⚡️ Blockchain x Energy: The US Grid Needs DePIN, Says Pantera VC

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According to Pantera Capital’s Cosmo Jiang, blockchain might be the key to decentralizing the U.S. energy grid — a move that’s gaining traction as AI, crypto mining, and HPC strain national infrastructure.

🧠 Jiang’s take:
“All of civilization runs on incentives. Blockchain is just the newest (and most decentralized) way to coordinate people and resources.”

Here’s the vision:

Use token incentives to reward everyday Americans for installing solar panels, home batteries, or contributing energy from idle assets.

Replace centralized, high-capex infrastructure with gig-style energy contributions.

Create redundancy + resilience with decentralized networks — a.k.a. DePIN in the real world.

️ Trump’s AI Strategy backs this approach:
To power AI data centers and future-proof national compute infrastructure, the White House wants:

Grid decentralization

Support for nuclear

EMP resilience

Maximum uptime for critical systems

Why it matters:
The U.S. grid is one of the most complex systems on Earth — and blockchain can help rebuild it from the edge outward.

TL;DR:
The next big DePIN use case? Power.
Blockchain isn’t just for finance — it might just keep the lights on for AI, crypto, and the future of compute.