My first use of a real service in the blockchain

So i've been in crypto for a very long time(~2016) and have been trying to use crypto, but for most of my time it was been trading, staking and some Defi and NFTs. Basically your main use cases, till today.

I wanted to use a VPN service to access some content from a different country, and I have been keeping on eye on a project called dVPN. Its a L1 chain on Cosmos that allows you to use their token to buy VPN services that implement their token. Currently there are quite a few that support it. The one I ended up using was Meile(but there are many more) and it worked great! I tried Germany/Japan and Portugal, all worked with no issues and setup was a breeze. I created a wallet inside the dApp and moved some tokens over and started picking my providers.

If you want to start using crypto on your daily lives, check out dVPN. This is a perfect use case for crypto, and supports the decentralized dApps that are being build on this project. You can also be a provider or VPN if you'd want, and you get paid in the dVPN token in return. Last but not least, you can stake it and get ~20%. So the way I see it I can have "free" VPN service for just using the staking rewards. Win-win!

Curious to hear about other people's real live uses, aside from the speculative use cases we are all used to.