Look at the trend of blockchain layout through BATJ
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01. Baidu, Du Xiaoman
At the end of 2019, Xiao Wei, general manager of Baidu Blockchain, said in an interview that in 2020, the blockchain has three key areas: First, the basic direction of the alliance chain is the core, and the ability of the alliance chain will be maximized . Second, trusted computing plus blockchain is also a very important direction that requires investment to solve the problem of data circulation and solve the problem of data availability and invisibility. Third, we will explore some distributed identity applications, as well as vertical applications such as copyright and supply chain finance.
On January 6, 2020, Baidu Superchain announced the official launch of the "Superchain Open Network" at the online product launch conference. According to the official introduction, "Super Chain Open Network" is defined as the infrastructure of blockchain, which enables small and medium-sized enterprises and developers to use blockchain services quickly, at low cost and safely. The blockchain solutions that can be provided include justice, copyright, finance, government affairs, and traceability. The picture below is an introduction to the official website of Baidu Super Chain, in which the data dynamics change in real time.
On January 7, Yusys Technology announced that Yuanchuang Gene, a shareholder holding more than 5% of the shares, and Guangkong Gene, a specific shareholder, intend to transfer 5.71% of the company's shares to Baidu, and the company signed a "Business Cooperation Agreement" with Baidu Netcom. The company will assist Baidu Smart Cloud to promote blockchain + financial industry-level solutions, including but not limited to supply chain finance, credit chain, trusted computing, compliance Token, etc.
On February 28, when Baidu released its unaudited financial report for the fourth quarter and the whole year of 2019, it separately described the progress related to the blockchain BaaS platform, highlighting that the innovation direction of blockchain technology has gained more Attention and investment, the blockchain platform based on Baidu Smart Cloud is expected to become a new growth engine in the direction of technological innovation.
On March 28, Li Feng, head of the Du Xiaoman blockchain, said that enterprises should pay attention to the development of sovereign digital currency. Its credit endorsement model is very mature, and there are some supporting regulatory measures, which is a short-term development direction.
On April 24, Du Xiaoman Oasis was listed in the third batch of blockchain service filing list issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China. Du Xiaoman Oasis is a new blockchain application launched by Du Xiaoman Finance (formerly Baidu Finance), dedicated to building a financial service platform based on blockchain ecology. It is jointly launched by Baidu Wallet and Du Xiaoman Financial Blockchain Lab.
On April 28, Yu Yanan, Product Leader of Baidu Blockchain System Department, attended a media event and said that Baidu will jointly build a blockchain application ecosystem through mutual empowerment with partners. Specifically, it includes four levels: education support, product support, technology empowerment, and win-win cooperation. In terms of educational support, Baidu has established an ecological partnership alliance covering industry, education and research with Beijing Internet Court, Peking University, and Hainan Ecological Software Park. In terms of product support, relying on Baidu Super Chain Professional Edition, Super Chain Open Network and industry solutions, it can meet the different needs of enterprises, developers, and industry customers. At the level of technology empowerment, Baidu can leverage the advantages of technology linkages such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing. In terms of win-win cooperation, Baidu Search, Baijiahao and Mobile Baidu can provide massive content traffic, and Baidu Cloud, Smart City and Baidu Finance can provide profound industrial resources.
On June 5, in the first phase of Hainan Software Park, blockchain companies such as Baidu and Huobi settled in and started construction.
In fact, in 2018 and 2019, Baidu’s attempts and layout in the blockchain field were also very rich and active, such as helping to build an AI+ blockchain smart business circle; creating an exclusive digital identity CloudDID applet based on the blockchain; Blockchain + smart city" project pilot; use blockchain and other technologies to solve data privacy and security flow issues; sign a strategic cooperation agreement with Zhilian Wanyuan to cooperate in blockchain and other digital technologies; launch blockchain medical service solutions plan; plan to build a city-level trusted computing network based on self-developed blockchain technology; launch the Baidu blockchain engine BBE platform; create a "cultural museum art chain"; establish a blockchain media laboratory with Renmin University of China and Cover Media; Signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Shanghai Municipal Government to use blockchain and other technological advantages to improve urban management capabilities; relying on blockchain and other cutting-edge technologies, launched the AI smart city "ACE Trump Plan"; Baidu Superchain cooperated with Beijing Internet Court; cooperated with Hainan The Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and Hainan Ecological Software Park reached a cooperation to jointly build Hainan Baidu Blockchain Laboratory and other major projects.
