区块链大会2017,2020年全球区块链风云榜

1. Why 2017 is the most critical year for blockchain

The following are the reasons why 2017 will be the most critical year for blockchain:

Bitcoin’s Enduring Value

Bitcoin, the original tool for blockchain, ended 2016 on a high note, which is a good sign.

Shortly after the new year, "Fortune" reported,

"After experiencing a boom in 2016, the price of Bitcoin has reached $1,000, rising since the beginning of this year. up 120% until recently reaching a three-year high. Reasons including the depreciation of the yuan, the risk of China’s currency controls, and geopolitical instability have all been cited as key factors in the cryptocurrency’s success. Bitcoin’s iconic one Another reason for the year is its retention power - the longer it is, the more familiar it will be, and it will become more like a true store of value."

Whether it's fair or not, blockchain technology The feasibility of Bitcoin is always inseparable from the performance of Bitcoin. If decentralized databases can be successful in finance, they could be used more widely elsewhere. As is customary, the healthy growth of digital currencies has sparked discussions about how to integrate blockchain into new areas. With a healthy Bitcoin, blockchain can expand rapidly in other areas.

Existing Participants

Of course, this has been around for a while, as the blockchain has been firmly tied to Bitcoin . Over the years, many groups have invested heavily in making the technology more widely available, adding new features and creating new applications. If 2017 is to be a great year for blockchain, these existing players must be ready to grow with it.

A sign of this trend is that before the end of 2016, the Hyperledger project added 8 new members. Software company CA technologies, blockchain project Factcom Foundation, healthcare alliance Hashed Health, South Korea's Koscom, accounting firm LedgerDomain, trading ecosystem developer Lykee, Sovrin Foundation and telecommunications company Swisscom have all joined the project's top 100 list.

The Hyperledger project enters 2017 with an impressive roster of members and plans to introduce blockchain feasibility case studies in real use cases.

New Investments

In a sign of the progress the technology will make this year, companies around the world are laying the groundwork to take advantage of blockchain's status. According to Bloomberg Technology, global companies applied for or accepted 356 blockchain or digital currency-related patent applications in November last year, almost double the number in the first month of 2016.

ReedMarc Kaufman, a fintech intellectual property expert at Smith, told Bloomberg: "We are witnessing an exponential increase in the number of patent applications and expect we will see thousands of blockchain applications in the next five years. Patents."

Companies are filing patents at such a rapid pace because blockchain is finally moving from utopia to the goal of a digital ledger tool. The number of patents is increasing exponentially as new discoveries in blockchain are being made. In 2017, blockchain will enjoy wider legitimacy.

Only time will tell what the development trend of blockchain will be in 2017, and vice versa, but it is obvious that the status of blockchain technology is visible to everyone, and it also proves that early investors have expectations of its potential, and that new potential may be developed in the future.

Blockchain has also become the darling of the financial community in China and has become a hot topic. All major domestic financial institutions have tested blockchain projects. China Post and IBM collaborated to develop a blockchain asset custody system; Puyin Group launched the tea-based digital currency Puyin.

2. What does mining mean when it comes to computers?

Mining: Bitcoin mining is a process that uses computer hardware to calculate the location of Bitcoin and obtain it. .

3. What is the development trend of blockchain?

Major companies in the industry: Ping An of China (601318), Donggang Holdings (002117), Information Development (300469) , Yuanguang Software (002063), Boss Software (300525), Feitian Chengxin (300386), Sifang Jingchuang (300468), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (601398), SF Holding (002352)

The core data of this article: China Blockchain market size, number of blockchain tenders in China, number of blockchain companies in China

Industry overview

1. Definition

In a narrow sense, the area Block chain is a chain data structure that combines data blocks in a chronological manner and is cryptographically guaranteed to be an untamperable and unforgeable distributed ledger.

