World Mobile is creating a people-powered telecom network, with blockchain tech handling the heavy lifting in the background. Around this foundation, a growing ecosystem is taking shape. Developers, startups, and major partners are building on World Mobile’s tech to launch new services and unlock new use cases, from esports to environmental data and digital ID.
We break down the key players building around World Mobile. We’ll look at what they’re creating, why they chose to build on this network, and how it’s all coming together to form a global telecom network.
Telecom and Connectivity
At its heart, World Mobile is about connectivity. The World Mobile ecosystem includes major partnerships with telecom operators and platforms to expand decentralized networking into new regions and user bases. These collaborations blend WMC’s blockchain-based Decentralized Wireless (DeWi) approach with the reach or expertise of established players, proving that decentralization can enhance, not hinder, telecom services. Below we look at a few transformative partnerships in this sector.
WorldCall & Switch Fiber: Expanding Access
Sector: Broadband
Location: Pakistan
Mission and Vision
WorldCall Telecom, one of Pakistan’s largest telecom operators, has partnered with World Mobile to close the connectivity gap across the country. Their joint venture, Switch Fiber, is focused on delivering high-speed, affordable fiber internet to millions, especially in areas traditional providers have overlooked.
What They’re Building
Switch Fiber is using WorldCall’s existing fiber backbone, 1,800+ km across 20 cities, to deploy FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home) services at scale. The initiative is expected to connect over 200,000 users, reaching more than 3 million households.
The model invites communities to take part directly, locals can host network devices, deliver service, and earn from the growth of their own area.
Why WMC
World Mobile’s decentralized architecture fits perfectly with the Switch Fiber vision. It enables scaling new telecom infrastructure while adding transparency, user ownership, and on-chain rewards, transforming a traditionally top-down industry into a bottom-up, community-powered model.
Impact on WMC and Decentralized Connectivity
This partnership puts World Mobile’s model into action at national scale. It brings WMC into a country of over 240 million people, and opens the door to one of the world’s largest underconnected populations.
→ It proves that traditional telecom operators and decentralized networks don’t need to compete, they can build together.
DITO Telecom – Bringing 13 Million Users On-Chain in the Philippines
Sector: Mobile Telecom
Location: the Philippines
Mission and Vision
In the Philippines, a country of more than 110 million people, nearly 29 million still lack reliable internet access. DITO Telecommunity, the country’s third-largest telco, has grown quickly to over 13 million subscribers by disrupting the market with affordable mobile plans.
By partnering with World Mobile, DITO aims to go further, bringing connectivity to rural and hard-to-reach areas through a shared, community-powered model. They’re tapping into World Mobile’s approach to deploy infrastructure at scale, with decentralized ownership and economic participation at the core.
What They’re Building
Together, DITO and World Mobile are rolling out a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) across the Philippines.
AirNode connects to an internet backhaul, sometimes that’s Starlink’s Low Earth Orbit satellites, other times it’s traditional fiber or local infrastructure, depending on what’s available. The result is a hybrid network that combines satellite reach, fiber, and wireless mesh flexibility to deliver high-speed, affordable internet where it’s needed most.
The collaboration is also about financial empowerment. They’re launching Dtaka, a blockchain-based financial ecosystem built on WMC, to support a mobile-first digital economy.
Dtaka will feature:
- A stable token for mobile money and everyday payments
- A utility and rewards token to incentivize behavior like hosting infrastructure, referring users, or contributing to network health
This means that users can access both the internet and the financial tools to participate in the digital economy.
Why use the World Mobile Chain
Building cell towers across 7,000+ islands isn’t just expensive, it’s slow and often unprofitable. DITO saw World Mobile’s approach as a better alternative: fast, flexible, and built with community participation.
World Mobile Chain acts as the glue for the whole system. With low fees and high throughput, WMC makes it viable to expand the network, reward the bandwidth shared and every user referred. And since WMC is built to support telecom and digital identity at its core, it’s the right blockchain to power a nationwide decentralized network.
Impact on WMC and Decentralized Connectivity
This partnership has the potential to onboard 13 million users to the World Mobile ecosystem… It would represent one of the largest user bases for any blockchain network. The rollout begins in 2025. If it works, the Philippines could become one of the first country with a large-scale, decentralized mobile network.
For WMC, it’s a massive validation. A fast-growing telco has not only embraced decentralization but made it central to its growth strategy. The model could be replicated across Asia and beyond.
