Ambios Network (formerly Ambient Network) is a decentralized environmental monitoring platform that sources real-time air quality data from low-cost sensors. In late 2024, after acquiring PlanetWatch, Ambios migrated to Solana, seeking faster transactions and improved scalability. By combining distributed hardware with blockchain, Ambios aims to generate hyperlocal insights into air quality and other environmental metrics.
Ambios is preparing its $AMBIOS Token Generation Event (TGE) for Q1 2025. This token underscores Ambios Network’s continued evolution into a decentralized ecosystem where sensor operators, application developers, and data consumers collectively maintain and benefit from environmental monitoring. The token will launch on Raydium, and the team is set to raise $750,000 USDC through a Liquidity Boostrapping Pool (LBP) in partnership with Swissborg’s BorgPad, ensuring fair price discovery.
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IntroductionEnvironmental monitoring is the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data related to the natural environment. Traditional environmental monitoring relies on a few expensive, centralized stations, resulting in coarse data and limited coverage. Regulatory-grade air quality monitors cost $50,000–100,000 each, making high coverage impractical.
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Ambios Network takes a decentralized approach to environmental monitoring, which carries several advantages to traditional environmental monitoring:
Environmental monitoring can also play a role in AI and robotics, with drones, robots, and wearables integrating real-time air quality data. Industries such as urban management could use air quality data to regulate industrial emissions and manage regional climates. AI and robotics can manage factory environments by triggering ventilation systems, adjusting production processes, or initiating maintenance when pollutant levels rise. In many cases, robotics and AI can leverage air quality to enhance monitoring and forecasting capabilities, enabling proactive measures that protect public health and the environment.
Ambios Network comprises 52,000+ contributors, 8,000+ sensors, and over 12 billion data streams across Europe and North America. Its scalable, low-cost network enables it to compete with traditional environmental monitoring companies and even contribute to traditional weather trackers with more frequent and accurate data.
Transition to SolanaAmbios inherited its initial infrastructure by acquiring PlanetWatch (built on Algorand). However, to support an efficient and scalable sensor network, Ambios chose to migrate to Solana’s blockchain. Solana offers high throughput (thousands of transactions per second) and low latency (block times ~400 milliseconds) while maintaining low fees. This is critical for Ambios’ as it handles micro-transactions from tens of thousands of sensors.
Beyond raw performance, Solana has emerged as the de facto hub for DePIN networks. Category leaders like Helium (wireless IoT) and Render (GPU rendering) have migrated to or launched on Solana. Ambios benefits from shared infrastructure, developer tools, and community awareness by migrating to Solana. Solana’s DePIN ecosystem also enjoys strong investor support (Solana Ventures was an early backer of Ambios Network) and a large community of users familiar with DePIN. In other words, Solana provides not just a faster blockchain but also a network of networks where an environmental data project could thrive among projects requiring similar resources.
Solana's throughput and fast finality will improve the efficiency of Ambios Network’s data streaming and processing. The low transaction fees on Solana will reduce Ambios Network's operational costs. From a user perspective, migrating to Solana will enhance the experience for sensor operators and data consumers.
Ecosystem and Use CasesNow that distributed environmental monitoring is possible, Ambios can build more consumer use cases for retail and companies to participate in and earn from data collection. In August 2024, Ambios launched AmbiGo!, a web app that lets consumers gather environmental data and earn rewards through tokens. AmbiGo! aligns with Ambios Network’s thesis of gathering more granular data on air quality worldwide.
Ambios Network’s technology is already being applied in various real-world scenarios. Key partnerships include:
Additionally, Ambios has recently joined the CMC Labs Web3 Accelerator Program, which offers Ambios advisory, a network of similar startups, and additional resources to support growth and development. This initiative should increase Ambios Network’s exposure and offer them resources and tools to develop their ecosystem.
AMBIOS Tokenomics and TGEAmbios’s token ($AMBIOS) is the utility and reward token that underpins the network’s economics. AMBIOS will be issued as an SPL token on Solana (planned for Q1 2025) with a fixed maximum supply of 1 billion tokens.
Ambios will use its native token to incentivize data contributors, fund development, and facilitate governance while gradually transitioning to a sustainable economy driven by data usage. The initial token distribution is heavily oriented toward network growth. The breakdown is as follows:
Ambios has adopted a halving-style approach to distribute its mining rewards pool. In year one, 200 million tokens will be distributed as rewards, and this yearly emission rate halves each subsequent year (100M in year two, 50M in year three, and so on. After ten years, the cumulative mining rewards will reach the allocated 400 million (40% of supply), and mining rewards will end. Ambios’s mining emissions mirror Bitcoin’s issuance pattern but condense it into a decade, offering substantial early rewards to boost network expansion while sharply reducing inflation over time to safeguard the token’s long-term value.
Copilot Insights: How does Ambios Network's tokenomics differ from other DePIN projects?Ambios will launch its TGE using SwissBorg’s ecosystem platform, BorgPad. BorgPad’s LBP (Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool) is a fair launchpad that allows anyone to participate in the project’s TGE, contributing the necessary liquidity for the token to be traded onchain.
Closing SummaryAmbios Network's migration to the Solana blockchain and the upcoming $AMBIOS Token Generation Event (TGE) marks a moment in the evolution of decentralized environmental monitoring. These developments position Ambios Network to benefit from Solana’s network effects, returning value to the community through token rewards and environmental insights.
The market potential for Ambios Network is substantial, addressing the demand for accurate and readily accessible environmental data. Ambios Network can tap into a multi-billion dollar industry with a cost-effective and scalable solution. Garnering retail demand through its TGE will be an essential first step in decentralizing environmental monitoring.
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