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1. How is the blockchain developing now?

In 2020, the blockchain was included in the category of "new infrastructure" by the country, and at least 7 provinces introduced blockchain Chain support policy. In the same year, blockchain technology was gradually moving from concept to implementation, with many application scenarios blooming. "Blockchain+" various industry applications have become a symbol of the continuous maturity of blockchain.

The development status of "Blockchain+" in 2020

In 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic swept the world, and the uncertainty of world economic development increased significantly. Governments and enterprises of various countries are exploring the use of emerging technologies to reduce economic and social operating costs, improve the operating efficiency of the real economy, and further find new growth points for economic development.

Currently, blockchain is cross-innovating with new technology infrastructure such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. More and more vertical fields of the real economy are showing the development pattern of "blockchain +" and "escape from reality". The good momentum of "Towards Reality".

In order to avoid turning reality into fiction, in addition to continuing to severely crack down on speculation, we must also guide the deep integration of blockchain technology with practical application scenarios. Therefore, "blockchain+" various industrial application scenarios have become one of the inevitable trends in the development of blockchain.

According to the "Blockchain White Paper (2020)" recently released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, as of October 2020, more than 262 listed companies have been involved in the blockchain field, each from insurance , real estate, commercial department stores, security equipment, packaging materials, telecommunications operations and other 39 fields. In the blockchain information service registration list released by the State Internet Information Office, there are 45 blockchain projects of listed companies.

Among them, finance is the most explored scenario among blockchain technology application scenarios, with specific projects implemented in subdivisions such as supply chain finance, trade finance, payment and settlement, and fund management. The white paper shows that as of November 2020, among the domestically registered blockchain information services, the number of projects in the financial (including supply chain finance) field ranks first, accounting for as high as 36%.

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, they actively deploy the Internet, traceability, Applications in supply chain & logistics, digital assets, government affairs and public services, intellectual property, law, medical and other fields.

At the same time, the industry is gradually understanding that blockchain is the basic component of trusted transactions, but this does not mean that blockchain can conquer the world. Blockchain needs to be combined with other technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data, 5G, etc. to use synergy to form integrated solutions to jointly promote digital transformation.

According to relevant data, the current application of blockchain is mainly in the field of certificate storage. Blockchain has entered into how to make it better from an engineering perspective, more credible, more stable, and more scalable. Well, a stage that can accommodate more nodes. He Bao, Director of the Institute of Cloud Computing and Big Data, China Academy of Information and Communications TechnologyHong believes that this process will continue for some time or longer, and the next step is for blockchain technology competition to shift from engineering optimization and improvement to technology ecology and business ecology.

In addition, it is understood that the blockchain industry is improving in the long term, and industry cognition has returned to rationality. With the central government's planning and guidance for the development of blockchain technology, my country's blockchain has clarified the development ideas based on the alliance chain, focusing on serving the real economy and optimizing public services, and the direction of industrial development has become clearer. At this stage, the confidence of the majority of practitioners in blockchain continues to improve, and the long-term strategic value of blockchain is generally recognized.

What is the prospect of "Blockchain+" in 2021?

As my country’s blockchain industry chain gradually improves, most blockchain companies not only focus on one aspect, but also show a trend of coordinated development in multiple fields. According to statistics, among the 801 blockchain information service registration lists released by the Cyberspace Administration of China, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shandong are the provinces and cities with the most registered companies.

The core role of blockchain corresponding to its technical characteristics is mainly reflected in the three aspects of certificate storage, automated collaboration and value transfer. As its value potential is constantly being explored, application scenarios have evolved from the breakthrough point of finance. , and gradually expanded into many fields such as the real economy, government affairs and people's livelihood.

The core value of blockchain for the real economy is to promote efficient collaboration between upstream and downstream industries and improve the efficiency of industry-finance integration. In the early stages of development, the blockchain application model mainly focused on the storage of documents, contracts, etc. At this stage, blockchain industry applications are gradually moving towards automated collaboration and value interconnection such as government data sharing, supply chain collaboration, and cross-border trade.

2020 is the warm-up for 2021. In 2021, the use of blockchain, distributed ledgers, and smart contract tools will continue to grow as it did in 2020. With the continuous deepening of blockchain technology, the foundation of the blockchain industry will become better and better, the industrial ecology will also develop rapidly, and the industrial chain will become increasingly widespread.