Broadly speaking, blockchain technology uses block chain data structures to verify and store data, uses distributed node consensus algorithms to generate and update data, and uses cryptography to ensure data transmission and access. It is a new distributed infrastructure and computing method that uses smart contracts composed of automated script codes to program and operate data securely.

Blockchain is not a single technology, but a combination of new technologies. Each of these technologies performs its own role, solves different problems, and is combined to form a blockchain. As the basic structural unit of the blockchain, the block consists of two parts: the block header and the block body containing transaction data.

2. Industry chain analysis: the downstream industry covers a wide range of industries

The upstream of the blockchain industry chain is mainly the bottomlayer of technology and infrastructure. The underlying technology includes core basic components, protocols and algorithms. Represented by Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum, a network environment such as distributed algorithms, digital keys, data storage, P2P network protocols, and consensus mechanisms based on blockchain technology, transaction rules, and incentives for miners to join network nodes have been built. Mechanism, representative companies include Xiaoyi, Quantum Chain, Wanxiang Blockchain, etc.; the infrastructure is mainly mining machines.

The midstream is the platform layer, which mainly provides developers with applications based on blockchain technology. It provides productized services such as smart contracts, information security, and data services based on the underlying technology to improve development It provides convenience and scalability for developers to develop applications at the platform layer.

Downstream is the vertical industry application layer. It manifests itself as core application components, including smart contracts, programmable assets, incentive mechanisms, member management, etc.

Industry development history: We are in the era of blockchain 3.0

From the perspective of the development history of global blockchain, in 2008, an anonymous person signed by "Satoshi Nakamoto" published The paper "Bitcoin: Peer-to-Peer Network Electronic Cash System" originally expected to launch a peer-to-peer electronic cash that could circulate freely. The issuance of Bitcoin represented the beginning of blockchain technology; later, in 2013, the launch of Ethereum directly Pushing the blockchain into the 2.0 era; at the end of 2017, the popularity of stablecoins and the launch of MakerDAO pushed the blockchain into the 3.0 era. By June 2019, Facebook released the Libra white paper, which attracted attention and discussion from all walks of life around the world, and various countries regulated Departments have spoken out one after another, showing the huge potential of blockchain technology in reshaping global financial infrastructure. After entering 2021, NFT-based identification technology has emerged and is the first to be applied in the art field.

Industry policy background: Promote the all-round development of blockchain

In 2016, the State Council issued the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for National Informatization", which listed blockchain as a new technology for the first time The scope and cutting-edge layout indicate that my country has begun to promote the development of blockchain technology and applications. Since then, various localities in the country have successively introduced blockchain-related policies, providing a good environment for the development of blockchain.

In February 2019, the "Blockchain Information Service Management Regulations" issued by the State Internet Information Office were officially implemented, standardizing the filing basis for the development of my country's blockchain industry. The purpose of promulgating the "Regulations" is to clarify the information security management responsibilities of blockchain information service providers, standardize and promote the healthy development of blockchain technology and related services, avoid blockchain information service security risks, and facilitate the provision of blockchain information services. , use, management, etc. to provide effective legal basis. The introduction of this "management regulations" also means that my country's "supervision era" for blockchain information services has officially arrived.

At the end of October 2019, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held its 18th collective study session on the development status and trends of blockchain technology. Central leaders clearly emphasized the importance of blockchain as an important breakthrough in independent innovation of core technologies.Break through and accelerate the development of blockchain technology and industrial innovation. This fully demonstrates that blockchain technology has risen to a national level. Chen Chun, a professor at Zhejiang University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who gave a lecture on the collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, said at the 2019CCF Blockchain Technology Conference hosted by the Computer Society of China on October 12 that the development of the domestic blockchain industry is ushering in " "Spring Breeze", the research hotspots of China's blockchain technology will focus on two aspects: the key technology of the alliance blockchain and the blockchain supervision technology.

