What is FliteGrid?

FliteGrid is a decentralized drone tracking network built to provide real-time airspace awareness across the United States and eventually the world.

Governments in the US, EU, and Japan have all adopted Remote ID regulations requiring drones to broadcast identifying information during flight. Think of it as license plates for the sky. But here's the problem: while the rules require drones to broadcast, nobody built the infrastructure to receive that data at scale. The result is a massive blind spot in our national airspace, right at the moment when drone adoption is accelerating faster than anyone predicted.

FliteGrid fixes this by putting sensors in the hands of everyday participants. You deploy a compact sensor with a clear view of the sky. It picks up telemetry broadcasts from passing drones and feeds that data into SkySafe's cloud platform, where it's processed, analyzed, and provided to government and enterprise customers who need airspace awareness. You earn rewards for the data you provide, with higher rewards for covering more critical airspace.

Built on a Decade of Real Work

FliteGrid is built by SkySafe, an airspace intelligence company founded in 2015 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Founder Collective, SVAngel, and others, with nearly $50M raised. SkySafe has spent nearly a decade building the technology behind FliteGrid: fully validated receiver software for every Remote ID protocol, and a large-scale cloud platform for ingesting, analyzing, and distributing drone tracking data to paying customers. As of 2025, the SkySafe network has tracked over 1 million flights.

The technology works. The customers are real. What SkySafe needs now is to hyperscale coverage. A centralized deployment model can cover high-priority locations, but covering the entire national airspace requires something different. That's where the DePIN model comes in, and where you come in.

Why DePIN?

Projects like Helium, Hivemapper, and Geodnet have shown that decentralized physical infrastructure networks can deploy faster and wider than centralized alternatives. FliteGrid applies that same model to a problem with clear regulatory demand: the FAA's vision for UAS Traffic Management depends on data service providers feeding drone tracking data into the system, and right now, nobody provides that data at nationwide scale.

The DePIN model gives FliteGrid three things a centralized approach cannot:

Speed of deployment. Community-operated sensors can cover the country in a fraction of the time it would take to deploy centrally.

Capital efficiency. Participants deploy and manage their own hardware, letting the network scale without requiring massive upfront infrastructure investment.

Coverage where it matters. Participants choose where to deploy based on reward incentives tied to airspace value, organically pushing coverage toward the locations that need it most.

How to Get Started

1. Order a sensor — Sensors are available for preorder now (US only). Early preorders earn bonus reward points.

2. Deploy it — Mount the sensor with a clear view of the sky. It needs power, internet, and line-of-sight.

3. Earn rewards — Your sensor feeds real-time drone data into the network. You earn points (convertible to $FLITE tokens at launch) based on the value of the airspace you cover.

4. See your data — Access the FliteGrid drone tracking platform to view live drone activity in your area.