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Nov 22, 2022 28 tweets 17 min read Read on X
1)🧵METAVERSE BUSINESS!

SPOILER: this Thread may change the way you see blockchain utility & the metaverse🤯

Blockchain's gateway to the real world is here! ⤵️

#blockchain #crypto #corda @inside_r3 @VodafoneGroup @energywebx $EWT $HBAR @VodafoneIoT @Kigen_Ltd @KORE_Wireless
2) THE VISION

Imagine a parallel world, in which devices/machines connect & transact. Fully autonomously.

Machine 2 machine (M2M) communication enables this so called 'Economy of Things' (EoT) movement & blockchain plays an essential role in it.
3) THE ECONOMY OF THINGS

What is the difference between IoT & EoT?

EoT goes a lot further than Internet of Things (IoT), in which devices simply connect to each other.

An example of IoT is pre-heating your house before you get home by connecting your phone to your thermostat).
4) An example of EoT is your electric vehicle storing & selling energy at peak demand for you, while charging when there's high supply.

It means physical assets turn into digital assets & a parallel digital world is created:

Enter the metaverse (or multiverse) for business.
5) LOOKING BACK

Well, some may remember my enthousiastic & cryptic thread (with a dab GIF) in February, 5 days before Vodafone announced the Digital Asset Broker (DAB) Platform:



This is the follow-up thread, birthed after 9 months. Image
6) DAB by VODAFONE

Vodafone has been DABbling in the blockchain space for a while now, working with parties such as R3 @inside_r3, @IBM, @energywebx $EWT & @hedera $HBAR on blockchain solutions.

The most prominent one: the DAB platform.

Why? It is a top 5 business priority.
7) DAB being a top 5 priority to Vodafone Group & its CEO was stated at Cordacon in Sept 2022, full video here:

vdigitalassetbroker.com/community/news…

R3 worked on it with Vodafone, their partnership started 4 years ago. Since last week it's 'fully live'.

So what does it do? See next post ⤵️
8) WHAT DAB DOES

It enables:
- Seamless (automated) vehicle charging/payments
- Immutable financial transactions
- Trusted supply chain monitoring
- Pay per use (asset as a service) business models Image
9) DAB is about connecting every workflow on the planet by creating digital twins of physical assets & enabling autonomous machine to machine communication.

An essential part of this, besides blockchain, is the role of the SIM (more on this later in this thread). Image
10) However, first I can really recommend these 2 videos for more info on the metaverse for business/enterprise multiverse & IoTs need for blockchain:

1) The enterprise multiverse:


2) The future of IoT depends on blockchain:
11) BLOCKCHAIN UTILITY

To summarize, for the DAB platform blockchain can:
- Provide decentralized Digital Identities
- Enable secure machine to machine transactions
- Provide cybersecurity for IoT devices

So what blockchain(s) are used for DAB? ⤵️
12) I already spoiled it a little, but it is R3's Corda & Energy Web (the ones known).

Corda is prominent on the site & goes back 4 years, Energy Web is not (but goes back at least 2-3 years).

However, I would not be Gator if I wouldn't find more than first meets the eye🧐 ImageImage
13) VODAFONE x ENERGY WEB

As most following Energy Web know, the Vodafone & Energy Web partnership goes way back.

The first press release about a cooperation dates May 2020:

vodafone.com/business/news-…

It shows the focus on SIM-centric blockchain tech for secure DID management. Image
14) This is precisely what @Google gave Energy Web a grant for in 2021:

medium.com/energy-web-ins…

The article states:

"The project will ensure interoperability between systems - including multiple blockchains - with the public Energy Web stack"

One of these is R3's Corda, 100%. Image
15) Slightly before the grant, in Oct. 2020, R3 (Corda) & Energy Web entered a strategic partnership:

medium.com/energy-web-ins…

The focus was on integrating Corda with the Energy Web stack.

Vodafone was by then already working with both R3 Corda & Energy Web... Image
16) Corda's value is in the settlement/smart contract layer & doing this private (fit for businesses & highly regulated sectors).

EWFs value is in DIDs, SSI & asset management.

Together, they form a perfect combo, which led to Vodafone's DAB in Feb:

17) ENERGY WEB'S MULTIVERSE

I believe that being a key player in the enterprise multiverse or metaverse is Energy Web's END GOAL!

EWF's website started hinting at it (see video below), but that was just a part of it.⤵️
18) Walter & Ed did not hide their wish to conquer the metaverse for business either.

Watch Ed describe EoT for energy assets (M2M communication) below.

Energy authentication & tracking, in other words, green proofs =✅

DIDs: EWF works on integrating all these DID sources now. Image
19) This is step 2 that Ed mentioned.

EWF is hard at work with DIDs based on their Decentralized Logic Execution Webinar in September this year, which addresses DID interoperability & other functions:



After that the @gridsingularity DEX comes.
20) We know that the Gridsingularity DEX is going to be a parachain on Energy Web's Relay chain, that is literally on the website.

Below, just for fun, 2 additional screenshots of Ed & Walter tweeting enthousiastically about the energy metaverse. ImageImageImage
21) THE STRATEGY

By now, we deviated a bit from Vodafone's DAB solution & EoT.

This was needed to sketch that EWF is setting itself up to become a major enterprise multiverse player.

The next tweets show how I believe EWF strategically positions itself to achieve just that.
22) VODAFONE, KIGEN & KORE

6 days before Vodafone DAB with EWF was announced, EWF announced collaborating with Kigen & Kore to provide secure connectivity using eSIM & OPEN IoT SAFE tech.

This should provide trusted identities for M2M communication:

medium.com/energy-web-ins… Image
23) In my eyes, this is not a coincidence.

The MWC 2022 event where the collaboration with EWF was announced showed Vodafone as an IoT partner of Kigen & Vodafone is a known partner of Kore for IoT services. See article + screenshots:

korewireless.com/hubfs/social-s… ImageImageImageImage
24) CONNECTING THE DOTS

It seems to me, the Kore & Kigen partnership did not come out of nowhere, it was needed for the Vodafone DAB platform. Just like connecting to Corda.

Now: the first beta trial is running in the UK, including @Mastercard as a partner. Image
25) Steps are also made with Dutch DSO Stedin, as EWF announced they will develop a DID-backed system for them.

Just 1 month after the Kigen, Kore & Vodafone news.

Coincidence? Nope:



The joint solution includes a secure DID via the SIM in each asset 🧐 ImageImage
26) Kore also has Stedin as a partner on its website (see screenshot below). So it seems, this is indeed all connected: korewireless.com Image
27) CONCLUSION
It was not hidden that EWF is entering the multiverse, but to me, there was more to it than first met the eye.

Earlier, I stated names on the Relay Chain overview may be future parachains.

Who’s there? Stedin & Vodafone:

ImageImageImage
28) BONUS

David Palmer: What if your mobile phone carries your DID, wallet & credentials (SSI)?

Food for thought: every device participating in M2M communication uses energy (green proofs?), every device in M2M requires a DID & an asset management solution.

$EWT @energywebx ImageImageImageImage

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