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02. Ali, Ant, Alipay
On January 1, 2020, Ant Financial’s official Weibo post showed that nearly 50 scenarios of Ant Financial’s blockchain have been put into use, including buyer show and seller show, “time bank”, cross-border remittance, etc. Alipay said, Their self-developed blockchain technology is only used to solve practical problems with social value.
On January 2, Alibaba Dharma Institute announced the top ten technological trends in 2020, and "large-scale production-level blockchain applications will enter the public" was selected.
On January 8, at the media meeting of Ant Financial, Jiang Guofei, vice president of Ant Financial, said that the blockchain industry in the future will be bigger than cloud computing. At the same time, he also said that 2020 will be a year for the blockchain to move from the virtual to the real and deeply integrate with the industry.
On January 9, Ant Blockchain, a subsidiary of Ant Financial, and Qianhai Joint Exchange (QME) jointly launched the construction of a blockchain warehouse receipt alliance in Shenzhen. The two parties will use Ant Financial's blockchain technology and cooperate with all parties in the industry to create a trusted asset system based on "blockchain warehouse receipts" through unified management standards and technical standards.
On January 11, Jing Xiandong, a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Ant Financial Services, mentioned that AI and blockchain should be used to promote the upgrading of digital government affairs in Zhejiang.
On January 14, Jiang Guofei, vice president of Ant Financial and president of Smart Technology, said that 62% of Ant Financial's blockchain patents are core patents that are biased towards underlying technologies, such as consensus algorithms, ciphers, cross-chain, and privacy protection. , management, storage, etc.; 38% are based on business logic and business applications.
At the end of January, Sun Lijun, chairman of the Alibaba Public Welfare Foundation, stated at the China Charity Annual Conference that Ali uses the blockchain method to get rid of poverty healthily.
In early February, Alipay launched an information service platform for epidemic prevention materials, using blockchain to realize full traceability.
On February 14, Ant Blockchain actively responded to the demand and helped Gansu launch the "Blockchain + Remote Online Bid Opening System", and successfully completed the remote bid opening of the first project in the new year.
In mid-to-late February, Yan Ying, technical director of blockchain at Ant Financial and a senior technical expert on blockchain at DAMO Academy, said in her sharing that based on the current development trend of blockchain business and the degree of technology accumulation, it is predicted that the overall situation in 2020 will Mature businesses on the Internet will move from single-chain collaboration to cross-chain collaboration, forming larger-scale business core technology hotspots and directions.
According to Internet Pulse News, from February 21 to March 17, Alipay Information Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, successively disclosed 5 patents related to the central bank's digital currency. After querying the patent, it was learned that Alipay participated in the four major functions of the central bank's digital currency. Including undertaking the functions of digital currency delivery and transaction bookkeeping, assisting in the supervision and handling of illegal accounts, supporting digital currency wallets, and supporting anonymous transactions, etc.
On February 27, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Finance and Ant Financial Services launched a blockchain donation electronic bill.
On March 19, Wu Fang, senior solution architect of Ant Financial, said that the ant blockchain is the first to be used in rail transit, and the subway "pass" covers the Yangtze River Delta, which can realize settlement in different places.
On March 25, Alipay's self-developed distributed database OceanBase was opened to the world and is compatible with Oracle.
On March 30, the Ant blockchain + supply chain financial platform landed in Xuzhou Economic Development Zone. It is expected to provide online non-contact loan services for nearly 100,000 small, medium and micro enterprises in Xuzhou. Ant Financial’s MYbank will cooperate with local banks and financial institutions to jointly grant credit. Leveraging loans amounted to tens of billions.
In April, Alipay used blockchain to protect copyrights, serving more than 20 million small and medium-sized enterprises.
