Blockchain Application | Taobao Is Also Eyeing The Blockchain: Looking For Recruitment Experts

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Blockchain has once again become a hot topic in the technology circle, and many giants have spoken out. A social recruitment of Alibaba Group shows that Taobao Technology Department is recruiting blockchain experts. Obviously, Alibaba is also stepping up its research on blockchain technology.

According to the job description, the blockchain expert will be responsible for the system analysis and design of the blockchain business, undertake the design and development of the core functional code of the blockchain system, and participate in the formulation framework of the blockchain integration plan and the group’s existing technical system . Responsible for some integrated development work; In addition, responsible for formulating relevant blockchain business solutions, promoting and assisting partners to complete project implementation; Participating in the governance of Taobao's technical architecture.

From a recruitment perspective, Taobao also hopes to directly recruit blockchain talents from some well-known companies, such as IBM.

According to Yibang Power Network, as early as July 2016, Ant Financial had applied blockchain technology to the Alipay charity donation platform. Three months ago, at the Ant Financial Financial Technology Open Summit (ATEC), Ant Financial CTO Cheng Li disclosed for the first time Ant Financial’s future-oriented technology layout—the “BASIC” strategy, where B corresponds to (block chain). At the same time, Ant Financial Technology Laboratory also announced the opening of blockchain technology to support the safety traceability of imported food and the traceability of product authenticity.

A few days ago, Alibaba was also revealed to have launched the virtual currency mining platform “P2P Node”. But then Alibaba Cloud issued a statement saying that this business is Alibaba Cloud's CDN (content distribution network) business based on P2P technology and has nothing to do with "mining platforms", "virtual currencies", etc., and stated that Alibaba Cloud will never issue Bitcoin, etc. Any virtual currency will not provide any so-called "mining platform".

In addition to Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu have also deployed blockchain.

Tencent has registered trademarks "Ether Lock" and "Tencent Ether Lock". In April 2017, Tencent released the "Blockchain Solutions White Paper", announcing that Tencent's blockchain industry solutions with independent intellectual property rights were also officially released on the official website.

Baidu launched the blockchain open platform "BaaS", which is a project based on blockchain technology independently developed by Baidu. It mainly helps enterprise alliances build their own blockchain network platforms. Baidu Finance responded that the platform was launched on July 21 last year and currently supports the authenticity of more than 50 billion yuan in assets.

Several views on blockchain

Fund founder Xu Xiaoping: "The blockchain revolution has arrived. This is a great technological revolution. Those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish. Its subversion of tradition will be faster and more thorough than that of blockchain." Internet and Mobile internet. "

Yao Jinbo, founder and CEO of 58.com: “I am now mobilizing the whole company to look at blockchain to see what impact it has on 58.com. Blockchain and 58.com may be naturally combined, so we actively embrace and explore blockchain Chain. Blockchain has the characteristics of decentralization and disintermediation. It may be as great as the Internet. This may be a more disruptive historical opportunity than artificial intelligence. In addition, blockchain is different from artificial intelligence. AI is still In the application of past technologies, blockchain may be as great as the Internet. Blockchain can allow the entire society to operate at a very low cost and eliminate many intermediaries.”

Meitu Chairman Cai Wensheng: "The core of the blockchain economy is not technology, but the reconstruction of business logic. Therefore, this is not only a technological revolution, but also a cognitive revolution."

Zhou Wei, founding partner of Chuangyu Capital: "In terms of innovation and entrepreneurship technology, I am very optimistic about blockchain and artificial intelligence. But it is worth noting that blockchain is basic. At the basic level, there will be innovative examples at the application level. They are emerging one after another, and there will be explosive power that has not yet appeared. Blockchain is an industry that the company team is currently carefully screening."

Zhu Xiaohu, Managing Director of Jinshajiang Venture Capital: He is very optimistic about blockchain virtual currency projects. Jinshajiang and himself will not participate in any ICO projects and stated that 99.99% of ICO projects are malicious fraud.

Qin Yi, founder of Deloitte China Blockchain and leading partner of Deloitte Asia Pacific Investment Management: "We must look at blockchain objectively and not blindly exaggerate its advantages, nor passively wait and see because of the shortcomings and limitations of new technologies. Both Have high hopes but stay grounded.”

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