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As the name suggests, blockchain is composed of block and chain. It is a new application mode of computer technology such as distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm and so on. It is a kind of chain data structure that combines data blocks in order according to the time sequence, and it is a secure and reliable distributed account book that can not be tampered with and forged by means of cryptographyin 2008, in his paper bitcoin: a peer-to-peer e-cash system published by Nakamoto, he first proposed the idea of blockchain and encrypted digital currency. Starting from bitcoin, blockchain has become the underlying technology of various digital currencies
Second, the working principle of blockchain:1. The basic concepts include: (1) transaction: one operation will change the account status once, such as adding a record 2) Block: records the transaction and status data within a specified time, which is a consensus and preservation of the current account status 3) Chain: it is composed of a series of blocks in chronological order, which is the log record of the whole state change. If you understand the working concept of blockchain, it is not difficult to understand its working principle. Suppose there is a distributed data logbook, which can only be added, not deleted or changed. Its structure is a linear chain formed by a series of "blocks" (which is also the source of the name of "blockchain"), and new data must be put into a new block to be added, The maintenance node can propose a new block, but it must go through a certain consensus mechanism to reach an agreement on the final selected block
2. Take bitcoin as an example to see the working principle of blockchain
the block of bitcoin is divided into block head and block body
Core advantages and characteristics of blockchain1. The verification, accounting, storage, maintenance and transmission of decentralized blockchain data are all based on distributed system structure. There is no centralized hardware or management organization, and the rights and obligations of any node are equal, The data blocks in the system are jointly maintained by the nodes with maintenance function in the whole system. 2. The open and transparent system is open. In addition to the private information of all parties to the transaction is encrypted, the data of the blockchain is open to all. Anyone can query the blockchain data and develop related applications through the open interface, so the information of the whole system is highly transparent. 3. Security blockchain uses consensus based specifications and Protocols (such as a set of open and transparent algorithms) to enable all nodes in the whole system to exchange data freely and safely in a de trusted environment, so that the trust in "people" is changed into the trust in machines, and any human intervention does not work. 4. Information cannot be tampered with. Once the information is verified and added to the blockchain, it will be stored permanently. Unless more than 51% (almost impossible) nodes in the system can be controlled at the same time, the modification of the database on a single node is invalid. Therefore, the data stability and reliability of the blockchain are extremely high. 5. Anonymity because the exchange between nodes follows a fixed algorithm, and its data interaction does not need trust (the program rules in the blockchain will judge whether the activity is effective or not). Therefore, the counterparties do not need to let the counterparties generate their own trust by disclosing their identities, which is very helpful for credit accumulation
At present, the most popular classification of blockchain is to divide blockchain into public blockchain, private blockchain and consortium blockchain according to different participants1. Public chain: anyone can participate in the use and maintenance, and can obtain the effective confirmation of the blockchain. Public chain is the earliest blockchain and the most widely used blockchain at present, such as bitcoin blockchain. The information is completely public
if the licensing mechanism is introced, it includes private chain and alliance chain. 2. Private chain: a company or indivial only uses the blockchain technology, enjoys the exclusive write permission of the blockchain, and does not disclose the information. At present, conservative giants (traditional finance) want to experiment with private blockchain, and the application procts of private blockchain are still groping. 3. Alliance chain: it is a blockchain between the public chain and the existing chain, which is jointly controlled by multiple organizations. The use of the chain is managed with authority, which can be controlled by the manager, and also open to others according to the manager's wishes. In addition, according to the different use scenarios and purposes of blockchain, it can be divided into currency chain for the purpose of digital currency, property chain for the purpose of recording property rights, and crowdfunding chain for the purpose of crowdfunding
On May 28, Ma Huateng, CEO of Tencent, proposed the anti-counterfeiting method based on cloud integrated blockchain technology, which is far more efficient than traditional anti-counterfeiting methods. The future anti-counterfeiting verification scenario may only require users to use their mobile phones for simple scanning, and a large number of complete information based on different dimensions can be obtainedtake Maotai liquor as an example:
distillery address, proction workshop, operation staff, inspector, delivery time, transportation vehicle information and driver information,
liquor year, raw material source, raw material supplier, storage warehouse number, raw material transportation vehicle and driver information,
all information can be accurately traced, permanently recorded and tampered with
the above information can be easily verified
2. Food safety issues as early as last November, Wal Mart has cooperated with IBM to track the source of food by using blockchain technology, so as to ensure the safety of food and increase the circulation of food to rece costs. For Wal Mart and other large supermarkets, it took a few days to investigate the source of problem food, After using this technology, only one item of proct information is needed to achieve accurate traceability, and important information such as food origin, inspector, supplier, logistics and transportation can quickly find problems in a few minutes. Currently, procts tracked by blockchain include packaging procts from the United States and pork from China
3. Information security
blockchain technology is promoting an information security technology revolution. (1) identity protection PKI is a common public key encryption technology in e-mail, message application, website and other communication applications. However, since the implementation of most PKI, the centralized trusted third party certification authority (CA) is used to issue, activate and store user certificates. Hackers can attack PKI to fake user identity or crack encrypted information
certcoin is the first PKI implementation of blockchain, which comes from MIT, removes the centralized authentication center, and uses blockchain as a distributed ledger for domain name and public key
pomcor company: blockchain PKI implementation path: keep the authentication center, and use blockchain to store the hash value of issued and activated certificates. Users can verify the authenticity of certificates through decentralized and transparent sources, and can also improve the network access performance through local authentication of secret key and signature based on blockchain
(2) data integrity protection
guardtime developed a secret key free signature architecture (Ksi) based on blockchain technology to replace the secret key based data authentication technology. Ksi stores the hash table of the original data and files on the blockchain, runs the hash algorithm to verify other copies, and compares the results with the data stored in the blockchain. Any data tampering will be found quickly because the original hash table is stored in millions of nodes
(3) key infrastructure protection
the "Achilles heel" of the Internet, DDoS has entered the TB era, DDoS is still the simplest weapon for hackers to bring down the big target with low cost, DNS service is the primary target for hackers to carry out large-scale destruction, but blockchain technology is expected to fundamentally solve the problem
The distributed storage ofblockchain makes hacker attacks lose focus. Nebulis is developing a distributed DNS system, which uses Ethereum blockchain and interstellar Internet file system (IPFs, the distributed substitute of HTTP) to register and resolve domain names. The biggest weakness of DNS is caching, which makes DDoS attacks possible. It is also the bane of the centralized government's censorship of social networks and manipulation of DNS registration. A highly transparent and distributed DNS system can effectively prevent any entity, including the government, from arbitrarily manipulating records
(1) digital currency: improve the convenience of currency issuance and use, such as bitcoin and Ethernet in foreign countries, and guorenbao in Chinafrom the use of physical transactions, to physical currency and credit currency, and then to the rise of bitcoin network, more and more people are aware of the distributed ledger blockchain technology behind it, and graally apply it in many scenarios other than digital currency
(2) cross border payment and settlement: realize point-to-point transaction, rece intermediate fees
transfer and payment. At present, the most mature application of blockchain technology is payment and transfer. Blockchain technology can avoid complicated systems, save the process of inter-bank reconciliation and review, and accelerate the settlement speed; Virtual currency can rece transaction costs without the intervention of clearing house. Different countries have different clearing proceres. It takes two or three days for a single remittance to arrive, which is inefficient and accounts for a large proportion of funds in transit. No longer through the third party, through the blockchain technology to form point-to-point payment. By eliminating the link of the third-party institutions, we can make full day payment, real-time payment, withdraw cash quickly and rece the hidden cost, which helps to avoid the capital risk. It is timely and convenient