On April 1, Alibaba and Ant Financial participated in the construction of a blockchain rental application platform in Xiongan New Area.
On April 2, Ant Blockchain released the first commercial-grade hardware privacy protection technology.
Also in April, Tmall Farm joined hands with Dangshan County, Anhui Province to introduce Ant Blockchain to develop "smart agriculture".
At 14:00 on the afternoon of April 16, the Ant Blockchain "Open Alliance Chain" was released for small and medium-sized enterprises and developers, helping all people to enter the chain.
On the same day, Alipay announced that it will open blockchain "electronic contracts" to small program merchants in conjunction with e-signature.
On April 24, Shanghai Branch of the Bank of Communications cooperated with Ant Financial to successfully complete the first domestic loan business based on blockchain technology in the system.
On May 18, on the "Ant Blockchain Super Product Day - Blockchain Contract Release Live", the blockchain contract jointly created by e-Signature and Ant Blockchain was officially unveiled. Ant Blockchain believes that within three years, "chain signing" will be able to serve "millions of small and medium-sized enterprises" like mobile payment services.
On May 27, Intel joined the ant blockchain ecosystem and officially announced a strategic cooperation.
On May 28, China Merchants Port signed an on-chain contract with Alibaba and Ant Group to jointly promote the deep integration of the port industry and digital technology.
On June 1, JSTI Group signed a formal cooperation agreement with Alibaba Cloud. It will promote the deep integration of technologies such as blockchain and transportation.
On June 8, Ant Financial established the database company OceanBase, which will be upgraded to an enterprise-level distributed database within this year.
On June 10, Ant Group reached a strategic cooperation with the China Computer Federation (CCF), which will target cutting-edge technology fields such as blockchain.
On June 22, Jingdezhen cooperated with Ant Blockchain to promote the intangible cultural heritage ceramic industry on the chain.
On July 6, when Seles answered investors' questions on the interactive platform on July 6, it introduced that the blockchain technology service cooperated by the company and Ant Company was used to provide credible evidence storage solutions for electronic medical records business.
On the same day, Ant Group cooperated with COSCO SHIPPING to empower global shipping through the Ant blockchain.
On July 9, Ant Group stated that Ant Blockchain is recruiting college graduates from all over the world to set up an X cooperation plan, aiming to intensify efforts to recruit and train blockchain core technical talents. In this way, the core technologies surrounding the blockchain, such as distributed ledgers, asymmetric encryption, and consensus mechanisms, will be invested in research and development.
On July 10, Ant Group cooperated with Yunnan International Trust to apply blockchain to supply chain finance.
On July 14, Ant Technology Group and Aneng Logistics cooperated to help blockchain innovation and development in the logistics industry.
Also in 2018 and 2019, Ali, Ant, and Alipay’s investment and layout in the blockchain field were also very active. For example, Ant launched the "Global Hot Chain" plan, released cross-chain product ODATS, set foot in cold chain logistics, and provided blockchain copyright protection. Alipay established a digital city technology company to jointly build a "future hospital" using blockchain technology, develop "procuratorial blockchain evidence collection equipment", and establish Alipay's global financial security innovation center that uses blockchain and other technologies to prevent financial risks, etc. Ali launched the trusted digital access and evidence tool "Que Chisel" for merchants using blockchain technology, launched financial DingTalk using Ant Financial's blockchain capabilities, launched a blockchain-based book donation project, and launched a blockchain-based And other technologies of medical artificial intelligence platform and so on.
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03. Tencent
On January 2, 2020, Tencent Cloud and Hunan Agricultural Bank signed a strategic agreement to provide blockchain support for smart city construction.
On January 5th, at the 2020 National Distributor Empowerment Conference of Guotai, Guotai and Tencent Anxin Plan formally signed a contract to cooperate to create a authenticity traceability system based on the Tencent blockchain Anxin Plan platform.
On January 7, according to data from Tianyancha, Tencent applied for patents such as "blockchain + lending" and "blockchain + medical record data".
On January 9, Tencent Cloud released the first concrete blockchain platform.
On February 20, Tencent Cloud launched a real estate marketing cloud platform that integrates blockchain and other basic capabilities.
