  The advent of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)
represents a shift in the digital infrastructure of today's Internet. While
Centralized Service Providers (CSP) monopolize cloud computing, DePINs aim to
enhance data sovereignty and confidentiality and increase resilience against a
single point of failure. Due to the novelty of the emerging field of DePIN,
this work focuses on the potential of DePINs to disrupt traditional centralized
architectures by taking advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and
crypto-economic design in combination with blockchains. This combination yields
Acurast, a more distributed, resilient, and user-centric physical
infrastructure deployment. Through comparative analysis with centralized
systems, particularly in serverless computing contexts, this work seeks to lay
the first steps in scientifically evaluating DePINs and quantitatively
comparing them in terms of efficiency and effectiveness in real-world
applications. The findings suggest DePINs' potential to (i) reduce trust
assumptions and physically decentralized infrastructure, (ii) increase
efficiency and performance simultaneously while improving the computation's
(iii) confidentiality and verifiability.
