Xunlei CEO Chen Lei: It is expected to launch a super blockchain that can process millions of transactions per second in May
Xunlei CEO Chen Lei revealed in an exclusive interview with the media at the 2018 Boao Asia Conference,Xunlei is developing a super blockchain that can accommodate millions of transactions per second.
It is understood that the current Bitcoin network can only process more than 2,000 transactions every 10 minutes. In conversion, the processing speed is 3 to 5 transactions per second. The Xunlei super blockchain, which is expected to be unveiled in early May, may bring a better development prospect for China's blockchain technology.
Chen Lei said that the Internet is technological innovation, and blockchain is also technological innovation. Moreover, the innovation of blockchain has changed the structure of social organization, giving China an opportunity to surpass the United States and Western countries.
He pointed out that compared with the United States and Western countries, China started relatively late in the electronics industry, communication industry and Internet industry. But now, blockchain presents a very important opportunity, and China started almost at the same time as the Western world.
Chen Lei thinks:
"This is the most important and most important opportunity in the new era. I hope more Chinese companies and entrepreneurs will join in the blockchain field."
Since Xunlei announced that it will transform into a blockchain company, the company has focused its energy on the R&D and optimization of the underlying technology of the blockchain and the implementation of its application scenarios.
In order to prove the success of its transformation, Xunlei released a shared economic intelligent hardware based on blockchain technology on October 21, 2017 - Wanke Cloud, creating a shared computing ecology with resource sharing as the core, and in this ecology The intermediary tool "LinkToken" is formed in the system.
However, Xunlei's seemingly smooth development encountered an "accident" later. This old-fashioned Internet company has experienced the "Wankeyun" internal strife in December, the blockchain speculation was severely cracked down, and the founder Zou Shenglong retired, which can be said to have entered the lost path of transformation. Chen Lei admitted that Xunlei has "too much historical burden", but he believes that the company will develop in a good direction, and said that Xunlei will also launch some new blockchain applications in the future.
He also said that Xunlei will focus on building a blockchain ecosystem and shared computing in 2018. At the same time, he believes that it is best not to put the blockchain in the laboratory, but to put it in practical applications.
"When you put a technology into practical use, you have to face the pressure of using it every day, which will force you to improve your technology. Users will scold you if you can't improve it. This is the most effective way to improve technology," he said. .
