Text | Hao Fangzhou Li Xueting
I often ask a very cheap question (learned from investors) when interviewing blockchain startups. If industry giants also do this business, where is your living space?
Some bosses bluntly said, "then we have nothing to do, just take advantage of the time difference when the giant turns around." life".
A picture to understand the blockchain layout of domestic Internet giantsA picture to understand the blockchain layout of domestic Internet giants"China focuses on application scenarios, hoping to use the vision of large companies to point out the way for the field of blockchain technology.
As "which industries can be combined with the blockchain" gradually transitions from "discussion, layout and exploration" to "landing competition", the actions of overseas technology giants continue to catch people's attention. These actions not only contain the energy to subvert the competition pattern of the vertical track, but also predict that a large amount of funds will enter the blockchain and cryptocurrency market.
We found that in terms of blockchain landing scenarios, the choices of domestic and foreign giants are converging (financial and supply chain-based). The difference is mainly reflected in the strong demand for traceability in China, and more companies are testing the waters in the application of to C blockchain, while overseas are more embracing "financial innovation", and the "firepower" of research and development is relatively concentrated. Of course, behind the differences are different policy attitudes, economic environments, technological innovation, and company publicity strategies.
In terms of patent applications, according to IPRdaily "2018 Global Blockchain Patent Enterprise Ranking", IBM ranks second in the number of blockchain patents (89), followed by Alibaba (90), Intel ranks 23rd, and Google ranks 30th.
for clarityThe key directions, entry methods and number of scenarios of overseas technology giants in the blockchain field, organized by Odaily Research InstituteApple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, Samsung Electronics, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, IBMFor the relevant information of ten companies, draw the following picture and attach 95 detailed links at the back, enjoy~
1. Apple
December 2017,According to the US Patent and Trademark Office, Apple has applied for a timestamp verification system that combines blockchain and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure, public key infrastructure).Once a hacker invades a single node and maliciously modifies the time value, it will be detected by the real node, thereby protecting the SE (Secure Element, such as a SIM or microSD card storing confidential information) from being destroyed.
2. Microsoft
March 2019,Microsoft has teamed up with Singapore-based logistics company Cargo Community Network to launch a blockchain-based billing, costing and reconciliation system for air cargo.
March 2019,Microsoft has teamed up with blockchain project XYO to develop a “push-button geospatial blockchain application” that supports smart contracts.
February 2019,Microsoft has partnered with Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica to develop a new service model for the telecommunications industry on the Microsoft Azure platform.
January 2019,Microsoft (Japan) and the blockchain service development company Skill have reached a cooperation agreement on the practical verification of the alliance chain.
January 2019,Bakkt, a digital asset platform based on Microsoft Azure, announced the completion of the first round of financing of US$182.5 million, and Microsoft’s venture capital department also appeared among many investors.
November 2018,Microsoft has partnered with Interswitch Group, an African electronic payment and commerce company, to develop a blockchain + supply chain financial solution serving Nigerian SMEs.
November 2018,Microsoft released the Enclave-ready Ethereum Virtual Machine (eEVM) on Azure.eEVM runs in the TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) of Coco (Confidential Consortium), an enterprise-level open source blockchain foundation platform from Microsoft.
October 2018,The Microsoft Azure cloud blockchain service is integrated with the NASDAQ financial framework to create a blockchain system that facilitates matching, payment, settlement, and management for both parties to the transaction.
August 2018,Microsoft has teamed up with Indian IT giant Tech Mahindra to use blockchain technology to curb marketing calls and text messages.
July 2018,Singapore Airlines has cooperated with Microsoft and KPMG to launch the blockchain wallet KrisPay to support airline members to convert flight miles into digital currency.
June 2018,Microsoft (Taiwan), Digital China and Recool launched a three-party blockchain strategic cooperation. Digital China's platform MasterDAX and Microsoft Azure jointly launched the exchange BaaS service MasterDAX 2.0.
June 2018,Microsoft has developed a blockchain solution that provides real-time royalty data to game publishers to reduce administrative costs.
June 2018,Microsoft and EY launch copyright blockchain tool to help creators and software developers collect royalties.
In May 2017, Azure rolled out a newBlockchain POC (proof of concept) framework, enabling enterprise customers to build distributed applications at a lower cost and in a shorter cycle.
