DRONE ON How Tokens Solve the Drone Industry's Scalability Problem
Nov 24, 2025
28:19
Graham Anderson, Operations Manager at Spexi, explains how cryptocurrency and blockchain technology are solving the drone industry's scalability challenge. He discusses how DePINs (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks) are revolutionizing drone operations, how standardized data products unlock global networks, and why tokens enable coordination at scale that traditional payment methods cannot match.
Discussed:
- The $50B DePIN market and its path to $3.5T by 2028
- Why traditional drone services can't scale across geographies
- What crypto actually does (and doesn’t do) for a drone network
- (00:00) - How Crypto Empowers Drone Ops with Graham from Spexi_2025-11-10 11_32_35
- (00:47) - Guest Introduction: Graham Anderson, Ops Manager @ Spexi
- (04:06) - Today's episode: why do drones benefit from the blockchain or crypto?
- (09:42) - What does crypto "do" for the network? For pilots?
- (12:06) - The DePIN challenge Spexi overcame: hardware makes things harder
- (15:24) - Technologies like drones and crypto go through waves
- (23:09) - "Fight or Flight" Segment
- (25:59) - Segment: The Bryce is Wrong