David Palmer is squarely in the nexus of blockchain and IoT as the chief product officer of Vodafone’s Digital Asset Broker (DAB). Working with the largest pan-European and African telecommunications company gives Palmer the opportunity to reach a global audience with Web3 technology, through the DAB platform and through consumer handsets and connected devices.

Launched in early 2022, Vodafone’s DAB platform is a blockchain-based solution that helps businesses manage digital assets, including contracts, licenses, and intellectual property, using a single platform. The expanding use cases for blockchain technology will be among the many topics discussed by industry leaders at Benzinga’s Future of Digital Assets in NYC on Nov. 14, 2023.

Described as an “economy of things” platform, the DAB is meant to serve transactions for over 140 million connected, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, allowing smart cars, smart appliances, etc. to transact in digitized representations of real-world assets. The DAB site anticipates over 50 billion connected devices by 2025.

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When Palmer isn’t looking at the boundless potential of IoT devices unified into one economy, he delves into the boundless potential of the Metaverse. In June 2023, Vodafone DAB partnered with Infinite Reality (iR) to create a metaverse showroom at London Tech Week.

In a recent LinkedIn post regarding the Metaverse Phone, Palmer said: “I see a future world of wallets, linked to decentralized digital identities, linked to an economy of tokens and CBDCs, financed by DeFi and CeFi, with the mobile phone acting as the new middleware joining and connecting these worlds up.”

Palmer was named among the Top 30 Metaverse Leaders to Follow on LinkedIn by Metaverse Insider. In response, he said, “I am really honored to be a part of this list. The metaverse will reset the boundaries of experience and possibilities.”

Why Palmer is someone to watch in Web3 2023…

As a leader in the DAB platform, Palmer is in a position to serve the nexus of leading-edge tech and mainstream adoption, IoT and blockchain, and the convergence of connected devices into an interoperable economy.

Vodafone and Palmer are already working out the bugs in making smart cars and devices speak and transact with one another – adding the metaverse as an infinite space where data interacts virtually increases the potentiality of the vision in a way that is definitely worth watching in 2023.