Recently, we have seen a lot of blockchain projects successfully completing ICOs that declare they will build products which allow millions of ordinary users to gain extra revenue from their unused/idle resources.

Basically, within every smartphone or home/office computer we have three major resources that can be monetized — CPU, storage and internet broadband.

1. Unused computing power

Every device has a lot of spare computing capacity that can be used for performing complicated calculations for projects such as attempting to cure diseases, protein folding, searching for extraterrestrial life, detecting and analyzing asteroids, etc.

2. Unused storage

Distributed storage — this is when people rent out their unused hard disk space for others to use it and get paid in crypto.

Filecoin (Raised ~$257 Million)

Storj ( Raised ~$20 Million)

Substratum (Raised ~$13.8 Million)

3. Unused bandwidth

Unused bandwidth can be sold to companies that offer VPN or CDN services for example, or to users who need multiple IP exit nodes for their businesses or another activity.