From the perspective of industrial structure, the blockchain industry is mainly divided into four parts: underlying technology, platform services, industrial applications, and peripheral services.

The first three parts show a relatively obvious upstream and downstream relationship. The underlying technology part provides the necessary technical products and components of the blockchain respectively. The platform service part builds an area that can run corresponding industry applications based on the underlying technology. The industrial application part of the blockchain platform mainly uses blockchain technology to develop industry applications based on the actual scenarios of various industries and realize the innovation of business collaboration models within the industry.

The peripheral services part provides supporting services to the industry, including industry organizations, market research, standard formulation, system evaluation and certification, industry media, etc., to provide impetus for the development of industrial ecology.

Among them, as far as the industrial application of blockchain is concerned: Blockchain is the innovative development result of information technology, and it is also the main booster for the reconstruction of business processes and the innovation of industrial interaction models in various industries.

Blockchain has gradually moved from digital finance to supply chain finance, product traceability and other fields.Expanding, it has now been explored and applied in government affairs, people's livelihood, industrial management and other industries. Its application scenarios are becoming increasingly rich, showing a development trend of deep integration with other industries.

At present, domestic enterprises are focusing on the development of applications related to serving the real economy and improving government affairs and people's livelihood. Among them, supply chain finance and product traceability have accounted for half of all applications. Others, such as government affairs and people's livelihood, have become the future of manufacturers. Key layout areas are about to experience explosive growth.

After blockchain investment cooled down in 2020, the blockchain industry may begin to gradually become more rational in 2021. However, a relatively complete industrial chain and active market entities provide a good foundation for the integrated development of the blockchain industry. The blockchain industry will also show a positive development trend in terms of policy support, ecological construction, platform services, application implementation, and integrated innovation.

2. How is the overall development of blockchain now?

The current status of blockchain development in China

1. The industry is in a stage of rapid growth

< p> From the industry level of blockchain, from 2016 to 2018, as large domestic IT Internet companies have deployed blockchain, start-ups have entered a blowout mode, and the industry scale of blockchain has continued to expand. According to IDC data, the market size of China's blockchain industry has grown from US$85 million in 2017 to US$561 million in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of 60.3%.

3. Is 2020 a new turning point in the development of blockchain?

There are several main entry points to look at, and the policy is from top to bottom. Support, credible blockchain-based data sharing, tokens and digital currencies on the blockchain. From the current point of view, in 2020, the blockchain industry is in a stage from a barbaric growth period to formalized operation and development. An inflection point, and the epidemic will also serve as one of the catalysts to quickly promote the implementation of blockchain in the industry.

4. Does blockchain have a future in China?

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

The core data of this article: China’s blockchain market Scale, number of blockchain tenders in China, number of blockchain companies in China

Industry Overview

1. Definition

In a narrow sense, blockchain is a A chained data structure that combines data blocks in chronological order 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 integrity.A new distributed infrastructure and computing method that secures data transmission and access and uses smart contracts composed of automated script codes to program and operate data.

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 areas

The upstream of the blockchain industry chain is mainly the underlying 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. Promulgation of "Regulations"》Aims 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 provide better guidance for the provision, use, and development of blockchain information services. Provide effective legal basis for management, etc. 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 use of blockchain as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies. , Accelerate the promotion of blockchain technology and industrial innovation and development. 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.add.

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. Judging from the location distribution of industrial parks, there are a large number of blockchain industrial parks in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Qingdao, and Changsha, forming a Bohai Rim agglomeration effect dominated by Beijing and Shandong, with Zhejiang and Shanghai , the agglomeration effect of the Yangtze River Delta dominated by Jiangsu, the agglomeration effect of the Pearl River Delta dominated by Guangdong, and the agglomeration effect of Hunan, Guizhou, and Chongqing dominated by 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.

2. The market capacity is expected to exceed US$16 billion in 2026

Blockchain technology is a key direction for China’s new generation of independent innovation and breakthroughs in information technology.It contains huge space for innovation. In the fields of chips, big data, cloud computing and other fields, innovation activities are becoming increasingly active and innovation elements are constantly accumulating. The application of blockchain technology in various industries continues to deepen, which will give rise to a large number of new technologies, new products, new applications, and new models.

