IO secured more DePIN partnerships in Q2 2026 than all other projects combined, highlighted by deals with Aptos Labs, Nexus, and an $8M enterprise contract generating $650K monthly network revenue.
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During Q2 2026, IO secured more distributed physical infrastructure network (DePIN) partnerships than all other projects combined, including deals with Aptos Labs for AI models and inference products, Nexus for zkVM computational power, and a confirmed $8M enterprise contract that generates approximately $650K in monthly network revenue. The project also partnered with TokenInsight for AI and data-driven blockchain growth and integrated with Bitcoin L2 project BVM for GPU clusters supporting Eternal AI.
Other notable Q2 partnerships included Razer selecting Akash's compute marketplace for a major AI campaign, with Ethical Node joining as its first validator partner. Render activated its Salad partnership, bringing roughly 60,000 GPUs on-chain as an exclusive Render subnet where GPU earnings are redeemable in RENDER tokens. UXLINK, THETA, and other DePIN projects also announced partnerships spanning Web3 social infrastructure, enterprise AI verification layers, and AI agent economy expansion.
IO's partnerships—particularly the Aptos Labs collaboration and the $8M enterprise deal—stand apart as validations of network infrastructure maturity at production scale. The broader partnership activity suggests continued institutional and enterprise adoption across the DePIN sector in the second quarter, though the degree to which these deals will drive sustained network usage and revenue remains to be demonstrated over time.