This year, Zhang Shousheng ran in the blockchain field for N moments
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On December 1, local time in the United States, Chinese-American physicist, tenured professor of Stanford University, academician of the American Academy of Sciences, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, founder of Danhua Capital, and independent director of Meitu Zhang Shoucheng died unexpectedly at the age of 55.
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It is learned that according to the email of Danhua Capital on the morning of December 6, on December 1, local time in the United States, Chinese-American physicist, tenured professor at Stanford University, academician of the National Academy of Sciences, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, founder of Danhua Capital, Meitu Independent director Zhang Shoucheng passed away unexpectedly at the age of 55.
After the news was released, Danhua Capital stated that Danhua Capital is still operating normally. Professor Zhang's family and Danhua Capital employees are in great grief. However, his family did not disclose the cause of Professor Zhang's death, and Danhua Capital also stated that it did not know about it.
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With the continuous development of the blockchain, Professor Zhang also set his sights on the blockchain field. So far, according to Crunchbase data, Danhua Capital has raised a total of US$434.5 million through two funds.
Ostrich Blockchain learned from the investment projects on the official website of Danhua Capital that its fund has invested in a total of 18 consumer & financial technology projects; 42 blockchain projects; 24 big data projects; and 16 life science projects. Danhua Capital's expertise in blockchain technology, blockchain applications anddigital currencydigital currency
The total amount of investment events in the field reached about 188 million yuan, and the investment in the blockchain field accounted for more than 50%.
In addition to Danhua Capital’s increased investment in the blockchain field in recent years, Zhang Shousheng has also expressed his optimism about blockchain technology in public events or speeches many times.
February: Served as independent non-executive director of Meitu
On February 22, 2018, Zhang Shousheng was appointed as an independent non-executive director, member of the nomination committee and remuneration committee of Meitu. Talking about the Meitu blockchain project that has released a white paper, Zhang Shoucheng said that Meitu’s blockchain project will be redesigned.
March: The blockchain will be ten times larger than the Internet, firmly believe in the blockchain belief
On March 12th, Professor Zhang Shousheng said at the North American project launching ceremony held by Hash World that he believes that the blockchain will be ten times that of the Internet, and he firmly believes in the blockchain belief, but he also reminds investors to beware of blindly joining the impetuous market. The upsurge of currency speculation advocates the public to return to the blockchain technology itself.
During the event on March 12, Professor Zhang Shousheng presented the "Land Ownership Certificate" to the award-winning guests
On March 25th, at the Shenzhen IT Leaders Summit, Professor Zhang said that he is very optimistic about blockchain technology. Danhua Capital is very concerned about blockchain and has also invested in many blockchain projects including Ontology. He said that at present, the blockchain is mainly used for the communication of data platforms, and it has already been applied in various vertical fields. At the same time, he admitted that the current development of the blockchain is still in its early stages, and there are a lot of bubbles. This is a very exciting opportunity, but it requires a judgmental vision.
On March 30, he expressed his passion for blockchain at the 2018 Global Blockchain Investment Summit. He believes that we are now at a historic moment, and blockchain technology will fundamentally change human beings, and predicts that blockchain is the most important revolution of our time, and the future will be the gap between blockchain technology and AI technology. symbiotic relationship.
May: Blockchain is the internet's chance to multiply by 10 or 100
On May 8, at the 2018 Blockchain Security Summit Forum sponsored by Baimaohui Security Research Institute and Beijing Huashun Xinan Technology Co., Ltd., Professor Zhang Shousheng once again publicly stated that he believed that the blockchain is basically the Internet multiplied by 10 or Multiply that by 100 chances. At the same time, he also said that the security of blockchain technology is very important.
On May 26th, at the "Blockchain High-end Dialogue" event of the 2018 Digital Expo, Professor Zhang Shoucheng said that there are many international financial institutions that need to add blockchain technology to the Belt and Road. Globalization makes more contributions.
In the special session "Blockchain and Social Governance" of the 2018 Global Blockchain Technology Development Forum held on May 28, Zhang Shousheng once again stated that Bitcoin is only the beginning of the blockchain, and the future of the entire blockchain will continue. It is very important to find internal unity in development, and blockchain and artificial intelligence must have a complementary relationship.
June: China can seize the opportunity of the blockchain to achieve "curve overtaking"
On June 2, Zhang Shoucheng mentioned in his speech at the "Shanghai Blockchain Symposium" that although blockchain technology is fundamentally a method of bookkeeping, its role should not be underestimated. In his speech, he put forward a policy, "creating trust from the people" - building trust in mathematics and building mathematics in social sciences will bring about "rooted changes" in society. He believes that the current international financial system is still Western, but China can seize this opportunity of the blockchain to achieve "overtaking on a curve".
September: AI can rely on blockchain data markets to take off
In addition, at the 2018 China (Shanghai) Blockchain Technology Innovation Summit held on September 6, Zhang Shoucheng once proposed a prospect for the development of blockchain technology, involving seven major directions:
1. Blockchain expansion - DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph);
2. Stable currency;
3. Green and environmentally friendly blockchain;
4. Blockchainization of network infrastructure;
5. The symbiosis of blockchain and artificial intelligence;
6. Blockchain identity and credit management;
7. Data markets for genomics and biomedicine.
On September 30th, Professor Zhang Shoucheng once again stated at the Blockchain Summit of the China Innovation Association that encryption economics has created a data market with the correct incentive mechanism for data providers, and artificial intelligence can rely on this data market to take off.
At the end of October, Zhang Shousheng stated at the 2018 China Summit Forum of the British "Financial Times" that blockchain technology can promote the process of decentralization, and new ways can build trust and realize transactions. "
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