China focuses on accelerating the transformation of its economic development model, pays more attention to the improvement of economic quality and people's living standards, and uses new generation information technology, including blockchain technology, to transform and upgrade traditional industries and enhance the quality of traditional industries. Develop quality and efficiency, and improve the level of smart social management, public services and home life. The huge market demand in the future will bring rare development opportunities and broad development space to blockchain technology. Researchers compiled and analyzed that China’s blockchain market will maintain rapid growth, with a compound annual growth rate of 73% in market size from 2021 to 2026. The market size in 2026 will reach US$16.368 billion, and in the next 20 years, China’s blockchain market will The industry market size is expected to reach the trillion level.

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

5. The future development prospects of blockchain

1. Blockchain has become the forefront of global technological development and opened up a new track for international competition. Blockchain will become a new key infrastructure to further accelerate the development of the digital economy, lead a new round of global technological and industrial changes, and become the "source" of technological innovation and model innovation. The world's major developed countries will further pay attention to blockchain technology, intensively introduce relevant policy plans, increase industrial support and guidance, and enhance the competitiveness of their country's blockchain technology and industry.
2. The digital currency bubble gradually cools down. With the spread and popularization of the concept of blockchain technology, more and more people will realize that Bitcoin is not the same as blockchain, and various air coins will be gradually eliminated. Blockchain technology innovation will return to a more rational track. Technical features such as decentralization, multi-party collaboration, and anti-calculation tampering will be highly valued by relevant industries. Some industries with strong innovation capabilities will continue to emerge with blockchain applications that have been transformed based on industry characteristics.

6. What is the current situation of China’s blockchain

China’s blockchain industry has developed rapidly in 2019, which is mainly reflected in the following points:

Chapter 1. High-level national strategic guidance and support to create a good policy environment. According to incomplete statistics, in the first half of 2019, more than 23 provinces and cities across the country released more than 112 pieces of policy information involving blockchain. High-level government officials emphasized that the application of blockchain technology plays an important role in technological innovation and industrial transformation, and supported the accelerated development of blockchain technology and industrial innovation.

In addition, market supervision policies regarding blockchain have also gradually improved. On the one hand, strict vigilance and testing are carried out for virtual currency transactions and services; on the other hand, related industries with blockchain applications The regulatory system is also being further constructed and improved to deeply serve the real economy for industrial blockchain projects.Provide strong guarantees, the market tends to become more standardized, and the industrial environment gradually becomes clearer; in addition, in terms of support for technological breakthroughs and talent encouragement, technological innovation and talent introduction are also provided through the establishment of blockchain industrial parks, blockchain special investment funds, etc. subsidies to promote the development of the blockchain industry.

Second, domestic enterprises actively participate in the research and development and application of blockchain technology and carry out blockchain strategic layout. For example, e-commerce giants such as Alibaba use blockchain technology in areas such as product traceability and cross-border settlement. JD.com uses a transparent supply chain system to combat counterfeit and shoddy products. Tencent focuses on the development of applications in financial fields such as electronic invoices.

7. Why is it said that the blockchain industry will not really rise until 2020?

Because the current blockchain technology is not yet mature, and the basic facilities are imperfect, many applications have been affected. Limitations, the overall application is still in a very early stage.

First of all, the main function of blockchain is to store information. Any information that needs to be saved can be written to the blockchain and read from it, so it is a database. Secondly, anyone can set up a server, join the blockchain network and become a node. In the world of blockchain, there is no central node (decentralization). Every node is equal and stores the entire database. You can write/read data to any node, because all nodes will eventually be synchronized to ensure that the blockchain is consistent.

8. It’s 2021, what will be the development trend of my country’s blockchain technology in the future?

Domestic blockchain technology has been conceptualized a few years ago and has now become widespread. It has been applied to actual business scenarios, such as the rice we eat, and the QR code on the packaging
Traceability is the application of blockchain technology. Companies like Shanghai Wanglian Technology entered the market earlier and are currently developing very well.