(3) bills and supply chain financial business: rece human intervention, rece costs and operational risksvalue transfer between point-to-point, control and verify physical bills or central system; Intermediaries will be eliminated and human intervention reced. With the improvement of efficiency, financing channels are more unblocked, risks are lower, and multiple parties benefit
(4) securities issuance and Trading: realize quasi real-time asset transfer, accelerate the speed of transaction clearing
the application of blockchain technology can make the process of securities trading more concise, transparent and fast, rece the plication of IT system, and improve the efficiency of market operation. For stocks, blockchain can eliminate paper and pen or electronic form records, rece human errors in trading, and improve the transparency and traceability of trading platform. Citigroup and Nasdaq cooperate to promote blockchain applications
(5) customer credit investigation and anti fraud: rece the cost of legal compliance, prevent financial crimes
the customer information and transaction records recorded in the blockchain help banks identify abnormal transactions and effectively prevent fraud. The technical characteristics of blockchain can change the existing credit reference system, and store the data of customers with bad records in the blockchain when the bank concts "know your customer" (KYC)
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There is no doubt that blockchain has development prospects, and the necessary condition for development prospects is to enter the mainstream market
North America blockchain infrastructure the oan (former aion network) founder and CEO Matt spoke published an article entitled "in order to successfully enter the mainstream market, blockchain projects must" eat dog food "in Forbes on July 24, in which Matt mentioned his views on how blockchain should enter the mainstream market - & quot; Eat dog food
in the science and technology circle, there is a jargon called & quot; Eat dog food Dogfood (also known as eating your own dog food) refers to companies using their own procts and becoming users of their own procts. Many high growth companies (such as Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, apple, Netflix and Google) also test their procts by "eating dog food" or help build credibility“ "Eat dog food" is often used to find and fix bugs, but it has another value: to create reliable use cases for the company's procts
this is worth learning from blockchain projects, because blockchain projects often hold & quot; Once built, they (users) will come naturally, which habitually leaves the responsibility of creating new and interesting blockchain applications to a third party
this attitude is very common, even the well-known blockchain summit consensus 2019 also held a conference entitled & quot; Once built, they (users) will naturally come: to build a global blockchain Center & quot; To discuss how governments around the world can make efforts to attract blockchain projects while balancing regulatory, investment and innovation needs
to be fair, this strategy may be effective for blockchains that only focus on people in the currency circle. For the security token, especially for the exchange represented by the transaction, it makes more sense - "supply creates demand" is the usual idea here, especially considering that the realization of these transactions requires the construction of complex infrastructure
in contrast, "eat dog food" is more likely to be adopted by blockchain project developers who seek mainstream audiences (such as those in financial instry, manufacturing and supply chain, identity management, etc.). If blockchain technology wants to enter these mainstream fields, blockchain companies must first "eat dog food". This can not only clearly prove that blockchain technology is feasible outside the coin circle, but also highlight that blockchain can not only optimize existing use cases, but also create new use cases
and the oan team has been adhering to this concept, and relying on the oan and aion's technology stack built over the years, it has developed a financial technology platform moves for independent workers
Matt said that in the development and development of moves, the team hopes that the relevant functions of the OAN blockchain network can be brought into full play, so it will focus on the following three aspects:
1. How to use the OAN blockchain network to improve the credit efficiency of the proct there are two main considerations to improve credit efficiency: 1) can we use the mechanism of the defi market to rece the cost of capital; 2) Can the blockchain technology be used to increase the external trust in the credit process of moves. Here, moves will form a mechanism of "pooling wisdom", so that everyone can contribute to recing credit risk and increasing the credibility of credit process, and may even develop a micro guarantee mechanism in the future. Therefore, users will be able to participate in the market established by the platform as borrowers, lenders or guarantors
specifically, by connecting moves with the oan network, and with the help of digital asset aion, a relationship of interest consistency is formed between procts and users, so that users can personally experience the success of moves procts and directly participate in the oan, a blockchain network supporting moves
3. How to create the first open system of financial reputation data with moves
