Public chain clusters, the emergence of dApps, and the entry of professional institutions are the development characteristics of this year's blockchain industry summarized by Dr. Pu Songtao of CCID Research Institute at the Odaily Blockchain POD Conference.

For the application of blockchain technology, the underlying foundation of the public chain is particularly important. The continuous launch of new public chain platforms means that technological innovation in the industry is accelerating.

Pu Songtao proposed two keywords related to the development of public chains—innovation and symbiosis.

In terms of innovation, he believes that the innovation of the public chain is not only technical, but also includes the application level and model level. The technological innovation path of the public chain is agglomeration + innovation + transmission. Agglomeration refers to the joint development of global development resources and intellectual resources; innovation is continuous innovation; Let more people be able to make further innovations based on some previous achievements.

In terms of symbiosis, Pu Songtao believes that although blockchain technology is subversive, it must also consider the problem of symbiosis and coexistence with the existing social environment.

Regarding the form of the public chain in the future, Pu Songtao predicted that the future public chain should be friendly to the public, and the public can use and participate.

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The following is the full text of Pu Songtao's speech, enjoy:

Dear friends, good morning!

I am very happy to participate in this event today and share with you. I am Pu Songtao from the Software Research Institute of CCID Think Tank.

First of all, everyone will definitely want to ask what is Sadie? The full name of our CCID is China Electronics Information Industry Development Research Institute. It is a scientific research institution directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of my country. It was formed in 2000 by the merger of four bureau-level units of the Ministry of Information Industry at that time. After years of development, CCID has also formed many business fields, including research consulting, technology evaluation, and our media exhibitions and so on. At the same time, there are many CCID brands, including CCID.com, CCID Evaluation, CCID Consulting, CCID Blockchain and so on.

CCID's research and consulting section is mainly composed of two parts:

• 1. CCID Consulting is mainly for the market.

• 2. CCID think tank is mainly for the government.

We, CCID, have been paying attention to the blockchain since 2016 and have conducted some research. In 2016, the country is formulating the relevant 13th Five-Year Development Plan, and we are also fortunate to participate in the preparation of the two plans, including the software industry and the information industry. In the preparation of these two plans, we also focused on promoting blockchain technology innovation and industrial development. At the same time, in 2016, we also supported some seminars organized by the Information and Software Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In November 2016, we also organized The solicitation activities of typical cases in the industry.

In 2017, we were also entrusted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Internet Information Office and other ministries and commissions to carry out some related research topics on the blockchain. For the institute, 2017 is also an important time node. With support, we established the CCID Qingdao Blockchain Research Institute in Qingdao, focusing on blockchain research and related businesses.

At the same time, with the Qingdao Blockchain Research Institute as the main body, we initiated the establishment of the China Blockchain Ecological Alliance.

In 2018, after our long-term research on the blockchain and the integration of some resources in the hospital, we launched the global public chain technology assessment work, and recently launched the blockchain-enabled real economy action plan.

What are the prominent industry trends and characteristics of blockchain in 2018, which deserve our attention? Here I mainly mention three trends:

• 1. Since the beginning of this year, a large number of public chains will be launched. This year we will see that from April to the end of the year, many new public chain platforms will be launched one after another. The launch of these new public chain platforms means that the technological innovation of the entire industry is accelerating, and there will be many new technological innovation points, which deserve our attention and research.

• 2. The development of dapp is very fast. At the end of November last year, there was a cryptokitty on Ethereum that detonated many industries. This year, many dapps based on public chains are emerging. In fact, the development of dapps tells us that everyone pays more attention to public chains. For the development of further applications on the base platform. This phenomenon tells us that there may be a commercial form in the future, that is, public chain + dapp.

• 3. It is also a very significant phenomenon this year, that is, many professional organizations are running into the field. This kind of professional organization will exist from the research level, from the application level, including the third-party service level. This is actually an inspiration to us. We must always pay attention to the changing situation of the competitive landscape of the entire industry.

On these basis, we combine our own advantages and our understanding of the entire industry, we have done a job, that is, the global public chain technology evaluation work, we also release the global public chain technology evaluation index on a monthly basis, why study the public chain Woolen cloth? We believe that the public chain is the most important field of current blockchain technology innovation. Moreover, the public chain is the easiest to realize some of the value of the blockchain, and it is also the ultimate direction of the application of blockchain technology. At the same time, we believe that a business form in the future may, at least in part, be a public chain + dapp business form. This business form also shows that the public chain will become the infrastructure of the future value Internet, which is why we pay attention to the public chain.

We, Sadie, have a slogan: Thoughts, or thoughts, make us unique. Our public chain technology evaluation also has a slogan: technology, or technology, makes us unique. As far as I know, our index is currently the only technology-focused public chain evaluation index in the world.

