Earning Money From Your Wifi - Karrier One vs Roam
With DePIN & the Web3 movement you can earn passive income just with your WiFi! Here I will help you decide which miner is right for you.
I cover the Crypto DePIN space and Beta test the latest DePIN projects for you! Let’s maximize our passive income and Crypto investments together. Before we start, please like and subscribe to be first for the next 100X!
This is the fourth version of a DePIN Crypto head to head! A little experiment where I pit DePIN projects against each other, compare the most important attributes and help you decide which is right for you. Do you want to see more of this, less, or do you have any suggestions for the next head to head? Let me know in the comments!
Get ready to dive into two of the BEST Crypto DePIN Miners for 2025! Truly passive income from plug & play WiFi oriented devices.
Where to Start with Karrier One? With their 223K unique cellular users, the 550K GB of data used, their 4G, 5G and WiFi solutions or their recently launched hardware device miners for both Wifi and Cellular?
Where to Start With Roam? With their 7.5 Million WiFi Hotspots, their 3 Million registered users, their eSIM that can save you 80% or their plug and play WiFi miners?
If you say all of the above you are in the right place! Decentralized WiFi is a hot space with the potential for easy passive income but also a fair amount of competition. Let’s dig into both now.
What is Web3 Internet or DePIN Wifi? Instead of one big company (like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T) owning the internet hardware, a community of individuals owns and operates the infrastructure. In return, those people earn tokens/crypto for providing real-world connectivity.
With that established let us dive into how you can generate passive income and earn crypto through Nodes and Edge Computing! Over the next few minutes I will be breaking down these three companies based upon the following characteristics:
Company Creditability and Expertise
Product Technology and Design
ROI and Passive Income Potential
NEW: Follow my DePIN Portfolio, see my real-time earnings and get custom discount codes for new miners such as the the Roam Rainer MAX60 & Karrier One HOTSPOT1 via MyDePIN
Executive Summary - Roam
Project Summary: Imagine a ubiquitous WiFi network that can be connected at any time without a password. Roam Network is making this vision a reality. Through revolutionary decentralized WiFi networks, OpenRoaming technology, and blockchain credentials, Roam is reshaping the way we connect. Smart eSIM and Roam Points incentives have injected powerful momentum into this innovative eco. In doing so Roam is also enabling people like us to earn easy passive income to support this objective.
Roam Mission: Roam’s mission is to unify more than 600 million public Wi-Fi hotspots around the world, creating an open-access global wireless network that ensures automatic wireless connections, seamless switching between different networks, and secure connections for individuals, smart devices, and artificial intelligence agents.
How to Mine: With one of their two hardware miners (the focus of this article, through their app via sharing your home WiFI credentials or through various airdrop campaigns
Cost to Mine: $450 with Roam Rainer MAX60 Discount Code DEPINBT
Ongoing Expenses (electricity etc.): <$0.10 per day in most countries.
Executive Summary - Karrier One
Project Summary: What if we didn't have to rely on centralized telecommunications networks? What if we had a say in what happens on the network we use everyday, for calling, texting, streaming, browsing? What if we could not just be a "user" of the network that powers our lives, but a host as well?
Karrier One offers everybody a chance to build something of their own through our advanced telecom infrastructure. On the Karrier One network, users can be more than just a customer. The Karrier One network combines traditional telecommunications and new-age blockchain technology.
Karrier One Mission: We aim to create a community-owned, carrier-grade 5G network that offers improved accessibility, speed, cost-effectiveness, as well as security. Our goal is to decentralize wireless infrastructure and democratize telecommunications, becoming the global network. Through our custom blockchain, which uses smart contracts as our centerpiece of operations, everyone who holds our native KONE token has a say in what happens on the Karrier One network.
How to Mine: With one of their two hardware miners (the focus of this article), or through various airdrop campaigns
Cost to Mine: $261 with Karrier One HOTSPOT1 Discount Code: DEPINBT
Ongoing Expenses (electricity etc.): <$0.10 per day in most countries.
