Produced | Odaily (ID: o-daily)
Produced | Odaily (ID: o-daily)
Internet giants never miss the ticket to the next era.
On October 24, 2019, national leaders emphasized that blockchain should be used as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies, and accelerate the development of blockchain technology and industrial innovation. On April 20, 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission clarified the scope of the new infrastructure for the first time, and the blockchain was officially incorporated into the new infrastructure to promote the construction of the digital economy.
In front of the blockchain, giants with traffic and funds are almost never absent. As a member of the vanguard, as early as 2015, Baidu had already started to form a team to explore the blockchain. After continuous exploration, Baidu has developed its own super chain technology, which serves multiple application fields such as information traceability, finance, medical care, advertising, education, agricultural products, and commercial supermarkets.
In 2020, Baidu will push another masterpiece - "Baidu Super Chain Open Network".
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From being a benchmarking scenario to an "open relationship", Baidu is trying to solve the data island problem of the alliance chain
For a long time, there have been very few implementations of blockchain in industrial scenarios. Giants with massive resources are considered to be able to create more interesting scenarios for the blockchain track.
The scene "pioneer" Baidu initially aimed at the financial scene.
The earliest application of Baidu's blockchain was the joint issuance of the first domestic ABS project supported by blockchain technology with partners including Baiqian Leasing and Huaneng Trust.
At that time, Baidu Finance built BaaS for ABS, and the participating institutions in the project (Baidu Finance, asset generators, trusts, securities firms, ratings, law firms, etc.) became participating nodes on the alliance chain. Since then, the long-standing pain points in the ABS market, such as asset opacity, unreliable asset credit, and unsound credit system, have been solved. The ABS blockchain solution created by Baidu has also become a major innovation trend in the ABS market.
Subsequently, BaaS became the realization direction of large companies to B. Since 2018, a number of Internet giants have invested intensively in the direction of BaaS (Blockchain as a Service), such as Baidu, Ali, JD.com, etc., all launched their own BaaS platform products this year.
In May 2019, Baidu Superchain open sourced its self-developed blockchain underlying technology.
For a time, thousands of enterprises and individual developers poured into the early adopters, and the industrial alliance chain began to spring up like mushrooms after rain, tending to be saturated. However, with more and more applications, some problems have gradually become prominent - the "fragmented" alliance chain has brought problems such as data islands and network ecological fragmentation. If you continue to build one after another fragmented alliance chain, it will not be Conducive to the agglomeration effect of innovation.
At this time, the Baidu blockchain team has a new understanding of the market: the ecological layout of the blockchain needs to form a scale effect, otherwise blockchain companies can only be permanent technical service providers, and the industrial blockchain will inevitably evolve from " Benchmarking" to "scale replication".
The first step in "large-scale replication" is to open up the ecology and break down data silos.
For this reason, at the beginning of 2020, Baidu Superchain announced the official announcement of "Superchain Open Network" (XuperOS) at its online product launch conference. The Baidu Superchain Open Network is built on the underlying superchain (Xuperchain) technology independently developed by Baidu.
To put it simply, Baidu has transformed the BaaS business that originally focused on serving B-end customers to build chains. Users who use the open network no longer need to build a dedicated chain, and can even directly focus on traceability, points, certificates, etc. Scenarios, directly build your own DApp application on the SuperChain open network.
Technically, the underlying layer of the HyperChain open network uses Baidu's self-developed XuperChain, which is backed by more than 240 patents. The performance of a single chain is around 87,000 TPS, which supports high concurrency; protects privacy and has high security.
The form of the "super chain open network" belongs to the open permission chain, and the chain form of the open permission chain has been highly praised by industry experts as "the best practice path of the blockchain network".
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To be the inclusive infrastructure of the blockchain, to serve developers
In addition to the open features, another major selling point of the HyperChain open network is "low cost" and "low threshold".
For SME developers in various industries, the core consideration before accessing the blockchain is cost.
From the perspective of cost, the open network adopts flexible payment, and flexible charging is based on demand and volume according to user conditions. This effectively reduces the use threshold and cost of developers and small and medium-sized enterprises.
According to Baidu's official introduction, users can use Baidu's one-stop contract development and management, rich contract templates, powerful functional components and multi-language SDK services for only 2 yuan in the initial stage of launch. These flexible components that can be freely selected save developers a lot of code development time, thereby helping to quickly implement the business.
In the first official press conference, Baidu used data to analyze the cost advantages of using an open network: taking the requirement of 3 nodes as an example, a medium-sized DApp product executes 10,000 transactions per day, and uses an open network to deploy applications The approximate cost per year is 7,000 yuan, and at least 50,000 yuan if you use BaaS services.
