Blockchain application
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Just entering 2018, the blockchain is on fire again because of a message from Xu Xiaoping. Everyone is talking about the blockchain, and everyone is imagining getting rich overnight. Whether it is an investor or an ordinary office worker, looking at the moving curve of Bitcoin along the way, everyone’s eyes are shining with golden dreams and desires.
When any new technology wave comes, it is accompanied by certain fanaticism and bubbles, but in the end, it is those people and companies that provide real technology and products and create value that can be used by human beings.
At present, there are a large number of projects in the blockchain industry, and the quality levels of the projects are uneven. There are high-quality projects that really solve commercial problems, and there are also hot air coins. If you want to distinguish the strength of the project, you need to have a global vision from the entire blockchain ecosystem.
Before, Whale Zhun published an article about blockchain, you should know more! ",introduce the basic concept, technical application, investment and financing of blockchain in detail. This time, Whale Quasi sorted out the blockchain projects on the market based on its own rich database, so as to facilitate investors and industry participants to have a structured understanding and understanding of the whole industry.
Whale Academy has divided all the ecosystem maps based on blockchain decentralization projects into three layers, involving more than ten vertical industry applications and listing hundreds of typical projects.
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Underlying technology and infrastructure layer
From concept to underlying technology: the foundation of revolution.
The underlying technology and infrastructure layer mainly represents the protocol code and basic hardware facilities that provide the lowest level of blockchain.
The basic protocol is usually a complete blockchain product, similar to the operating system of our computer, which maintains network nodes and only provides Api for calling. This level is the foundation of everything, using network programming, distributed algorithm, encryption and signature, data storage and other technologies to build a network environment, build a trading channel and formulate reward rules for nodes. Typical examples are Ethereum abroad and NEO (Little Ant) at home.
Representative projects: NEO, Ethereum, quantum chain
Blockchain-related hardware is mainly composed of bitcoin mining machine manufacturers and blockchain router providers, represented by Bitcontinent and Polar Routing.
Representative projects: Jianan Yunzhi, RockMiner, Polar Routing.
General application and technology extension layer
The general application and technology extension layer is mainly to make blockchain products more practical and provide services for developers in order to build applications based on blockchain technology. The technologies used in this layer are basically unlimited, and the technologies such as distributed storage, machine learning and big data mentioned before can be used.
Fast calculation: Fast calculation is mainly based on the optimization of the underlying blockchain, so as to solve some inherent problems of the underlying blockchain and improve the calculation speed of the blockchain. For example, the lightning network is a secure network for participants who can conduct transactions with high capacity and high speed, which has the characteristics of instant payment, strong expansibility, low cost and cross-regional block chain transactions.
Representative projects: lightning-network, truebit, raiden.
Smart contracts: Smart contracts are "programmable contracts" or "contract intelligence", in which "intelligence" is the intelligence of execution, that is to say, when a certain condition is reached, contracts will be automatically executed, such as automatic transfer of securities and automatic payment, which will be an important development direction of blockchain technology.
Representative projects: secret ape technology, holographic mutual trust, SCRY.INFO
Mining service: Mining service mainly provides computing power for the demand side. This kind of project either cooperates with the mining plant or collects the computing power of the whole network users for redistribution.
Representative projects: MaidSafeCoin, bitfury, hashfast
Information security: The project of information security is mainly to ensure the security of development and the security of information content in the blockchain network, which can enable developers to develop and manage applications more safely, and the transaction data of individuals and enterprises can be guaranteed.
Representative projects: Everything Chain, zeppelin, gladius
Data service: Data service mainly includes three services: data sharing, database and data protection. The data sharing project is to establish a market and management platform based on blockchain, and the services of data preservation and safe storage on this basis constitute data protection, while the database is to provide database infrastructure for developers or enterprises.
Representative projects: Gongxinbao, Shared Bits and Matrix Elements.
Blockchain BAAS: Blockchain BAAS is a decentralized platform developed based on the existing blockchain technology, providing instance services based on public chains.
Representative projects: Baidu Baas, Fun Chain Technology, Kuaibei
Blockchain solution: Blockchain solution is an enterprise-level application of blockchain, providing a complete set of solutions for specific business scenarios.
Representative projects: Starfish Blockchain, Tower Chain Network, Network Recording Technology.
Security traceability: Platform-level security traceability projects generally distinguish the authenticity of commodities and products based on blockchain, Internet of Things and other related technologies, and solve the problem of opaque intermediate chains.
Industry application layer
Blockchain, a technological revolution movement that originated from people’s metacognition, will shake which industries?
The secret of survival for each technology is to find a suitable application scenario. The map at the application level of this industry shows the situation that blockchain technology can be empowered in various industries. At present, the most mature and widely used industries are digital currency and finance, which is closely related to the origin of blockchain.
The exploration of blockchain projects in the financial field mainly focuses on payment, real estate finance, corporate finance, insurance, asset management, bill finance and other fields. In China, not only blockchain start-ups in emerging areas, but also banks such as China UnionPay, China Merchants and Minsheng, and technology giants such as Ant Blockchain and Zhongan Technology have begun to lay out and land corresponding platforms and projects. Taking advantage of the decentralized and tamper-proof characteristics of blockchain, the risks in all aspects of finance are better controlled, thus reducing the cost in financial processes.
A large number of digital currency exchanges, wallets and investment projects have been developed in digital currency. At home, due to the strict control of financial supervision, the development of digital currency-related fields such as bitcoin transactions in China has been greatly hindered. However, in the first half of 2017, the central bank established the digital currency Institute, or in the second half of 2018, you can see the legal digital currency in China.
The 2C business in the early application of blockchain is mainly derived from the entertainment and social field. Blockchain can help creators avoid plagiarism in music creation. Virtual idols, games, live broadcasts and other projects based on blockchain make virtual property transactions and protection more transparent.
Some institutions have predicted that the supply chain and the Internet of Things will be the next fertile ground for the rapid development of blockchain. This is due to the transaction sharing and non-tampering brought by the blockchain, which improves the cooperation and communication efficiency of the supply chain in logistics, capital flow, information flow and other entities, and improves the disputes in multi-party cooperation.
Smart grid is the most widely used in the energy field. A complete digital file can be established for each degree of power consumption blockchain from source to use, providing data support and asset evaluation basis for power stations. Blockchain can also release redundant power from distributed resources, such as repurchasing redundant resources generated by solar energy on civil roofs.
For medical data security and patient privacy protection, the anonymity and decentralization of blockchain have been well applied. This makes remote data sharing, distributed guarantee and storage management between medical associations safer.
In public welfare undertakings and agriculture, the most widely used is the traceability ability of blockchain, which can trace the whereabouts of donations and reassure donors; Trace the source of agricultural products to reassure consumers.
The distributed deposit and license transfer of blockchain is mainly reflected in three aspects: copyright protection, evidence preservation and electronic intelligent contract. For copyright protection, blockchain makes it possible to standardize copyright transactions; For electronic evidence, the blockchain has achieved fidelity and verification.
Now the blockchain technology is still in the very early stage of development, and the application scenarios are still waiting to be conceived, realized and verified.
Xu Xiaoping said: A blockchain revolution has come, it has already arrived! Please fasten your seat belts, speed up, come on, and bring your own enterprises into the blockchain era steadily, accurately, ruthlessly and quickly!
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