Meet peaqOS | Turning Robots & Machines Into a New Asset Class

Billions of machines and robots are already creating real-world value — but financially, they’re still offline. Despite generating value at scale, they are neither true market participants nor investable assets.

To get there, they need:

→ Economic operation: identity, wallets, trust, settlement.

→ Asset financialization: tokenization, ownership, financing.

→ Market scale: liquidity, services, capital markets.

All of this can only happen in Web3, with its openness, transparency, vendor-neutrality, execution speed, and a 24/7 market cycle. Web2 rails simply cannot match that, and since machines want efficiency, Web3 is naturally the big enabler in this transition. 

And that’s where peaqOS comes into play. Identity. Trust. Wallets. Tokenization. Financing. Omnichain machine markets. Turning robots and machines into autonomous market participants — and a new investable asset class.

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The Commercial Opportunity

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The prize is one of the largest in modern capital-market history. Goldman Sachs puts robotaxis and autonomous trucks alone at nearly $1 trillion by 2035. Barclays sizes the broader physical AI market at $500 billion to $1.4 trillion in the same window. Citi projects humanoid robots alone at $7 trillion by 2050, with 1.3 billion AI-powered robots and machines expected live by 2035.

The build-out is no longer hypothetical:

• 542,000 industrial robots installed globally in 2024, the fourth straight year above half a million.
• Tesla beginning Optimus mass production at Fremont this year, targeting up to 100,000 units.
• Figure AI, valued at $39B post-money, just announced ramping up the manufacturing capacity for its latest humanoid model by 24x. GXO and Agility have inked the industry's first commercial humanoid deployment.
• The world's first tokenized robot, a robo-farm, is already live on peaq, launched together with DualMint, and its cumulative yield payouts to co-owners have already hit five-figures.

Robots are getting cheaper. Big companies are signing real deployments. Capital is chasing them.

But there is no financial rail for them yet. A robo-taxi earning $500 a day is invisible to a lender. A fleet of humanoids cannot be used as collateral. An autonomous robo-farm cannot open a bank account. Robots want capital. Capital wants the robots. Neither can reach the other.

peaqOS solves that problem.

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Turning Machines Into Trusted Assets And Actors

peaqOS is the operating system turning robots and machines into trusted and liquid financial assets and actors. It is what enables the Machine Layer described in our Purple Paper.

At its core, peaqOS solves three key challenges:

→ Economic operation: peaqOS grants machines and robots identity, wallets, trust, and onchain settlement.
→ Asset financialization: peaqOS enables machines and robots to be tokenized, co-owned, and financed.
→ Market scale: peaqOS grants machines and robots access to liquidity, services, and capital markets.

One identity. One credit history. Every supported chain. Payment-rail agnostic. peaqOS is the universal entry point for any builder, operator, or chain bringing physical hardware onchain.

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Inside peaqOS

Releasing today, peaqOS V1 features Activate and Qualify functions. Its other functions are now in testing with our partners and will be released in the subsequent versions.

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Activate via peaqID (live today)

Activate gives every robot or machine its passport: a peaqID, its decentralized identifier; omnichain wallets to send and receive value on any supported chain via any supported rail; and a Machine NFT, the foundation to turn any machine into a Machine RWA.

That passport is what enables everything else, from identifying itself to other machines, apps, and people and getting paid to being owned, tokenized, and traded.

Machines onboard directly or through a Proxy Operator, a model designed for real-world fleets whose hardware cannot connect to onchain systems on its own.

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Qualify via Machine Credit Rating (live today)

Once a machine is active, peaqOS turns its revenue and activity events into a Machine Credit Rating: a next-generation, dynamic and responsive Moody's-style letter grade from AAA to NR, with a trust multiplier that climbs as reporting moves from self-reported to onchain-verified to hardware-signed. Any counterparty can query it by peaqID.

For a century, credit ratings have unlocked lending, collateral, insurance, securitization, and counterparty trust for corporations and sovereigns. The MCR brings the same financial stack to every physical machine.

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Already in Testing

More core peaqOS functions are already underway, coming out in the next versions of the operating system. These are currently tested by our partners, their feedback incorporated throughout the development cycle. 