this open system may become a substitute for traditional credit scores or related mechanisms. Over the years, banks and financial institutions have been using Equifax, Fico or other similar institutions' scores as risk indicators, and the moves team believes that the procts they are building will be a good start - the beginning of a more perfect and modern financial reputation system. This is a long-term goal
moves supports North American mainstream carpooling, take out and other casual work economic platforms, and will be the flagship open application developed by the oan on its blockchain network. In June, moves expanded its operations from Ontario to Alberta and British Columbia into western Canada
all the initiatives of the oan team adhere to the spirit of "eating dog food" and strive to make blockchain technology enter the mainstream market as soon as possible. Blockchain is not for the minority, but for the mainstream. In addition to the oan team, many projects and institutions in the blockchain instry are also aiming at this goal. Can you say that such an excellent and targeted blockchain has no development prospects
in the early stage of the development of the blockchain instry, many enterprises and institutions formed a blockchain alliance to share the research results of blockchain technology and seek wider application of blockchain technology
in the past two years, blockchain alliances have emerged. As of July 2017, there are R3 composed of more than 40 international banks, hyperledger initiated by Linux foundation, Zhongguancun blockchain Instry Alliance located in the core hinterland of China's Internet, China ledger alliance jointly initiated by 11 institutions, gold chain alliance jointly established by 25 financial institutions, and so on Russia's blockchain alliance, known as "Russian version R3", seeks to combine with micro finance, Qianhai international blockchain ecosphere alliance led by Shenzhen Qianhai administration, and Lujiazui blockchain Financial Development Alliance in Lujiazui
many organizations and talents join to promote the vigorous development of blockchain.
the alliance is jointly sponsored by 24 enterprises, institutions, universities, instry media and associations, including Shenzhen Branch of China Quality Certification Center, Tencent, Cisco, CIMC, Zhongan technology, Neusoft group, Shenzhen IOT Media Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Institute of standards and technology, Shenzhen University blockchain technology research center, and is committed to focusing on promoting blockchain technology research Achievements transformation, application promotion and instrial development
recently, blockchain technology has been highly affirmed by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. The stock prices of listed companies involved in the concept of blockchain have skyrocketed, and the market is hot. It is also hotly discussed that blockchain has been "turned into a regular" by the state, so the future prospects are bound to be bright
now, the year is coming to an end, and 2019 will come to an end. One year later, what progress has Shenzhen blockchain instry alliance made
let's take a look at the progress of the following four instry alliance members first< At the original founding meeting, Tencent was selected as the chairman of Shenzhen blockchain instry alliance, and Cai Yige, general manager of Tencent blockchain business, served as the chairman of the alliance
now, Cai Yige will be the general manager of Tencent virtual bank blockchain
it is reported that at the recent "2019 world blockchain conference · Wuzhen", Cai Yige disclosed that Tencent has obtained the virtual banking license granted by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and is preparing the virtual banking blockchain project. At present, Tencent has digital asset practice in supply chain finance and improving asset and capital allocation efficiency
from the general manager of blockchain business to the general manager of virtual bank blockchain, the stage will naturally be broader< In 2019, as the representative of blockchain enterprises, Cisco participated in the preparation of national standards for blockchain
on April 3, 2019, China Institute of Electronic Technology Standardization (hereinafter referred to as the Institute) organized experts to successfully hold the first working group meeting of the national standard 2019 of "information technology blockchain and distributed ledger technology reference architecture" in Shanghai
experts from SAC / TC 180 national financial standardization technical committee and 36 domestic enterprises including Cisco, Internet, Tencent, Jingdong and Ping An of China were invited to attend the meeting
this meeting clarified the national standard content of reference architecture, and defined the next step of preparation plan
Mo Bing and Wei Songjie, as the national standard setters of the reference architecture, concted in-depth research and Discussion on terms, user view, function view and system view related to blockchain technology, and exchanged the latest progress of blockchain standardization at home and abroad
at the business level, Cisco insists on promoting the technology research and development of "Internet of things + blockchain", invests a lot of funds in the research and development of application solutions and supporting chips, and promotes the improvement of the core proct system
