Titan Network Launches $200K Challenge to Grow Decentralized IP Infrastructure

Titan Network, a decentralized infrastructure provider, has announced a $200,000 USDC challenge series aimed at scaling its vision of a user-powered internet. The campaign builds on the success of Titan’s earlier $10,000 “warm-up” contest, which drew nearly 38,000 participants and rewarded 100 winners.

The new initiative will run as a series of community-driven challenges, with the current campaign featuring an $18,000 prize pool over 10 days. Participants can join by installing the Titan browser extension, which enables users to securely lease their residential IP addresses and earn rewards.

Titan’s mission is to replace centralized cloud infrastructure, dominated by a handful of tech giants, with a global, decentralized network powered by everyday users. Through its browser extension, contributors share idle bandwidth, storage, and compute power, forming the foundation of what Titan calls “the everywhere cloud.”

Addressing the IP gap

As AI, e-commerce, and cybersecurity sectors grow, demand for reliable residential IP networks is rising sharply. Current solutions rely on centralized proxy services or even exploitative models like injected SDKs and botnets. Titan proposes a more ethical approach: a transparent, user-owned IP leasing system that ensures contributors retain control and receive direct compensation for their resources.

“Today’s internet infrastructure is centralized, costly, and opaque,” Titan stated. “We’re building an alternative that is open, resilient, and rewards the people who power it.”

Inside the $200K challenge

Participants earn “Impact Scores” based on how consistently their invited users keep the extension running. Rewards are distributed in two ways:

• Top Referrers: The top three contributors earn high-tier fixed prizes.
• Community Pool: Users meeting the minimum score threshold share a $14,500 USDC pool proportionally.

By incentivizing adoption, Titan hopes to accelerate the creation of a decentralized IP layer that could serve global enterprises already reliant on vast IP networks for fraud detection, content delivery, and AI training.

With corporate clients such as TikTok and Tencent already using Titan’s decentralized cloud services, the challenge represents a strategic push to grow scale through grassroots participation, signaling the maturation of decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) in the Web3 economy.

Editorial Note: This news article has been written with assistance from AI. Edited & fact-checked by the Editorial Team.

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