The mainnet has been launched. What are Ant’s next plans?

In the past two years, the discussion about blockchain has gradually escalated. People have been familiar with the concept and theory of blockchain, so the implementation of projects and large-scale commercial applications have become the focus. Antminer is an asset digitization system based on blockchain technology. It went online on the mainnet on October 17. We can foresee that with the development of the Antminer ecosystem and technological innovation, the era of digital assets is coming.

Antminer was fully launched in the early morning of October 17th, and the main network has been running smoothly so far. Among the many application areas of blockchain, the application of digital assets is one of the most popular and important directions, and Antminer uses electronic contracts to record the flow of digital assets. Anyone can digitally register their assets in Antminer. The most typical application is that start-ups can use Antminer to manage their shares after crowdfunding.

BiQuShi and ZhuangYou (SaiTan Manor) will be the first project partners to use Antminer to explore digital rights confirmation. Among them, BiQuShi is a project incubated by the domestic digital currency community and developed through standard equity financing methods. Since the participants in crowdfunding need liquidity for equity exit, the traditional registration method consumes the time and energy of the project party, and each flow requires repeated operations. BiQuShi will gradually use the Antminer blockchain to realize efficient digital rights confirmation of its equity.

Looking back, the Ant team has released the Ant white paper and consensus algorithm white paper, and updated the project code in real time on GitHub. With the efforts of the Ant team and the help of the Ant community, the development of the Ant blockchain was successfully completed.

The operation of the Antminer mainnet means that Antminer has gone from idea to plan, from plan to prototype, and from prototype to the first stable state. Da Hongfei, founder of Antminer, said affectionately:

"I am often asked why it is called the 'main network' instead of the official version. The answer is that Ant Financial will iterate quickly, introduce new products, absorb and develop cutting-edge blockchain technologies. Therefore, technically, Ant Financial will always be in the process of development, always updating yesterday's 'official'."

The launch of the mainnet is a milestone and also a starting point. In terms of business and the market, the AntChain team is actively contacting enterprises and institutions from all walks of life to use AntChain. At the same time, the ecosystem based on AntChain is also being gradually established. For example, AntChain's blockchain browser (http://antcha.in) comes from community developers.

While innovating in technology, Ant Financial is also developing a more complete and open ecosystem in multiple fields. We believe that through Ant Financial’s digital rights confirmation, all types of digital assets will be everywhere in the future and flow as freely as water.