March 2016,Microsoft and ConsenSys announce partnership, Microsoft developers can use the Ethereum blockchain to develop decentralized applications.
November 2015,Microsoft announced the provision of BaaS services on Azure, and it was officially opened to the public in August 2016. Microsoft has successively launched the Coco Blockchain Framework (August 2017), an enterprise-level open source blockchain platform for solving the performance, privacy and organizational management issues of enterprise blockchains, and Azure Blockchain Development, a cloud-based blockchain development kit. Kit (November 2018).
3. Amazon
February 2019,Amazon, Accenture, and Mastercard jointly launched a blockchain-based "circular supply chain" to reward small-scale growers and suppliers for sustainable behavior.
In November 2018, Amazon launched a blockchain-basedandandAmazon Managed Blockchain。
November 2018,The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published two Amazon patents related to protecting the integrity of digital signatures and improving distributed data storage methods.
April 2018,AWS Releases Blockchain Templates, to provide customers with a preset blockchain framework and configure the AWS resources required for getting started, making it easy to expand and quickly start the Ethereum or Hyperledger Fabric network.
October 2017,Amazon Registers Three New Blockchain-Related Domain Names: amazonethereum.com, amazoncryptocurrency.com, amazoncryptocurrencies.com, according to Coindesk, Amazon also previously registered amazonbitcoin.com.
May 2016,AWS has partnered with DCG, a digital currency investment group, to provide enterprise customers with a secure blockchain laboratory environment.
4. Alphabet
January 2019,WordPress released Newspack, a platform that provides technical services for small and medium-sized news organizations.Newspack is led by Google ($1.2 million) and has built-in blockchain tools backed by ConsenSys.
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February 2018,Google big data analysis platform BigQueryAdd data on the Bitcoin chain, and then add more currencies such as ETH, BCH, and LTC.
In June 2017, the Bitcoin wallet Blockchain was awarded by Lakestar,Google Venturesand Richard Branson led a $40 million round. In addition, Google Ventures also participated in the investmentRipple, crypto asset management platform LedgerX, international payments provider Veem and now-defunct Buttercoinwait.Storj Labswait.
March 2017,DeepMind, an AI+ health company under Google, issued a document stating that it will use blockchain technology to allow hospitals, NHS, and patients to track personal health data in real time.
5. Facebook
February 2019,Facebook acquires Chainspace, a blockchain startup working on smart contract development.
December 2018,According to Bloomberg, Facebook is developing a dollar-pegged stablecoin that allows users to transfer money through its instant messaging app WhatsApp, and will be the first to be used in the Indian remittance market.
June 2018,Facebook established a blockchain division. The person in charge, David Marcus, was the president of PayPal and a member of Coinbase's board of directors.
6. Samsung Electronics
March 2019,Samsung SDS, a Samsung IT solution and service provider, has partnered with the Port of Rotterdam and ABN Amro to develop the Ethereum-based international import and export blockchain solution Deliver, which will serve logistics and shipping companies, ports and customs authorities.
February 2019,At the Samsung Galaxy new product launch conference, the Galaxy S10 added a hardware encryption wallet function.As of March 28,This wallet is only available to users in the US, Canada and South Korea.As of April 8,According to Binance Changpeng Zhao, the Galaxy S10 supports a total of 16 cryptocurrencies.
August 2018,Samsung SDS has partnered with the Federation of Korean Banks to develop BankSign, a blockchain-based authentication platform.The platform realizes the interaction between different banking mobile systems by connecting the banking system and data sharing network, so that users can conduct transactions on different applications only after authenticating on one application.
July 2018,Innosilicon, a mining machine company, announced a cooperation with Samsung Electronics to introduce Samsung Electronics' ASIC chip manufacturing technology.
June 2018,Samsung SDS launched the blockchain logistics platform Cello Square 3.0, which plans to save 20% of logistics and transportation costs.
April 2018,Blockchain startup Filament announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Bullpen, Capital, Verizon Ventures, and Samsung Ventures.
July 2016,Samsung SDS announced its investment in Blocko, a blockchain and security solutions company.
Since 2015,Samsung SDS starts building Nexledger blockchain platform,Make blockchain applications customizable on multiple networks such as Ethereum and Hyperledger according to business needs. February 2019,Samsung SDS announced that the Nexledger accelerator has passed the Hyperledger Fabric test, which can significantly increase the speed of blockchain transactions.
