peakthe layer 1 blockchain for the machine economy, has announced the expansion of its ecosystem as PING joins the decentralization of gaming.
PING is building a DePIN of gaming laptops to work as a decentralized cloud service for Web3 and Web2 games.
The DePIN allows gamers to earn rewards for sharing their idle computing resources with game developers and other projects, such as AI startups needing GPU capabilities and crypto miners.
As part of the integration with peaq, it will set up a mechanism that allows laptop purchases with stablecoins through peaq and launch its token on the network for the machine economy.
These devices will act as a decentralized backend for Web2 and Web3 online games, giving developers a cheaper and more transparent alternative to traditional cloud services. The spare capabilities can also be used for things like training AI, rendering visually heavy virtual experiences, and completing various other tasks.
PING is already working with twenty gaming projects that could run on its platform, including Yuliverse and Seraph.
“The DePIN model puts gamers at the helm of the industry they love and care about, making them the owners of the infrastructure that powers their favorite games,” said Leonard Dorlöchter, co-founder of peaq. “PING brings this vision to life – and we are excited to see it join the Peaq ecosystem, the launch of which will impact one of the world’s most important entertainment sectors.”
The PING laptop, manufactured by ThundeRobot, a major Chinese gaming hardware company, is the powerful workhorse of the DePIN. It runs on a 16-core Intel i7-14650HX processor and uses the high-end NVIDIA RTX4070 GPU and 16GB of RAM to run the most demanding Web2 and Web3 games.
With around 2,000 units already sold, laptop owners will receive special benefits in the PING ecosystem, including staking priority, exclusive partner rewards and more. However, the DePIN will also be open to non-proprietary gaming platforms in the future.
As part of the integration with peaq, PING will set up a mechanism for people to buy their PING laptops with stablecoins on peaq. It will also build smart contracts that will allow gamers to mint these laptops as NFTs on peaq, confirming their ownership in a reliable and decentralized manner.
PING will also equip all devices on its DePIN with self-sovereign peaq IDs and launch its token natively on peaq.