The first Ant Chain Developer Conference, Ant Chain released these big moves

The traditional industrial model is undergoing changes, and we are about to usher in a new wave of digital transformation of government and enterprises. A series of new infrastructures based on the Internet of Things, 5G networks, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, etc. are driving traditional enterprises to move towards collaboration, specialization, and intelligence.

It can be foreseen that in the era of digital economy, sharing, co-governance, win-win and collaborative links among the ecosystems of various industries are indispensable trends.

On June 23, the 2021 Ant Chain Developer Conference with the theme of "Linking More Than Just" was held in Hangzhou. Jiang Guofei, Vice President of Ant Group and President of the Intelligent Technology Business Group, Zhang Hui, Senior Director of Ant Group and Technical Leader of the Intelligent Technology Business Group, and Yan Ying, Technical Director of the Intelligent Technology Business Group of Ant Group, and other guests shared the latest progress of Ant Chain, looked forward to new technological trends, and discussed innovative industrial concepts with developers and partners. At the same time, a series of developer support policies including open technology platforms, open business ecosystems, and promotion of talent training and certification systems were launched at the conference, and the latest research results of Ant Chain were released, including Ant Chain's release of the blockchain high-speed communication network BTN, Ant Chain AIOT products, and Ant Chain talent standards.

The digitalization wave will move from enterprise digitalization to industrial collaboration digitalization

With the deployment of digital infrastructure such as cloud computing, the wave of digitalization is sweeping across all industries, and electronicization and digitalization are the core concerns of every company.

Jiang Guofei believes that in the past period of time, digitalization was more concentrated on individual enterprises and was distributed in a point-like manner. In the next wave of digitalization, enterprises will move from their own digitalization to the digitalization of industrial collaboration, completing the collaborative relationship from a single enterprise to a cross-institutional industrial value chain, and ultimately building an industrial collaborative network.

In the digital process of industrial collaboration, the key is to solve the problem of connection and trust in the supply and demand relationship. Ant Chain has always been committed to working with the ecosystem and using technology to build a trusted industrial collaboration network, connecting industries, technologies, and ecosystems.

"The name of Ant Chain is quite visionary. Although it started with blockchain, today its greater connotation is connection, not just blockchain. Look at the logo of Ant Chain. It shows a little ant working tirelessly to build roads in the industry, connecting industries, connecting trust, and promoting the development of the entire industry. In the past few years, Ant Chain has solved the trust problems in fifty or sixty various industries, and is also working very hard to build a local industrial collaboration network, just like a mushroom that grows slowly in circles from east to west."

Jiang Guofei said that the curtain of digitalization of industrial collaboration has just begun, and more roads will be opened in the future. Ant Chain will continue to invest in technological innovation, strive for original breakthroughs, strengthen the integration of cutting-edge technologies, integrate AI, IoT, cryptographic technologies, etc., and solve practical problems in the industry in a down-to-earth manner.

Three major support policies help developers innovate

The industrial collaboration network is an open and integrated network that connects thousands of industries and requires a wide range of partners and developers to build and share. Ant Chain is willing to build together with the entire ecosystem from all aspects of technology, business platform and talent, and share the dividends of the era of industrial collaboration and digitalization.

At this meeting, Jiang Guofei announced the launch of three major support policies to help developers innovate, including:

1) Open technology platform to enable a large number of developers to develop blockchain applications at low cost and jointly promote the digitalization of industrial collaboration.

2) Open up more business ecosystems so that partners and developers can quickly connect to industrial alliance chains such as copyright chains and smart cross-border trade platform Trusple.

3) Promote the talent development and certification system, and promote the large-scale development of talents in the entire industry through standards, training and certification.

At present, Ant Chain's open ecosystem has more than 330 partners, and has worked together with partners to create more than 30 innovative industry applications and solutions, continuously promoting blockchain and other technologies to create more value in the real economy.

Building the “Highway” of the Digital World

Following Jiang Guofei’s announcement of the launch of three major developer support policies, Yan Ying, technical director of the blockchain platform of Ant Group’s Intelligent Technology Business Group, released Ant Chain’s second “big move” - the blockchain high-speed communication network BTN.

