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GEODNET

  • Name: GEODNET
  • URL: https://docs.geodnet.com/
  • Category: decentralized GNSS correction network / RTK location infrastructure / DePIN geospatial data network / location-verification-adjacent reward system
  • Summary: GEODNET is not really a proof-of-location network. It is a GNSS correction-data network with unusually explicit spatial reward policy. The useful part is not generic mine with hardware branding, but the way rooftop base stations, signal-quality scoring, hex competition, 100-meter clustering rules, and Location NFTs decide which physical deployments get paid and protected. That makes GEODNET a good comparison point when the question is coverage governance and correction-data trust, not witness-based location proofs.
  • What it does:
    • Operates a blockchain-incentivized network of permanent GNSS reference stations that provide RTK-style correction data for devices needing centimeter-level positioning
    • Pays operators of rooftop base stations in GEOD tokens, with long-run supply and emissions governed by a fixed-supply token schedule and annual mining halvings
    • Uses reward metrics tied to online time, effective satellite count above SNR thresholds, multipath conditions, GPS signal type, and other installation-quality signals rather than paying purely for box uptime
    • Uses hex-based geographic coverage rules plus 100-meter anti-clustering rules to discourage redundant station placement and push the network toward more even spatial coverage
    • Grants a Location NFT to the first eligible station in a hex meeting quality thresholds, protecting that station from reward splitting inside the hex and turning spatial scarcity into an explicit onchain incentive surface
    • Sells the network’s output as a real-time correction-data service for robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, agriculture, construction, smartphones, and other rover devices
  • Key claims:
    • GEODNET clears the bar because it makes geographic coverage policy itself into the main protocol mechanism. The interesting part is not merely mine with hardware, but how signal quality scoring, hex competition, NFT protection, and anti-collocation rules decide which physical deployments are economically preferred.
    • The docs are unusually explicit that even coverage is a protocol goal. The Location NFT page frames NFTs as a fix for dense-urban overconcentration, and the hex-reward rules formalize how one qualifying station can keep a full reward share while later entrants in the same cell split the residual pool.
    • The 100-meter clustering rule is especially useful analytically because it is harsher than many generic DePIN coverage systems: within a close cluster, only the earliest station gets the share and the others can get zero regardless of NFT status.
    • GEODNET also belongs in the corpus because it separates data quality from location scarcity. Effective satellite count, SNR thresholds, multipath, and triple-band versus dual-band hardware affect rewards independently of the geographic competition rules.
    • The system is not fully neutral infrastructure in practice. Stations register through GEODNET’s console/cloud platform, reward policy changes flow through GEODNET Improvement Proposals, and the docs describe centrally managed status and eligibility processes around NFTs and station registration.
    • The network is best compared not only with DePIN miner networks but also with proof-of-location systems, because both are ultimately selling claims about where hardware is and whether nearby devices can trust resulting location data. GEODNET’s answer is dense GNSS reference infrastructure and quality-weighted correction streaming rather than latency-witness proofs.
    • This entry is worth keeping because it gives the library a clean geodesy-first comparison point beside witness-based verification networks, helping separate correction-data systems from proof-of-location stacks.
  • Whitepaper: GEODNET publishes an official whitepaper PDF at ../whitepapers/geodnet-whitepaper.pdf. The reviewed primary-source notes for this pass are in ../whitepapers/geodnet-primary-sources-2026-05-12.md.
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