Pairpoint and Chainlink partner to tokenize real-world telecom tower usage data securely.

Secure edge technology brings real-time AI tower performance on-chain worldwide.

DePIN adoption rapidly grows as IoTeX integrates the Pairpoint infrastructure usage feed.

Pairpoint, the digital infrastructure venture backed by Vodafone and Sumitomo Corporation, has announced a strategic partnership with Chainlink to launch a new usage-based financing model for AI-enabled telecom towers. The initiative represents a major advancement in bringing real-world telecom infrastructure on-chain, enabling investors to earn returns based on verifiable tower usage rather than traditional lending metrics.

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Pairpoint Brings AI Infrastructure Funding On-Chain

The model integrates the SecurePoint edge security solution of Pairpoint and the Nillion privacy stack together with the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), the institutional engine of Chainlink used for the integration of real-world systems and smart contracts in the blockchain. Thus, the secure pipeline enables the real-time AI Tower usage and pricing information to be onboarded, enabling smart contracts to calculate rewards based on network activities.

To this end, the innovation revolves around a new proof-of-use system, which enables the efficient conversion of the performance of telecom towers to trusted chain data. This system has been seen as the solution to the capital required for the rollout of AI infrastructure because the traditional form of capital can pose problems when the concerned market has little credit history or the cost of infrastructure is considered high.

The project also relies on the decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) movement. IoTeX has already included the usage feed enabled by Pairpoint in its infrastructure to support the usage reward-based participation in infrastructure, paving the way for the community implementation of telcos in developing countries.

Partnership Strengthens Global AI Infrastructure Growth

With telecom towers evolving into distributed AI compute nodes, the emergence of this collaborative effort indicates the onset of the financing era that relies upon the capability of machines. This can expand the development of AI-related infrastructure across the world and pave the way for the conversion of real assets to the realm of the blockchain.

Pairpoint Chief Innovation Officer David Palmer described the effort as a breakthrough in the ability to bridge the edge-level telco action in the physical world and secure on-chain data and said usage-based finance could unlock funding opportunities in AI, telcos, and IoT.

Johann Eid, the Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs, specifically underlined the important role of combining CRE with the edge systems of Pairpoint in allowing secure real-world data to become accessible in the world of blockchain.

This can be achieved through usage-based verification that allows the involved financial institutions to pool money together based on the revenue created as the usage happens, as explained by Tilly Gilbert, Director at STL Partners.

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