Once the "Blockchain National Team" BSN was launched, it has received widespread attention from the society. What achievements has BSN achieved up to now? How is its ecology constructed? What are the impacts on China's blockchain industry? In this carbon chain consensus dialogue, we invited three heavyweight guests, the executive director of the BSN Development Alliance and the CEO of Jujube Technology He Yifan, the CEO of Huobi China Yuan Yuming, and the CMO Li He of the WeBank blockchain team to introduce us to the development of BSN. status quo.
Part1: The rapidly developing BSN
Carbon chain value: After a long period of preparation, on April 25 this year, the blockchain service network BSN was officially launched for commercial use. From the official commercial use to the present, what stage has the BSN network developed?
He Yifan , CEO of Jujube Technology : First of all, BSN has developed very rapidly, which is inseparable from the joint participation and promotion of our alliance members. The member units of the Blockchain Service Network Development Alliance have increased from the first batch of 19 at the time of establishment to the current 30. The member units of the Development Alliance are well-known enterprises that can make significant contributions to the construction of BSN and are in a leading position in their own business fields, including many Fortune 500 companies in the world and China 500 companies.
Secondly, as we all know, BSN is currently the most widely distributed blockchain infrastructure network in the world, and its public city nodes have been deployed in six continents except Antarctica. In China, major cities in almost all provinces have deployed or are deploying public city nodes. It is estimated that by the end of 2020, the number of BSN city nodes will reach nearly 200.
Finally, in terms of technological development and innovation, BSN has always been reducing the cost of blockchain development, deployment, operation and maintenance, and interoperability, and improving the data interoperability between chains. We continue to adapt to various domestic and foreign mainstream blockchain underlying frameworks. Among them, the permission chain underlying frameworks that have been adapted are Hyperledger Fabric, FISCO BCOS, XuperChain, and Fabric national secrets. BSN International also provides a variety of public Chain framework service. At the same time, BSN also establishes a BSN cross-chain communication hub (ICH) by integrating services such as cross-chain technology and oracle technology, so that various types of DApps can achieve more convenient and lower-cost data exchange. At the same time, BSN is developing IPFS private network services and BSN open alliance chain services, which are expected to be launched at the end of October, so stay tuned.
Carbon chain value: Who is the main service target of BSN? How to use the underlying technology to provide services for these objects? How to make money?
He Yifan, CEO of Jujube Technology : The main service groups of BSN are global developers. BSN helps all developers to provide operating environment and network resources when developing and deploying various DApp applications, and provides complete cross-chain intercommunication mechanisms, trusted data acquisition, IPFS and other technical services and capabilities to reduce the technical threshold of blockchain development , Improve development efficiency.
At present, the development of blockchain technology is similar to the Internet in 1993. Each chain is equivalent to a local area network. Because of the high cost of forming a chain, it is difficult to communicate between chains and even between different underlying frameworks, which greatly limits The development of blockchain technology.
Therefore, when BSN was initially planning, it fully considered the importance of the cross-bottom framework, and jointly formulated the BSN with alliance members and partners such as WeBank, Huobi China, and Baidu Superchain. Framework adaptation standard. By adapting to various frameworks, users can choose the framework to use according to their needs when using BSN services, and cooperate with BSN's unified CA management, gateway API integration, internal and external cross-chain mechanisms, etc., so that users can flexibly cross-chain, Data intercommunication across the bottom layer. Only in this way can blockchain technology be widely applied to more complex business models, and this technology can flourish.
Carbon chain value: Has the government supported the development of the BSN network?
He Yifan, CEO of Jujube Technology : On October 24 last year, the blockchain rose to the national strategic level. On April 20 this year, the blockchain was officially included in the "new infrastructure", and the blockchain service network was officially launched as the "new infrastructure". Implementation project.
BSN is led by the National Information Center and is jointly constructed by multiple parties. As a global blockchain infrastructure independently developed by my country, it has received strong support from many provincial and municipal governments in the development process, providing BSN with resources such as industrial incubation and training bases. facility.
At the same time, governments at all levels are also building a local blockchain service ecosystem based on BSN's technical capabilities. For example, recently, the Fujian Provincial Government and the Changsha Municipal Government have directly included BSN in the new infrastructure three-year action plan. It can be seen that governments at all levels recognize and value BSN.
Carbon chain value: There are many giants participating in the research and development of the BSN network, so how does the official coordinate the relationship between them and ensure the smooth progress of the project?
He Yifan, CEO of Jujube Technology : BSN adopts a collaborative and co-construction model. The development alliance executive council conducts development planning and overall division of labor, and divides the alliance member units into the cloud service committee, the developer committee, the financial committee, the media committee and the industry The Capital Committee coordinates the work, and everyone performs their duties according to the arrangement to jointly promote the development of BSN, and builds their own business model with the help of the BSN ecology and resources.