for example, accelerate the improvement of RFID chip procts, and focus on the research and development of low-cost and high-performance UHF Passive RFID chip, high-performance NFC + UHF al band tag chip, and UHF RFID reader chip and mole
within one year, we cooperated with Neusoft, Shougang, Laofengxiang and other listed companies to provide them with corresponding "Internet of things + blockchain" technology solutions
in the future, we will continue to speed up the promotion and implementation of blockchain plus Internet of things system solutions, and improve and optimize the terminal equipment and software platform for anti-counterfeiting, traceability, warehouse inventory, smart retail, data acquisition and other systems
so far, 69 patents related to "Internet of things + blockchain" have been submitted, 47 invention patents, and the rest are utility models and layout designs
as the technical supporter of Walton chain, Cisco tries to go further on the road of combining hardware with software
the company's key proct is the combination of self-developed RFID chip and Walton chain (commercial bottom public chain), which uses the technology features of blockchain chain, such as non tampering and full process traceability, to serve the scene data collection and traceability applications in food, clothing, retail, power grid equipment, art and other instries, Form a standardized comprehensive solution for data collection, certification and traceability of various instries< Zhongan Information Technology Services Co., Ltd.
as the first Internet insurance company that hopes to reshape the insurance value chain through science and technology, Zhongan has set up a blockchain team since 2015 to reserve core technology and explore the deep integration of blockchain technology and instrial innovation. Up to now, it has submitted 129 blockchain related patents, 112 of which can be checked publicly
"in the future, Zhongan blockchain will focus more on the exploration of insurance. Sooner or later, blockchain and smart contract will have a significant impact on insurance. We have started to penetrate from simple and marginal business. From the early health insurance policy deposit, to the claim efficiency of smart contract, and then to the policy token, we hope to use technological innovation to release manpower, improve efficiency, rece transaction friction and loss between collaborations, and create a real new insurance. " Zhongan technology CTO Li Xuefeng said recently
in 2019, Zhongan science and technology will focus on supply chain finance. In view of the long-standing bottlenecks of supply chain finance, such as fraud risk, information island, difficult credit transmission and high performance risk, Zhongan science and technology will launch the "Zhongan chain" to build a safe and reliable supply chain financial ecosystem with enterprises in the "double chain" mode of block chain and supply chain
at present, the safety chain of many enterprises has been graally implemented in the supply chain scenarios of automobile manufacturing, logistics, construction, e-commerce and medical drugs, covering the online receivables transfer, financing, management and settlement needs of core enterprises and their upstream suppliers< As one of the largest IT solutions and service providers in China, Neusoft Group Co., Ltd., the vice chairman unit, is increasing investment, strengthening strategic deployment in the field of blockchain technology and expanding its business
by using aiguille BCP peak series blockchain technology application platform, the blockchain and the current mode of enterprises are integrated and innovated
it is reported that as a new computer application technology and basic technology, Neusoft group has started tracking and pre judging since the beginning of 2016, strengthened ecological cooperation, combined with the company's main business to achieve more scenario applications, provided more solutions for users, and realized the real implementation of blockchain technology
in the application of blockchain technology, Neusoft group mainly uses application scenarios to drive the selection of technical routes and the establishment of cooperation ecology. In February 2018, Neusoft group developed a blockchain based medical data sharing platform (carevault)
in 2019, Neusoft has developed a licensed drug and equipment traceability management platform for Hainan Bo'ao Lecheng International Medical Tourism pioneer zone
the platform is a set of licensed drug and equipment traceability management platform supported by electronic signature, block chain, Internet of things, GIS and visualization technology, which is built in the international medical tourism pilot zone of Hainan Bo'ao Lecheng. It has the functions of online electronic approval, traceability supervision and adverse reaction monitoring of licensed drugs and medical devices, To provide information support and reasonable and effective supervision means for the whole process traceability supervision business of licensed drugs and equipment
summary:
there is a long way to go for the development of blockchain technology landing scenarios. How to enable the instry to become a standardized technical infrastructure needs long-term exploration and running in.
