innovation but also an opportunity for reconstructing production relations.
Titan Network aims to become a bridge connecting the real world and the digital world, promoting Web3 from marginal innovation to the mainstream economic system through resource democratization and value openness. In the future, Titan will continue to deepen its efforts in technology, ecology, and compliance as three major pillars to provide global users with equal, inclusive access to the crypto economy, accelerating the arrival of the next generation of the internet.
Titan's seed round investor is Arrington Capital. Can you introduce the background of this organization and what their core considerations are for investing in Titan?
Neo: Titan Network's seed round investor Arrington Capital is a US venture capital firm focused on the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector. Founded in 2017 by Michael Arrington, the founder of the tech media company TechCrunch, it quickly became an important player in the Web3 space due to its industry insights and resource network. To date, Arrington Capital has invested in over 200 startups, covering Layer 1 public chains, infrastructure, tools, and application layer projects, with representative cases including the Ethereum ecosystem protocol ether.fi, high-performance public chain Sui, and modular blockchain zkLink. Currently, the firm manages over $1 billion in assets, and its investment portfolio has significant market influence in the blockchain industry.
Core considerations for investing in Titan
Arrington Capital's decision to invest in Titan Network is based on the following three judgments:
1. High alignment between the project and track: The team highly recognizes Titan Network's innovative positioning in the DePIN (Decentralized Physical Network) field. DePIN, as a key track combining blockchain with the real economy, is gradually becoming an important direction for the implementation of Web3, and Titan, through the model of 'community ownership and profit sharing,' is reconstructing traditional infrastructure, demonstrating enormous market potential.
2. Long-term value and ecological vision: Investors value Titan's long-term strategic planning and its contributions to the industry ecosystem. Titan not only focuses on technological implementation but also emphasizes building a sustainable community-driven economic model, which aligns closely with Arrington Capital's investment philosophy of laying out frontier technologies and pursuing long-term value.
3. Team execution and innovation: Titan's core team combines experience in blockchain technology development and commercialization capabilities, further enhancing investors' confidence through their performance in resource integration, community governance, and cross-field collaboration.
Arrington Capital's investment in Titan Network is not only a bet on the future trend of the DePIN track but also reflects its deep recognition of Titan team's technical strength and ecological vision. This collaboration is expected to help Titan become a benchmark case in the field of distributed physical networks while providing an innovative paradigm for the integration of Web3 and the real economy.
What kind of support does Arrington Capital currently provide to Titan? Is it limited to financial support, or does it also encompass strategic resources, market promotion, and other aspects?
Neo: Arrington Capital's support for this project has formed a multi-dimensional empowerment system, and its value is reflected not only in the financial aspect but also in the following four core modules to build strategic collaborative ecology:
Strategic guidance: Relying on Arrington Capital's more than ten years of industry accumulation in the blockchain field, providing strategic guidance for Titan.
Industry resources: Help Titan connect with industry resources, such as investment institutions, partners, demand clients, market resources, advisors, exchanges, etc.
Brand promotion: Leverage Arrington Capital's industry influence for brand empowerment, co-host industry summits, and technical roadshows. Joint brand communication through mainstream media channels and targeted introduction of social media KOL resources.
How is Titan's A-round financing progressing? How do you plan to efficiently utilize the funds to further enhance Titan's value and influence?
Neo: Titan Network's A-round financing has significantly improved efficiency, and the progress is smooth. "It feels much smoother than the previous round of financing." Funding utilization plan: mainnet launch, TGE, listing, market making, resource sales, marketing, operations, and growth.
This efficient progress may benefit from the team's accumulated experience in early-stage financing, the optimization of the market environment, and the continuous validation of the core value of the project, creating better conditions for the new round of financing.
Capital planning: Focus on key strategic nodes
This round of financing will focus on technological implementation and ecological expansion, covering the following key areas:
1. Mainnet Launch: As a core milestone of the project, the mainnet launch will achieve the full landing of the technical architecture;
2. Token economic model release (TGE): Activate community ecology through a reasonable token distribution mechanism;
3. Listing on exchanges: Getting listed on mainstream trading platforms to enhance asset liquidity and market recognition;
4. Liquidity provision: Collaborate with professional institutions to ensure trading depth and maintain price stability;
5. Resource sales and strategic cooperation: Accelerate scene landing through technology licensing and ecological cooperation;
6. Market promotion and brand building: Strengthen global community influence and attract developers and users to participate;
7. Operational system optimization: Improve governance structure, enhance team execution efficiency.
Strategic goals: Value growth and ecological win-win
Through the above measures, Titan Network aims to build a synergistic closed loop of technology, capital, and ecology: strengthening the underlying infrastructure at the technical level, expanding the user and partner network at the market level, and promoting long-term value release through refined governance at the operational level. This multi-dimensional layout will not only help enhance the project's short-term market performance but also focus on building a sustainable Web3 ecological system.
As a public chain, how does Titan achieve a balance between high throughput and decentralization? Can you detail its consensus mechanism, network architecture design, and how to ensure the network's security and scalability?
Neo: Different solutions will be adopted at different stages, gradually upgrading, and Titan plans to become a super high-performance public chain.
Specifically, the current Titan blockchain is built on Cosmos, which can meet the current TPS demands. However, with the continuous increase of idle resources in the Titan ecosystem and the number of Titan clients, the demand for TPS on the blockchain will increase. At that time, Titan DAO will replace it with a higher TPS blockchain base as needed, such as adopting a DAG-based block synchronization mechanism to replace the current Cosmos block synchronization mechanism.
Considering future TPS demand, Titan is currently focused on utilizing blockchain smart contracts to fulfill data on-chain needs within the Titan ecosystem. This is because using smart contracts allows for a smooth transition to a higher TPS blockchain base in the future.
In choosing the data to be on-chain, Titan needs to consider: data volume, minimizing storage needs as much as possible while ensuring core data is on-chain.
On-chain frequency, minimize TPS demand as much as possible, avoiding TPS pressure on the current Titan blockchain. Through the above design, ensure the security and scalability of the network.
Titan Network does not blindly pursue 'extreme performance in one step,' but instead achieves a balance between security, decentralization, and performance through an abstraction layer of smart contracts and progressive architectural upgrades.
In today's wave of decentralization sweeping the globe, Titan Network is redefining the boundaries of cloud computing with its unique resource integration capabilities and technological innovation thinking. From aggregating over 670,000 nodes of idle devices to building a distributed network with comprehensive resource support; from the commercialization verification of the testnet to the global layout of the mainnet ecosystem, Titan always centers on 'user-driven' and is pushing the DePIN track from concept to large-scale landing.
Looking to the future, Titan's vision extends beyond technological breakthroughs—it aims to break the monopoly of traditional internet and return data sovereignty to individuals, allowing emerging markets to share in the digital dividends. With the mainnet launch, acceleration of capital empowerment, and ecological expansion, Titan will gradually upgrade from a resource monetization platform to a core hub of Web3 infrastructure, providing a solid foundation for innovative applications such as the metaverse and AI.
In this 'idle device revolution,' Titan not only demonstrates the courage of a technology disruptor but also conveys the value of an inclusive internet: by connecting the real and digital worlds, allowing every piece of idle resource to create value, and enabling every participant to share in the future.
Perhaps as it is said: 'Decentralization is not the end but the starting point of the new economic system.' Titan is writing this chapter with action. The future is here, let us witness how distributed networks reshape the rules of the internet.
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