DLT Platform Explained: How India's Distributed Ledger Technology Combats SMS Spam in 2025
Remember when your morning started with a barrage of lottery notifications, miracle weight-loss offers, and urgent messages about frozen bank accounts you never had? For millions of Indian mobile subscribers, this wasn't just an occasional annoyance—it was the daily reality of digital communication before 2018. The SMS inbox had become a battlefield where legitimate business messages were lost in a flood of spam, and consumer trust in mobile communications had eroded to dangerous levels. Fast forward to 2025, and the landscape has transformed dramatically. India's Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) platform has revolutionized how commercial communications work, creating one of the world's most sophisticated anti-spam ecosystems. But how exactly does this system work, and why has it been so effective in combating the menace of unsolicited commercial communications? The Pre-DLT Era: A Spam Apocalypse To appreciate the DLT revolution, we must first understand the magnitude o...