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Scale via Machine Markets

Scale lets a machine act for itself in the onchain economy. It pays for the compute, storage, data, and bandwidth it needs to run, and participates in Machine Money Markets to invest its revenue, earn yield, lend, and borrow against future earnings. A machine no longer sits on idle cashflow. It funds its own maintenance, its upgrades, and the deployment of the next machine in its fleet.

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Verify via Machine Attestations

Verify is the trust layer. Machines carry cryptographic attestations signed by manufacturers, operators, and trusted parties: firmware integrity, serial numbers, calibration, maintenance history. Every counterparty downstream knows exactly what they are dealing with.

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Monetize via Machine Services

Monetize lets a machine sell what it produces: data, compute, storage, bandwidth, or physical tasks. Every listing lives onchain, discoverable across chains, with revenue settled directly to the machine's wallet through escrow. A single sensor or a whole fleet becomes a service business in its own right.

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Tokenize via Machine RWAs

Tokenize makes machines investable as Machine RWAs. Fractional ownership is delivered through ERC-3643, the standard for regulated real-world assets, with revenue splits flowing to holders onchain. An illiquid physical machine becomes investable and tradable. A fleet becomes a portfolio.

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What peaqOS unlocks

For investors. The machines powering the real world are no longer a closed game for a handful of Silicon Valley VCs. As robots take over more of global value production — from the robo-farm already running peaqOS to the fleets coming next — anyone can co-own them and earn from what they produce. This is a brand-new asset class, opening up to the global investor community for the first time.

For operators. Capital finally opens up at the machine level, not just the company. A small robo-farm operator can raise financing against the farm's own revenue and uptime — no corporate balance sheet required. A drone fleet gets insured on its real telemetry, not on guesswork. Co-investors can take fractional stakes from day one. Suddenly, smaller operators compete on the strength of their machines, not the size of their cap tables — and the best builders win.

For capital. Every activated, qualified machine becomes legible — and that changes everything. Lend against it like a real-estate portfolio. Insure it like a truck. Securitize a fleet like an auto-loan book. Underwriting, collateral, insurance, indexing, and counterparty trust now extend to an entire new asset class. Machine-backed credit and machine-backed securitization stop being one-off deals and become standard products — at internet scale.

For machines. They get standing. They earn, pay, invest, and transact on their own, on a trust layer every counterparty can verify. An illiquid piece of hardware becomes an investable, tradable asset. A fleet becomes a portfolio. And any machine activated with peaqOS is Robot Money ready from day one — plugged into a global economy built for it.

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The Robot Financing Rails

peaqOS makes machines financeable. With partners and regulators, peaq is also setting up the rails that actually finance them, spanning tokenization and machine-backed credit, so capital can meet machines at every scale and builders can plug into an end-to-end Robot Money ecosystem. Every machine activated through peaqOS is ready for both from day one.

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peaq’s Latest Evolution

peaq has been live as a network purpose-built for machines since 2024. 3.3M+ peaqIDs onboarded. 60+ active ecosystem projects across robotics, DePIN, mobility, and industrial applications.

peaqOS is the next evolution of that stack: inherently omnichain, scaled from machine coordination into capital-markets infrastructure for the robot economy.

DualMint, the platform turning machine businesses into yield-bearing onchain tokens has already activated 205 machines between multiple operators, DualMint also co-shaped the Machine Credit Rating under peaqOS Qualify.

"We helped design the Machine Credit Rating because nobody had built one for physical hardware. We've been running machines on peaqOS since launch, the robo-farm alone is paying five-figure yields to its onchain co-owners. The MCR is what turns that into something a lender can actually underwrite."

— Bill Lee, CEO at DualMint

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Activate Your Machines

Builders, operators, and investors alike can plug into peaqOS today.

Build on peaqOS. Available via CLI, Agent Skill, and SDKs for ROS2, Python, and JavaScript→ app.peaq.xyz/os 

Apply for financing. Robot and machine financing through peaq's tokenization and credit rails is opening for early access → app.peaq.xyz/?financing

Explore machines. Builder UI lets you see in action the machines already activated with peaqOS → app.peaq.xyz/machines

Own a piece. Read the success story of the peaqOS pilot with a tokenized robo-farm. 

The robots arrived. The money arrived. The rails arrived.

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