Current development of the industry

1. The market size will grow by more than 90% in 2020

From 2016 to 2018, large IT Internet companies have deployed blockchain. Start-ups have entered a blowout mode, and the industry scale continues to expand. According to IDC data, China's blockchain industry has experienced changes from a market size of US$85 million in 2017 to an industry scale of US$561 million in 2020.

2. The number of related companies is growing rapidly

In terms of the number of companies, in 2020H1, my country provided blockchain professional technical support, products, solutions and other services, and had input or output The number of new blockchain companies reached 303, a year-on-year increase of 274.07% nationwide. As of the end of 2020, the number of blockchain-related companies in my country reached 64,062, a year-on-year increase of 52.88%.

3. Blockchain finance is the largest downstream application market

According to the disclosure of the "China Blockchain Development White Paper (2020)", as the implementation of blockchain applications accelerates, "Blockchain+" business has become the focus of development for Internet backbone enterprises to enter the blockchain industry. In addition to financial business, it actively deploys the Internet, traceability, supply chain & logistics, digital assets, government affairs and public services, intellectual property, and law. , medical and other fields of application. Among them, finance is the most explored field in the application scenarios of blockchain technology, with specific projects implemented in subdivided fields such as supply chain finance, trade finance, payment and settlement, and fund management.

4. The number of blockchain tenders is increasing year by year

From a year perspective, from 2016 to 2020, the number of government tenders for blockchain-related projects has been growing exponentially. , on the one hand, it benefits from the increasingly prominent application value of blockchain technology, and on the other hand, it also reflects the government’s increased demand for and emphasis on blockchain.

Industry competition status

1. Regional competition: Beijing and Guangdong have the most blockchain technology research and development-related companies

In terms of company distribution, as of the first half of 2021 , the distribution of enterprises is obviously tiered. Among them, Beijing and Guangdong rank in the first echelon with 348 and 341 blockchain development-related companies respectively, and the number of companies in Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Zhejiang reaches 164, 127, and 81 respectively.

As an important carrier for the development of blockchain industrial clusters, local governments are accelerating the construction of blockchain industrial parks. Distribution from the location of the industrial parkJudging from the above, there are a large number of blockchain industrial parks in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Qingdao, and Changsha, forming an agglomeration effect around the Bohai Sea, dominated by Beijing and Shandong, and the Yangtze River, dominated by Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Jiangsu. Delta agglomeration effect, the Pearl River Delta agglomeration effect mainly in Guangdong and Hunan, Guizhou and Chongqing agglomeration effect mainly in Chongqing and Hunan. Combined with the positioning and development of the industrial park, it is based on the premise of serving enterprises to create a blockchain innovation platform and industrial highland. This positioning also provides the basis for the aggregation effect of enterprises.

2. Enterprise competition: Alibaba’s blockchain is the strongest

In March 2021, at the China Mobile Communications Federation Blockchain Professional Committee and the China Science and Technology System Reform Research Association Under the guidance of the Digital Economy Development Research Group and the Organizing Committee of China's Top 100 Blockchain Enterprises List, Chain Tower Think Tank screened and evaluated thousands of projects and enterprise lists, and finally released the 2020 China's Top 100 Blockchain Enterprises List.

In the context of the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, the 2020 Blockchain Top 100 List has adjusted the dimensions of enterprise inspection to a certain extent to highlight the performance of outstanding blockchain companies in 2020. It is divided into five main dimensions, namely commercial operation weight accounting for 25%, technology research and development weight accounting for 20%, product application weight accounting for 30%, team composition weight accounting for 15% and marketing promotion accounting for 10%.

Industry development prospects and trend predictions

1. It is still in the introduction period

Currently, my country’s blockchain industry is in the introduction period, and the industry is showing Two main characteristics: First, large industry companies are actively applying blockchain technology to improve their own businesses, but they are still mainly trying, and the main application scenarios are also non-core businesses in the industry. For example, enterprises such as Ping An of China, China UnionPay, and Ant Financial are limited to non-core businesses in their exploration of blockchain applications; secondly, the business development of enterprises focusing on blockchain technology services is mostly in the initial stage, and their product technology systems and The business model is not mature enough, and the demand side’s understanding of blockchain needs to be improved. Blockchain has already formed some application cases in scenarios such as judicial certificate storage, government affairs management, people's livelihood services, food traceability, supply chain management, etc., but it still needs to be further optimized and improved.

