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Subway stations, convenience stores, shopping malls, restaurants, KTVs, community street corners – every day you pass by a group of unmanned commercial equipment that is shared for use: shared power bank cabinets, vending machines, lockers, scooters, battery swap cabinets… These small devices that “make money silently” interact with people frequently and generate a steady stream of measurable cash flow, but have never been truly open to ordinary people.

This dilemma is a common problem faced by almost all unmanned commercial devices in the sharing economy – they can only be used, but it is difficult to participate in the distribution of their value in a fair, transparent and verifiable manner.

The Dilemma and Misگائیڈd Path of the Sharing Economy

The sharing economy has gradually entered the mainstream business narrative over the past 15 years with the rise of platforms like Uber and Airbnb. This model essentially revolves around the following core elements:

• Reuse of idle assets or periods of idle assets;
• A clear separation of usage rights and ownership rights;
• Users pay for the right to use the asset, and owners receive benefits from ownership of the asset;
• The key to whether the model can be established lies in whether the matching efficiency and fulfillment costs can be significantly optimized.

The fundamental value of the sharing economy lies in increasing the frequency and turnover of existing assets, meeting the needs of more users with a lower total social supply. From the perspectives of macroeconomics, microeconomics, ESG, and sustainable development, the sharing economy is a more efficient and valuable way to organize social resources.

In the context of the current global economic cycle, the sharing economy model not only adheres to the principles of economic efficiency but also aligns with the strategic direction of environmental sustainability. ShareX firmly believes that innovative solutions that significantly improve matchmaking efficiency and significantly reduce fulfillment costs will unlock new growth potential and drive continued growth in the model’s dividends.

However, many models currently marketed as “sharing economy” are actually closer to “platform rental economy,” as reflected in the following issues:

• Centralized asset supply method: assets are usually centrally purchased, deployed, and operated by the platform or brand;
• Platform data black box phenomenon: operating pricing, order data, and revenue distribution are completely controlled by the platform, resulting in low data transparency and difficulty in verification;
• Waste of assets caused by competition: continuous investment in new assets to achieve scale expansion rather than effectively utilizing existing stock assets.

These issues, without exception, negatively impact matching efficiency and fulfillment costs. Addressing these issues is precisely where blockchain technology and Web 3 solutions come into play.

ShareX’s Exploration: Consumer-grade RWA Solution – PowerPass

The problem with the sharing economy isn’t that it lacks value, but rather that the distribution of value isn’t optimal. To truly return value to those who create it, a new asset paradigm is needed.

ShareX calls it consumer-grade RWA. Consumer-grade RWA has two meanings:

• First: “Consumer-grade” price

Compared to large-scale assets like government bonds, real estate, and listed company equity, consumer-grade RWAs focus on the long-overlooked “micro-asset” layer: a single vending machine, a power bank, a scooter, a battery swap booth… These are visible daily, have measurable cash flows, are easily distributed, and can be combined. The smallest unit price is affordable for ordinary users. This asset layer has long been a blind spot in the traditional RWA narrative.

• Second: Consumption and investment are integrated, becoming both “investment products” and “consumer products”

Consumer-grade RWAs use NFTs to carry equity, converging off-chain Web 2 rights (usage rights, even ownership) with on-chain verifiable RWA returns (income rights) into a single entity. Self-use is consumption, while sharing or operating for profit is investment: when users use their devices themselves, they exercise their consumption rights; when they open their devices to a shared network, they begin to receive verifiable asset returns. This is completely consistent with the inherent logic of the sharing economy.

PowerPass is the first consumer-grade RWA product released by ShareX. It is based on the shared power bank scenario and is supported by the real equipment and business of Deshare Alliance member PowerNow in Japan.

• From the investment logic of RWA

Users receive a PowerPass NFT issued by ShareX. Each NFT corresponds to a real asset (a real power bank) on the market. Key events such as use, return, and rental trigger on-chain verifiable records and distribution logic. Users no longer see “screenshots and reports” but an auditable distribution track.

• From a more traditional consumption logic

It is equivalent to users “purchasing” a physical power bank once and obtaining a light membership service with unlimited free battery replacements for one year (or it can also be understood as after-sales service that can replace any power bank, which can be renewed annually), without forcing users to change their original cognition and usage habits; after temporarily returning the power bank, they can also put it into a shared network, turning it into an investment logic, and bringing profits to users.

PowerPass doesn’t simply put receipts on-chain; instead, it fully restores the inherent logic of the sharing economy on-chain, making distribution verifiable. The essence of PowerPass can be summarized in one sentence: a one-time purchase of device assets + offline consumer rights + shared RWA income from others’ use.

From consumer-grade RWA to on-chain micro-asset network

The innovation of PowerPass as a consumer-grade RWA can be more easily understood by comparing it with the paradigm familiar to the current narrative.

• Compared to DePIN: ShareX does not focus on the supply-side logic of “coverage/computing power → incentives”, but instead starts from real usage events and directly clears cash flow to personal wallets;
• Compared with mainstream RWA: ShareX does not first anchor large assets and then divide them, but takes a bottom-up approach, using measurable micro-units to bridge the last mile from “large assets to individual participation”;
• Compared to equipment finance/’financial credit based on operating accounts receivable’: ShareX is not a centralized ledger-driven collection financing, but rather upgrades the “financing-operation-distribution” process to on-chain verifiable liquidation and profit sharing, allowing equity as detailed as “single equipment, single order, single time period” to be combined, transferred, and reallocated.

Once PowerPass connects “self-use/sharing” and “income/distribution,” the real leap forward for the sharing economy lies in organizing scattered devices into a network to further improve network efficiency. Through the Deshare Protocol and RWA ٹوکنization standard, ShareX upgrades each device to:

• An on-chain address entity: has independent data flow, asset ID, and income rights structure;
• A unit of liquid assets: can be split, pledged, traded, and integrated into larger financial structures;
• An on-chain behavioral portal: connecting users, geographic locations, and usage habits, becoming a bridge between IRL and Web 3.

Devices are not just assets, but the smallest neurons in an asset network. When thousands of nodes are connected by the same event model, the network exhibits three underlying properties:

• Programmable: Allocation, rates, priorities, limits and other rules are expressed in contracts and automatically executed according to scenarios;
• Combinable: Cash flows from different cities, categories, and periods can be repackaged based on risk/duration preferences;
• Auditable: From “who uses it, when and where” to “how the benefits are distributed”, the entire chain is verifiable and reconcilable.

This means that users are no longer limited to holding “the future of one device”, but can combine “8 power banks around the shopping mall + 4 vending machines on the subway platform + 2 sets of lockers in the business district during the night hours” into a cross-scene and cross-time cash flow product, using a real and traceable usage curve to support valuation and risk control.

Isolated assets can only be traded, but structured asset networks can be assigned value. This structure not only possesses the composability of DeFi, but also possesses the “behavior-driven” nature that traditional infrastructure investments lack.

This is just the beginning

Previously, ShareX had formed the Deshare Alliance, a collaboration with over 20 leading global sharing economy brands, covering 500,000 devices across 22 countries. ShareX’s “Share to Earn” campaign, TreasureX, attracted over 900,000 users through over 16,000 offline devices.

The launch of PowerPass is not about turning “RWA” into a new slogan, but about bringing it back into everyone’s daily life:

Let every real use become a visible, traceable and distinguishable distribution of value; let ordinary users participate in the growth of offline physical assets at an affordable threshold; let the sharing economy return to its original intention: higher matching efficiency and lower fulfillment costs.

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