What makes Depin projects popular

[ohehar7]

DePin projects are an interesting niche in cryptocurrency projects, on one hand they provide great utility to developers and users and offer solutions to many blockchain problems and issues whereas on the other hand I feel like the main popularity comes from the native tokens this projects provide or to be very specific their listings on external exchanges. 

For example, I noticed this POKT token that just added as a new listing on Bitget today, apparently it's a tool for developers to connect apps to the blockchain easier which sounds like good utility but I'm sure the project will benefit deeply from the exposure and trading volume gotten from an external exchange