With the acceleration of informatization, digitization, and intelligence, especially in the post-epidemic era, the value of data in the operation of the global economy has become increasingly prominent. At the end of March 2020, data was written into the central document as a new type of production factor, juxtaposed with classic production factors such as land, labor, capital, and technology; in April, the blockchain was included in the category of “new infrastructure” for the first time, further highlighting Under the trend of industrial digitization, blockchain has played an important role in boosting industrial development.
Recently, WeBank released the white paper "Building a New Data Infrastructure, Unleashing Data Productivity", comprehensively discussing the new data infrastructure solutions built by WeBank based on the four basic capabilities of artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, and big data, and detailed Introduce relevant specific application cases. In the past year, WeBank's blockchain centered on the data element market, constantly exploring the latest practices of blockchain technology in industrial applications, and further taking the lead in consolidating the extremely active domestic open source alliance chain ecosystem and leading the development of the industry.
Technological exploration: cracking data privacy protection and governance problems
The important cornerstone of the construction and development of the data element market lies in "multi-party trust." As a machine for transmitting trust, the blockchain can provide a new way of trust connection for the trusted circulation and safe use of data. Since the establishment of the alliance chain in 2015, WeBank has built a full-stack technology architecture for the data element market, and on this basis has provided a series of digital infrastructure such as secure storage of data, trusted transmission, and collaborative production to release data productivity .
In 2020, WeBank released the WeDPR data privacy protection white paper, and centered on the core business scenarios of privacy protection such as public verifiable ciphertext books and selective authentication disclosure, open source WeDPR core algorithm components and full platform SDK to promote the reduction of privacy protection technology The threshold of use can quickly meet the business needs of data verification and data fusion in industries that have strict requirements on data security, such as finance and supply chain.
In addition, WeBank will also officially open source the cross-chain data collaboration platform WeCross in 2020, to achieve secure connections and trusted collaboration between different blockchains, and propose pertinence around different application scenarios such as cross-industry, cross-institution, and cross-regional. The solution effectively promotes trust transfer and business cooperation between different blockchains.
In terms of efficient and standardized governance of data, WeBank Blockchain has developed a set of data governance general components WeBankBlockchain-Data based on years of technical research and application practice, which multi-dimensionally improves the efficiency of development, operation, operation and maintenance, and realizes data The transformation from elements to resources. In December 2020, the component is fully open source.
A few days ago, Sun Yat-sen University took the lead and successfully established the 2020 National Key Research and Development Program, which was applied by companies and universities such as WeBank. As the undertaking unit of the subject, WeBank will carry out research on distributed, penetrating, and full-dimensional regulatory technology architecture for alliance chains based on privacy protection (secure multi-party computing, zero-knowledge proof, etc.) and cutting-edge technologies such as cross-chain. Realize supervision-friendliness and take into account the protection of alliance chain data privacy, and establish a distributed alliance chain supervision service platform with data intelligent perception, visual governance, multi-party supervision decision-making, and full life cycle data supervision.
Industrial application: Landing cases cover the national economy and people's livelihood, and promote the integrated development of the entire industry
At present, WeBank has implemented specific applications of blockchain technology in smart government affairs, regulatory technology, copyright protection, social governance and other business scenarios related to the national economy and people's livelihood to promote the circulation and integration of credible data.
In December 2019, WeBank and FISCO BCOS entered the blockchain service network BSN designed at the top of the National Information Center, promoting FISCO BCOS to become the first domestically-made alliance chain bottom framework in BSN, and promoting the accelerated implementation of innovative applications in various industries and adaptation work It was completed in April 2020. Currently, 9 projects in the FISCO BCOS ecosystem have been selected as the official BSN application.
In May 2020, the Guangdong-Macao health code cross-border mutual recognition system launched by the Macau SAR government and Guangdong Province is based on FISCO BCOS research and development, and adopts WeIdentity, an open source entity identification and trusted data exchange solution of WeBank blockchain. For the first time, mutual trust and mutual recognition of epidemic prevention data between Guangdong and Macao has been realized. This user-driven data submission and verification mechanism effectively promotes the cross-regional circulation of data elements under the knowledge, authorization and leadership of users. As of December 2020, a total of 38.1 million customs clearance services have been provided with the Guangdong Kang code clearance certificate.
In October 2020, WeBank and People Online reached a strategic cooperation to jointly build a "People's Chain", and jointly explored innovative application models of financial technology and inclusive finance, integrating blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data, and privacy computing A variety of cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements, promote scenario-based data circulation and collaborative solutions, comprehensively promote the value enhancement of data application scenarios in various fields and truly help the industry to achieve multi-party collaboration and win-win.
In addition, WeBank is actively applying blockchain technology to the field of social governance. In September 2019, WeBank, based on blockchain technology, innovatively proposed a reference framework for optimizing the social governance model "Goodness"; in June 2020, WeBank joined hands with Beijing Green Exchange and Beijing Green Puhui Network Technology Co., Ltd. Released the first landing application of "Shandu" "Green Travel Inclusive Platform", exploring new ways to promote the public's green travel; in October, "Shandu" public welfare scene application "Cloud Creation Blockchain Public Welfare Platform" was led by the Chengdu Municipal Government Landing, effectively promoting the credible circulation and integration of public welfare data.
Ecological co-construction: creating a very active domestic open source alliance chain ecosystem
As an important initiator and promoter of the FISCO BCOS open source community, WeBank actively participates in the co-construction of the blockchain ecosystem. At present, the FISCO BCOS open source community has gathered more than 2,000 companies and institutions, and developed into a very active domestic open source alliance chain ecosystem under the joint construction of more than 40,000 community members. Hundreds of applications in the community are based on FISCO BCOS research and development, of which over 120 are running stably in the production environment, covering government affairs, finance, public welfare, medical care, education and other fields.
At the same time, WeBank actively built a blockchain talent cultivation system around FISCO BCOS, and was selected into the “List of Supporting Institutions for Talent Evaluation in Key Fields” by the Talent Exchange Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and worked with it to build talent research, talent training, talent evaluation, and talent Service is the core of the blockchain industry talent innovation training system, and participated in the formulation of the country's first authoritative standard for blockchain job capabilities-"Blockchain Industry Talent Job Capability Requirements". Through research and course cooperation with more than 20 well-known universities around the world, WeBank has cultivated more than 2,000 FISCO BCOS professionals.
Recently, the Institute of Vocational and Technical Education Center of the Ministry of Education authorized the release of the fourth batch of vocational education training evaluation organizations and vocational skill level certificates that participated in the 1+X certificate system pilot. The "Blockchain Application Software Development and Operation and Maintenance" certificate was selected into the fourth batch of vocational skill level certificates.
In terms of standard construction, WeBank actively participates in the development of blockchain standards of ISO, IEEE and other international standardization organizations, helping my country as a whole to enhance its international voice and rule-making power in the field of international blockchain standards. , And continue to assist domestic governments and regulatory agencies to formulate domestic technical standards. In December 2020, the IEEE 2418.2-2020 "IEEE Standard for Data Format for Blockchain Systems" that WeBank participated in was officially released and implemented; in the same year, the financial industry standard "Financial Distributed Ledger Technology Security Specification" (JR/T 0184—2020), "Blockchain Technology Finance Application Evaluation Rules" (JR/T 0193—2020), "Multi-party Secure Computing Financial Application Technical Specifications" (JR/T 0196—2020) were officially released by the People’s Bank of China; The "Blockchain Privacy Protection Specification" led by the People's Bank of China has also been included in the "100 Group Standard Application Demonstration Projects" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2020.
Source: Daily Economic News