Market Problem & Opportunity

The modern digital infrastructure is undergoing a structural crisis: the internet has become a fundamental resource, but its value is distributed extremely unevenly. Global networks, corporations, and data centers have formed a monopoly on data processing, while billions of users actually own vast amounts of unused bandwidth — a resource that remains locked and loses its value every day.

With an average home or mobile connection load of 10-30%, the majority of the bandwidth users pay for simply sits idle. This amounts to hundreds of millions of terabytes of bandwidth that are burned annually with no benefit. The user pays for the internet in full, but only uses a portion of it — and there is no mechanism for cost recovery.

On the other hand, institutions, research networks, data providers, and analytics platforms face an increasing demand for distributed network resources. They require scalable, geographically diverse connection points for processing requests, gathering publicly available data, testing networks, and supporting infrastructure. Centralized solutions are expensive, geographically limited, and poorly scalable.

This is where a unique opportunity arises: to unite millions of untapped user resources into a next-generation global network, which will be cheaper, faster, and more scalable than traditional models. However, before the emergence of DePIN projects, this was impossible — there were no tools for trust, infrastructure, or a fair economic model. Now it is possible:

• Provide transparent accounting for each participant’s contribution;

• Calculate rewards in real-time;

• Scale the network to millions of nodes;

• Guarantee security and independence from intermediaries;

• Support a decentralized economy where value is distributed among those who create it.

However, most existing solutions are either overly technical, difficult to use, or incapable of offering a scalable, accessible, and secure connection model. The user entry barrier remains a significant problem: Web3 technologies are interesting but still inaccessible to the broader public.

This is where Lume comes in.

Lume solves this problem in a radically simple way: you use the internet as usual, and the network automatically monetizes what you are not using. Three clicks. No setup. Full transparency. And guaranteed privacy that excludes the collection of personal data or activity monitoring.

Lume transforms unused resources into economic value, creating a new class of digital income — income from participation in a distributed network infrastructure.

If millions of users pool their unused bandwidth, a vast distributed network emerges, capable of servicing corporate and institutional requests at low cost and with high geographical availability.

On a macro level, Lume opens up a market with a billion-dollar potential — the decentralized network power (DePIN) market, which is growing exponentially and already recognized as one of the key technological trends of the coming years.

Thus, the problem is simple: the internet resource remains unused. The opportunity — turn this resource into an economy. The solution — Lume.