September 2014,IBM and Samsung have cooperated to develop ADEPT, a decentralized IoT system based on blockchain.
7. Intel
March 2019,Intel, BMW Group (Asia) and Nielsen have announced a partnership with Singapore-based blockchain incubator Tribe (owned by Southeast Asian venture capital firm Trive Ventures).Intel provides business and technical guidance to Tribe to improve the privacy, security and scalability of blockchain solutions through technologies such as Xeon scalable processors and Intel SGX.
February 2019,Intel launches a commercial blockchain software package based on Hyperledger Fabric.The system includes the tools required to start a Hyperledger-driven blockchain, among others.
November 2018,The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Intel a patent for an energy-efficient and efficient Bitcoin mining processor.
November 2018,Intel announced a new application specification - Trusted Computing Application Programming Interface (TC API) at Devcon4, the annual Ethereum developer conference, to implement transactions in an off-chain computing environment, and then return the execution results to the Ethereum mainnet. This helps Ethereum expand.
September 2018,Intel and the SAP blockchain alliance jointly explore DLT (distributed ledger technology) business to optimize blockchain functions and speed up enterprise applications.
September 2018,Intel and Baidu Security jointly released MesaTEE, a trusted and secure computing service framework.
June 2018,Intel and DAPP platform Enigma jointly released a blockchain test network.
March 2018,at the same time,at the same time,Intel and Tencent TUSI Lab cooperate on "Blockchain + Identity Authentication",The former mainly provides hardware technology, while the core technology of the latter lies in software.
October 2017,Intel and digital currency hardware wallet company Ledger announced a partnership.The latter combines its operating system BOLOS with Intel's SGX (Software Guard Extensions) secure storage product line to provide cryptocurrency holders with a more secure storage method.
May 2017,Intel and PokitDok, a blockchain + health company, have reached a cooperation to jointly develop Dokchain, a medical blockchain solution.Intel will provide PokitDok with its open source software Hyperledger Sawtooth as the underlying support for Dokchain, and apply Intel chips to process blockchain transactions.
March 2017,Blockchain startup Filament received $15 million in financing, led by Verizon Ventures and Bullpen Capital, followed by Intel and Samsung NEXT.
March 2017,Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and others jointly launched the EEA (Enterprise Ethereum Alliance) to jointly develop new standards and technologies to make it easier for enterprises to use the Ethereum blockchain.
April 2016,Intel released the "Sawtooth Lake Platform" blockchain technology plan, allowing enterprises to build distributed ledgers, and said that the platform may be suitable for international remittances, insurance claims processing, supply chain management, Internet of Things and other scenarios.
8. Cisco
ReportReport, highlighting itsEnterprise-oriented blockchain platform. The report predicts that by 2027, the value of blockchain storage may account for 10% of global GDP. By 2021, the blockchain market is expected to reach $9.7 billion.
March 2018,The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office disclosed a patent application information from Cisco, which submitted a blockchain technology in December 2017 to make it easier and more secure for confidential groups to send instant messaging messages, share files and other information.
January 2017,Enterprises such as Cisco, Bosch, BNY Mellon, Chronicled, and Filament jointly established the Blockchain and Internet of Things Alliance as members.The API created by the alliance can support Ethereum, JPMorgan Chase Quorum and Hyperledger; the protocol allows users to register multiple weak identities, bundled into stronger encrypted identities.
9. Oracle
February 2019,Oracle’s first batch of blockchain application cloud services, including Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), Zhengbao Distance Education and more than a dozen enterprise customers are using real-time applications, and other customers such as AJIB Bank, NeuroSoft, TradeFin, etc. are in the production stage .
December 2018,Oracle and Secoo, a luxury e-commerce platform, signed a strategic cooperation agreement to innovate consumer interaction experience and establish an ecological circle in the field of luxury e-commerce.
October 2018,Oracle released the Oracle Blockchain Applications Cloud, Oracle Blockchain Applications Cloud, including applications for four usage scenarios (supply chain transactions, commodity traceability, smart cold chain, and warranty tracking) to enhance supply chain transparency and process automation.
August 2018,The National Transformation Institute of India (NITI) and Oracle have combined blockchain technology with drug supply chain management to achieve full traceability of drugs and reduce the problem of imitation and counterfeit drugs.
