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In summary: LayerDrone is building Earth's most detailed aerial imagery network through everyday drones and the people who pilot them. We're creating the foundation for spatial AI and next-generation applications by empowering a community of drone pilots to collectively build and govern the world's most valuable imagery resource. This year, we're focused on decentralizing the LayerDrone contributor community while expanding the network.
The LayerDrone Foundation’s mission is to democratize access to high-resolution Earth imagery by building the world's most detailed aerial imagery network through everyday drones. We're creating an open, community-governed protocol that provides standardized, ultra-high resolution aerial data — forming the foundation for next-generation spatial AI and GIS applications.
In 2025, the LayerDrone Foundation was spun out of Spexi to form an open and independent network. LayerDrone’s focus for this year is transitioning Spexi pilots to the LayerDrone community, expanding the network’s coverage, and coordinating a successful token generation event at Mainnet launch later this year.
For LayerDrone, success means transforming how the world accesses and uses geospatial data. By enabling a global community of drone pilots to collectively build this network, we're creating better imagery and we're building a new model where contributors are more than individual drone pilots: they are active participants in the network’s development and governance.
To democratize Earth imagery and power the next generation of spatial AI, we have to set ambitious goals that challenge us to innovate and scale:
LayerDrone aims to push the boundaries of what's possible with Earth imagery to enable applications that weren't feasible before.
To achieve LayerDrone’s goals, we need to work together as a community. Here's what the LayerDrone Foundation is focusing on to make it happen:
We will empower drone pilots with tools, rewards, and participation in the network they're helping to build.
We will provide an open protocol and standardized data that enables innovative spatial AI and GIS applications by providing imagery that's 200x faster, 50x more affordable, and 30x higher resolution than traditional methods.
We will demonstrate that decentralized networks like LayerDrone can deliver superior results while dramatically reducing environmental impact.
We will scale and decentralize the network to ensure global accessibility while maintaining the highest standards of data quality and integrity.
We're committed to building LayerDrone in a way that reflects our values. That means we:
If we can maintain these principles while scaling, we'll build something truly transformative.
We've shared LayerDrone's mission and strategy, and how we plan to make it happen. But the real power of a decentralized network is that success depends on all of us: pilots capturing imagery, developers building applications, and the broader community governing our shared future.
Are you ready to build Earth's most detailed imagery network with us?
Join our community on Discord, follow us on X, and connect with fellow pilots and builders who are creating the foundation for spatial AI. Together, we're building the future of how the world understands and interacts with physical space.
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