The news that Ant Group launched the Science and Technology Innovation Board and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is one of the biggest news recently.
Just one month before the launch of the listing, Ant not only replaced the abbreviation of "Ant Financial" which had been used for six years, but also changed its industrial and commercial registration name to "Ant Technology Group Co., Ltd."Replacing "Small and Micro Financial Services" with "Technology"。
On July 23, Ant held a new brand launch conference of "Linking Everything, Unlimited Future". The brand name of the original "Ant Blockchain" was officially upgraded to "Ant Chain". In this press conference, there are several key words that caught Odaily's attention:secondary title
"AntChain" has been upgraded, with 50+ landing scenarios, and the daily chain volume exceeds 100 million
At the live broadcast conference, Jing Xiandong, chairman of Ant Group, took the lead in announcing the official transcript of AntChain:In 2020, the daily upload volume of AntChain will exceed 100 million, and more than 50 scenarios for solving trust problems have been implemented.In fact,
In fact,It has been 5 years since Ant has invested in research and development in the field of blockchain. Ant Group is moving towards technology, and it is closer to the blockchain strategy that Ant has been going for 5 years.
Since Alipay provided guaranteed transactions between buyers and sellers, the Ant team said that what they want to do most in the past 16 years is to build trust.
In the application of financial technology five years ago, the blockchain emerged and was called a machine of trust in the industry, which will build the future Internet of value.
Also in 2015, Ant Group established a blockchain laboratory to focus on the research and development of blockchain core technologies. In 2016, Ants gave up using the open source platform for secondary development, but independently developed a full-stack blockchain engine from the bottom. In the following years, Ant gradually applied blockchain technology in scenarios such as public welfare, food safety, cross-border commodity traceability, and cross-border remittance.
Jiang Guofei introduced that in 2019, Ant has fully opened the Ant blockchain, and in the scenarios of finance, government affairs and people's livelihood, it has cooperated with ecological partners to create many benchmarking solutions and services.
He recalled that at the Yunqi Conference in 2019, Ant once asserted,In the era of digital economy, the number of chains will become an important indicator to measure the digital economy.
Jiang Guofei, who has been working on the blockchain business for Ants, analyzed the core value of the blockchain in this way: "The core value of the blockchain should not be limited to IT technology. For the blockchain, the block is only the foundation of technology, and other The real value lies in the chain industry. So Blockchain, Block is the technical foundation, and Chain is the real value.”
Jiang Guofei revealed,AntChain will integrate blockchain, AIOT (Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things), big data risk control and other technologies, and comprehensively promote the assetization process after the digital wave by linking various industrial networks.
Jing Xiandong, chairman of Ant Group, also expressed the prototype of the future commercial society in the eyes of Ant:secondary title
Ant all-in-one machine was released, mainly to solve the privacy problem of cross-enterprise collaboration
Another highlight of this press conference is that AntChain released its own blockchain hardware——Ant All-in-One Machine. The product slogan is "making chaining easier".
Jiang Guofei mentioned in the introduction,The birth of the Antchain all-in-one machine is to more effectively lower the applicable threshold of blockchain in all walks of life and promote the process of industrial chaining.
According to official information, the AntChain all-in-one machine is the first self-developed software and hardware all-in-one machine in the blockchain field in China.It mainly provides blockchain technology services with strong privacy, high performance, high security, and ready-to-use blockchain technology services for government and enterprise developers.It can save more than 90% of deployment time, while effectively increasing transaction speed by 30%, reducing consensus delay by 40%, and accelerating cryptographic operations by 5-10 times.
simply put,
simply put,What the AntChain all-in-one machine wants to solve is the privacy issue of real-time cross-enterprise collaboration.
Wei Changzheng, a senior technical expert in the network core department of the AntChain platform, revealed in an interview that AntChain has been exploring the design of the all-in-one machine since a year ago. The privacy issue of cross-enterprise collaboration is a core difficulty that needs to be solved urgently in individual business scenarios. For example, scenarios such as inter-bank data transfer cooperation and multi-alliance teamware collaboration have privacy issues that need to be resolved urgently. Through the all-in-one solution, corresponding solutions can be obtained. solve.
Ant said that this all-in-one machine is based on more than 300 software and hardware patents and integratesBlockchain Network Consensus Accelerator、Blockchain Secure Computing Hardware、Blockchain password cardThree major hardware core technologies.
Blockchain secure computing hardware:The first dedicated processing hardware for blockchain smart contracts jointly developed by the hardware teams of Ant Group and Alibaba, a trusted execution environment with an independent and controllable root of trust,Ensure data security and privacy during contract execution。
Blockchain password card:Ant's self-developed blockchain password card, has the highest national safety qualification, and has passed high-level safety inspections.At the same time, it can bring 5-10 times performance improvement to the cryptographic algorithm。
Blockchain Network Consensus Accelerator: Facing the underlying platform layer of Layer 1 of the blockchain, AntChain implements a highly scalable service-oriented architecture, decouples key components, and can be expanded independently; through the separation design of consensus network control flow and data flow, andCombining software and hardware collaboration consensus algorithm customization optimization and broadcast communication acceleration，A large-scale scalable high-performance ant blockchain consensus network has been realized.In a typical scenario, consensus latency is reduced by 40%.
In the field of privacy, AntChain has achieved many research results. For example, as the first Chinese blockchain company, it has published relevant technical papers at ACM SIGMOD 20, the top conference in the field of international databases. Its algebraically optimized PAILLIER99 homomorphic encryption algorithm has been Become the fastest homomorphic encryption algorithm in the industry.
Regarding the launch time of Ant all-in-one machine products, Wei Changzheng said that at present, it is mainly the release of all-in-one machine product technology, and the specific time for the all-in-one machine to be put into production in the future has not yet been disclosed.