blockchain technology does not rely on additional third-party management institutions or hardware facilities, and there is no central control. In addition to the self-contained blockchain itself, each node realizes information self verification, transmission and management through distributed accounting and storage. Decentralization is the most prominent and essential feature of blockchain< Second, openness:
the foundation of blockchain technology is open source. In addition to the private information of all parties to the transaction is encrypted, the data of blockchain is open to all. Anyone can query blockchain data and develop related applications through the open interface, so the information of the whole system is highly transparent< Third, independence:
based on consensus specifications and Protocols (similar to various mathematical algorithms such as hash algorithm used by bitcoin), the whole blockchain system does not rely on other third parties, and all nodes can automatically and safely verify and exchange data in the system without any human intervention< Fourth, security:
as long as 51% of all data nodes cannot be controlled, the network data cannot be arbitrarily controlled and modified, which makes the blockchain itself relatively safe and avoids subjective and artificial data changes
5. Anonymity:
unless there are legal requirements, technically speaking, the identity information of each block node does not need to be disclosed or verified, and information transmission can be carried out anonymously
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The application prospects of blockchain are mainly in the fields of finance, Internet of things and logistics, public services, digital rights and insurance
1. Blockchain has great potential applications in international exchange, letter of credit, equity registration, stock exchange and other financial fields. The application of blockchain technology in the financial instry can eliminate the third-party intermediary link and realize the point-to-point direct docking
2. Blockchain can also be naturally combined in the field of Internet of things and logistics, which is considered as a promising application direction of blockchain. The establishment of credit resources in the blockchain can double improve the security of transactions and improve the convenience of Internet of things transactions. It can save time and cost for the application of intelligent logistics mode
3. Blockchain is closely related to people's proction and life in public management, energy, transportation and other fields. The decentralized and fully distributed DNS service provided by blockchain can realize the query and resolution of domain name through the point-to-point data transmission service between nodes in the network
4. Through blockchain technology, works can be authenticated to prove the existence of text, video, audio and other works and ensure the authenticity and uniqueness of ownership. After the works are confirmed on the blockchain, the subsequent transactions will be recorded in real time to realize the full life cycle management of digital rights, and can also be used as a technical guarantee in judicial evidence collection
5. In terms of insurance claims, insurance institutions are responsible for fund collection, investment and claims settlement, and often have higher management and operation costs. Through the application of smart contract, there is no need for the applicant to apply or the insurance company to approve. As long as the claim conditions are triggered, the automatic claim settlement of the policy can be realized
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the core technology of blockchain
1. Consensus mechanism, through the voting of special nodes, completes the verification and confirmation of transactions in a very short time; For a transaction, if several nodes with unrelated interests can reach a consensus, it can be considered that the whole network can also reach a consensus. The goal of blockchain consensus mechanism is to make all honest nodes keep consistent blockchain views
2. Asymmetric encryption requires two keys for encryption and decryption, which are public key and private key. The public key corresponds to the private key. The public key is used in the process of data encryption, and only the corresponding private key can be used to decrypt; On the contrary, the private key is used to encrypt the data, and only the corresponding public key can be used to decrypt the data
Moody's, the world's famous bond rating agency, has given 127 blockchain cases, from points to transaction clearing, from document storage to supply chain management, from cross-border payment to supply chain finance, and various applications emerge in endlessly
among so many applications, supply chain finance has attracted much attention, and its commercialization has made rapid progress
this is because, first of all, the supply chain finance scene has a trillion level market scale, and the ceiling is high enough. Secondly, this scene naturally needs multi-party cooperation, but there is no traditional centralized institution in governance, and it needs to use blockchain to build trust. At the same time, technically, this scene does not need high concurrency, and the current blockchain technology can meet it
