Pairpoint and Chainlink Collaborate To Unlock Asset-as-a-Service Financing for Telecom

Pairpoint by Vodafone and Chainlink Collaborate To Unlock New Usage-Based, Asset-as-a-Service Financing for Telecom Infrastructure With AI Capabilities

A new era of oracle-powered, usage-based finance is pioneering new ways of financing telecom infrastructure and machines. Pairpoint is leveraging its edge technologies and Chainlink to bring asset usage and pricing data onchain to calculate repayments and investor rewards for input to new asset-as-a-service financial products.

London, UK, 31/10/2025 – Pairpoint, a joint venture by Vodafone and Sumitomo Corp, and Chainlink,
the industry-standard oracle platform, announced that they are working together on a new
usage-based, asset-as-a-service solution for financing the integration of AI compute capabilities
into existing telco towers.

The solution is based on a new secure ‘Proof of Use’ protocol and is similar to tokenized
real-world asset products, where assets are tokenized on blockchains and investor rewards are
linked to usage of the asset. The solution can also be used by traditional finance in new areas
like AI financing, where historical data on borrowers and market sectors is limited, and initial risk
needs to be rebalanced with expected growth.

To ensure secure and verifiable integration between offchain telco infrastructure and
blockchains for trusted recording of usage data, Pairpoint is using its SecurePoint technologies,
Nillion, and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to orchestrate key processes. CRE is the
secure global orchestration layer for creating and executing institutional-grade smart contracts
across blockchains and existing systems, with built-in data connectivity,
compliance-enforcement, privacy, and security.

Pairpoint will leverage CRE to support asset-as-a-service financing solutions across the telco
sector by integrating SecurePoint and CRE with APIs providing usage and pricing data from the
connected assets and then relaying that data securely onchain. Backed by Chainlink’s secure
and verifiable infrastructure, the solution ensures that the data written to the blockchain is both
accurate and tamper-resistant, thereby establishing a trust-minimized foundation. The data is
then used to calculate rewards for investors. This not only unlocks a dynamic framework for
tokenizing infrastructure and financing key institutional infrastructure investments, but these
tokenized assets can potentially become composable within DeFi protocols in the future, such
as for collateral in a lending protocol, bringing even more utility to investors.

From a community engagement standpoint, which could be critical for asset financing in
developing countries, IoTeX, the blockchain platform bridging the physical and digital worlds,
have already integrated the asset usage feed powered by SecurePoint and CRE into their
DePIN solution to provide usage-based rewards to token investors.

“By leveraging the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) with our SecurePoint and Nillion
capabilities, we have proved that we can reliably translate telco tower activity metrics at the
edge into trusted secure asset usage data onchain, with the potential to unlock a new market for
usage-based finance across AI, telecoms and IoT. Chainlink’s role here is critical as it not only
helps us bridge connected assets with blockchains, but the integration with SecurePoint helps
provide the data integrity and resilience at scale that solutions across this sector will demand.”
— David Palmer, Chief Innovation Officer at Pairpoint

“I’m very excited to work with Pairpoint on this major initiative to revolutionize real-world telco
infrastructure. Backed by major industry players Vodafone and Sumitomo, Pairpoint is a global
infrastructure innovator whose work in edge AI is shaping the future of IoT systems. By
leveraging CRE, Pairpoint can move tower usage and pricing data onchain to calculate investor
rewards from real-world activity, unlocking the secure orchestration and real-time data integrity
required to transform telco infrastructure globally. I look forward to seeing how this major
partnership unlocks new capital flows into the onchain economy.” — Johann Eid, Chief
Business Officer, Chainlink Labs

“Where large volumes of investment are required, particularly for businesses that lack access to
such capital, pooling institutional investors into funds and sharing revenue as profits are realised
can create a scalable, collaborative model enabled by innovative financial instruments. For
these types of transactions, a trusted mechanism is needed to allow financial institutions to
measure and verify asset usage. An example of this model could be the upgrade of telecom
assets, serving as AI infrastructure enablers.” — Tilly Gilbert, Director, Consulting & Edge
Practice Lead at STL Partners

About Pairpoint
Pairpoint is a global technology company building the world’s largest Economy of Things (EoT)
ecosystem. As a joint venture between Vodafone Group and Sumitomo Corporation, Pairpoint
enables machines, vehicles, and devices to identify, connect, and transact securely in real time.
Its platform is powered by automation, tamper-proof logging, and quantum-safe cryptography to
ensure trusted movement of goods, data, and people. Headquartered in the UK with offices in
London and Lisbon.

Learn more at www.pairpoint.io or contact media@pairpoint.io.

About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and
powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the
essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced
blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and
more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in
transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.
Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s
standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS,
ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, GMX, Lido, and many others. Chainlink leverages a
novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is
programmatically converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn
more at chain.link.

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