peaq (PEAQ)

The project organizes its architecture around three complementary layers. The Machine Layer, known as peaqOS, gives physical or digital machines the tools to come on-chain as composable economic actors. The Trust Layer supports verification, coordination, and reputation scoring, with economic security linked to staked capital. The Service Layer uses a permissionless adapter framework to connect machines with external markets, helping applications discover, score, and orchestrate machine-based services.

peaq’s chain-neutral approach is central to its positioning. A machine onboarded through the network is intended to be discoverable and verifiable across supported chains, allowing applications in different ecosystems to transact with the same device or agent. This is meant to reduce fragmentation in DePIN markets, where infrastructure, data, and service providers often operate in isolated networks.

PEAQ functions within this ecosystem as the native asset supporting network activity, incentives, and coordination. The project describes the broader category as “Robot Money”: value that machines can earn, spend, or use for settlement. peaq stands out by focusing on the practical economic infrastructure needed for machines to operate autonomously, not just on tokenizing hardware or rewarding device operators.