On April 1, OK Jumpstart, a utility token sales platform launched by OKEx, officially confirmed that the first project is Blockcloud.
According to previous online rumors, only holders of OKB are eligible to participate in the first phase of OK Jumpstart. The rules of the rush are the same as those of Huobi and Binance. Participants must hold the platform currency of the exchange to participate in the rush. , OKEx officials have not announced the detailed snap-up rules yet.
History is always strikingly similar. Like Bittorent and Top Network, the first IEO project of a leading exchange always receives excessive attention from the outside world. What does Blockcloud do? What industry problems are solved? What is the underlying technical architecture? What is the background of the team? Next, Odaily will explain one by one for everyone.
Previously, Odaily was in"Which project do you most want to be the object of the exchange IEO?" "The Blockcloud project has been reported in .
Blockcloud is a low-level protocol-level project that combines blockchain and SCN (Service Center Network) technology, hoping to establish a new generation of global TCP/IP network, solve the problems of the existing Internet, and support hundreds of billions of mobile devices Connection.
But the existing TCP/IP has not collapsed, why does Blockcloud suddenly launch a new generation of TCP/IP?
The existing Internet was born in the 1960s and 1970s. The purpose is to maintain stable calls between troops in nuclear wars. Therefore, a point-to-point communication mode based on IP addresses is adopted, and a centralized server is used to connect a limited number of relatively fixed devices. data and services. As more and more devices, data and services are connected to the Internet, shortcomings are gradually emerging.
The Jimu Cloud team said that with their mentor, they had cooperated with the relevant departments of the high-speed rail to install and deploy corresponding sensors and signal collectors on the high-speed rail, and finally found that the traditional TCP/IP layer could not adapt to the network connection in the high-speed mobile state. Continuous interruption and restart, resulting in a sharp drop in network performance. To this end, Building Block Cloud introduces the SCN network, allowing applications to communicate directly using service IDs instead of IP addresses. The newly added service access layer SAL on the network layer separates the service plane from the control plane, and applications do not need to pass through the service Providers can connect services, and service providers can also seamlessly change addresses and migrate services to improve network mobility and scalability.
How does Blockcloud transform the existing Internet?
Blockcloud uses a four-layer architecture to realize Internet transformation.
As can be seen from the figure, this architecture diagram from top to bottom is:
Layer4: Interface layer, which provides a service-oriented communication interface for applications;
Layer3: The routing layer is mainly for mapping and transit. That is to say, although the service does not need to manage IP addresses, the network will eventually use IP. There is a mapping in the middle, which is how to map from the name of the service to In the end, where is the IP address;
Layer2: quality inspector, the consensus mechanism of Proof of Service is at this layer, where miners continuously check and spot-check the service, and judge whether there is any problem with the service;
Layer1: Cashier, when the service reaches this level and is used by users, the service provider needs to get the corresponding rewards, and this layer is equivalent to the cashier, which is responsible for keeping accounts and giving the corresponding rewards to the service provider.
In the building block cloud, the blockchain system and the peer-to-peer network Coral together form the service distribution backbone network to ensure the security of the network.
Blockcloud CEO Ming Zhongxing is a visiting scholar at Princeton University, a postdoctoral fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, and a member of the China Computer Federation Blockchain Committee. He has many years of research experience in the field of Internet and blockchain technology.
The core members of the Blockcloud team come from universities and research institutions such as Princeton, Tokyo University, and Tsinghua University, as well as companies such as Morgan Stanley, BAT, and Huawei. Members of the core R&D team have participated in the formulation of China's first international standard for the next generation Internet.
Blockcloud has received investment from Genesis Capital (leader), Innoangel Fund, Ok Capital, Neo Global Capital, BKFund, JRR, GBIC, BlockVC, S.capital, Brink Asset Consensus Capital and MW Partners.
After reading the above introduction, you can probably understandBlockcloud Blockcloud is not a pure blockchain project.Blockcloud Blockcloud is positioned as a new generation of TCP/IP based on blockchain technology, supporting IoT, DAPP and non-blockchain applications.