From July 20th to August 20th, Baidu issued no-threshold limited coupons to newly registered users to facilitate account creation, installation, and call of the contract; for old users, it also launched a gratitude feedback, how much you recharge, and how much you can get back. No upper limit.
Creating an "open" and "low-cost" inclusive infrastructure solution has become a new consensus among the giants in the blockchain battlefield.
For example, the national team player BSN integrates six public chains, and wants to be a bridge between the "chain" and developers, so as to improve the efficiency of developers and reduce the cost of using blockchain; the "Ant Open Alliance Chain" of Ant Blockchain is being tested publicly , It also wants to attract more developers to its platform to make more applications.
With so many competing products, how can Baidu Superchain stand out?
In order to better serve the business, the HyperChain Open Network hopes to attract other service providers to join.
It is understood that during the launch of the network, Baidu has attracted judicial, notary, banking and other service providers from its own internal scenarios, including content and image copyright protection business, credible advertisement placement, electronic contracts, signing contracts, etc. It is understood that these services have already It began to provide services to other businesses on the network one after another, and gradually built a trusted infrastructure in the network, including electronic certificate storage, electronic signing, decentralized identity authentication, and a complete set of solutions around digital assets.
The Baidu Super Chain open network is still in education and government affairs scenarios, and has landed many practical applications:
In the field of education: Zhejiang Zhengyuan Wisdom Technology Co., Ltd. launched the first smart campus DApp Yi Campus, which stores the campus QR code transaction records as certificates, and the credible data is convenient for students, teachers, and merchants to query and reconcile accounts.
In addition, Zhilian Technology uses the Baidu Superchain open network as a training platform to provide a real-world blockchain teaching experience for hundreds of colleges and universities across the country. Students use the open network to complete smart contract development, call, and store course grades and certificates on the chain. Many universities, including Communication University of China, have also opened blockchain teaching courses based on the super chain open network as a training platform.
In the field of government affairs: "Love on Julu APP" in Julu County, Hebei Province, realized the grid management based on the point system through the blockchain, providing support for the modernization of grassroots governance from the technical level, so that residents can conveniently Handle business, and truly realize "data travels more, people run less errands".
Medical field: Baidu Superchain teamed up with Chongqing City to build an electronic prescription block chain circulation platform to solve data sharing, circulation, collection and security issues in traditional medical services, and to realize the government's comprehensive system of pre-reminder, in-process monitoring, and post-event traceability of the diagnosis and treatment process. All-round supervision makes it easier and safer for ordinary people to buy the medicines they need, and improves the experience of seeing a doctor.
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To promote the ecological construction of the blockchain network, Baidu Superchain released an open network white paper
When will the blockchain become the standard configuration in the digital economy era?
In fact, relying solely on Baidu, it is difficult to create a large-scale effect of the industrial blockchain.
Baidu Super Chain Open Network believes that in order to promote the scale construction of an open network, it is the key to jointly build an open and win-win blockchain network ecology with external partners.
The Baidu Super Chain Open Network hopes to allow members of the network ecology to participate in contributing value and enjoy benefits equally, forming a unique, open, and scalable ecosystem of the blockchain to bring about changes in business models and organizational forms.
In addition to providing services for developers, a super node recruitment plan was also released at the Open Network White Paper Conference. Users in the Baidu Super Chain open network can also act as network builders, that is, become super nodes or service nodes in the network.
The super node in the network is a full node with bookkeeping rights produced by resource holders through voting.
Baidu has proposed two considerable profit models for becoming a builder:
1) Provide services, such as certification, etc. to obtain benefits;
2) Become a node, and the business party pays for the resources of the network.
Baidu Superchain Open Network also stated that it plans to share benefits with service and network partners through a revenue sharing model.
Currently, the HyperChain open network supports 25 supernodes, and the supernodes take turns to generate blocks in sequence, and the interval between block generation is 3 seconds. At present, the open network has deployed 17 super nodes across the country, 140,000 terminals, and 1,000+ enterprises have joined.
At the White Paper Conference on the Super Chain Open Network, Xiao Wei, an outstanding scientist and blockchain general manager of Baidu, analyzed: "In the future, the entire open network should be based on the public chain, linking countless alliance chains, and building an interconnected large network. network, and Baidu Superchain has the networking capability of this network form from the very beginning.”
It is conceivable that when the super chain open network enters all walks of life, more and more authoritative organizations will join the super chain ecology in the future. In this way, the applications and data on the chain built around the Baidu super chain open network may become the next generation industry standard.
Odaily believes that the blockchain is the core technology for building the future value Internet, and the open network will become one of the essential infrastructure components of the future value Internet.