The social impact is just as important. By pairing connectivity with finance, DITO and World Mobile are giving people the tools to access education, finance and new opportunities.
Vodacom: Aerostat Balloons Trial in Mozambique
Sector: Mobile Telecom (Infrastructure Innovation)
Location: Mozambique
Mission and Vision
Some partnerships are about proving what’s possible.
In Mozambique, more than 60% of the population still lacks access to mobile internet. Traditional operators have written off these regions as too remote or not profitable enough to serve. For World Mobile and Vodacom Mozambique, that’s exactly the challenge.
The mission: test a new kind of infrastructure that can bring reliable coverage to underserved areas, and show how community-powered networks can fill the gap.
What They’re Building
In late 2023, World Mobile and Vodacom launched a live aerostat trial in Mozambique: a helium balloon (aerostat), tethered to the ground and equipped with telecom radios. Floating high above the earth, the balloon beams out 3G/4G coverage across a wide radius, reaching areas where traditional towers would be too expensive or difficult to build.
Vodacom provided licensed spectrum and on-the-ground regulatory and operational support. World Mobile contributed the aerostat, a networking model, and the software that ties it all together.
The result: people who previously had no mobile signal are now online. The trial also collects real-time data on socio-economic impact, how connectivity affects businesses, schools, and daily life.
Why Use the World Mobile Chain
WMC is the layer that makes the balloon part of a global network. Usage data is logged on-chain. Local partners who support the infrastructure can be rewarded via smart contracts.
WMC also supports AI-based optimization. In Zanzibar, World Mobile has already tested AI models that adapt coverage dynamically based on demand, weather, or usage. That intelligence feeds directly into the Mozambique trial.
Vodacom and World Mobile combine the strengths of traditional telecom and next-generation DePIN: one brings scale and expertise, the other brings agility, incentives, and openness.
Impact on WMC and Connectivity
It shows that infrastructure plus decentralized architecture can deliver real, usable telecom services. If scaled, it could dramatically reduce the cost and time required to connect rural areas across Africa and beyond.
For communities, the change is instant. There’s now internet access, and with it, new possibilities. It’s a tangible demonstration that connectivity doesn’t have to be slow or top-down. It can be fast, local, and community-aligned.
Connectivity doesn’t have to come from another tower. Sometimes, it can float, carried by a balloon, powered by the people it serves.
SEW (Smart Energy Water): Utility Meets Decentralized Mobile
Sector: Telecom & Smart Utilities
Location: USA
Mission and Vision
SEW (Smart Energy Water) is a global leader in AI-powered digital customer and workforce experiences for utilities. Their platforms support over a billion users across 40+ countries through partnerships with energy, water, and gas providers.
Their vision: “Engage, Empower, and Educate” people to take control of their utilities, reduce costs, and prepare for a more sustainable future.
Expanding into telecom is a natural step for SEW, because connectivity is as essential as electricity or water. The strategic partnership with World Mobile brings mobile services into SEW’s existing Smart ecosystem. The goal is to let utility customers access mobile services alongside their core services, all within a unified experience.
What They’re Building
World Mobile’s network is built into SEW’s platform, so customers managing their utilities can also activate a World Mobile eSIM or get mobile plans bundled with their utility service. It puts connectivity and utilities in one place, making access simple.
World Mobile benefits too: SEW’s advanced AI and analytics are being used to enhance performance and user experience across the WMC mobile network. This includes things like:
- Predictive network optimization based on demand patterns
- AI-driven customer support and onboarding
Why Use the World Mobile Chain
SEW didn’t want to build infrastructure from scratch. World Mobile offered something different: a turnkey model aligned with SEW’s values around user empowerment and digital inclusion. WMC brings built-in privacy, identity, and encrypted data sharing. It ensures SEW’s customers stay in control of their information.
Impact on WMC and Decentralized Connectivity
This partnership opens World Mobile to potentially tens of millions of new users. By becoming part of SEW’s platform, World Mobile gains a front-row seat in smart city deployments. SEW’s enterprise customers could roll out mobile services in regions where World Mobile hasn’t yet deployed AirNodes, accelerating World Mobile adoption.
The smart cities of the future won’t just deliver power and water. They’ll deliver open, fair, user-owned connectivity too.
