Recently, in the 2023 Season 1 Community Task Challenge, many developers contributed a wealth of code and tutorials to the FISCO BCOS open source project and peripheral components. Among them, as a member of the Open Source Working Group of the Golden Chain Alliance, the Digital Trust Center team of the Science and Technology Development Department of Digital Guangdong Network Construction Co., Ltd. participated in the joint construction.
Digital Guangdong Network Construction Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Digital Guangdong Company"), as the construction and operation center of digital government in Guangdong Province and a secondary organization of China Electronics, adheres to the positioning of digital government as public welfare, basic, platform and guarantee, and focuses on the public welfare of digital government. Service, infrastructure, platform construction, security protection and other main responsibilities and main businesses have built a provincial and municipal integrated government cloud platform, a network sharing platform and a public support platform, and continue to consolidate the foundation of digital government. A series of important achievements in digital government reform and construction, such as Shangtong, Yuezhengyi, Guangdong Government Service Network, "One Network Management" Guangdong Zhihui Platform, and Guangdong Fairness, fully support Guangdong's digital government reform and construction. It is at the forefront of the country and is improving people's livelihood. It has played an important role in providing services, optimizing the business environment, and enhancing the modernization of government governance capabilities, and has become the most trustworthy and entrusted backbone in the field of digital government reform and construction in the province.
In this co-construction, Digital Guangdong Company improved and enriched the relevant functions of the two open source projects, the middleware platform WeBASE and the distributed digital identity solution WeIdentity, to improve the development efficiency of users and optimize the user experience in many aspects.
WeBASE and WeIdentity have a close business relationship with Digital Guangdong. Based on the results and experience of this joint construction, they can be widely used in the field of digital government affairs. For example, through blockchain technology, digital identities controlled and managed by users can be realized, data ownership can be returned to users, and privacy issues can be fundamentally solved; user digital identity certificates can be independently applied for and verified, and cross-regional identity mutual trust can be innovated. recognition mechanism. In the field of data element circulation, through the issuance and mutual recognition of distributed digital identities, the independent controllable and credible flow of user data is ensured, the cost of cross-border identity verification is reduced, the efficiency of data element circulation is improved, and the integration of the digital bay area is promoted.
In the process of actively embracing open source, what experiences and insights has Digital Guangdong acquired? What are the plans and achievements in terms of application? Taking this opportunity, the community interviewed the team members who participated in this co-construction, hoping to bring inspiration to developers.
Open source co-construction to create a domestic independent and controllable blockchain infrastructure
1. What drives Digital Guangdong to participate in the joint construction of the FISCO BCOS open source ecosystem?
Building a digital identity system with high resilience, high security, supervision and implementation, and building a trusted identity system in cyberspace with credible identity, security and friendliness, traceable behavior, and accessible supervision are the key to building a digital trust system and promoting the development of digital trust. practical measures. With the development and wide application of blockchain technology, blockchain technology has brought new ways to realize trusted digital identities. This year, under the strategic guidance of China Electronics to build the core strategic technological strength of the network information business, Digital Guangdong Company continued to consolidate the construction of basic, public, and supporting platforms, and introduced blockchain technology as an integral part of the digital trust infrastructure. However, the concept of FISCO BCOS open source ecology and the positioning of Digital Guangdong digital trust system products are more consistent. It is hoped that by participating in the open source co-construction of FISCO BCOS, we can create a domestically independent and controllable blockchain infrastructure.
Seizing opportunities, innovation and self-improvement are the pursuit of the Digital Guangdong team. Facing the proposition of the era of scientific and technological innovation, the Digital Guangdong team seized the opportunity of digital China construction, relied on China Electronics to build the development opportunity of the core strategic scientific and technological strength of the national network information industry, and devoted itself to key core technology research. Create an integrated development environment, data security comprehensive solutions and other aspects of continuous breakthroughs, contribute to the accelerated realization of high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, compose the song of youth in the new era in the determined struggle, and let the youth dream fly in the vivid practice of realizing the Chinese dream.
2. Please briefly introduce the functions contributed by the Digital Guangdong team this time, and what problems can it solve for developers?
The team members participating in the co-construction this time are from the Digital Trust Center R&D team of the Science and Technology Development Department of Digital Guangdong Company. The department focuses on technological self-reliance and high-quality development, and the team participates in the construction of a digital trust system for digital identity authentication. Therefore, this contribution mainly focuses on blockchain deployment, operation and maintenance management functions, and blockchain-based digital identity application functions.
This contribution enriches the related functions of WeBASE and WeIdentity, which can help developers quickly grasp the use of digital identity capabilities, business logic design based on digital identity certificates, and provide reference implementations for issuing digital identity certificates. At the same time, by participating in the improvement and revision of relevant technical documents, it helps developers reduce the cost of learning time and lower the threshold for using components.