9. Blockchain technology development status and prospects

Blockchain technology development status and prospects
Blockchain technology originated in 2008 under the pseudonym "China The foundational paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" published by scholar Satoshi Nakamoto on the cryptography mailing group. In the past two years, the research and application of blockchain technology have shown explosive growth. It is considered to be the fifth disruptive innovation in the computing paradigm after mainframes, personal computers, the Internet, and mobile/social networks. It is also the evolution of human credit. The fourth milestone in history after blood relatives credit, precious metal credit, and central bank banknote credit. Blockchain technology is the prototype of the next generation of cloud computing. It is expected to completely reshape the form of human social activities like the Internet and realize the transformation from the current information Internet to the value Internet. Technical characteristics of blockchain

Blockchain has the characteristics of decentralization, time series data, collective maintenance, programmability, security and trustworthiness. Decentralization: blockchain data verification, accounting,Processes such as storage, maintenance and transmission are all based on the distributed system structure, using pure mathematical methods instead of central institutions to establish trust relationships between distributed nodes, thereby forming a decentralized and trustworthy distributed system; Time series data: Zone The blockchain uses a chained block structure with timestamps to store data, thereby adding a time dimension to the data and having strong verifiability and traceability; Collective maintenance: The blockchain system uses a specific economic incentive mechanism to It ensures that all nodes in the distributed system can participate in the verification process of data blocks (such as the "mining" process of Bitcoin), and select specific nodes to add new blocks to the blockchain through the consensus algorithm; Programmable: Zone Blockchain technology can provide a flexible script code system to support users to create advanced smart contracts, currencies or other decentralized applications; safe and trustworthy: Blockchain technology uses asymmetric cryptography principles to encrypt data, while using distributed The powerful computing power formed by consensus algorithms such as workload proof of each node in the system can resist external attacks and ensure that the blockchain data cannot be tampered with or forged, so it has high security. Blockchain and Bitcoin Bitcoin is by far the most successful blockchain application scenario. Blockchain technology has solved the double payment problem and Byzantine Generals problem that the Bitcoin system has long faced in the field of digital cryptocurrency. Different from the credit endorsement mechanism of traditional central institutions (such as central banks), the Bitcoin blockchain forms software-defined credit, which marks a fundamental change from centralized national credit to decentralized algorithmic credit. In recent years, Bitcoin has relied on its first-mover advantage to form a complete ecosystem and industry chain covering issuance, circulation and financial derivatives markets. This is also the main reason why it has occupied the vast majority of the digital cryptocurrency market share for a long time. The development context and trends of blockchain
Blockchain technology is a universal underlying technology framework that can bring profound changes to various fields such as finance, economy, technology and even politics. According to the current development trend of blockchain technology, blockchain technology will experience the blockchain 1.0 model with programmable digital encryption currency system as the main feature, the blockchain 2.0 model with programmable financial system as the main feature, and the blockchain 2.0 model with programmable financial system as the main feature. The blockchain 3.0 model is characterized by a programmable society. However, the above-mentioned models are actually developing in parallel rather than in an evolutionary manner. The digital cryptocurrency system of the blockchain 1.0 model is still far from mature, and is actually farther and more difficult from its vision of global currency integration. At present, the blockchain field has shown an obvious development trend driven by technological and industrial innovation, and relevant academic research is seriously lagging behind and urgently needs to be followed up. Basic models and key technologies of blockchain
Generally speaking, a blockchain system consists of a data layer, a network layer, a consensus layer, an incentive layer, a contract layer and an application layer. Among them, the data layer encapsulates the underlying data blocks and related data encryption and timestamp technologies; the network layer includes distributedNetworking mechanism, data dissemination mechanism, data verification mechanism, etc.; the consensus layer mainly encapsulates various consensus algorithms of network nodes; the incentive layer integrates economic factors into the blockchain technology system, mainly including the issuance mechanism and distribution mechanism of economic incentives etc.; the contract layer mainly encapsulates various scripts, algorithms and smart contracts, which is the basis of the programmable features of the blockchain; the application layer encapsulates various application scenarios and cases of the blockchain. In this model, the chain block structure based on timestamps, the consensus mechanism of distributed nodes, economic incentives based on consensus computing power, and flexible programmable smart contracts are the most representative innovations of blockchain technology. Application Scenarios of Blockchain Technology