Infrastructure and Ecosystem Builders
World Mobile’s mission is also powered by the builders who choose to get involved. Across the globe, independent developers, startups, and infrastructure teams are laying down the foundation for a truly decentralized telecom network.
Some are deploying physical nodes. Others are building APIs, identity layers, data tools, or smart contract integrations. Whether it’s a grassroots initiative or an enterprise integrator, these builders are adding real-world utility to the network and helping scale it far beyond what any single company could achieve alone.
In this section, we spotlight key ecosystem players who are expanding what’s possible with World Mobile.
51nodes – Driving Industrial DePIN in Europe
Sector: Infrastructure & Enterprise Integration
Mission and Vision
51nodes is one of Germany’s leading blockchain integrators, known for building infrastructure with major companies like Bosch, Siemens, and BMW, and contributing to data infrastructure efforts like the GAIA-X cloud project.
The idea? Replace closed systems with distributed infrastructure powered by real-world assets and blockchain. Their vision is European industries running on networks where data, identity, and connectivity are verifiable, efficient, and fair. They want to rewrite the blueprint for how industrial systems connect, and WMC is the foundation they’re building on.
What They’re Building
51nodes is using World Mobile Chain to roll out DePIN infrastructure across Europe, backed by a major grant program from World Mobile. Over $5 million is funding around 50 projects across sectors like manufacturing, logistics, and smart cities.
Key focus areas are:
- Tokenized industrial data
- Decentralized identity
- Blockchain in supply chain
- Decentralized IoT networks
- Frictionless data markets
Why World Mobile
51nodes chose WMC for a few key reasons:
- Native telecom + DePIN capabilities: WMC is purpose-built for telecom, and integrates decentralized identity. That makes it perfect for real-world applications involving data, devices, and connectivity.
- High throughput, low fees: Industrial environments can generate thousands of data points per second. WMC’s design handles those volumes affordably.
- EU-ready architecture: 51nodes works with organizations that care deeply about privacy, data sovereignty, and compliance.
Impact on WMC and Decentralized Connectivity
This partnership is helping position World Mobile as the blockchain backbone for European industry. Once proven, WMC could power decentralized supply chains and industrial IoT systems. The resulting network activity and token utility would be significant.
With World Mobile, they’re showing what a blockchain-powered industrial future might actually look like.
Depinity – Supporting EarthNode Operators and Developers
Sector: Developer Tools & Node Infrastructure
Mission and Vision
Depinity is a grassroots startup that grew out of the World Mobile community. Co-founded by longtime contributors, including ENOs, their mission is to remove friction for builders within the WMC ecosystem.
Their goals:
- Simplify EarthNode operation
- Provide backend infrastructure for developers
- Launch a decentralized mobile service (MVNO)
What They’re Building
Node-as-a-Service (NaaS)
Depinity’s platform offers EarthNode Operators a fully managed solution with automated updates, 24/7 monitoring, GDPR compliance, and high availability.
Developer Infrastructure
They’re building APIs and backend tools that let dApp developers plug into WMC without running full nodes.
Decentralized MVNO
Depinity plans to operate a mobile service in Germany using WMC’s decentralized stack.
Impact on WMC
Depinity helps build and scale the World Mobile Chain by making EarthNode operations accessible to non-technical users and accelerating dApp development through plug-and-play tools.
That’s Depinity’s model: empower others, reduce friction, and grow access to the network.
Fraunhofer – AI for Smarter Decentralized Networks
Sector: R&D (Network Optimization, AI/ML)
Mission and Vision
The Fraunhofer Institute is one of Europe’s most respected applied research organizations. In partnership with World Mobile, their goal is to explore how artificial intelligence can make decentralized telecom networks smarter, faster to deploy, and more adaptive.
What They’re Building
In early 2025, Fraunhofer and World Mobile launched a live AI pilot in Zanzibar. The project combined Fraunhofer’s network management algorithms with World Mobile’s AI models to test how a decentralized network could self-manage in real-world conditions.
Key focus areas:
- Faster deployment: AI-automated setup of AirNodes to reduce time-to-coverage.
- Real-time traffic management: AI that dynamically reallocates resources during congestion.
- Scalability testing: Stress-tested AI models to ensure adaptability.
- Predictive maintenance: Machine learning to forecast issues before they impact users.