On March 13, Tang Daosheng, senior executive vice president of Tencent and president of the cloud and smart industry business group, said at the meeting that Tencent will increase the construction and application of blockchain and other services to jointly "fight the epidemic."
On March 18, Tencent Cloud released a supply chain financial intelligence service platform, covering a blockchain multi-level circulation platform.
On April 17, Tencent Security and Beijing Founder Notary Office held a network strategic cooperation and leading blockchain-Beijing Founder Notarization and Evidence Collection Platform launch conference, announcing the establishment of cooperation in the field of "blockchain + justice" and the application of blockchain Blockchain technology deepens electronic data storage services.
On April 29, Tencent officially released the blockchain accelerator "Tencent Industry Accelerator-Blockchain", focusing on three major directions: technology, service, and application scenarios. It aims to integrate global blockchain industry resources, link excellent blockchain companies, jointly promote independent innovation of blockchain technology, and help technology applications land in industry scenarios.
At the beginning of May, Tencent Cloud released its panorama of industrial blockchain capabilities for the first time, showing in detail the layout of Tencent Cloud's entire chain of blockchain industry applications in infrastructure, underlying platforms, service platforms, application components, and industrial blockchain applications. . According to Tencent Cloud, the Tencent Cloud blockchain has fully implemented seven major fields including supply chain finance, and is accelerating the provision of credible blockchain capability support for more industries.
On May 13, a reporter from Securities Daily learned from Tencent that Tencent Cloud signed a framework cooperation agreement with AVEVA, an internationally renowned industrial software company. Using blockchain and other technologies to help industrial manufacturing reduce costs and increase efficiency.
On May 26, Tencent announced a five-year investment plan of 500 billion yuan to launch new infrastructure layouts such as blockchain.
On June 1, Tencent Cloud initiated the establishment of the Industrial Blockchain Alliance, and plans to recruit 100 members within this year.
At the beginning of June, Tianyancha data showed that Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. recently added a number of blockchain-related patents, including consumption methods and devices based on blockchain networks, methods, devices and methods for fund management based on blockchains. Storage medium, blockchain-based advertising delivery monitoring method, device and system, etc.
In early July, Tencent Qingyuan Cloud Computing Data Center will promote the full implementation of blockchain and other technologies in the Greater Bay Area.
In 2019, Tencent’s actions in the blockchain field include the launch of the blockchain copyright deposit function in the Tencent Original Pavilion; the Shenzhen Municipal Government cooperates with Tencent to protect intellectual property rights using Tencent Cloud’s blockchain services; Caesars Culture cooperates with Tencent to actively deploy districts Blockchain games and other new areas; the overseas team Node Pacific (Node Asia Pacific) has formally reached a cooperation agreement with Tencent Cloud, and will be involved in blockchain nodes, infrastructure construction, technical communities, blockchain technology ecological construction, blockchain education and related In-depth cooperation in the field; Tencent signed an agreement with Shenzhen Smart City Group, and reached a cooperation with Shanghai Yangpu District, and will actively promote cooperation in areas such as the application of blockchain technology.
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04. JD, JD Digital, JD Logistics
At the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, JD Fresh and Chagan Lake launched a cooperation model of blockchain traceability certification. Through one code for one fish, the whole process supervision from the bottom of the lake to the tip of the tongue will be realized. In addition to the blockchain traceability information, JD Fresh has also connected the "Clairvoyance" traceability system for Chagan Lake fish. Consumers can view videos of winter fishing, safety inspection, food processing, packaging, transportation and other links on the product details page. .
In early January, JD Digits launched the Puer tea blockchain anti-counterfeiting traceability platform to identify the identity ID of tea cakes through the artificial intelligence technology of "tea face recognition", and obtain the identity information of Puer tea cakes on the blockchain based on this ID. The technology has landed in JD Cloud (Yuxi) New Economy Industrial Park. But currently, this technology is only applicable to Pu'er tea that is sold as pressed tea cakes. Zhang Wei, head of blockchain application research and development at JD Digits, said that next, the team will gradually promote the traceability technology of artificial intelligence plus blockchain to a wider tea market.
