Environmental Monitoring DePIN Ambios Preparing TGE

Key Insights

• Ambios Network is a decentralized environmental monitoring platform that collects air quality data in real-time, enabling transparent air quality data sharing with data marketplaces, enterprise weather services, and AI platforms.
• The $AMBIOS token will launch in Q1 2025 on Solana with a 1 billion supply cap and halving-based emissions for mining.
• Ambios migrated from Algorand to Solana in Q4 2024 for higher throughput and lower costs. Solana’s speed and low latency enable Ambios Network’s frequent microtransactions.
• Ambios has 50,000 users and over 8,000+ sensors deployed. By sensor deployment, Ambios ranks among the top 3 DePIN projects.

Primer

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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Introduction

Environmental 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:

• Cost Efficiency and Coverage: Decentralized systems use low-cost sensors to expand monitoring coverage at a reduced expense compared to centralized setups. Ambios Network deploys thousands of citizen-hosted air quality nodes, filling gaps in centralized networks.
• Data Granularity: Citizen-deployed sensors provide hyperlocal data, enabling detection of localized pollution hotspots and microclimate effects. Centralized systems often lack the density to capture fine-grained variations, missing street-level trends.
• Participation and Incentives: Ambios’s model rewards individuals with tokens for hosting sensors and contributing data, encouraging widespread involvement. Centralized networks typically lack mechanisms to engage communities, relying on institutional resources. Blockchain-based rewards sustain long-term participation, mitigating volunteer fatigue common in citizen science projects.
• Scalability and Accessibility: Decentralization generates more data from diverse locations, increasing the volume and reach of environmental insights. Community hardware contributions lower overall costs compared to centralized infrastructure investments. Data access is democratized, allowing anyone to use aggregated feeds rather than depending on a single agency. Ambios provides open access via an API, offering the public tens of thousands of data streams.

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 Solana

Ambios 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 Cases

Now 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:

• Japanese Village Plaza (September 20, 2024): Ambios has deployed air quality sensors at Los Angeles’ Japanese Village Plaza, equipping 30 retailers with devices to track metrics like temperature, humidity, and pollutants. This initiative aims to support the Japanese Village Plaza’s ESG efforts.
• Best Western Partnership (October 9, 2024): Ambios has partnered with Best Western McCarran Inn in Las Vegas to deploy 110 air quality sensors in every room and public space. By monitoring metrics like temperature, humidity, and CO2 in real time, Ambios and Best Western aim to improve the guest experience and operational efficiency.
• CMG Partnership (January 24, 2025): Ambios has partnered with CMG Companies (parent company for Taco Bell, KFC, ACE Hardware, Rent-A-Center, and more) to install 1,000 sensors across their businesses. CMG will use this data to optimize HVAC systems, improve indoor air quality, and reduce energy consumption.
• Synoptic Integration (February 13, 2025): Ambios has partnered with Synoptic Data, the largest global weather and environmental data repository, to share its sensor feeds. Over 8,000 live Ambios sensors—tracking temperature, humidity, PM₂.₅, PM₁₀, O₂, NO₂, CO, and more—now feed into Synoptic’s Weather API and viewer. This integration lets weather apps and researchers access air quality data alongside traditional weather information, filling gaps in underserved areas.
• Rivalz Network Integration (February 20, 2025): Ambios has partnered with Rivalz AI to power its AI economy. Rivalz will leverage Ambios's tokenized data resources for its swarms, enhancing network efficiency and informing agents to scale DePIN.

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 TGE

Ambios’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​:

• Mining Rewards & Programs: 40% of the supply is reserved for sensor owners and programs that stimulate network expansion (coverage bonuses, referrals, etc.).
• Core Team: 20% of the supply is allocated to founders and team members.
• Investors: 15% of the supply is allocated to seed and private round investors.
• Ambios Network Foundation: 10% of the supply is allocated to ecosystem development.
• Legacy Network & Ecosystem Airdrops: 10% of the supply is set aside to compensate and onboard PlanetWatch’s legacy participants.
• Public Sale: 5% of the supply is allocated for the SwissBorg pre-sale.

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 Summary

Ambios 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.