Once upon a time, in the field of blockchain, developers were the battleground for underlying facility providers.
Today, alliance chain companies such as Ant Blockchain and FunChain have also begun to compete for developers by holding competitions and other methods. This also reflects the awakening of alliance chain enterprises in the awareness of ecological layout: as the underlying infrastructure, blockchain can easily become a technical service provider if it fails to achieve scale effect.
At the Yunqi Conference, the final of the Ant Blockchain Innovation Contest ended, and the Ant Blockchain also launched two node-based products.
The first is the open alliance chain.
At the Ant Blockchain Summit on September 26, Ant Blockchain announced the launch of the "National Hot Chain" plan. The plan is divided into two parts. One is the upgrade of partner rights, including value distributors, developers on Ant BaaS, and co-incubation partners; the other is for the developer community. Ant will open the alliance chain in November. Ant Blockchain said that the public chain is completely open, but there are problems in efficiency, privacy, and compliance, and the alliance chain is efficient but not open enough. In order to balance the relationship between the two, Ant has introduced the KYC mechanism, and the developers who enter the platform need to be authenticated. Developers can use components such as distributed identity authentication on it, and at the same time, some resources from the Ali ecosystem will be introduced to support developers.
In the interview, Sheng Chu, the technical director of Ant Financial’s blockchain platform department, told Odaily that the initial nodes of the open alliance chain are mainly institutions, some of which are participating teams in the ant blockchain innovation competition. These institutions build nodes on the consortium chain and also develop applications on it. At the same time, they also hope to encourage developers to come in. A similar model is also conducive to reducing costs. In addition, Ant Blockchain will launch the DAPP release platform on December 12.
The second is cross-chain products.
Ant Blockchain released a cross-chain product ODATS (Open Data Access Trusted Service) at the meeting, which was jointly developed with Hyperledger. Zhang Hui, head of the blockchain laboratory, said that the technical vision of OADTS is to build a cross-chain communication infrastructure and carry the blockchain value Internet. From the perspective of general security cross-chain technology, OADTS has the characteristics of general programming, data security, and heterogeneous chain interoperability; from the perspective of business value, OADTS has the advantages of low-cost cross-platform interaction, trust value transfer, and flexible network expansion.
At this summit, Jiang Guofei, vice president of Ant Financial, said, "In the past few years, the ant blockchain has been implemented in almost 40 scenarios. We are delighted to see the emergence of local area networks in the industry. We have seen a lot of industrial collaboration networks built for common interests. These local area networks will eventually bear the weight and eventually become the foundation of the Internet of Value."
He believes that in the electrical age, electricity consumption is a sign of prosperity in an era. In the Internet age, the number of users is a sign. In today's digital economy era, the chain volume will be an important indicator of the digital economy era. "In the foreseeable future, applications with tens of millions of daily activities on the chain will gradually appear. Behind these tens of millions of daily activities, there are huge technical challenges, which not only require the performance of large-scale networks, but also need to solve blockchain data. It also needs to solve the problem of computing cost, and also needs to solve the problem of cross-chain connection. All these problems are the core technical problems we have to solve.”