In early March, JD Digits established an industrial AI center to integrate the AI research and development capabilities of technology research and development institutions such as blockchain laboratories.
On March 23, the "Xinhua JD Blockchain Index" jointly compiled by Xinhua Finance and JD Digital Technology Group was officially released. The index uses JD Digital's AI technology, and uses the popularity of the blockchain as a key indicator to select listed companies related to the blockchain industry with low market attention, less speculation, and certain investment potential during the selected period , comprehensively reflect the industry investment value under the theme of blockchain, and further enrich the indexed investment tools.
On March 26, JD Digits and Xiamen International Trade Co., Ltd. reached a cooperation to use blockchain and other technologies to promote the digitalization of the supply chain industry.
At the end of March, at the online press conference of the "2020 Blockchain Traceability Service Innovation and Application Report" report, Cao Peng, vice president of JD Digital Technology Group, said that the anti-counterfeit traceability platform of JD Digital Zhizhen Chain mainly provides enterprises with product circulation data. Full-process traceability, realizing one of the basic infrastructures of food and other consumer goods and pharmaceuticals. At present, there are more than 800 cooperative brands on the Jingdong blockchain anti-counterfeiting traceability platform, and the traceability data exceeds 1.3 billion.
In early May, JD Digits and JD Zhilian Cloud released the cloud version of the BaaS platform, aiming to lower the threshold for joining business alliances, provide simple and flexible access methods for small and micro enterprises or enterprises with weak informatization capabilities, and help them quickly build links, Form chains, use chains, and expand the ecology of blockchain alliances to accelerate the combination of blockchain and industrial applications under the new infrastructure.
At the end of May, JD Digits launched a blockchain enterprise-level service platform.
In mid-to-late June, Dalian Xinyulong and JD Digits cooperated to trace sea cucumber production information using blockchain.
On July 14, JD Digits released the "Inclusive Cloud Signing" plan to provide free blockchain electronic contract signing cloud services to small and medium-sized enterprises across the country, and launched a blockchain credit transfer platform. The two blockchain applications are connected to the data of the Internet court, and in the event of a dispute, evidence can be presented with one click, which shortens the time for online arbitration.
In 2018 and 2019, the layout of JD.com and JD Digital Technology JD Logistics in the blockchain field has also been actively launched. For example, JD.com launched the "Hydrogen Boat" platform that uses blockchain technology to store certificates and protect merchants' digital assets; and other technologies to realize SKU management. JD Digits and Yuxi, Yunnan released the anti-counterfeit traceability platform of Pu'er tea block chain; signed a framework cooperation agreement with the Agricultural Bank of China to provide more intelligent value-added services using block chain and other technologies; released the Zhizhen chain pharmaceutical traceability platform. JD Logistics launched products such as "Sign on the Chain" and "Jingyuan Chain"; cooperated with China Telecom in blockchain, warehousing logistics, and unmanned technology; released blockchain product supply chain industry platforms, etc.
Interpretation: Also based on the above content, we can know that JD.com, which is based on logistics, fresh food, product supply chain, finance and other businesses, has actively developed blockchain technology in the fields of logistics, product traceability and anti-counterfeiting, asset management, and digital certificate storage. The combination and development of technologies, and at the same time, most of these technologies have been applied in scenarios. During the Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak, JD.com has played a very important role in logistics and transportation, data monitoring, product supply, and public welfare donations.
The above is based on the incomplete statistics of 52cbdc. Regarding the layout and direction of BATJ in the blockchain field, we can roughly see from the above content that the layout of the blockchain by these major Internet giants is mostly based on their own business. We guess that this is to better improve and upgrade its original business, provide users with better services, and enhance its product competitiveness. On the other hand, it is about the business expansion of blockchain technology. Internet companies have a very sensitive sense of technology development, because it is easy to miss the development window period and opportunity period if they are not careful, resulting in the decline of the enterprise or the loss of the original advantages. Before the blockchain technology rose to the national strategic level, major Internet companies have already started to deploy, which is the key to their ability to form core competitiveness!
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