The above data refers to the "China Blockchain Industry Market Foresight and Investment Strategic Planning Analysis Report" by the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute.

4. What exactly is blockchain

What is blockchain?
Blockchain is a new application model of computer technologies such as distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, and encryption algorithm. The so-called consensus mechanism is a mathematical algorithm that establishes trust and obtains rights and interests between different nodes in the blockchain system [1].
Blockchain is an important concept of Bitcoin. It is essentially a decentralized database and serves as the underlying technology of Bitcoin. Blockchain is a series of data blocks that are associated using cryptographic methods, eachThe data block contains information about a Bitcoin network transaction and is used to verify the validity of the information (anti-counterfeiting) and generate the next block.
Blockchain was born from Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin. Since 2009, various Bitcoin-like digital currencies have appeared, all based on public blockchains.
The current situation of digital currency is that a hundred flowers are blooming. Here are some common ones: bitcoin, litecoin, dogecoin, dashcoin. In addition to currency applications, there are also various derivative applications, such as Ethereum, Asch and other underlying application development platforms, as well as NXT , SIA, BitShares, MaidSafe, Ripple and other industry applications.
On January 20, 2016, the People’s Bank of China Digital Currency Seminar announced that it had achieved phased results in digital currency research. The meeting affirmed the value of digital currency in reducing the issuance of traditional currency and stated that the central bank is exploring the issuance of digital currency. The expression of the People’s Bank of China’s Digital Currency Seminar has greatly enhanced the confidence of the digital currency industry. This is the first time that the five central bank ministries and commissions have expressed a clear attitude towards digital currencies since they issued a notice on preventing Bitcoin risks on December 5, 2013. [4]
On December 20, 2016, the Digital Currency Alliance - China FinTech Digital Currency Alliance and FinTech Research Institute were officially established, with Huobi being one of the co-initiators. [5]
Some areas where blockchain can be used are:
▪ Smart contracts
▪ Securities trading
▪ E-commerce
▪ Internet of Things
▪ Social communication
▪ File storage
▪ Proof of existence
▪ Identity verification
▪ Equity crowdfunding
We can compare the development of blockchain to the development of the Internet itself , something called finance-internet will be formed on the Internet in the future, and this thing is based on blockchain, and its precursor is bitcoin, that is, traditional finance starts from private chains and industry chains (local area network), and the bitcoin series starts from public chains (Wide Area Network), they all express the same concept - digital assets (Digital Asset), and finally converge to an intermediate balance point.
The evolution of blockchain is:
▪ Blockchain 1.0 - digital currency
▪ Blockchain 2.0 - digital assets and smart contracts
▪ Blockchain 3.0 ——The implementation of distributed applications in various industries
Blockchain is divided into three categories. In the currency issuance "Blockchain: Defining the New Pattern of Future Finance and Economy" [2]There is a detailed introduction in the book,
Hybrid blockchain and private blockchain can be considered as broad private chains:
Public Blockchain (PublicBlockChains)
Public blockchain is Refers to: Any individual or group in the world can send transactions, and the transactions can be effectively confirmed by the blockchain, and anyone can participate in its consensus process. The public blockchain is the earliest blockchain and the most widely used blockchain. The virtual digital currencies of all major bitcoins series are based on the public blockchain. There is only one blockchain corresponding to this currency in the world. .
Consortium (Industry) Blockchain (ConsortiumBlockChains)
Industry Blockchain: Multiple preselected nodes are designated within a certain group as bookkeepers, and the generation of each block is jointly performed by all preselected nodes. Decision (pre-selected nodes to participate in the consensus process), other access nodes can participate in transactions, but do not participate in the accounting process (essentially still managed accounting, just become distributed accounting, how many pre-selected nodes, how to determine the number of each block The bookkeeper becomes the main risk point of the blockchain), and anyone else can conduct limited queries through the open API of the blockchain.
Private Blockchain (privateBlockChains)
Private Blockchain: Only uses the general ledger technology of the blockchain for accounting. It can be a company or an individual, and has exclusive access to the writing of the blockchain. With access permissions, this chain is not much different from other distributed storage solutions. (Dec2015) Conservative giants (traditional finance) all want to experiment with private blockchains, while public chain applications such as Bitcoin have been industrialized, and private chain application products are still being explored.

