Ant's B side

Source | Tech Planet

Wen | Xi Rui

As Ant Group's business in Alipay and digital finance is widely known and used, Ant's exploration in science and technology has always appeared low -key and secret. However, from some details disclosed by Ant, some overall pictures of Ant Technology can still be gradually spealed.

The recent news is that the Ant Chain announced that the equipment on the chain has exceeded 5 million, which means that the industrial blockchain has made new breakthroughs on large -scale commercial landing. Similar breakthroughs have appeared many times on ants related to ants.

In addition to traditional labels, the image of ants trying to solve the problem with digital technology to help industries is gradually clear: through the commercialization of chain, cloud, security technology, etc., point connecting to noodles to help the industry collaborate on the Internet and use technical support entities.

Science and technology is a correct thing, but it is also difficult. It is difficult to support the entity with science and technology. It is difficult to have technical breakthroughs, but also to be able to bear loneliness, and to endure the results of no immediate shadows.

The world on the chain, behind 5 million devices

Through the integration of blockchain+IoT technology, the equipment on the ant chain exceeded 5 million. It mainly covers new energy vehicles, solar photovoltaic, new energy batteries and other energy industries.

Behind the 5 million numbers is the first time that IoOOOOO has been demonstrated on the dimension of large -scale commercial dimensions based on the IoOOOOO. The combination of blockchain technology and the real economy has always been unable to scale. Ant gives further solutions through technological fusion innovation.

For the industry, 5 million numbers mean that the fusion of the number of realities can be further implemented, and the industry collaboration Internet ushered in a new starting point. He Guili, deputy chairman and deputy secretary -general of the China Internet Association, also said, "The large -scale upper chain of physical assets is equivalent to opening the" second growth curve "of the industrial blockchain."

Under the data, the most important thing is the technical solution of "equipment on the chain", that is, the digital transformation of physical assets by integrating blockchain and IoT technology, and real -time and credible in the digital world in real -time and credible assets of the physical world to the digital world. middle. And this achievement depends on the accumulation of ant chains in technological innovation.

As early as 2015, the Ant Group invested in the development of the blockchain. The following year, the autonomous engine of Ant blockchain was launched and applied to public welfare projects.

The initial development of research and development was more driven by the interests of engineers. After the preliminary test of public welfare projects, the ants found that the scene of the blockchain could be used very diverse and the actual demand was very strong. Therefore, in 2016, the Ant Blockchain Team was formally established. In the past few years, the relevant teams have continued to iterate. In the end, in 2020, the ant blockchain was upgraded to "ant chain".

While the technology is constantly upgrading, the scenes of the ant chain are becoming more and more complicated. From the earliest public welfare certificate to the auto industry, international trade and other scenarios.

According to official data, the Ant Chain has solved the trust problems in more than 50 industrial scenarios, including the traceability of agricultural products, the transfer of land operation rights, copyright protection and commercialization, etc., and it has been embarrassed in the construction of local industrial collaboration networks. Enterprises from different industries such as DJI, COSCO Shipping, Luzhou Laojiao, Intel, Litchi and other industries have "drove" ant chains.

From the perspective of data dimensions, the energy industry is one of the most landing industries. As early as May 2021, Chery Commercial Vehicles reached a strategic cooperation with the ant chain, and Chery's commercial vehicle officially launched. Ant chain integrates blockchain and the Internet of Things technology to launch "car chain" technology. Through the software upgrade of T-BOX in Chery Commercial Automobile, it is incorporated into a variety of technologies such as cryptography and privacy computing to ensure that driving data is irreplaceable and the device is highly credible.

Before the data is on the chain, the ant chain is also encrypted algorithm. Even after the data is interactive, the ant chain can still ensure that the data cannot be tampered with and can be traced. As a result, Chery Commercial Vehicles encrypted the chain of credit car data, realizing mutual trust in the industry chain, and set up a mutual trust industry collaboration network in the vehicle manufacturers and vehicle operation platforms.

From point to face, a big chess chess under Ant Technology

In fact, ants have been trying to use technology to solve the problems encountered by the industry. From chain, safe to cloud (MPAAS). In the past few years, ants are connecting the previous layout into noodles.

In addition to the ant chain mentioned earlier, in the field of security technology, based on the security technology brand ZOLOZ/Ant Shield, Ant also launched a variety of products, covering the field of identity safety, interactive risk control, and terminal security.

Among them, status security is a segment of the anthore layout for a long time. Its E-KYC product is an online verification customer identity product solution by AI to help solve the problem of remote "difficulty". Volkswagen only needs to scan documents and take pictures at home, and can perform operations and identity confirmation, without having to go to offline stores.

During the epidemic, the value of this product function is further highlighted. In April 2022, the Malaysian government issued a new round of consumption subsidies through 4 local digital platforms. Malaysia's largest local wallet TOUCH'ngoe-Wallet uses Ekyc products to certify the identity of residents to ensure accurate and safe funding process.