BTN (Blockchain Transmission Network) is a communication technology solution for the construction of a global trusted digital network and is another important progress of Ant Chain in innovative technology.

BTN is the "highway" of the digital world. Through intelligent routing algorithms, efficient transmission protocols, transmission optimization algorithms, virtual dedicated line security and other technologies, it has built a high-speed communication network between multiple cities around the world, improving the stability, connectivity and real-time performance of the blockchain network. By encrypting both the transport layer and the application layer, it ensures that data is secure and not leaked on the transmission link, laying the foundation for large-scale interconnection in the trusted digital era.

BTN can increase the throughput of blockchain networks by 186%, reduce bandwidth costs by 80%, and reduce latency by 40%. In addition, this "highway" is equipped with an intelligent navigation system that automatically recommends the optimal communication route.

Yan Ying said that BTN is a brand-new communication solution that will better leverage the characteristics of blockchain, further promote industrial collaboration, and drive the early arrival of large-scale industrial collaboration.

At present, BTN has established "high-speed intersections" in cities such as Shanghai, Zhangjiakou, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, and Singapore, which means that blockchain platforms in China, Western Europe, and Southeast Asia can choose to access nearby and share the high-speed communication network services brought by BTN.

The module is “on-chain” as soon as it is powered on

The Internet of Everything requires a large amount of data from a trusted source. How to achieve a trusted link? Here, it is natural to use the integration technology of blockchain and IoT. Blockchain can solve the problem of data on the chain being tamper-proof and trustworthy, and connect the physical world through IoT to achieve trustworthy digitization of the physical world.

As early as three years ago, Ant Chain integrated blockchain and IOT technology and released the industry's first blockchain trusted law enforcement recorder. Through this integrated hardware and software device, it helped the Xihu District Procuratorate solve the problem of offline evidence collection.

Last year, Ant Chain released the Ant Chain all-in-one machine that combines software and hardware.

To date, more than one million on-chain trusted device assets have been deposited on Ant Chain.

In order to help customers and partners accelerate the process of industrial upgrading, Ant Chain launched a standardized solution of hardware and software integration at the edge and device ends based on the Ant Chain all-in-one machine at the conference. This is a more standardized and lightweight solution. This is also the third "big move" released by Ant Chain.

On the device side, Ant Chain released the Ant Chain trusted chain module AntChainMaaS (AntChain-Module-as-a-service), which provides services ranging from communication, positioning, traffic and trusted chain, covering a wide range of application scenarios from low- and medium-speed Internet of Things to high-speed Internet of Things.

AntChainMaaS proposes the concept of "power on and on the chain", provides rich interface resources to reuse the existing developer ecosystem, and greatly reduces the threshold for developers. At the same time, in terms of security, AntChainMaaS integrates many technical capabilities of Ant Chain in the security field, and further improves the security of the trusted on-chain device itself by combining multiple security technologies such as trusted secure compilation, silicon fingerprint trusted root, trusted execution environment, and source data signature.

Fibocom and Unisoc are the first partners of Ant Chain's MaaS trusted chain module. Ant Chain will integrate the industry's most advanced modules and IoT communication chip solutions for the above-mentioned companies in 4G and 5G scenarios.

At the edge, Ant Chain simultaneously released the Ant Chain Trusted Edge Computing Device. As a self-developed hardware, the Ant Chain Trusted Edge Computing Device provides a complete set of system security solutions, including secure boot, anti-tampering, trusted AI reasoning, device identity, and trusted chaining. The device also provides Ant Chain's self-developed trusted storage solution, which can store key data and some key operations generated on edge devices to ensure that they cannot be tampered with.

Yang Lei, IOT technical director of Ant Group’s Intelligent Technology Business Group, said that the integration of blockchain and AIOT technology is a key technology for building a full-stack trusted digital asset platform. The product released today is just a small step for Ant Chain to explore full-stack trust. We hope to deeply participate in the digital upgrade of the industry with our partners and jointly build a foundation for trusted and efficient collaboration in the real economy.