Carrier grade telecom blockchain

A method, comprising:

• establishing, by a connection concentrator of an edge digital gate of a plurality of edge digital gates operating at an edge of a telecommunications network, connections in the telecommunications network, the plurality of edge digital dates forming a blockchain network and the edge digital gate acting as a blockchain node;
• providing, by an identity repository of the edge digital gate, a shared cache that, together with other identity repositories of one or more other edge digital gates of the plurality of edge digital gates, forms a shared data environment of the telecommunications network, the identity repository acting as a virtual storage function of the telecommunications network;
• determining, by an entitlement gateway of the edge digital gate, one or more entitlements to blockchain-based digital services on the blockchain network associated with the telecommunications network, the entitlement gateway executing a stateless virtual network function of the telecommunications network;
• and
• publishing, by the edge digital gate, subscriber activity associated with the one or more entitlements via a decentralized ledger of the telecommunications network, the subscriber activity reflecting subscribers' use of the blockchain-based digital services.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions, when executed on an edge digital gate, programs the edge digital gate to:

• establish connections in a telecommunications network for the edge digital gate, the edge digital gate operating at an edge of the telecommunications network and acting as a blockchain node;
• provide a shared cache that, together with other edge digital gates, forms a shared data environment of the telecommunications network, the edge digital dates and the other edge digital gates forming a blockchain network;
• provide or determine one or more entitlements to blockchain-based digital services on a blockchain network associated with the telecommunications network using a stateless virtual network function of the telecommunications network;
• and
• publish subscriber activity associated with the one or more entitlements via a decentralized ledger of the telecommunications network, the subscriber activity reflecting subscribers' use of the blockchain-based digital services.