Ben Evans publishes an annual update on his analysis of the tech sectors major trends. In the latest he touches on Web3 and crypto: The most exciting themes in technology today are transformative visions for 2025 or 2030: crypto, web3, VR, metaverse… and then everything else. Meanwhile, hundreds of start-ups take ideas from the last…
Tag: World Mobile
World mobile update
We are big fans of World Mobile here, and keep a close eye on their progress. They have a very exciting proposition in merging open access to mobile networks with blockchain capabilities that allow community operation of nodes, and the chance for all network users to gain from the growth of the network. They have…
Start up incubator for Africa
Project Catalyst, the Cardano funding incubator for new start up companies has launched a focussed incubator for Africa in partnership with Iceaddis: Input Output Global’s Project Catalyst has launched Ariob, an incubator scheme, in collaboration with iceaddis, a pan-African business incubator, and accelerator. Ariob means ‘a collection of stars’ in Ge’ez, an ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia.…
World Mobile deployment plans
A lot of positive World Mobile news lately, including this article by CNN. You may recall that World Mobile (connect the unconnected) are tightly linked with Cardano (bank the unbanked) and will use the blockchain to faciliate operations, identity, payments and services with a similar model to the Stake Pool model used by Cardano. The…
We meant to load a link to this on the blog a while back, but in the rush around the time managed to miss. World Mobile have a goal to make internet access ubiquitous and cheap for everyone, and they think that integration with the blockchain (i.e. Cardano) offers a way to do this in…