Every industry that got centralized followed the same script. A handful of companies built the infrastructure, locked in the customers, raised the prices, and made it nearly impossible to leave. Storage, energy, video, compute — all of it ended up in the hands of a few. DePIN is the supply chain fighting back.

Filecoin did it to cloud storage. Instead of paying Amazon to hold your data in a server room you'll never see, $FIL connects you directly to independent storage providers around the world. Verifiable, decentralized, 60-70% cheaper. The middleman is the protocol, not the corporation.

Livepeer did it to video infrastructure. Every stream you watch passes through a centralized transcoding layer someone is charging an enormous premium for. Livepeer decentralizes that layer — GPU owners transcode video and earn $LPT and the cost drops. The network is owned by its participants.

Powerledger did it to energy. In India, Australia, Austria, and Thailand, households with solar panels trade excess electricity directly with neighbors through its platform. No utility company sitting in the middle. No markup. Just supply meeting demand, settled on-chain. $POWR coordinates the market.

Fluence is doing it to cloud compute. The hyperscaler markup — the premium AWS charges to sit between your workload and the hardware running it — gets replaced by a transparent marketplace where providers compete for jobs. $FLT runs the coordination layer.

The supply chain always gets disrupted when the markup gets too high and the alternative gets good enough. Both conditions are now met.