Impact on WMC and Decentralized Connectivity
The immediate result: Zanzibar’s network got smarter. Over time, the same AI tooling can help scale WMC deployments globally. This also proves that decentralized infrastructure can be cutting-edge.
DePIN networks can adopt AI to operate smarter, adapt faster, and deliver better service.
Nuvola Digital – Crowdsourced Network Expansion
Sector: Infrastructure Distribution & Community Participation
Mission and Vision
Nuvola Digital is on a mission to make decentralized infrastructure accessible to everyone. As a Distribution Partner in the World Mobile ecosystem, they’ve built a user-friendly platform that allows individuals to own a part of the infrastructure and earn from the network. Their model is simple: crowd-ownership using the Nuvola token NVL.
What They’re Building
Nuvola’s infrastructure platform runs servers across Europe, North America, and Asia, supporting a range of DePIN and real-world asset (RWA) projects. By raising funds through token sales, Nuvola supports World Mobile’s global rollout, making it simple for anyone to take part in growing the network.
Key features:
- Crowd-Shared Node Ownership: Users can pool resources to co-own AirNodes.
- Simple Onboarding: The platform abstracts away blockchain complexity.
- Cross-Chain Infrastructure: With experience running nodes for other networks, Nuvola brings best practices to WMC.
It’s DePIN with real-world reach, bringing faster service to communities, rewards to contributors, and momentum to the movement.
Identity and Privacy
SKChain & PwC Italy: Building Self-Sovereign Identity
Sector: Digital Identity
Location: Italy
Mission and Vision
In today’s digital world, identity is often tied to centralized providers. SKChain Advisors and PwC Italy are working to change that.
Their shared goal: help enterprises and users transition to Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), where individuals control their credentials and decide what to share, when, and with whom.
This effort aligns with the EU’s upcoming eIDAS 2.0 regulation, which introduces the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet). Every EU citizen will be entitled to a digital wallet for storing ID cards, driving licenses, diplomas, and other verified credentials.
What They’re Building
SKChain and PwC are developing an enterprise-ready SSI platform, compliant with European regulations, but designed for broad usability across both Web2 and Web3.
The system will include:
- A secure identity wallet app for users
- Enterprise APIs for verifying credentials
- Smart contract logic for verifying and revoking credentials
Built on WMC, the platform will register and validate credentials on-chain. Credentials could include age verification, national residency, educational certifications, or access permissions, without requiring users to share unnecessary personal data.
Example: instead of submitting a full ID to register for a service, users could prove “I am over 18 and live in Italy” using verifiable credentials. The business checks this on WMC without accessing sensitive details. The result is faster, safer onboarding for users and less risk for businesses.
Why Use the World Mobile Chain
A few reasons stand out:
- Purpose-built for identity and telecom: WMC already include a Decentralized Identity (DID) module.
- Speed and cost-efficiency: SSI requires fast, low-cost interactions. WMC delivers that with high throughput and low fees.
- Compliance and privacy: WMC aligns with GDPR and eIDAS 2.0 by supporting cryptographic proofs and no central honeypots of data.
Integration with World Mobile Services
WMC’s telecom roots make integration natural.
World Mobile’s telecom roots make it easy to bring digital identity into real use. With SSI on WMC, users could log in to hotspots with verified credentials, EarthNode operators could prove eligibility on-chain, and mobile plans could be tied to a digital ID. It’s a step toward seamless, secure, user-owned connectivity.
Impact on WMC and Decentralized Connectivity
This project could quietly position WMC as the digital identity backbone for Europe. If it succeeds, millions of identity verifications could run through WMC in the background, powering logins, services, and access without most users even knowing it.
It adds a critical piece to the World Mobile stack: trustworthy identity. With that in place, developers can build more complex services like, all powered by verifiable identity.
This is about giving people a secure digital identity they can carry anywhere, from the bank, to the blockchain, to the next generation of mobile networks.
IoT and Real-World Data
IABG & 51nodes Pilot
Sector: Tokenized Environmental Data
Location: Germany
Mission and Vision
Environmental data is everywhere: drones, air sensors, weather stations, smart meters. But most of it ends up locked away in private systems, out of reach from the people who collected it or could benefit from it.
The EDT pilot (Tokenized Environmental Data for Marketplace Models) is a joint effort by World Mobile, 51nodes, and IABG. Their goal is to change how real-world data is handled. They want to give communities and businesses ownership over their own data.
