1. Introduction

Access to mobility has become a fundamental necessity in modern urban life. Yet, the infrastructure behind today’s ride-hailing services is centralized, extractive, and exclusionary. Drivers - the backbone of the gig economy,are treated as disposable labor, locked into siloed ecosystems, unable to port their reputations or leverage their work histories for long-term value. Meanwhile, users generate vast amounts of data that are monetized without consent or compensation.

DRIFE proposes a structural shift.

Instead of building another ride-hailing app, DRIFE introduces a decentralized mobility data protocol that aggregates and anchors user-contributed ride data from platforms such as

Uber, Ola, Careem, and others. By syncing their trip histories into DRIFE, users create portable, verifiable identities on-chain,digital records of activity that they own, control, and can use as economic leverage.

This system enables new primitives: tokenized rewards for mobility data, decentralized identifiers (DIDs), verifiable credentials, and on-chain reputation systems. These, in turn, unlock access to financial tools like staking-based benefits, trust-based microloans, and reputation mining,services historically inaccessible to gig workers.

DRIFE operates on top of the Sui blockchain, chosen for its high throughput, low latency, and object-oriented data model. Every ride becomes a cryptographically secure event on-chain, contributing to a decentralized, user-owned mobility graph. Rather than extract value, DRIFE distributes it,rewarding users for their participation and data.

With early traction in India,over 30,000 drivers and 500,000 riders onboarded, DRIFE is building a global, on-chain mobility infrastructure: open, composable, and aligned with the users it serves.