Vodafone Group's Pairpoint venture has partnered with Chainlink to pioneer a tokenized financing model for upgrading telecommunications infrastructure.

The initiative, unveiled amid growing investor interest in real-world asset tokenization, aims to transform telecom towers into AI-enabled hubs by allowing global investors to fund enhancements through digital tokens, potentially unlocking new capital flows in a sector grappling with escalating computational needs.

Pairpoint, a joint venture between British telecom giant Vodafone—serving over 275 million customers across 15 countries—and Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corp. is leveraging Chainlink's oracle network to create what it calls an "asset-as-a-service" financing solution. The system tokenizes investments in adding AI compute capabilities to existing telecom towers, enabling investors to purchase these digital assets and earn rewards based on actual usage.

At its core, the collaboration relies on Chainlink's Runtime Environment (CRE), a secure orchestration layer that relays real-time usage and pricing data from the physical infrastructure onto blockchains. Once AI hardware is installed on the towers, APIs capture metrics on computing activity, which are then verified and transmitted onchain in a tamper-resistant manner. This data drives automated calculations for investor payouts, tying returns directly to the asset's performance in supporting AI workloads—such as edge processing for IoT devices or machine learning inference.

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