On the afternoon of September 25th, the final of the "Chain Innovation Future" Ant Blockchain Innovation Competition was held at the Hangzhou Yunqi Town International Convention and Exhibition Center.

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(Luo Qionghua, the person in charge of the Ant Competition)

"We have seen multiple blockchain innovation projects: trendy brand sneakers authenticity, real estate PK scalpers, entertainment online celebrity crowdfunding, ocean shipping, college entrance examination notice traceability, video traceability... from the consumer and industrial end to enlighten the wisdom area Blockchain innovation is implemented. During the competition, we also actively help the project connect with various resources such as technology, capital, and media, and help the project grow and land. Ant Blockchain is willing to do its best to be the wind maker of the times with the participating teams .” Luo Qionghua said.

After more than 8 months of screening, a total of 10 candidate projects stood out and entered the finals, they are:

· Shanghai Yilian Internet of Things Co., Ltd. vaccine cold chain temperature sensing RFID traceability Internet of Things solution

· Shenzhen Yimu Technology Co., Ltd. Yimu blockchain data trading platform

· Blockchain Smart Marketing Solution of Kunjin Chain (Shanghai) Information Technology Co., Ltd.

· Digital Equipment Leasing Chain of Shenzhen Landuo Technology Development Co., Ltd.

· Beijing Qiakong Network Technology Co., Ltd. EverWallet blockchain electronic wallet

· Beijing Shouqi Zhixing Technology Co., Ltd. (GoFun) foresees the future and shares cars on the chain

· Nanchang Duoxin Network Technology Co., Ltd. ipfsCMS interstellar collaborative creation system

· Hangzhou Shenxiang Technology Co., Ltd. IENETChain global distributed artificial intelligence group intelligence network (block chain + AI)

· Beijing Eyi Network Technology Co., Ltd. Eyi——link fan economy

· Hangzhou Yifangda Technology Co., Ltd. Real Estate Communication

In the final stage, each participating team first presented a 15-minute presentation; then, seven judges asked questions about the project for 5 minutes, and combined the optimized area from the four dimensions of commercial value, innovation, technical value, and user experience. After the block chain application is launched, the user usage is comprehensively scored. Judges include:

· Shen Qiang, Founding Partner and CTO of Jiangmen Venture Capital

· Li Ming, Director of Blockchain Research Office, China Electronics Standardization Institute

· Bai Shuo, Ph.D supervisor of Institute of Computing Technology and Institute of Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chairman of Shanghai Branch of China Computer Federation

· Liu Xiaolei, Dean of the Department of Finance, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

· Li Shubo, Technical Director of Ant Financial Blockchain BaaS

· Huang Hai, Senior Expert of Ant Financial Investment Department

· Li Jieli, Senior Director of Ant Financial

After more than 4 hours of fierce competition, three teams from Shanghai Yilian Internet of Things Co., Ltd., Beijing Shouqi Zhixing Technology Co., Ltd. (GoFun), and Hangzhou Yifangda Technology Co., Ltd. 1 million, 500,000, and 300,000 yuan bonus support; in addition to the top three, the competition also selected 3 individual awards——Technology Pioneer, Business Potential, and Innovation Cutting Edge, respectively awarded by Shenzhen Yimu Technology Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Lantuo Technology Development Co., Ltd. and Beijing Yiyi Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Luo Qionghua added that outstanding companies emerging during the competition will have the opportunity to receive the support of 1 billion Alipay Technology Innovation Fund provided by Ant Financial. In addition, the contestants may also have the opportunity to cooperate with Ant Financial and Alibaba's blockchain business and products.

After experiencing the whole process of the innovation competition, Odaily also has a lot of feelings. One is that the competition itself is very open and inclusive. For example, the Everwallet blockchain electronic ticket holder, whose team members are all students, was not underestimated and eventually entered the finals; From idea to implementation, connect with various resources such as technology and capital to help the project grow; third, the Ant Blockchain Innovation Competition also plays an exemplary role in the industry, and other giant companies may follow suit, eventually promoting the development of the entire blockchain industry. Flourish.

"Chain Creation·Future" Ant Blockchain Innovation Competition is hosted by Ant Financial Services, with media support from Odaily, Babbitt, and Chuangyebang. Based on the Ant Blockchain BaaS platform, this competition encourages enterprises, ISVs and developers to use the powerful capabilities provided by the blockchain platform to carry out application innovation in various industries, so that blockchain technology can be applied to the world. Solve real problems. At the same time, Ant Financial also 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.

In recent years, Ant Blockchain has focused on the application of blockchain. Xu Hui, Chief Product Architect of Ant Blockchain, once said that Ant Blockchain is scenario-driven and has more than 30 scenarios, distributed in aspects such as data credibility, object credibility, contract credibility, asset credibility, and human credibility.

On the same day as the competition, Odaily learned that Ant Blockchain announced a strategic cooperation with Germany’s Bayer (Crop Science). Ant said that this is the first in-depth application of Ant blockchain in the agricultural field; the cooperation with Bayer is specifically divided into three levels: including traceability of agricultural products and pesticides based on blockchain; better penetration of inclusive finance through industrial chain data to rural areas; the third is agricultural e-commerce.

Bayer AG of Germany is a company with a history of 150 years. Its pillar industries include agricultural technology, medicine and health care, chemicals and polymers.