In terms of business model, the BSN ecosystem can be divided into cloud resource providers, portals, underlying frameworks, developers, and BSN operation and maintenance. At present, each party has a very clear business model around BSN. In general, BSN is an ecosystem of co-construction and win-win. We expect that more companies and technical parties will participate in the BSN family in the future.
Carbon chain value: It is understood that the currently adapted alliance chain architectures on BSN are fabric, fabric national secret, fisco, and xuperchain. Will BSN introduce a new architecture in the future? Has the docking between these four architectures been achieved? And who will develop and realize the connection?
He Yifan, CEO of Jujube Technology : In addition to the four underlying frameworks that have been adapted, BSN is also or plans to adapt the underlying license chain frameworks such as CITA, JD Chain, Corda and other mainstream license chain frameworks at home and abroad, as well as various underlying frameworks The corresponding national secret version.
As a "cross-bottom framework" blockchain public infrastructure platform, how does BSN choose which bottom framework to adapt to? How to be compatible with different underlying frameworks? The development alliance technical team and member units have carried out many considerations, for which we have formulated a complete set of adaptation standards for the underlying framework.
We have followed the standard from the beginning of the selection of the adaptation of the underlying framework, and in order to make the adapted underlying framework have better interoperability, we have also developed a standardized adaptation interface and a unified identity authentication service.
The technical side of the underlying framework refers to the standard for adaptive development, which requires a development and debugging cycle of two to three months. During the adaptation period, BSN is also optimizing and adjusting interfaces and services based on the technical differentiation characteristics of the underlying frameworks. The process is quite complicated.
Finally, because all the underlying frameworks are adapted according to a unified standard, the same user in the BSN can communicate data between the two underlying heterogeneous applications that it participates in through the BSN public city node gateway.
Carbon chain value: The BSN network is not just forged by one company. As the participants of the BSN network, which part of the work of Huobi China and WeBank are responsible for the BSN network? What progress has been made?
Huobi China CEO Yuan Yuming : We at Huobi China are fortunate to be one of the first batch of alliance members of BSN, and we have invested in BSN's technology and service support very early.
In terms of technical framework, we are one of BSN's four underlying alliance chain framework service providers. We provide BSN with the national secret version of Fabric's blockchain technical framework and technical services. This framework has been officially integrated into BSN on July 31 this year. In, and launched a public beta version.
In addition, Huobi China has also made a lot of successful explorations in the implementation of the blockchain industry. At the same time, BSN also hopes to incorporate more scenarios of blockchain application ecology. Therefore, we have also formed a relatively good cooperation in application construction. .
The "Huobi China Blockchain Points Platform" was launched on BSN in early July, and the "IPTM Time Stamp Application" was launched in August, becoming the official recommended applications for BSN platform points and copyright protection respectively. Now we are also developing and applying for other types of applications for the BSN platform to enrich the application ecology of BSN. I believe you will see more cooperation cases in the near future.
On August 14, Jiangxi Ganzhou landed on the BSN city node, and we, Huobi China, became the first batch of blockchain gold partners of Jiangxi Mobile. BSN is a development ecology and platform. I believe we will have more and closer cooperation in the future based on this big platform of BSN.
Li He , CMO of the Blockchain Team of WeBank: As a participant of the BSN network, the Blockchain of WeBank mainly assists BSN in completing the adaptation of FISCO BCOS. As we all know, FISCO BCOS is the first domestically-made blockchain underlying platform adapted by BSN, and many innovative attempts have been made in the adaptation process.
In the process of BSN adapting to FISCO BCOS, WeBank mainly contributed to the realization of group dynamic management, billing support data reporting, notification of on-chain events, smart contract security detection, contract uninstallation, multi-chain management and other functions .
At the same time, in order to meet BSN's rich management functions and application interface requirements, WeBank introduced the self-developed blockchain middleware WeBASE to implement the deployment and management of the FISCO BCOS blockchain network in a one-stop manner, and provide a friendly and easy-to-use application interface , Which greatly reduces the technical threshold, improves integration efficiency, and greatly shortens the adaptation process. In addition, WeBank also actively participates in the formulation of BSN underlying architecture adaptation standards.
At present, the work is progressing smoothly. We are pleased to see that many high-quality applications have been running on BSN using FISCO BCOS. Not long ago, 4 of the first batch of "Officially Designated Blockchain Applications" announced by BSN FISCO BCOS is used as the underlying framework, covering aspects such as certification, anti-counterfeiting traceability, and supply chain management.
Part2: Powerful ecological integration
Carbon chain value: We know that BSN has many heavyweight partners, including Huobi China and WeBank. So, as a participant of the BSN network, why do you want to participate in the BSN network?
Yuan Yuming , CEO of Huobi China : On the one hand, we are very optimistic about the vision of BSN. At present, there is no such public infrastructure network as BSN in the blockchain field at home or abroad . At the same time, the development of the blockchain industry has entered the stage of industrial application landing. For many companies or teams exploring the implementation of blockchain applications, there are still great technical challenges between demand and actual landing. The emergence can greatly reduce this challenge. Therefore, we are also actively participating in the construction to speed up the development of BSN.