1. Supply chain finance is a trillion level market
supply chain finance refers to the comprehensive financial procts and services provided to the upstream and downstream enterprises in the supply chain by taking the core enterprises and their related upstream and downstream enterprises as a whole, relying on the core enterprises, taking real trade as the premise, and using the method of self compensating trade financing
according to the different financing collateral, financial institutions divide the supply chain finance into accounts receivable, prepayment and inventory financing, among which the scale of accounts receivable is particularly large< According to the data from the National Bureau of statistics, at the end of 2016, the accounts receivable of China's Instrial Enterprises above designated size were 12.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 10% over the same period of last year, which generated a huge financing demand for enterprises. Compared with the huge accounts receivable, China's annual commercial factoring volume was only about 200 billion yuan in 2015. It can be seen that there is still a large number of supply chain demand has not been met, so the development space of supply chain finance instry is huge
2. How to solve the pain point of supply chain finance with blockchain
pain point 1: the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises in the supply chain is difficult and the cost is high
because banks rely on the ability to control goods and regulate sales of core enterprises, for the sake of risk control, banks are only willing to provide factoring services to upstream suppliers (limited to primary suppliers) with direct accounts payable obligations of core enterprises, Or provide advance payment or inventory financing to its downstream distributors (primary suppliers)
as a result, the demand of secondary and tertiary suppliers / distributors with huge financing demand can not be met, the business volume of supply chain finance is limited, and SMEs can not get timely financing, which will easily lead to proct quality problems and damage the whole supply chain system
blockchain solution:
we issue and run a kind of digital bill on the blockchain, which can be split and transferred freely in the case of transparency and multi-party witness
this model is equivalent to making the credit in the whole business system conctive and traceable, providing financing opportunities for a large number of SMEs that could not have been financed, greatly improving the efficiency and flexibility of bill circulation, and recing the capital cost of SMEs
according to statistics, in the past, traditional supply chain finance companies could only provide financing services for about 15% of suppliers (small and medium-sized enterprises) in the supply chain, while after adopting blockchain technology, 85% of suppliers could enjoy financing convenience
pain point 2: as the main financing tool of supply chain finance, the use of commercial bills and bank bills at this stage is limited, and the transfer is difficult
the use of commercial bills is subject to the reputation of enterprises, and it is difficult to control the arrival time of bank bill discount. At the same time, if we want to transfer these bonds, the difficulty is not small
because in the actual financial operation, banks are very concerned about the legal effect of "Notice of transfer" of accounts receivable claims. If the core enterprise cannot sign back, banks will not be willing to extend credit. It is understood that the bank is very cautious about the legal effect of signing the "Notice of assignment" of creditor's rights, and even requires the legal representative of the core enterprise to go to the bank to sign it face to face. Obviously, this way of operation is extremely difficult
blockchain solution:
an alliance chain can be built between banks and core enterprises, which can be used by all member enterprises in the supply chain. By using the characteristics of multi-party signature and tamper proof of blockchain, the transfer of creditor's rights can get multi-party consensus and rece the difficulty of operation
of course, the system design should be able to achieve the legal notice effect of bond transfer. At the same time, the bank can trace the transactions of each node and draw a visible transaction flow chart
pain point 3: it is difficult for the supply chain financial platform / core enterprise system to prove its innocence, resulting in high risk control cost of the capital side
in the current supply chain financial business, banks or other capital sides are concerned about the authenticity of the transaction information itself in addition to the repayment ability and willingness of the enterprise, and the transaction information is recorded by the ERP system of the core enterprise
although ERP tampering is difficult, it is not absolutely credible. Banks are still worried that core enterprises and suppliers / dealers collude to modify information, so they need to invest manpower and material resources to verify the authenticity of the transaction, which increases the additional cost of risk control
blockchain solution:
