The concept of XYO was introduced in January 2018 by Arie Trouw, Markus Levin, and Scott Scheper. The team recognized the growing need for a trustless, decentralized location oracle due to the increasing presence of connected, location-reliant technologies. They proposed the XYO Network as a solution to this problem. Over the years, the XYO Network has grown significantly, with over 1,000,000 devices circulating worldwide. This growth has been facilitated by their consumer-facing business, which allows everyday consumers to use XYO's Bluetooth and GPS devices for tracking their belongings. The concept of provable location, which is central to XYO, has been around since the 1960s, but XYO has brought a novel approach to this concept by focusing on proving the origin of physical location signals.