On the other hand, Huobi China has accumulated some accumulation in the output of the underlying technology framework and application service capabilities of the blockchain. We also look forward to exporting these technologies and service capabilities to the blockchain industry or those who intend to enter the blockchain industry. More companies and teams. BSN is a basic platform with a global perspective, and our deployment of application services on BSN is also in line with our long-term development goals.
Li He, CMO, Blockchain Team of WeBank: BSN is a global public infrastructure network that is used to deploy and run blockchain applications across cloud services, across portals, and across underlying frameworks. It is a very open platform in itself. Gathered many excellent partners.
Since open source in 2017, FISCO BCOS has always adhered to the concept of open source, committed to building a distributed business infrastructure, and building a blockchain open source ecosystem with partners, which coincides with BSN in many concepts and ideas. This is also the value and concept foundation for everyone to come together in the end and make FISCO BCOS the first BSN to formally complete the adaptation of the bottom-level framework of the domestic alliance chain.
Carbon chain value: As a participant of the BSN network, what costs have you paid for the development of the BSN network? How to ensure that these efforts are sustainable?
Yuan Yuming , CEO of Huobi China : I have introduced to you that our support for BSN includes the support of the underlying service framework and the construction of upper-level application scenarios. These two pieces are also Huobi China's business, although some specific BSN may need to be done. Adaptation development work, but BSN provides good support, so the workload of adaptation development can be relatively controllable.
So in general, our cooperation with BSN is essentially in line with our own business direction and advantages, and the cost invested in it is also in line with our development plan. Sustainability will not be a problem.
In fact, our investment is very small compared to our future earnings. Our cooperation with BSN is also a very natural state. Both parties get what they need. We are win-win, so we are not unilaterally investing in BSN. , But naturally integrate our business with BSN. This is a very good cooperation model. This is also an important reason why I firmly believe that BSN will inevitably develop and grow.
Li He , CMO, Blockchain Team of WeBank : During the entire adaptation process, the biggest investment is technology. Our professional technical team supports and assists BSN to complete the entire adaptation process. During the public beta, many developers deployed applications on the BSN portal based on the FISCO BCOS underlying framework. The developers also gave us positive feedback and put forward some new functional requirements.
FISCO BCOS itself maintains high-frequency technical iterations, and nearly 30 versions have been released since open source. The FISCO BCOS open source community currently has more than 10,000 developers, thousands of institutions and units, and enterprises in the ecosystem have implemented hundreds of application cases based on FISCO BCOS. Among them, more than 80 applications that have been running in the production environment have developed into the largest and most Active domestic open source alliance chain ecosystem.
The rapid technological change and ecological activity are the guarantee for the continuity of all technical support and investment.
The underlying framework is an important part of BSN. FISCO BCOS continues to work hard to bring you more convenient and easy-to-use underlying technical support. While continuously polishing and improving existing functions, it will also develop new features based on developer feedback; follow-up plans Publish application components based on FISCO BCOS on the BSN portal to serve BSN developers.
We believe that technology should run for a long time in a variety of scenarios to verify reliability. At the same time, it should also ensure high-frequency continuous iteration of technology to maintain the vitality of open source technology.
Carbon chain value: We know that the institutions participating in the BSN network are actually making their own chains and launching their own blockchain services. So, what is the relationship between the company's own chain and the BSN network? Are you worried that the two will compete with each other?
Yuan Yuming , CEO of Huobi China : BSN is the underlying infrastructure and platform. The company's own chain or blockchain services can be integrated into BSN. For the chain, after integrating into the BSN, users can still build nodes through BSN and develop applications on the enterprise chain. Because the underlying BSN integrates cloud services and traffic services, users building nodes on BSN will reduce time and technical costs. . For blockchain application services, integration into BSN expands the application scenarios for BSN and expands customer acquisition channels for enterprise applications, which is also a win-win situation.
In addition, we provide BSN with the framework of the underlying chain, and we can also obtain income. All users who choose our chain need to pay part of the fee to us.
So the real competition is not between us and BSN, but between different chains, but this competition is inevitable and inevitable, and will not change because of the existence of BSN.
This is why everyone wants to join the big platform of BSN. Its appearance is not to suppress you, but to provide you with a platform and opportunity.
Li He , CMO, Blockchain Team of WeBank: Neither WeBank nor FISCO BCOS and BSN are in a relationship of ebb and flow, but a relationship of win-win cooperation and mutual achievement. The open nature of BSN itself has brought together many excellent partners on this platform. WeBank adheres to the concept of open source and openness to join in, and together build a complete blockchain ecosystem, so that the blockchain technology can be faster and more efficient. Land well and incubate more applications to serve the public.
Source of the article: Editorial Department of Carbon Chain Value
Original title of the article: How does the "Blockchain National Team" BSN work?
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