What They’re Building
The pilot creates a system where sensor data can be trusted, verified, and turned into digital assets. Devices like drones or air monitors are fitted with secure modules that confirm the data hasn’t been altered. That verified data is then packaged into tokenized assets and stored on public blockchains like World Mobile Chain.
This allows anyone to access or buy data through open marketplaces. Cities can share live air quality readings. Drone fleets can stream geospatial data with proof of authenticity.
Use cases include:
- Environmental monitoring
- Verified data for autonomous systems
- Smart city air quality feeds
- Community-owned sensor networks
Why use the World Mobile Chain
To support continuous, high-volume data from sensors, the blockchain needs to be fast and affordable… and World Mobile Chain is built for that.
Each partner brings something unique. 51nodes focuses on blockchain integration. IABG provides deep experience in geospatial data and systems. World Mobile provides the infrastructure that makes this usable outside of labs or corporate silos.
Impact on WMC and Decentralized Connectivity
This pilot shows that World Mobile Chain can be used for more than mobile plans and calls. It can secure real-time data and support public data marketplaces.
If the model catches on, it could be used for things like drone traffic control, sustainability data, or smart farming. It gives developers and governments a real option for transparent, shared access to critical data.
For World Mobile, it proves that the network can carry both connectivity and real-world information.
→ This is one of the first real examples of a blockchain being used to power a live, tokenized data economy.
Decentralized Finance
Wise Lending: Merging DeFi with Community Funding
Sector: Decentralized Finance
Mission and Vision
Wise Lending is a platform in the DeFi space, focused on crypto lending and borrowing. Their mission: create financial freedom and giving individuals access to yield and credit on their own terms. The partnership with World Mobile brings that vision into the physical world.
What They’re Building
At the center of this collaboration is the World Mobile Vault, now live on the Wise Lending platform.
The Vault is a permissionless DeFi smart contract where users can deposit crypto and earn yield from World Mobile’s network operations.
Here’s how it works:
- Users stake funds into the Vault.
- Those funds help deploy new infrastructure AirNodes that expand World Mobile’s coverage in new areas.
- As the network grows, and people use it to access mobile services, data, or call minutes, it generates revenue.
- That revenue flows back into the Vault, and depositors earn a share, yield generated by real-world usage.
Why Use the World Mobile Chain
For Wise, this was about moving beyond financial speculation into impact.
World Mobile already had:
- A working reward system for node operators
- Real-world, revenue-generating infrastructure
- An ethos aligned with financial inclusion and ownership
- A blockchain purpose-built for scale, with low fees and on-chain transparency
World Mobile also granted Wise Distribution Partner status, meaning Wise has an incentive to grow the network while earning from it. It’s a win-win: Wise gains a new yield product, and World Mobile gains decentralized capital to fund growth.
Impact on WMC and Decentralized Connectivity
This is DeFi powering real infrastructure: expanding the network, delivering rewards, and putting World Mobile on the radar for a whole new audience.
It’s a step toward a world where telecom networks are built from the ground up, by the people who use them, funded by the people who believe in them.
Gaming and Entertainment
Gameness – Web3 Gaming SuperApp
Mission and Vision
Gameness is a Web3 gaming superapp focused on making competitive gaming more accessible, rewarding, and community-driven. The platform runs across multiple channels: one of the largest gaming mini-apps on Telegram, a full mobile app, and an upcoming GNESS token.
What They’re Building
Gameness is integrating World Mobile’s connectivity services directly into its platform. Players will be able to activate World Mobile eSIMs and purchase affordable data or airtime without leaving the app.
The teams are also working together on edge computing. By combining Gameness’s tournament infrastructure with World Mobile’s last-mile network, they’re enabling smooth, low-latency esports experiences even in areas with poor traditional coverage.
In practice: Players can go from no signal to tournament-ready just by activating a plan inside the Gameness app.
Why WMC
Gameness needed a partner that could deliver mobile internet. World Mobile fills that gap with a global eSIM network. Both platforms reward participation and aim to put users in control.
Impact on WMC and Decentralized Connectivity
This partnership brings a new kind of user into the World Mobile ecosystem. Gamers are social, active, and loyal, exactly the kind of community that helps networks grow from the ground up.
For World Mobile, it’s a step closer to becoming part of everyday digital life.
→ Gameness and World Mobile are building a more connected, inclusive gaming experience: open to anyone, anywhere.