5. What is blockchain

What is blockchain? What changes will it bring to your future life?

Blockchain is a new application model of computer technologies such as distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, and encryption algorithm.

Blockchain is an important concept of Bitcoin. It is essentially a decentralized database. At the same time, as the underlying technology of Bitcoin, it is a series of cryptographic methods related to each other. Each data block generated contains a batch of Bitcoin network transaction information, which is used to verify the validity of the information (anti-counterfeiting) and generate the next block.

In fact, the original English version of the Bitcoin white paper does not appear in the word blockchain, but uses chain of blocks. In the earliest Chinese translation of the Bitcoin white paper, chain of blocks was translated into blockchain. This is the earliest time when the Chinese word "blockchain" appeared.

The State Internet Information Office issued the "Blockchain Information Service Management Regulations" on January 10, 2019. Since February 15, 2019Be implemented.

In a narrow sense, blockchain is a chain data structure that combines data blocks in a sequential manner in chronological order, and is cryptographically guaranteed to be non-tamperable and non-transformable. Fake distributed ledger.

So in conclusion, this is undoubtedly a new technology that changes life. In the future, the production activities of the entire society will be carried out with blockchain as the underlying logic. Many things We all have it at our fingertips, and with the integration of artificial intelligence and big data, we can easily handle things that may seem cumbersome now, such as some securities market transactions and intelligent matching of financial management activities.

To put it simply, blockchain is a network computing center that integrates people, property, machines, and goods, and packages them into a whole; putting it on an infrastructure to run.

6. What are the prospects for the future development of blockchain

Shared from District View Network: In 2018, blockchain-linked AI has become the most popular technical term, with more and more people Many technology companies have announced their entry into the blockchain market. On the Internet, companies such as Xunlei, Renren, Baofeng, and Tianya have all made blockchain-related actions. These companies have the same fate. They have all experienced prosperity, but after being impacted by the Internet entrepreneurship wave, they began to decline. Then they caught up with the hot spots of blockchain and began to try to counterattack.
Investment in the global blockchain industry is booming
According to the "In-depth Analysis Report on Business Model Innovation and Investment Opportunities in the Blockchain Industry" released by the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute, as of the end of April 2017, there were a total of 455 companies worldwide The blockchain company has received a cumulative financing amount of US$1.947 billion. Among them, the total investment and financing of U.S. blockchain-related companies is as high as 1.252 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 64.3% of the global market; the total financing amount of Chinese blockchain emerging companies is approximately 114 million U.S. dollars, accounting for 5.86%, ranking second only to the United States in the world Second, it is growing rapidly.
The current overall survival status of the blockchain is good, with a survival rate of 87.25%. 47
of all the invested companies have been closed down, accounting for about 10.51%, and another 10 companies have been acquired. Due to changes in the competitive landscape of the Bitcoin market, some companies have been forced to close down. At the same time, some companies in the currency circle have gradually transformed into chain companies
Exploration at the national level has also begun. On March 23, the Department of Information Technology and Software Services of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that it would study and explore the application of blockchain in the industrial field. Previously, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that it was preparing to establish a national blockchain and distributed accounting technology standardization technical committee to explore the formation of a complete blockchain standard system to better serve the development of the blockchain technology industry.