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The winners of the first stage of the MOBI Grand Challenge contest apply the blockchain to the auto industry and the transport market in new ways, from the columns of unmanned vehicles to automated V2X communication.

Blockchain still has some problems in its path, but its potential impact on the automotive industry is undeniable. Around this specific application of the blockchain, an entire ecosystem of startups and new enterprises has arisen.

The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI), a nonprofit initiative aimed at accelerating the implementation of blockchain-related standards in the automotive and transport industries, conducted the first phase of its three-year MOBI Grand Challenge (MGC) project, which seeks to identify innovative ways to use blockchain in an emerging ecosystem of networked and autonomous cars.

According to MOBI, “MGC's goal is to create a viable, decentralized, dedicated network of interconnected cars on distributed ledger technology and infrastructure that can reliably exchange data, coordinate behavior and ultimately improve urban mobility.”

In the four months of the first stage, 23 teams from 15 countries competed in creating a solution using blockchain technology or distributed accounting to solve the mobility problems facing the modern world. Submissions were evaluated in terms of creativity, technical merit, potential impact and feasibility. In the end, four teams were awarded the highest awards.

While mobility-related issues were addressed at this first stage, the second stage of the competition will explore ways in which the blockchain “can stimulate actions aimed at preventing congestion, reducing environmental pollution and improving living standards in cities”, according to MOBI.

Here are four winners:

3rd place (shared) - Fraunhofer Blockchain Lab





The Fraunhofer Blockchain Lab solves the problem of driving unmanned vehicles by using the blockchain for communication between vehicles (V2V) and communication between vehicles and infrastructure (V2X). The Fraunhofer system allows vehicles to communicate with sensors to form a column in which a human-driven front vehicle can drive several vehicles behind it. All cars maintain a constant speed and distance from each other (a few centimeters). The idea is to create a mobile autosphere with the advantages of unmanned driving without a person’s complete refusal to drive vehicles.

The company says this escort arrangement reduces emissions and fuel consumption and can serve as a bridge between our current mobility situation and a world where all cars are autonomous.

3rd place (shared) - NuCypher




NuCypher (in partnership with NCIS Labs) has developed a blockchain-based system that allows vehicle owners to safely and reliably exchange on-board diagnostics (BDD) data from their vehicles with organizations. By distributing the BDD over the glider, the NuCypher system maintains accessibility and accuracy, which, according to the company, can be used both to predict maintenance and to resolve insurance claims and conflicts related to accidents.

2nd Place - Oaken Innovations


Oaken Innovations has developed Vento, a blockchain toll road toll system that allows passengers (and the vehicles themselves) to pay toll roads and other on-demand uses of infrastructure using a secure and encrypted system.



Where modern toll roads can identify a car and subsequently be able to collect payments using technologies such as cameras and RFID, Oaken aims to use the blockchain to combine all this into a single, seamless process. According to the MOBI, this can improve public transport, leading to the creation of an ecosystem based on a blockchain in which vehicles can not only pay for travel on the road, but also get fines for traffic jams, environmental pollution and other actions that impede general mobility on the road.

1st Place - Chorus Mobility




Chorus Mobility (in collaboration with Decentralized Technology) has developed a blockchain platform for communication between people and cars, as well as V2V and V2X in networks with autonomous cars. The company's goal is to reduce travel costs and improve road safety by providing autonomous cars the ability to safely and automatically communicate with people, infrastructure and other vehicles that surround them. Using the Chorus platform, cars can exchange information about driving routes, receive information about infrastructure, and also distribute the right of way among themselves depending on demand and availability. The platform allows vehicles to move, performing operations with each other, in fact, thanks to each other for privileges such as the right to travel.


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