In the first half of the year, there were a total of 408 blockchain application projects: 10 top fields of finance, government affairs, and traceability to the top three

In foreign countries, in the first half of this year, HSBC, Russian Alpha Bank, and South African Standard Bank are actively using blockchain technology to promote cross-border payment and reduce the settlement cost of foreign exchange transactions. HSBC has even adopted foreign exchange through blockchain-based systems. Transaction settlement costs have been reduced by a quarter.

In the field of government affairs, China has promoted the fastest application of blockchain. In addition to blockchain electronic invoices, commercial registration, real estate information registration, and judicial depository evidence collection are becoming hotspots in the government field.

For example, the Guangdong Provincial Taxation Bureau, the Chengdu Taxation Bureau and the Shenzhen North Railway Station have made rapid progress in promoting the electronic invoices for the blockchain; Beijing relies on blockchain and other technologies to promote the “deduction of evidence and convenience” actions; Guiyang, Yunnan Yuxi and Chongqing Local governments have also accelerated the application of blockchains in convenience services by creating “network identity chain credential centers” and municipal credit information sharing platforms.

Foreign government applications mainly focus on government elections, voting, and the use of blockchain to combat tax evasion and combat money laundering. For example, the Russian ruling party, the Russian Party, has applied blockchain technology to electronic voting and counting, while the city of Denver, Colorado, also uses the blockchain system to store and track votes in municipal elections.

In the field of traceability, the blockchain traceability has extended from the widely used fields of food, wine, tea, coffee, cheese, etc. to precious watches, silk, and large grain commodities such as sorghum, soybeans and corn.

In the food and beverage sector, Carrefour, Shanxi “original vinegar”, Irish winery and Scottish wine company William Grant & Sons have begun to use blockchain technology for supply chain tracking and product traceability. In terms of luxury traceability, Tmall International, France LV, etc. have also launched a blockchain traceability system to trace the source of luxury goods.

In the energy sector, the blockchain application project focuses on the power, natural gas, petroleum and other industries, especially in the power industry. Among the 16 blockchain application projects, 9 are power application projects. For example, the blockchain application platform independently developed by the State Grid, the blockchain power supply system developed by Toyota Motor of Japan, and the demonstration of residual power interpersonal trading of photovoltaic power generation in the central power utilization blockchain in Japan have all gone online or entered the testing stage.

In the medical industry, the pace of blockchain application in the first half of this year is also accelerating. From IBM's use of blockchain technology to handle sensitive medical data, drug supply and medical data exchange, to Shanghai First People's Hospital and Anhui Provincial Hospital online medical records, to pharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim and healthcare platform Solve.Care to launch diabetes care The blockchain network, and then to Ali Health, Alipay in Wuhan on the "future hospital", the blockchain in the medical field is increasingly widely used.

The copyright field is also an area where blockchain applications are developing rapidly in the first half of this year, but copyright applications are mainly domestic. For example, CCTV carried out copyright protection through blockchain technology, and China Pictures Group and Xinhuanet cooperated to launch Xinhua Image Chain and Chancheng District's “blockchain+industrial design” issued by the Chancheng District Government of Foshan. With the increasing awareness of copyright protection in China in recent years, the application of blockchain technology in the copyright field is bound to be promising.

In the field of logistics and trade, blockchain applications are mainly distributed in customs, ports, ports and express logistics. In China, Hongqiao Customs has real-time supervision of the status of goods through the blockchain information system; at the Dalian Port, the “blockchain electronic delivery platform” designed and developed by Liaoning Port Group has been officially put into operation at Dalian Port; Express is on the line with the "chicken letter" feature of blockchain technology.

In foreign countries, logistics and trade blockchain projects are mainly concentrated in logistics companies. For example, US transportation and logistics giant UPS launched the blockchain platform Inxeption Zippy in the first half of this year. Singapore logistics company Cargo Community Network and Microsoft jointly launched a block-based block. Billing, costing and reconciliation systems for chain air cargo.

Blockchain bills can be said to be a successful area of ​​domestic blockchain application pilots this year, especially in the two major cities of Shenzhen and Hangzhou. The application of blockchain electronic invoices has covered subways, parking lots, ports and banking services. field.

For example, in March, Tencent developed the first electronic rail invoice for the rail transit blockchain in Shenzhen Metro Futian Station. At the same time, Alipay and Hangzhou Metro also soon launched an electronic invoice based on blockchain technology; in April, China Merchants Bank Enterprise APP Shenzhen blockchain invoices were launched, and the first blockchain electronic invoices in the country's ports were officially launched at the China Merchants Port Shekou Container Terminal (SCT).

Finally, the public welfare sector is also an industry with more blockchain applications in the first half of this year. In China, the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, the Communist Youth League of Chengdu, issued the first blockchain charity project in China, the “Chengqing·Public Welfare” volunteer service system; the Shanghai Jing’an District Sports Public Service Delivery Service Project was officially launched. In foreign countries, UNICEF uses blockchain technology to provide Internet access to every school in Kyrgyzstan, and IBM Research works with the non-profit organization The Freshwater Trust (TFT) to monitor groundwater in California using blockchain technology. Usage.

Author: Mutual chain pulse · Liangshan Huarong

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