The future is here, how do operators drive the innovation and speed of blockchain applications?
Recently, the Blockchain Application Development Forum of ICT
China 2021 High-level Forum was held in Beijing. The statistics revealed at the
meeting showed that China's blockchain industry has made positive progress and
has become one of the countries with the greatest potential for the development
of the global blockchain industry. In 2020, the scale of China's blockchain
industry has reached 2.78 billion yuan, a growth rate It is 33.7%.
At present, there are more than 1,400 blockchain companies
in China, and a relatively complete industrial chain has initially formed;
there are more than 40 industrial parks, and the number of patent applications
is the world's leading; in terms of blockchain standardization, there are 6
national standards and more than 10 industry standards. Leading the world. In
the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the 2035 long-term goal outline, the
blockchain was included in the national plan for the first time.
Based on the scale characteristics of the telecom industry
and the role of communication infrastructure, it promotes the innovation and
development of the entire blockchain industry. From the formulation and
implementation of standards to large-scale application practices, telecom
operators have become one of the core thrusts . With the advent of the
blockchain industry, operators with 5G capabilities will usher in great
opportunities.
5G and blockchain are mutually empowering. 5G aims to
realize the interconnection of all things, which provides a solid guarantee for
the high-speed transmission of massive data and information. It can also take
advantage of cloud-network synergy to provide an increasing number of
blockchain applications. Powerful computing power and storage services;
Blockchain, as a decentralized and privacy-protected technical tool, aims to
achieve mutual trust in all things and assist 5G to solve problems such as
reliability, security, privacy, and trust. The integration of the two will
promote a major transformation and renewal of the entire social production
mode. The integration of blockchain technology will also help operators open
the door to future opportunities and create new and greater value.
At present, the era of the Internet of Everything has come,
and the product form, application, channel, user and ecology of the terminal
industry are facing new changes and new challenges. It is urgent to integrate
and explore the integrated application of blockchain, the Internet of Things
and 5G. As traffic dividends are declining, the gap in communication business
volume has further widened. It is difficult to continue relying solely on scale
and traffic growth. There is an urgent need to use blockchain and other
emerging technologies to innovate businesses and find new profit growth points.
In the next year or two, how can operators accelerate the
development of blockchain application innovation and integration? China Telecom
said that in the face of blockchain technology innovation competition, it will
further leverage the advantages of China Telecom's cloud network infrastructure
and build high-quality operators with characteristics The blockchain value
network infrastructure will jointly build the blockchain industry ecology and
empower the digital economy for multi-industry applications; China Mobile will
take the blockchain as an important breakthrough in independent innovation of
core technologies, and accelerate the development of blockchain technology and
industrial innovation. , To realize the "double first-class" of
blockchain capabilities and applications; China Unicom will strengthen the
innovation of blockchain technology, escort data security and trust, and
parallel technological reserves and breakthroughs, and highly integrate
industry implementation and scene applications.
The author believes that if the blockchain is to be truly
popularized and maximize its value, the top priority is to find the
"killer" application scenarios, which must be driven by applications.
Technology is not the main bottleneck of the blockchain. Many technical service
providers can do it. The most difficult thing is to find practical scenarios
for value. For operators, applications that are closely related to
communication networks and services are their focus.
One is to use blockchain technology to build a new 5G
network infrastructure.
Utilize the features of blockchain technology such as
decentralization, security, and smart contracts to build a decentralized
network infrastructure, promote base station sharing, spectrum dynamic
management and sharing among communication operators, and mobilize users to
make electronic products around them The micro base station that transmits,
realizes the cooperation of the macro and micro base stations, and efficiently
promotes the rapid landing and development of 5G.
The second is to accelerate the development of integrated
applications of 5G and blockchain.
In the Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles, Driverless,
Industrial Internet, Smart City and other fields, 5G's Internet of Everything
can realize real-time and rapid transmission of hardware data. The
non-tamperable, safe, traceable, and zero-knowledge proof technology of the
blockchain can be used as a device. Large-scale collaboration with equipment
provides decentralized and secure solutions.