The bubble clears and the value returns.
In 2018, the blockchain fell from the peak to the trough, and the valuation of many projects was greatly reduced. The attitude of entrepreneurs and investors changed from overzealous to extremely pessimistic.
However, just like the rebirth of Nirvana after the burst of the Internet wave in the 1990s, the blockchain is returning to rationality, and commercial applications are expected to accelerate.
Under this opportunity, on January 4, 2019, at the Ant Financial ATEC City Summit held in Shanghai, Ant Financial announced the launch of the Blockchain Innovation Competition.
According to reports, this competition will be based on the Ant Blockchain BaaS platform, and encourage enterprises, ISVs and developers to use the powerful capabilities provided by the blockchain platform to drive application innovation in various industries and create star stars. product. At the same time, Ant Financial expects to use the competition as a platform to call on participating teams to jointly create a healthy, safe and prosperous blockchain ecosystem through the blockchain. As a partner of this competition, Babbitt sincerely invites excellent teams to come and challenge!
Heavy deployment of blockchain
At the beginning of the new year in 2019, Alibaba Dharma Academy released "Top Ten Technological Trends of Dharma Academy in 2019", and the blockchain is impressive.
Founded in October 2017, the Alibaba Dharma Institute brings together academic think tanks and technical experts from all over the world to explore future technologies. The reason why it was established, Ma Yun said, "Because we believe that technology will bring profits in the future, and the future market size will be achieved through innovation."
On September 28, 2018, the Alibaba Dharma Academy launched a blockchain laboratory, and blockchain technology began to become a main direction of financial technology for the Alibaba Dharma Academy.
One week before the launch of the blockchain laboratory, at the Hangzhou Yunqi ATEC Summit, Jiang Guofei, vice president of Ant Financial Services, disclosed for the first time Ali’s blockchain layout: relying on the underlying platform of Alibaba Cloud, build BASS and PBASS systems, and give the chain On-chain finance, on-chain retail and on-chain life empowerment.
According to Jiang Guofei: "In the past two years, Ant Blockchain has done two things. One is to cultivate technical skills, and the other is to open technology to accelerate the commercialization of blockchain."
Practicing technical strength is the self-controllable, high-performance, high-reliability, and high-security financial-grade blockchain platform that Ant Financial is secretly building—the Ant Blockchain BaaS platform.
How strong is the Ant BaaS platform?
On September 20, 2018, at the ATEC conference, the financial-grade blockchain platform Ant Blockchain BaaS was officially launched, providing the industry with easy-to-use, one-click deployment, fast verification, flexible and customizable blockchain services , accelerate the development, testing, and launch of blockchain business applications, and help the implementation of blockchain business application scenarios in various industries.
According to the official introduction, the Ant Blockchain BaaS platform has the characteristics of high performance, high reliability, privacy protection, cross-network deployment, and ease of use. As we all know, performance is a major bottleneck restricting the large-scale commercial use of blockchain, and Ant Blockchain is based on the world's leading parallel consensus technology, which can easily meet the high-frequency scenario applications in the financial field. Ease of use is the prerequisite for the rapid promotion of blockchain technology in various industries. In order to reduce the threshold for using blockchain, Ant Blockchain can enable users to master the underlying technical details of the blockchain and operate without the need for related resources and environments. Get started quickly under the premise of dimensional investment, users only need to focus on the innovation and development of business applications and scenarios.
In the promotion of application scenarios, Ant Blockchain adheres to the principle of doing something and not doing something, giving priority to practical issues, people's livelihood issues, and social needs. The ant blockchain has been implemented in many livelihood fields such as public welfare and charity, food safety, cross-border remittances, and house leasing.
At present, the breadth of the commercial application of the ant blockchain is rich enough. However, Jiang Guofei, vice president of Ant Financial, believes that "it is only the first step to accelerate the commercialization of the blockchain," and it is necessary to increase the frequency and depth of the blockchain. To expand, "both breadth and depth is the proper meaning of large-scale commercial use of blockchain."
1.8 million yuan bonus and 1 billion investment fund support
This blockchain innovation competition is a beneficial measure for Ant Blockchain to explore large-scale commercial use and empower entities.
The Ant Blockchain Innovation Contest provides participants with extremely lucrative rights and interests.
Cash reward: The total prize amount of the competition is as high as 1.8 million yuan, of which the champion bonus is 1 million yuan, the runner-up bonus is 500,000 yuan, and the third runner-up bonus is 300,000 yuan;
Innovation Fund Support: Excellent enterprises have the opportunity to receive the 1 billion Alipay Technology Innovation Fund support provided by Ant Financial;
Resource support: The top 10 contestants will get a one-year free right to use the enterprise version of the Ant Blockchain BaaS platform. The top three winners of the annual finals will receive in-depth communication and guidance from Ant Blockchain experts, as well as technical and product support, professional blockchain training, and marketing rights.
During the competition, all participants will have the opportunity to cooperate with Ant Financial and Alibaba's blockchain business and products.
At present, the Ant Blockchain Innovation Competition has opened for registration and will end in August this year. The final will be held at the Yunqi ATEC Conference in Hangzhou in 2019. Participants can log in to the official website of the Ant Blockchain Innovation Competition to register.
In addition, the Hangzhou station "Road show" supported by Babbitt will be held on the afternoon of March 5 at Ferry Star on the 6th floor of the Internet Finance Building, No. 96, Huaxing Road, Hangzhou. High-quality teams are sincerely invited to come. Registration link:http://www.huodongxing.com/event/6481496454700?td=1773252515071
The spring of blockchain has come, will you come?