Blockchain technology can not only be successfully used in the field of digital cryptocurrency, but also has a wide range of application scenarios in economic, financial and social systems. According to the current status of blockchain technology applications, this article broadly summarizes the current main applications of blockchain into six scenarios: digital currency, data storage, data authentication, financial transactions, asset management and election voting: Digital currency: Bitcoin It represents a digital currency that is essentially generated by a distributed network system, and its issuance process does not rely on a specific centralized institution. Data storage: The characteristics of blockchain such as high redundant storage, decentralization, high security and privacy protection make it particularly suitable for storing and protecting important private data to avoid attacks caused by centralized institutions or improper permission management. Massive data loss or breach. Data authentication: Blockchain data is time-stamped, jointly verified and recorded by consensus nodes, and cannot be tampered with or forged. These characteristics make the blockchain widely used in various data notarization and audit scenarios. For example, blockchain can permanently and securely store various licenses, registration forms, licenses, certificates, certifications and records issued by government agencies. Financial transactions: Blockchain technology has a very high degree of compatibility with financial market applications. Blockchain can spontaneously generate credit in a decentralized system and can establish a financial market without the credit endorsement of a central institution, thereby realizing "financial disintermediation" to a large extent; at the same time, it can use blockchain to automate smart contracts and trustworthy transactions. The characteristics of programming can greatly reduce costs and improve efficiency. Asset management: Blockchain can realize the confirmation, authorization and real-time monitoring of tangible and intangible assets. Intangible asset management has been widely used in intellectual property protection, domain name management, points management and other fields; tangible asset management can be combined with Internet of Things technology to form "digital smart assets" to achieve distributed authorization and control based on blockchain. Election voting: Blockchain can implement applications such as political elections and corporate shareholder voting in a low-cost and efficient manner. At the same time, voting can be widely used in fields such as gambling, prediction markets, and social manufacturing. Existing issues with blockchain technology
Security threats are the most important issues faced by blockchain so far. Among them, blockchains based on the PoW consensus process mainly face the 51% attack problem, that is, nodes have the ability to successfully tamper and forge blockchain data by controlling more than 51% of the computing power of the entire network. Other issues include emerging computing technologies to crack non-pairPotential threats to the encryption mechanism and privacy protection issues, etc. The efficiency of blockchain is also an important factor restricting its application. Blockchain requires each node in the system to save a data backup, which is extremely difficult to store the growing mass of data. Although lightweight nodes can partially solve this problem, industrial-grade solutions suitable for larger scales still need to be developed. The Bitcoin blockchain can currently only process 7 transactions per second, and transaction confirmation time is generally 10 minutes, which greatly limits the application of blockchain in high-frequency trading scenarios in most financial systems. The PoW consensus process highly relies on the computing power contributed by the blockchain network nodes. These computing powers are mainly used to solve SHA256 hashes and random number searches. In addition, they do not produce any actual social value. Therefore, these computing powers are generally considered Resources are "wasted", and a large amount of power resources are also wasted. How to effectively pool the network computing power of distributed nodes to solve practical problems is an important issue that blockchain technology needs to solve. As a decentralized distributed system, the blockchain network will inevitably have game relationships of competition and cooperation between its nodes during the interaction process, such as the block interception attack game of the Bitcoin mining pool. The blockchain consensus process is essentially a crowdsourcing process. How to design an incentive-compatible consensus mechanism so that self-interested nodes in a decentralized system can spontaneously implement the verification and accounting of block data, and improve the efficiency of non-profit organizations within the system. The cost of rational behavior to suppress security attacks and threats is an important scientific issue to be solved in blockchain. Smart Contracts and Blockchain Technology
Smart contracts are a set of scenario-responsive programmed rules and logic. They are decentralized, trustworthy and shared program codes deployed on the blockchain. Usually, after the smart contract is signed by all parties, it is attached to the blockchain data (such as a Bitcoin transaction) in the form of program code, and is recorded in a specific block of the blockchain after being propagated through the P2P network and verified by nodes. . Smart contracts encapsulate a number of predefined states and transition rules, scenarios that trigger contract execution (such as reaching a specific time or occurrence of a specific event, etc.), response actions under specific scenarios, etc. The blockchain can monitor the status of smart contracts in real time, and activate and execute the contract by checking external data sources and confirming that specific trigger conditions are met. Smart contracts are of great significance to blockchain technology. On the one hand, smart contracts are the activators of the blockchain, giving flexible and programmable mechanisms and algorithms to the static underlying blockchain data, and laying the foundation for building programmable financial systems