We have five basic standards for global public chains.

How is our evaluation model built? How do we think about evaluating this matter? To put it simply, we establish the three most basic principles of the evaluation model, including the principles of universality, operability and relevance. That is to say, for this standard, we only consider technology-related indicators here, and the data of these evaluation indicators can be collected and operable.

Our model mainly considers three aspects:

• 1. Basic technology.

• 2. Applicability.

• 3. Innovation.

The model will not be introduced in detail here.

I mainly want to talk about it here. Through this model, it reflects that the model cannot be perfect. It must be related to our tendency. Through this model, what attitude do we have towards the development of the entire public chain? In fact, this is what I want to emphasize:

From the perspective of basic technology, what should the future public chain look like? We think that if the public chain is to support future business as a commercial infrastructure, from this perspective, we pay more attention to its performance and scalability, in other words, to ensure a certain degree of decentralization and security At the same time, we require the public chain to have higher throughput and more complete functions.

In our current assessment, less than 50% of the public chains can support the development of other applications, and only 20% of the public chains support Turing-complete smart contracts.

Here are some data, 18% of public chains support privacy protection. In addition, 107 means that the average block generation time of these public chains is 107 seconds, and the fastest EOS can reach 0.5 seconds. 3.7 means the average actual throughput of the public chain. There is a very astonishing number in it. The actual TPS of more than two-thirds of the public chain does not exceed 1, indicating that it is very inactive. 0.8 means that the average transaction cost of transactions on the public chain is 0.8 yuan.

In addition, we also need to emphasize the implementation of the public chain, so we pay attention to its application. What do we think the public chain will look like in the future? It is friendly to the public, and the public can use it and participate in it. In the past, the audience was a niche group, but in the future it will be a mass group.

In terms of application, here are some of our statistical data for your basic reference. According to our statistics, there are about 8.5 wallets in each chain on average. We have also developed a standard system for the use of wallets. According to our standard evaluation, the average wallet applicability is about 7 points out of 10. In the field of wallets, everyone is still doing well. Let's look at node deployment. If the public is allowed to participate in blockchain governance and blockchain organization, the public actually needs to get some node deployment tutorials. Currently, only 34% of public chains provide blockchain node deployment tutorials. In terms of development tools, it is even worse. 42% of the public chains provide relevant tutorials on development tools, and 57% of the public chains provide software and development interfaces related to some development tools.

We are also very concerned about the development of dapps. According to our statistics, there are already 7 or 8 chains with a certain number of dapps.

Next, I would like to talk about innovation, how does the future public chain come about? What is the path of public chain innovation? We believe that the public chain needs a continuous innovation. In other words, it needs to gather global intellectual development resources for continuous innovation. In fact, we can see that the relationship between the public chain and open source is very close.We believe that open source is actually an inherent gene of public chain technology innovation, so there is no open source without public chain.

Why is this so? In fact, we know that the credit system of the public chain is based on the code level. If the code is invisible to everyone, there is no way to talk about trust. Of course, it is also very interesting. I also know a lot of friends who used to be open source. The big names in the open source world have entered the blockchain field in the past two years.

The two pictures on the left and right show all the open source code addresses of the objects we are currently evaluating, which is also an important reference for our evaluation.

We believe that the technical innovation of the public chain actually has a path. What is this path called? We can think of it as agglomeration + innovation + conduction. Aggregation means gathering global development resources and intellectual resources to participate in development together. Innovation means continuous innovation. The last one is conduction. The achievements of innovation should be made public to the public through open source Open it to the society, so that more people can make further innovations based on some previous achievements.

The theme of our conference today is called NEXT conference. Here I will also talk about our outlook on the sustainable development of the public chain in the future. In two simple words:

• 1. Keep your feet on the ground.

• 2. Looking up at time and space.

To be down-to-earth is to do the basic things in a down-to-earth manner, including basic research, technology, application, and positive publicity and guidance, in addition to establishing a stable team. Looking up at the starry sky is actually, we also know that the future development potential of the public chain or blockchain is very huge, and its value as an infrastructure is very huge, so we must look to the future, carry out continuous innovation, and promote openness and integration , cooperation and symbiosis.

Here are two simple mentions:

• 1. Innovation. In fact, we believe that the innovation of the public chain is diverse, not only technical, but also at the application level, including the model level.

• 2. Symbiosis. In fact, the public chain technology, or the blockchain technology has a subversive color, and the problem of symbiosis and coexistence with the existing society still needs to be considered, involving cultural habits, government supervision, and so on.

Well, that's all for my sharing today, thank you all!