A shared economy model that delivers network infrastructure to enable improvements in efficiencies of network design and operation, as well as provides a more fluid delivery of connectivity to users of a network.

The Earth Nodes are defined as the containers of the core logic of the World Mobile Chain system. They function as the brainof the system that interconnects all the other types of nodes, and are composed of a number of software modules, communicating through the central module called The Internode API. The rest of the modules provide an authentication layer (Decentralised Identity (DID) module), a ledger layer (blockchain module), and a telecommunications layer (telecom module). The DID module provides the interface to a digital ID solution. In the blockchain module, a distributed ledger records all the transactions that take place on the network. For economical and performance, but also for privacy purposes, some transaction data is segregated into the public ledger component, which is anonymised and links to the private component, that contains the full data of the transaction in an encrypted distributed ledger.

The Air Nodes are defined as the nodes which provide the access layer. These are the nodes which provide the access to the network. Air Nodes are deployed in different hardware configurations depending on the capacity and location requirements, from a single user through to an entire community. The software module for each hardware configuration provides the same core functionality. Each user that connects to the network first connects through an Air Node in order to access the network. This is done by the Air Node passing the user authentication details to the Earth Nodes using the Internode API. The authentication process confirms the identity of the user and the Earth Nodes respond with the account balance available for the user as well as the list of available services for the user. The Air Node meters the usage of the user through the node and sends this transaction on completion of the session back to the Earth Node. The Air Nodes provide coverage for a local area and are located in areas where connectivity is required

The Aether Nodes interface with legacy telecommunications networks and handle the protocol translations, media transcoding and process the routing of traffic to these networks. Each country requires a minimum of one Aether Node in order to provide service. The Aether Node operators are required to meet local regulations and have the necessary licenses to operate the service

The primary role of WMT is to incentivise both token holders that want to support the operation of the network by way of delegating their WMT stake to a node operator (stakers) as well as node operators that operate their own nodes. There is a finite aggregate supply of 2 billion WMT of which only a fraction will be circulating at inception.