DePIN API: Access Infrastructure Telemetry for 296 Networks
What Infrastructure Telemetry Covers
"Infrastructure telemetry" means the operational health of a DePIN network — not just its token price. It is the set of metrics that tell you whether a network is actually working: node counts, geographic distribution, uptime ratios, deployed capacity, and utilization. These are the metrics that separate a functioning physical network from a token narrative.
At Kairos Signal we read infrastructure telemetry directly from each network's own API or chain across 296 networks with first-party supply data. Every value carries a verify_url to its upstream source and a freshness_verdict, so the operational picture is verifiable rather than modeled.
Why This Data Is Hard
Infrastructure telemetry is hard to collect well because every network exposes it differently. One network publishes node counts via an RPC, another via a REST API, another via an explorer endpoint — each with its own field names, units, and update cadence. Normalizing all of it into canonical concepts, with provenance on every value, is a permanent engineering commitment. It is the layer most DePIN dashboards skip, and the layer that actually matters for assessing network health.
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) represent one of the fastest-growing sectors in crypto — but getting reliable, verifiable data about them is surprisingly hard. Most aggregators mix sourced data with estimates, and few tell you where each number came from.
The Kairos Signal DePIN API solves this with a provenance-first approach: every value carries its source, an as_of timestamp, and a verify_yourself URL pointing to the upstream endpoint. You can check any number against the original source without trusting us.
Coverage
- A network catalog spanning storage, compute, wireless, energy, and sensor categories
- 296 networks with first-party supply telemetry — supply, nodes, utilization read directly from each network's own API
- 610 live data series refreshed continuously
- 9 networks with verified on-chain revenue (DefiLlama-sourced)
Quick Start
Register for $5 free credits — no credit card required:
curl -X POST https://kairossignal.com/mcp/ \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"register_agent","arguments":{"email":"[email protected]"}},"id":1}'
Or use the REST API directly:
# Get an API key
curl -X POST https://kairossignal.com/v1/credits/register \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"email":"[email protected]"}'
List all networks
curl https://kairossignal.com/v1/networks \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"
Get supply telemetry for all 296 networks
curl https://kairossignal.com/v1/supply \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"
Get on-chain revenue
curl https://kairossignal.com/v1/revenue \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"
Pricing
| Product | Price | Description | |---------|-------|-------------| | Free tier | $0 | $5 credits on signup (~1,000 queries) | | DePIN Networks Catalog | $0.99 | Full network catalog with coverage tiers | | DePIN Supply Snapshot | $4.99 | First-party supply telemetry, all 296 networks | | DePIN Revenue Snapshot | $2.99 | Verified on-chain fees, 9 networks | | Design Partner | $199/mo | Full API access, all tiers, locked for the life of the subscription | | Pro | $499/mo | Higher rate limits, full snapshot history |
Why Provenance Matters
When you're building a DePIN index, ETF methodology, or research product, you need to prove where every number came from. Our API returns:
{
"symbol": "AKT",
"metric": "active_providers",
"value": 2453,
"source": "depin_first_party",
"as_of": "2026-08-19T06:44:19Z",
"age_hours": 5.9,
"freshness": "recent",
"verify_yourself": "https://stats.akash.network/providers"
}
The verify_yourself URL points to the same upstream endpoint we read from. You can verify any value independently.
MCP Integration
For AI agents, we support the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with 10 tools:
register_agent — self-register, get $5 free creditslist_products — browse purchasable data productspurchase_data — buy data with credits (inline delivery)topup_credits — add credits via Stripe or USDCcheck_balance — check remaining creditslist_datasets — browse available datasetsfetch_dataset — query records (free tier: 10 per query)verify_footprint — SHA-256 cryptographic verificationget_zk_provenance — provenance proof for any recordget_stats — aggregate database statisticsStart Building
Get your free API key → · View pricing → · Browse networks →Every value is verifiable. Try to break our numbers — that's the pitch.
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Try it yourself
Query the live catalog, supply telemetry, and provenance receipts directly: /v1/provenance on the REST API.
Related reading: the DePIN developer guide · how to query DePIN data with curl · depin data documentation · DePIN RPC endpoints across chains
Start with a free API key — $5 in credits, no credit card — and query the live networks, their series, and the MCP server. Try the API free → · See pricing
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Get Started With DePIN Intelligence
Kairos Signal provides verifiable, provenance-first telemetry for DePIN networks, including first-party supply data read directly from a network's own API or blockchain. Every value carries a verify_url you can check yourself, and each daily batch is Merkle-rooted and anchored to Bitcoin.
Every API response is signed with ed25519 and timestamped. You can prove what was served and when, months later. That is what we mean by provenance-first.
Related reading: DePIN Intelligence Guide · DePIN Telemetry · How to Query DePIN Data · DePIN Data Verification · Pricing Correction 2026-09-25: this post called our catalog entry count a count of DePIN networks; that count includes superseded rows and Bittensor subnet rows, so it has been removed. Current coverage figures: /v1/networks.