The regular MEF podcast on the world of Blockchain in telco this week talks about the European Commission (EC) announcement for a new blockchain "regulatory sandbox"; a 30-country pan-European initiative expected to be in place by 2022.

The India regulator TRAI and industry players are working on an anti-spam solution based on blockchain. Daniele Mensi and Dario Betti look at how this project is shaping up and how it compares to the rest of the world. 

Dario and Daniele continue their regular discussions on the status of the BlockChain industry in telecom with a look at the blockchain solution set up buy the RAG association to share information about the Wangiri fraud. Eric Priezkalns,  CEO of the Risk and Assurance Group, joins and explain the status of the initiative.

This time Dario and Daniele discuss the news that the Chinese Internet giant Tencent is investing heavily in blockchain technology: will we see another industry war after the Huawei 5G dispute between the USA and China?  Of the 5,800 patents filed in 2019 for blockchain technologies, Tencent presented 718 - or 12.4% of all patents filed - the biggest amount of any single company. The news that the owner of WeChat and the largest video game company in the world will be spending $50 billion in R&D  over the next 5 years would usually be welcome news. Now companies are wondering if Tencent could be next in the banned list of the USA government. 

In this edition, Dario and Daniele discuss the content and impact of the 32 blockchain bills being presented in Congress. Is regulation catching up with the technology?

In this edition, Dario and Daniele discuss the apparent final chapter in the story of messaging powerhouse Telegram’s attempt to create a blockchain payment currency for it’s messaging app, and what its failure to get off the ground can teach the wider blockchain industry.

In this episode Daniele speaks to Anna Gussman, Senior Director Customer Products and Industry Relations at MEF Member Syniverse about how they view blockchain technology and how they expect to use it and other innovations like 5G and the IoT to enhance and evolve the mobile ecosystem, and how we will be more connected in the future.

In this episode Daniele speaks with MMD Smart’s Ira Cohen, VP of Business Development & Marketing and CTO Boris Rakhlin who explain how they are exploring the potential of using block chain and distributed ledger technology to tackle the issue of the many kinds of fraud facing A2P messaging and voice, estimated to cost the telecoms industry $20Bn annually.

In Episode 9 Daniele speaks with Tony Pearce, co-founder of MEF Member and Meffys winner Reality Gaming Group who are pioneers in the mobile gaming world, bringing collectible digital items to players on the blockchain. Tony and Daniele discuss their use of blockchain and what the tech and crytpo-currencies might mean for mobile games and apps in the future.

In Episode 8 Daniele and Dario chat about two of hottest hyped words in the ecosystem: IoT and Blockhain.  The security challenges to IoT have made difficult to share data openly across services and devices, Blockchain can come to the rescue. Interestingly Blockchain can also help to track things and sensors in the market.