3. Why did you choose to develop functions related to WeBASE and WeIdentity?
Since the team involves business infrastructure services such as blockchain certificate storage and digital identity mutual recognition in digital trust, the high performance and complete ecology of the blockchain are the main points that the team is very concerned about. FISCO BCOS provides application support based on blockchain deployment, chain governance, contract warehouse, digital identity, privacy computing, etc., and provides many solutions and basic service capabilities for actual business scenarios. The team starts with WeBASE, WeIdentity, which are currently closely related to business Start exploring.
The non-tamperable, secure, and traceable features of the blockchain can provide blockchain certificate storage services in scenarios such as digital government identification and authentication, digital signatures, and digital asset management. WeBASE provides basic services such as blockchain visual operation and maintenance management, data viewing, private key management, service monitoring, and contract development support, which can help developers quickly integrate into actual business development and reduce learning costs such as blockchain deployment and tuning. Based on the basic capabilities of the blockchain, blockchain application services can be built to help the depository platform realize the storage of electronic data on the chain, and strengthen the platform's verifiable and traceable trust infrastructure.
Guangdong is accelerating the construction of a digital bay area in an all-round way. The Greater Bay Area is set against the background of "one country, two systems". There are large institutional differences among Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao. The process of integration is inseparable from the cross-border exchange of data elements. Digital identity is the foundation of digital governance, and the construction of a blockchain-based digital identity authentication and mutual recognition system is an important cornerstone. WeIdentity implements a set of distributed multi-center identity management that complies with the W3C DID international specification, as well as a standardized and verifiable data exchange solution, which can quickly build a digital identity mutual recognition infrastructure and accelerate the business in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao cross-border mutual recognition scenarios Explore and verify.
Deep integration, exploring multiple application scenarios based on blockchain open source technology
4. In the process of participating in the joint construction, what kind of gains and insights did the team members have?
For the innovative intellectual collaboration model of open source co-construction, we have actively prepared with the community in terms of manpower, process, and collaboration, and realized efficient distributed cooperation, including organizing remote technical exchange meetings, establishing special communication groups, and optimizing open source Code warehouse management process, etc. Through this co-construction, the team has a deeper understanding of the open source community, and has also improved the collaborative efficiency and basic capabilities of co-construction of open source projects, laying a good foundation for subsequent community cooperation.
In this co-construction, through in-depth communication with the core developers of the community, while completing code development and submitting the PR (Pull Request) of the open source code warehouse, the team members also jointly optimized the structure of WeIdentity and other projects to make them more Clear and smooth. In addition, because some students will follow up the task development at night, the communication with the core developers of the community sometimes happens late at night. Even so, the two parties still maintained an agile and efficient response speed, which enabled the smooth progress of the joint construction work. We are deeply touched by these, and we will talk about it in every internal communication meeting, and encourage other colleagues in the team to participate in the joint construction.
5. What other plans does Digital Guangdong have in co-constructing the FISCO BCOS open source ecosystem?
Digital trust has become the cornerstone of healthy economic development and social harmony, security and stability. It plays a vital role in the digital economy, digital society, and digital China, empowering the high-quality development of all industries. In the next step, the Digital Guangdong team will use domestic cryptography as the cornerstone, digital identity as the core, and blockchain as a means to innovate national secret applications such as electronic signatures, fingerprint mice, and national secret browsers, explore and build a trust foundation for Digital Guangdong, and ensure online security. Business behavior is safe and reliable, ensuring stable and reliable operation of infrastructure, protecting personal privacy and data security, and building a trustworthy digital world with CA institutions, encryption vendors, security vendors and other ecology.
Therefore, the Digital Guangdong team will propose a deeply integrated planning idea for the joint construction of the FISCO BCOS open source ecosystem, actively participate in the joint construction of related functions, and effectively feedback the results of problem solving to the community while building and training the technical team.
6. In which fields is Digital Guangdong Company applying or planning to apply blockchain?
At present, Digital Guangdong Company is cooperating with WeBank to explore multiple application scenarios based on blockchain open source technology, including Xinchuang adaptation services, integration into CEC-IDE, and providing domestic independent and controllable services for digital government ecological partners. WeBank provides full-stack blockchain open source technology support for the above projects.
Among them, CEC-IDE is an integrated development environment tool that is independently controllable, safe and reliable, supports multi-environment and multi-language, and flexibly expands. Through the construction of an open plug-in market, actively guide the industry ecology to participate in the construction, accelerate the iteration of technology and applications, improve the innovation and entrepreneurship ecology, and form an application pattern that the government, the market, and the society jointly build and share. CEC-IDE focuses on the construction of digital government, with the mission of "doing a good job as an incubator for innovative applications of digital government and a master of technology management", and solves the "stuck neck" problem of core technologies and key links in the process of digital government application construction.
The code of FISCO BCOS is completely open source and free
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