as a "trusted machine", blockchain has the characteristics of traceability, consensus and decentralization, and the data on the blockchain has a time stamp, so even if the data of a node is modified, it can not cover the sky. Therefore, blockchain can provide an absolutely trusted environment and rece the cost of risk control on the capital side, Solve the bank's doubts about being tampered with information
3. How should blockchain companies cut into supply chain finance
in terms of market choice, we believe that blockchain start-ups should choose the segments with high enough ceiling, such as household appliances, automobile, retail, clothing, pharmaceutical instry, etc. On the one hand, these instries have a broad market, on the other hand, their supply chain management infrastructure is relatively perfect, and the early cost of block chain is relatively small
we believe that there are two modes for blockchain companies to enter supply chain finance
the first is to directly cooperate with core enterprises / platforms to provide them with the underlying solutions of blockchain. After accumulating enough data, they can provide financial services to the investors by building alliance chain Alliance chain mode)
in view of the fact that the blockchain itself can not solve the problem of risk control, enterprise level risk control still needs to focus on strong core enterprises at the present stage. At the same time, obtaining the support of core enterprises can also effectively solve the problem of customer acquisition, because a large core enterprise generally has thousands of various suppliers
at present, domestic blockchain companies start from core enterprises, including Bubi and Wanglu technology. Bubi has launched an alliance chain "Bunuo" for supply chain finance, linking banks, core enterprises and factoring companies. Bunuo is based in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, radiating southeast business, and digging deep into the field of supply chain finance, Previously, it signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Yigang
the second mode is to provide supply chain management services, such as traceability, tracking, visualization, etc., to integrate information flow, logistics and capital flow, and then engage in financial services Private chain mode)
this mode is equivalent to building an application scenario with blockchain. Just like Alipay, if Ma Yun did Alipay directly, it would be difficult to do so because there was no application scenario, so Taobao first served the real economy. With Taobao, Alipay emerged as a centralization trust scenario and grafted other applications on Alipay before accomplishments.
at present, among the domestic blockchain companies, bitse and food premium are the ones that adopt the supply chain service mode
for example, vechain provides a method of anti-counterfeiting and traceability, by implanting an NFC chip into each commodity, registering the commodity on the blockchain, so that it has a digital identity, and then recording all the information of the digital identity through the account book maintained jointly, so as to achieve the verification effect. At present, vechain procts have been connected with more than 10 instry benchmark customers, and millions of IDS are running on the chain
4. Build a supply chain financial exchange in three steps
from the perspective of implementation path, the application of blockchain in the field of supply chain finance can be realized in three steps
as a prerequisite, we need to build a blockchain + supply chain finance alliance, whose participants include supply chain finance platform, core enterprises, professional financial intermediaries, financiers, factoring institutions, etc
each participant needs to undertake corresponding obligations. For example, the platform is responsible for providing basic services such as supply chain information and customer information, while the core enterprise understands the instry situation, has control over the enterprises in the supply chain, and is responsible for risk control
professional financial intermediaries can integrate and analyze the platform information, and provide customized supply chain financial procts, such as personalized blockchain electronic bills. The fund side includes banks, Internet financial institutions and other customers who are responsible for docking the corresponding risk preference
after the establishment of alliance chain, we can start the three-step strategy
the first step is to put the data in the supply chain alliance on the chain, use the characteristics of blockchain to make it tamperable, and provide services such as data authentication and traceability
the second step is asset digitization, which turns warehouse receipts, contracts, and blockchain bills that can represent financing needs into digital assets, which are unique, tamper proof, and non reprocible
the third step is the transaction of digital assets. The supply chain financial platform will be transformed into a financial asset exchange, which will transform the non-standard enterprise loan demand into standardized financial procts for token, docking investment and financing demand, and concting value trading
finally, blockchain technology will effectively enhance the liquidity of supply chain financial assets, mobilize new financing tools and risk control system, help cover the long tail market of SME financing, and promote supply chain finance as a service.
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