1. Company Credibility and Expertise
Roam Social Media Stats
Number of Discord Members: 94K
Number of Followers on Twitter: 313K
Number of Telegram Members: 60K
Karrier One Social Media Stats
Number of Discord Members: 130K
Number of Followers on Twitter: 104K
Number of Medium Followers: 13.6K
Roam Leadership
Parent Company: Roam
Roam CEO: N/A
Number of Employees Stated on LinkedIn: 12
Number of Followers on LinkedIn: 183
Karrier One Leadership
Parent Company: Karrier One
Karrier One Co-Founder & CEO: Samer Bishay
Number of Employees Stated on LinkedIn: 13
Number of Followers on LinkedIn: 11K
Company Credibility and Expertise Winner: Tie (If I had to pick it would be Karrier One due to the LinkedIn presence
2. Product Technology and Design
Roam Technology and Design
Security: CC EAL 6+, Support WPA2 uses 802.1X authentication
Wifi Speed: WiFI 6 - 9.6Gbps data transfer rates
WiFi Capacity: 200+ simultaneous device connections
Distance: 150 Square Meters
OS: Android / Mobile
Ease to Deploy: Seamless!
Maintenance Required: None
Design Aesthetic Rating (1–5): 5
App Sophistication and User Interface (1–5): 4
Business Plan (1–5): 4
Summary: Device appears more customized for Roam and an overall more powerful machine
Karrier One Technology and Design
Security: Enterprise-Grade Wireless Security
Wifi Speed: WiFI 6 - 2.9 Gbps data transfer rates
WiFi Capacity: N/A
Distance: 45 Square Meters
Ease to Deploy: Seamless!
Maintenance Required: None
Design Aesthetic Rating (1–5): 2
App Sophistication and User Interface (1–5): 3
Business Plan (1–5): 4
Summary: Device appears like a white labeled Edge-core EAP101 which has moderate specs
Product Technology and Design Winner: Roam
3. ROI and Passive Income Potential
Roam
Investment to Start Mining: $450 with Roam Rainer MAX60 Discount Code DEPINBT
Ongoing Expenses (electricity etc.): <$0.10 per day in most countries!
Token Status: Mainnet
Current Token Price: $.07
Daily Token Earnings: Lowest - 60 Points per day which equals 2 $ROAM
Token Bonus Via My Custom Link: 3K
Current Monthly Earnings: $64
ROI Period: A very long time if placed in a residential location
Karrier One
Investment to Start Mining: $261 with Karrier One HOTSPOT1 Discount Code: DEPINBT
Ongoing Expenses (electricity etc.): 22.4 W max. <$0.09 per day in most countries!
Token Status: Pre token generation event
Current Token Price: N/A
Daily Token Earnings: TBD
Current Monthly Earnings: TBD
ROI Period: TBD
ROI and Passive Income Potential Winner: Karrier One
Summary and Overall Recommendation on Roam vs Karrier One
Summary: Both projects have very similar overall approaches but at different maturity levels. While Roam has a live token, Karrier One is still in its infancy and pre-TGE. The earnings from Roam are known but at this token price and emission schedule not a great investment. Overall Karrier One provides a higher potential reward but also higher risk.
Buy / Wait / Avoid: Buy
Confidence in this space for DePIN: High
Confidence in these teams: Medium
How to Start Mining with Roam and / or Karrier One: Buy a miner Here Through Helium Deploy
TL;DR: These projects have overlapping objectives and similar approaches and steep competition from Helium… However, they are both very easy to deploy and bring us one step closer to a decentralized internet. If supporting these objectives AND making money excites you — go for it! If you first want to get the lay of the land around DePIN check out These DePIN Miners Too.
For those who want to commit to their passive income & node journey the most effective way is through Helium Deploy. To save you hard earned money, I have these custom codes for my followers which works on all Helium Deploy hardware:
Questions, comments or suggestions on the next DePIN project I should spotlight? Let me know!
Happy Mining, the DePIN Beta Tester
Follow On: Twitter / X and Instagram
