In recent years, the power of open source software has become increasingly prominent, and the rapid development of open source software and open source projects cannot be separated from the support of the open source foundation. From financial support, legal assistance to operational governance, community culture, etc., the open source foundation plays an increasingly important role. The more important the role. More and more excellent open source projects have begun to donate to open source foundations, and the foundation can quickly promote the healthy and mature development of open source projects.
In an era when the digital economy is booming and data has become an important factor of production, blockchain is not just a technology or a tool, but also a way of thinking and a business model. As one of the infrastructures of the value Internet, blockchain has played a huge role in promoting the vigorous development of the digital economy and deserves in-depth discussion.
In this article, we will focus on the XuperCore project, gain an in-depth understanding of the functions, application scenarios and development direction of the XuperCore project after project donation, and explore the impact of the open source foundation on open source projects and the impact of open source projects on the community and industry.
Reduce R&D costs
Promote the large-scale application of blockchain technology
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Please briefly introduce the XuperCore project and related background?
XuperCore is the core of XuperChain, a blockchain underlying technology independently developed by Baidu and with complete intellectual property rights. It has more than 620 blockchain core technology patents. With "high performance" and "open source" as its main design goals, XuperCore is committed to creating "more Faster, more versatile, and easier to use" the underlying blockchain technology.
In September 2020, Baidu donated XuperCore, the foundation of the entire blockchain underlying technology, to the Open Atom Open Source Foundation to provide professional developers and enterprises with convenient opportunities to apply blockchain technology, and to face the whole society with a new open source governance model.
At present, the XuperCore open source community has more than 50,000 users, and has successfully held nearly a hundred online live broadcasts, offline salons and other activities. The community is very active, and developers actively contribute documents and codes, creating a good open source technology atmosphere.
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What features does the XuperCore project have, and how can it help developers and the industry?
XuperCore focuses on the design of the blockchain operating system kernel, and its advanced dynamic kernel technology supports developers to define their own blockchain operating system distribution. Based on modularization and componentization, XuperCore achieves 100% plug-inization of core modules, provides module selection suitable for rich scenarios, and provides developers with sufficient module selection and customization space. At the same time, XuperCore is equipped with XuperStudio, a developer ecological tool set that integrates contract templates, development, compilation, debugging, use and maintenance, which can help developers quickly build blockchain applications.
Based on dynamic kernel technology, XuperCore implements freely scalable kernel core components and lightweight extended customized kernel engines without kernel code intrusion, meeting the needs of blockchain implementation for different scenarios, and different modules have rich technical options. .
The research and development cost of the underlying technology of blockchain is very high. XuperCore can provide the underlying technology of blockchain with excellent performance, rich components and strong ease of use for the vast number of developers and enterprises that lack technology and capital accumulation, and jointly build an ecological community to It will greatly promote the large-scale application of blockchain technology in the industry.
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XuperCore is a project incubated by the Open Atom Open Source Foundation. Why did XuperCore choose to develop in an open source model?
Open source software has profoundly affected the development of the Internet industry, changed the ecological chain of software and hardware, and promoted the rapid development of the industry. Throughout the history of blockchain development, projects such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Fabric have all developed based on open source code. Blockchain relies on open source to survive. Only open code can ensure security, transparency, openness, traceability, non-tampering and other capabilities.
Open source is also an important means to promote technological innovation and application implementation. The super chain core XuperCore can help enterprises and developers define their own chains more flexibly and efficiently based on business scenarios. By adopting an open source approach, we can link more ecological partners, work together, and unleash the huge technological potential of blockchain.
In addition, open source is Baidu's technical heritage. Baidu has been adhering to technological innovation in the past two decades, actively embracing open source, giving back its accumulated technical experience to the society, and actively promoting the construction of domestic open source ecosystem with its own technical advantages. Promote the development of China’s digital economy. Over the years, Baidu has always adhered to its technological beliefs, maintained a R&D investment ratio of more than 15%, and achieved outstanding results in the industry. Baidu is also a platinum donor of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation. XuperCore, as the foundation's first donation project, actively assumes social responsibility and cultivates blockchain talents through open source communities, schools, lectures, etc., and continuously injects innovative vitality into the development of digital society.
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Why donate the XuperCore project to the Open Atom Open Source Foundation?
Blockchain is a comprehensive subject that includes knowledge in different fields. Based on its years of technology accumulation, Baidu participated in the preparatory work of the foundation and initially outlined the technical framework of the blockchain ecosystem, laying the foundation for the subsequent introduction of blockchain-related open source. The project provides a reference. Under such an opportunity, Baidu launched the XuperCore open source working group.
At present, many excellent open source projects have been incubated by foreign open source foundations such as Apache. The Open Atomic Open Source Foundation is my country's first open source foundation. It adheres to the vision of "prosperous open source industry and shared open source value" and clearly states that it is "developer-oriented". It is positioned as an open source project incubation platform and a science and technology public welfare service organization, and is committed to enhancing my country's contribution to the global open source cause. We believe that on such a healthy and dynamic platform, more excellent projects will take root and thrive.
At the same time, the foundation also carried out public welfare projects such as the "Open Atomic School Source Tour", "2023 Open Source and Information Consumption Competition-The First Open Atomic Open Source Competition", "Source Translation Knowledge", "Source Law" and "Heart to the Source", and is committed to widespread dissemination Open source culture, popularize open source knowledge, build an open source talent training system, and provide a platform for open source participants to share and communicate.
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What progress has the XuperCore project made since donating to the foundation?
• In terms of technology application and implementation , XuperCore actively explores the innovative integration of blockchain with advanced technologies such as privacy computing, artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things, and builds a comprehensive and diversified range from basic technology, BaaS, SaaS to application scenarios. Product Matrix, launching standardized products such as electronic signing, trusted certificate storage, trusted cross-chain, trusted computing, open network, trusted digital identity, digital commodity registration platform, etc., in e-government, smart finance, industrial manufacturing, energy and power, Application scenarios have been implemented in more than 30 fields such as transportation, smart medical care, culture, tourism and creativity. Partners and customers are located at home and abroad, and the number of service companies exceeds thousands.
• In terms of developer community construction , the project established the XuperCore open source working group and established an open source community that integrates open source communities, open source forums, and open source official websites. It has 50,000+ users, more than 20,000 core developers, and has organized many Open source summit blockchain sub-forum. In terms of major open source indicators, XuperCore has 1,700+ stars on GitHub. From 2022 to March 2023, there were 147 new commits, 157 new issues, 1 new warehouse, and 8 main version iterations. In addition, XuperCore also adopts the method of community consultation and joint construction to jointly build projects such as smart contract development tool XuperIDE, blockchain browser XuperScan, and open source wallets to supplement its ecological technology product capabilities.
• In terms of industry-university-research education ecology , the XuperCore open source project has reached blockchain talent training cooperation with more than 20 first-class universities, exported 2 blockchain textbooks, multiple sets of blockchain courses, and taught at Fudan University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Tianjin University , University of Science and Technology of China and other universities have implemented more than 10 Ministry of Education collaborative education cooperation projects to promote blockchain technology in universities and provide blockchain talents for the industry.
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Make trusted links more convenient
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What are the plans for the XuperCore project in the next few years?
From the perspective of blockchain, it is an inevitable trend for industry development to put product data and social data into the blockchain and realize the interconnection of the metaverse in the future. XuperCore hopes to achieve the goal of using blockchain to "make trusted links more convenient" and to create a next-generation value Internet interconnected ecosystem using open source, sharing and co-construction methods to create greater social value.