Since 2018, E-KYC products have focused on overseas markets. At present, dozens of partners have been helped overseas to serve more than 100 million users. Including financial institutions such as Mandiri, the largest bank of Indonesia, Maybank, Malaysia's largest bank, and CIMB, the largest digital bank in the Philippines. This also means that E-KYC products have been able to withstand the test of "finance". In addition, at the business level of Yun PaaS, ants actually except the technical capabilities and years of experience accumulated before. After all, Alipay is already a "national" app.

Interestingly, the one -stop mobile development platform independently developed by Ant Group MPAAS (

Mobile-Platform-AS-A-Service) initially focused on digital transformation of financial institutions such as banks.

Ant's service experience on the mobile terminal is gradually enriching. These are also what financial institutions such as banks. Therefore, MpaaS focuses on financial institutions for the first time to help them create a more comprehensive appropriate app.

With the continuous and maturity of the business, ants have also iterated on MPAAS, and the service capabilities are constantly comprehensive. Today, not only can the development, testing, operation and operation and maintenance of the enterprise mobile APP provide a set of "cloud -to -end" one -stop solutions, but also effectively reduce the technical threshold, reduce research and development costs, improve development efficiency, help enterprises help enterprises Quickly build stable and high -quality mobile applications. To put it simply, it is to copy the "Alipay" capabilities to various industries, so that companies can also build their own super apps.

Moreover, MPAAS service scenarios have also expanded from finance to government affairs and people's livelihood, transportation, energy and other fields. For example, the APP "Metro Metropolitan Conference", a must -have for travel of 25 million residents in Shanghai, was jointly created by the Shanghai Metro and the MPAAS team.

The subway has become the main transportation of Shanghai residents. The average daily rail traffic passenger flow of the subway has exceeded 11 million. Earlier, citizens can only take the subway through recharge physical subway cards, and for outsiders need to queue up to buy one -way tickets. At important stations such as Hongqiao Railway Station, the pressure of traffic dredging was huge.

After the "Metro Metropolitan APP" was launched, users can directly scan the code through the mobile phone to enter the station, saving the travel time, and also relieved the flow pressure of the site. The core of APP's core scanning station is helped by the MPAAS Mobile Development Platform.

It can be seen that whether it is chain, security or cloud, in fact, the launch of each sector is not carried out before and after time, but the overall service capacity upgrade.

Jiang Guofei, Vice President of Ant Group Vice President of Digital Technology, said that the products launched by the team were not designed. "Many people are designed from the top -level and then down. We are upside down, from bottom to top. Our development needs to be continuously considered, what problems can be solved, what value can be provided, and I solve him After the question, who can I cover, and then I go next. "

The exploration of ants in digital technology does not seem to have a clear timeline, but as the problem is deepened, the industry continues to connect, and the point becomes noodles. Ant's "technology" label surfaced.

Ant's B side, technology is true

In the context of "technology to the truth", digitalization of industrial collaboration is already a general trend.

Jiang Guofei also said that the team focused on industrial cooperation. They believed that after the digitalization of enterprises, the next wave of digitalization must be a collaboration between industries. "Because of the digitalization of the enterprise, in the digital economy and society, it must be with the ecological chain. There are many collaborative relationships in the industry. How to help him cooperate digitize and have a better supply and demand relationship. This is what we want to solve slowly."

In Jiang Guofei's view, the core of industrial cooperation is supply and demand relationship. The core of supply and demand is the efficiency and cost of transaction. "There must be two most basic conditions behind the transaction, one is the system level link, and the second is to build a trust mechanism."

In fact, ants' previous layout is for the goal of digitalization of industrial collaboration.

MPAAS solves the problem of digitalization of a single enterprise. ZOLOZ provides security guarantee for the digitalization of enterprises, while the ant chain uses technology to build a credible industrial collaboration network to help digitalization of enterprises collaborate. The full map of these technologies is to build infrastructure for digitalization of industrial collaboration.

In September 2020, Trusple, a new international trade and financial service platform based on ant chain technology, was officially launched to solve the problem of trust between traders in international trade through blockchain technology. Ms. Yuan, who runs a foreign trade business in Yiwu, Zhejiang, is the first trading merchant of the Trusple platform. She sells the company's main crystal jewelry to Mexico through Trusple and received the payment the next day. One week.

After blockchain and industrial links, digital assets can be better transferred and exchanged on the platform, thereby reconstructing production relations rather than simply improving productivity.

As the Chairman and CEO of Ant Group said, the more digitalization develops, the more critical the value of creating a new value through industrial cooperation. If the digitalization of a single industry is building a building, the digitalization of industrial cooperation is to repair the highway -today's digital development has reached the stage of the "highway".

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