Silencio: Record Sounds, Earn Rewards, Help AI and the World
Silencio is a DePIN project that turns your smartphone into a tool for collecting noise pollution data and voice recordings, rewarding you with tokens for contributing. It’s simple: you record sounds or voices, help map noise levels or train AI, and earn from it. This post breaks down what Silencio does, why it matters, and how you can get involved in a network that’s already got millions of users and a growing impact.
What’s Silencio All About?
Silencio started by enabling crowd-sourced noise pollution data. You use their app to record sounds around you, and that data helps people find hotels that are less noisy and city planners to plan better. But they have now grown way beyond that. Now, Silencio’s mission is to be the “world’s ears” for AI and robotics. Your recordings help train robots to hear dangers, guide self-driving cars, or make AI understand accents and languages from all over the world. They’re even capturing voices from 185 countries to preserve dialects and languages that might disappear otherwise.
It’s a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN), meaning regular people like you and me use our phones to build a massive, decentralized data network. No big tech middleman, just a community sharing data and getting rewarded for it.
How Big Is This Thing?
Silencio’s already huge. As of late September 2025, 1.2 million people have joined, recording over 39 billion data points. I got in early back in May 2023 as user #967 and climbed to third on the beta leaderboards, so I’ve seen this grow firsthand. Their new Voice AI feature, that just launched, already got 57,000 voice clips in 25 languages in just five days!
How You Get Paid
Here’s the fun part: you earn by recording sound. When using the app to capture noise levels or voice clips, you get in-app Coins. Those Coins turn into raffle tickets for monthly $SLC token rewards, anywhere from 1 to 11 million tokens. The $SLC token powers the whole Silencio system, with a 100 billion total supply and 6.5 billion handed out over 10 years. Plus, 75% of the money Silencio makes selling data goes to buying back $SLC tokens, and half of those get burned to keep the token scarce. I’ve been at it a while and made over $10,000 in $SLC, so the rewards are real if you stick with it.
Why This Matters
Your recordings do more than just earn you tokens. They help robots understand human speech or pick up on alarming sounds, like a siren or a scream. Cities can even use this data to plan quieter neighborhoods. The Voice AI feature is training AI to handle languages and accents most tech ignores, which is important for making AI less biased. Plus, by recording voices from remote places, you’re helping save endangered languages, something I think is pretty cool. The app runs on the Peaq blockchain, so it’s transparent and follows privacy laws like GDPR, meaning you control your data, and companies buying it can trust it’s legit.
Why Join Now?
The audio data market’s expected to hit $100 billion by 2030, and Silencio’s now got a head start. They’re working with big names like Google Cloud, and the Voice AI launch shows they’re not slowing down. If they are able to capture the world's languages, Silencio might be able to grow into a huge project. I’ve seen the potential up close with my $10,000 in $SLC rewards.
How to Get Started
Download the Silencio app from the iOS App Store or Google Play. Sign up, use the referral code “Nordic” for the 200 point bonus, and start recording noises or voices around you. It’s easy, and you’ll see your rewards stack up fast.
