New MOBI Members + Upcoming Lectures: MOBI Weekly Bulletin

Dear Colleague,

We hope your week is off to a great start. We're thrilled to announce four new MOBI members that joined our community this summer. We're welcoming a fintech blockchain startup, an e-mobility supplier, an industry association, and an open-source platform.

We also have exciting upcoming lectures. Learn more and register below!

Sincerely,
MOBI Team

Cara7
Cara7 is a fintech and blockchain startup fully dedicated to car fiat and crypto expense payments. It can be used as a financial settlement solution for any transactions on the blockchain or any expenses related to cars. We want to offer the best payment and monitoring service for expenses related to the vehicle(s) and offer you full transparency on your mobility costs and the means to reduce them while reducing the carbon footprint of your mobility.

Dana
Dana is a world leader in providing power-conveyance and energy-management solutions for vehicles and machinery. The company’s portfolio improves the efficiency, performance, and sustainability of light vehicles, commercial vehicles, and off-highway equipment. Dana enables the propulsion of conventional, hybrid, and electric-powered vehicles by supplying nearly every vehicle manufacturer in the world.

IoTeX
Founded as an open-source platform in 2017, IoTeX is building the Internet of Trusted Things, an open ecosystem where all “things” — humans, machines, businesses, and DApps — can interact with trust and privacy. Backed by a global team of 30+ top research scientists and engineers, IoTeX combines blockchain, secure hardware, and confidential computing to enable next-generation IoT devices, networks, and economies.

MEF
An industry association of 200 member companies, MEF is driving the development of a global federation of network, cloud, and technology providers supporting dynamic, assured, and certified network services that power enterprise digital transformation. MEF develops service standards, LSO frameworks and APIs, and certification programs for services, technologies, and professionals.

Join us 15 September to hear Mayank Malik review ongoing research in device identity authentication in decentralized distributed environments. Mayank is Chief Data Officer at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science laboratory at Stanford University. Mayank will explore Keymaker, a set of smart contracts, protocol, and helper libraries that enable social verification of IoT device identity.

Join Tram Vo on 29 September to learn more about MOBI Trusted Trip and how it promises to transform the global mobility ecosystem. Transportation is the largest source of CO2 emissions in many countries. Currently, the technology to measure, manage, and incentivize greener behavior doesn’t exist. MOBI is creating blockchain-based standards to identify vehicles, people, businesses, and the Trusted Trip — a key primitive enabling smart mobility and carbon tracking.

October 13: Two FSSC Working Group members joined forces to develop a blockchain-based loan origination system to lower costs and increase scale for On the Road Lending’s auto loan program for low-income consumers. Dave Eddy, formerly of Toyota Financial Services, and Michelle Corson of On the Road Companies teamed up with Goldman Sachs, EY, and Toyota Motor North America to create an end-to-end customer acquisition, underwriting, origination, and servicing system.

Did you miss our last Dashboard post? Check it out below to learn more about MOBI Co-director and Founder, Chris Ballinger!

MOBI members enjoy a wide range of benefits and opportunities specifically designed to promote smart mobility through blockchain and distributed ledgers. Among the benefits of membership are participation in our working groups, access to the MOBI Vehicle Identity (VID) and other MOBI Standards, networking, speaking, and sponsorship opportunities at our MoCo (MOBI Colloquiums) and at our Community Innovation Lecture Series. See who makes up our consortium in the member directory.

If you’re interested in finding out more, fill out the membership inquiry form below.

Membership Inquiry Form