and social systems in the blockchain 2.0 and 3.0 eras. On the other hand, the automation and programmable characteristics of smart contracts enable it to encapsulate the complex behavior of each node in the distributed blockchain system and become a software agent robot in the virtual world composed of blockchain, which helps Promote the application of blockchain technology in various distributed artificial intelligence systems, allowing the construction of various decentralized applications based on blockchain technology (Decentralized application (Dapp), Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), Decentralized Autonomous Corporation (DAC) and even Decentralized Autonomous Society (DAS) become possible. The main development trend of blockchain and smart contract technology is from automation to intelligence. The essential logic of various existing smart contracts and their applications is mostly based on "IF-THEN" type conditional response rules based on predefined scenarios, which can meet the current needs of automated transactions and data processing. Future smart contracts should have "WHAT-IF" deductions based on unknown scenarios, computational experiments, and a certain degree of autonomous decision-making functions, thereby achieving a leap from current "automated" contracts to true "smart" contracts. Blockchain-driven parallel society
In recent years, a parallel society based on CPSS (Cyber-Physical-SocialSystems) has emerged. Its core and essential feature is virtual-real interaction and parallel evolution. Blockchain is one of the infrastructures for realizing CPSS parallel society. Its main contribution is to provide a set of effective decentralized data structures, interaction mechanisms and computing models for distributed social systems and distributed artificial intelligence research. And it has laid a solid data foundation and credit foundation for the realization of a parallel society. As far as the basis of data is concerned, management scientist Edward Deming once said: Everyone except God must speak with data. However, in a centralized social system, data is usually in the hands of a "few people" such as governments and large enterprises. It "speaks" for a few people, and its fairness, authority and even security may not be guaranteed. Blockchain data is stored in highly redundant distributed nodes and is in the hands of "everyone", enabling true "data democracy". In terms of the basis of credit, centralized social systems will inevitably have the characteristics of "Mertonian systems" due to their high engineering complexity and social complexity, that is, uncertainty, diversity and complexity, which are the center of social systems. Institutions and rule makers may behave dishonestly due to individual interests; blockchain technology helps realize a software-defined social system. Its basic idea is to eliminate centralized institutions and convert unpredictable behaviors into programmed codes of smart contracts. The form is deployed and solidified in the blockchain data in advance, and cannot be forged or tampered with afterwards and is executed automatically. This can, to a certain extent, transform the "Merton" social system into a "Newton" that can be fully observed, actively controlled, and accurately predicted. "Social system. ACP (Artificial Societies, Computational Experiments)Experiments and ParallelExecution) method is the only systematic and complete research framework in the field of parallel social management so far. It is the logical extension and innovation of complexity science in the parallel social environment of the new era. The ACP method can be naturally combined with blockchain technology to achieve blockchain-driven parallel social management. First of all, mechanisms such as blockchain's P2P networking, distributed consensus collaboration, and contribution-based economic incentives are themselves natural modeling of distributed social systems, in which each node will act as an independent and autonomous agent in the distributed system. Agent. With the improvement of the blockchain ecosystem, the consensus nodes of the blockchain and increasingly complex and autonomous smart contracts will form DAC and DAO in specific organizational forms by participating in various forms of Dapp, and ultimately form DAS, which is the ACP. artificial society. Secondly, the programmable nature of smart contracts allows the blockchain to carry out various "WHAT-IF" types of virtual experimental design, scenario deduction and result evaluation. Through this computational experiment process, optimal decisions are obtained and executed automatically or semi-automatically. Finally, the smart assets formed by the combination of blockchain and the Internet of Things make it possible to connect the real physical world and virtual cyberspace, and can achieve collaborative optimization of social management and decision-making through virtual-real interaction and parallel tuning of real and artificial social systems. It is not difficult to predict that in the future, when all physical assets in the real physical world are registered as smart assets on the chain, the blockchain-driven parallel society will arrive.

10. What is the development trend of global POC blockchain in 2020

The world has entered the blockchain 3.0 era

In 2008, the signature was "Satoshi Nakamoto" An anonymous person published the paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Network Electronic Cash System". The initial expectation was 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, Ethereum The launch of Libra directly pushed 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, attracting attention and attention from all walks of life around the world. During the discussion, regulatory authorities in various countries have successively spoken out, showing the huge potential of blockchain technology in reshaping the global financial infrastructure.

——The above data comes from "China Blockchain" by Qianzhan Industry Research Institute Chain Industry Market Prospects and Investment Strategic Planning Analysis Report.