National Grid, Chinese Academy of Sciences ... What are the "national teams" on the surface of the blockchain?

Economic Observation Network reporter Song Di On December 12, 2019, Director Chen Feng, deputy director of the Joint Laboratory of Blockchain and Application of the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed that The shared chain cloud platform launched by the laboratory has passed the national record, and in October passed the blockchain functional test and related performance test conducted by the Information and Communication Academy.

The Blockchain Basic Application Joint Laboratory was jointly established by the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Guiyang Municipal Government in 2018.The goal of the laboratory was to study the blockchain research on the benchmark "super ledger". The "super ledger" is a The open source project of cross-industry application of blockchain is led by the Linux Foundation in December 2015. Its members include head companies such as IBM and Intel.

"The benchmark of the share chain is the super ledger, which realizes such a platform that we completely independently develop and control independently," said Chen Feng.

Blockchain technology is becoming the technical direction of the key layout of research institutions and leading enterprises. Many of them are members of national teams: government agencies and state-owned enterprises.

On December 11, the State Grid issued a notice on the “Outline of the Ubiquitous Electricity Internet of Things 2020 Key Construction Tasks”, which put forward the need to promote the practical application of 5G, blockchain, artificial intelligence and other new technologies, and release the Ubiquitous Electricity Internet of Things. Initially established evaluation criteria.

On December 12, at the above meeting, Chen Chunlin, deputy director of the Big Data Center of the State Grid Corporation of China, introduced the application of some national grids in the field of blockchain. According to Chen Chunlin, the grid has already performed some data access processes and transaction processes. Chain, enabling industrial institutions and financial institutions to obtain real counterparty information through the power grid. This application has already played a role in some industrial institutions in Zhejiang.

"We have actually felt that these characteristics are used in our enterprise, and we feel that the biggest feature of the blockchain is that it can realize the synchronous transmission of information and value," said Chen Chunlin.

Blockchain is considered to be the first to be used in the financial sector on a large scale, and financial regulators and financial institutions such as the central bank have laid out the technology earlier.

On September 4, 2018, the first phase of the People's Bank of China's Trade Finance Blockchain Platform (referred to as the Central Bank's Trade Finance Platform) project was released for the first time and officially launched in Shenzhen for trial operation. In November 2019, the central bank disclosed the transcript of the one-year operation of the central bank's trading platform. The information shows that as of the end of October 2019, there were 485 branches and 29 branches of 29 banks participating in promotion and application in Shenzhen. The business has over 30,000 transactions on the chain, more than 5,000 transactions, and a business volume of about 75 billion yuan. In addition, more than 10 banks have already gone through the formalities of accessing the platform.

Although the “national team” is constantly being deployed, in general, the current blockchain applications still show a point distribution. When will large-scale applications land?

During the day's meeting, the host raised the question "If blockchain is compared to the Internet, which year is this Internet equivalent to?"

The optimistic view is that the Internet has reached the year 2000, that is, the bubble burst has occurred; the cautious view is that the Internet is more like 1995 or 1999, that is, the real bubble burst has not yet occurred.

"In the next two to three years, almost all companies will add blockchain. Now a large number of companies add blockchain concepts. All kinds of portal companies need to do blockchain, but what can real blockchains do? What social value and user value does it generate? "Said Zhang Xiang, deputy director of the Blockchain Special Committee of China Mobile Communications Federation and founder and CEO of Chain Tower Think Tank. Zhang Xiang's judgment is that the big bubble should appear after two to three years.