July 2018,Oracle has launched a blockchain platform. Users can monitor the supply chain through blockchain data, track the global transportation system, and achieve more secure and transparent cross-border delivery.
10. IBM
March 2019,IBM (Japan) announced that it will build a blockchain-based platform for drug supply and medical data exchange, and 20 companies and groups including pharmaceutical companies and medical groups announced their participation.
March 2019,IBM has developed a blockchain medical authentication platform that tracks medicines through the supply chain to combat counterfeit medicines in Africa.
March 2019,IBM has announced that it has signed letters of intent with six international banks that plan to issue stablecoins on IBM’s payments network, World Wire.
March 2019,IBM developed a new blockchain solution for CULedger, the blockchain alliance of the American credit union industry, which is used to innovate existing business models and processes, and improve some services, such as digital identity authentication, user customer compliance, etc.
March 2019,IBM has filed two more blockchain patent applications, covering cybersecurity and database management.
March 2019,IBM X-Force Red launches blockchain cybersecurity service.IBM’s enterprise blockchain investment is expected to reach $10 billion by 2021.
February 2019,IBM has teamed up with Korean credit card company Hyundai Card to improve the use of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology in enterprises.
February 2019,IBM has teamed up with pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim to store clinical records on a blockchain, aiming to maintain data integrity, transparency and patient information security while reducing costs and speeding up automated processes.
February 2019,IBM Research announced a partnership with The Freshwater Trust, a nonprofit that protects and restores freshwater ecosystems, and SweetSense Inc., a provider of low-cost satellite-connected sensors, to pilot blockchain and IoT technologies to monitor sustainable groundwater use in California.
January 2019,IBM announced the use of the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain platform to track supply chains in the metals industry, including cobalt metal from mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Ford Motor Company plants, and metal shipments from mines in Mexico. In addition, Chinese cobalt mining company Huayou Cobalt, LG Chem, a subsidiary of South Korea's LG Corp, and technology company RCS Global are currently piloting the project.
November 2018,IBM and CLS, a foreign exchange settlement provider, have launched a blockchain-based payment network service. The first customers include Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
November 2018,IBM has partnered with Spain's major telecommunications company, Telefónica, to apply a proof-of-concept (PoC) in blockchain to manage international mobile phone traffic.
November 2018,IBM has teamed up with data storage company Seagate to use blockchain to verify the origin of hard drives and fight counterfeit hard drives.
October 2018,IBM and the travel business platform Travelport have cooperated to launch an artificial intelligence platform that uses blockchain technology to restructure travel distribution and help companies manage corporate travel expenses.
October 2018,IBM has launched an enterprise-level food trust platform based on blockchain, which tracks food through the public chain, and Wal-Mart and Carrefour have joined.
September 2018,IBM has applied for a patent that describes a distributed ledger technology (DLT)）A system to address privacy and security concerns associated with the increased use of drones in commercial and recreational applications.
September 2018,IBM has announced a partnership with health data company Hu-manity.co to use blockchain-based self-sovereign identity technology to give users greater control over their personal data.
September 2018,IBM is developing a blockchain payment system based on the Stellar network.
August 2018,IBM launched IBM Blockchain World Wire, a global payment system based on blockchain and the Stellar protocol, enabling financial institutions to clear and settle cross-border payments in seconds.
July 2018,IBM has partnered with Columbia University to launch a blockchain research center aimed at promoting blockchain application development and education programs, as well as advising blockchain startups on regulatory issues.
July 2018,American financial services company Stronghold recently launched Stronghold USD, a stablecoin anchored to the U.S. dollar, hosted by the asset management company Prime Trust, and is cooperating with IBM to explore the usage scenarios of stablecoins.
July 2018,IBM partnered with the Ghanaian government to use blockchain to improve land management processes in the African country, increase security and transparency, reduce fraud, and increase investment and access to funds.
December 2017,JD.com, Tsinghua University, Walmart and IBM jointly established the Blockchain Food Safety Alliance (BFSA) to develop food safety and traceability blockchain projects.
October 2017,IBM announced that it has established a new cross-border blockchain payment solution with partners regional financial services company KlickEx Group and Stellar.org, aiming to improve efficiency and reduce costs for financial services companies to provide global payment services for businesses and consumers .
February 2016,IBM launches BaaS platform.
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