September Blockchain Weekly Report: Ten departments including the central bank issued a document reaffirming that virtual currency does not have the same legal status as legal tender

1. Introduction to pre-order observation

Summary for this issue:

Policy news:

2.1 Jinan will build a national supercomputing Internet to provide low-cost computing power services for the blockchain

2.2 The central bank and other ten departments issued a document: virtual currency does not have the same legal status as legal tender. Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities

2.3 Development and Reform Commission: It is strictly forbidden to carry out virtual currency "mining" activities in the name of data centers

2.4 Ministry of Transport: Promote electronic delivery of imported containers based on blockchain

2.5 Implementation Plan for Beijing to Cultivate and Build an International Consumption Center City: Promote the Application of Digital RMB in Key Scenarios

2.6 Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission: The development of blockchain is a major opportunity to cultivate new economic growth points

2.7 UK regulator FCA plans to use blockchain technology to strengthen its regulatory reporting

Industry dynamics:

domestic:

3.1 Shanghai Maritime University and blockchain start-up company Conflux cooperate to establish a research laboratory

3.2 The first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Shopping Festival hosted by Alibaba will release the NFT Moon Lucky Draw

3.3 The first community-based food bank in China uses blockchain technology to solve the problem of "surplus mooncakes"

3.4 Shaanxi History Museum launched the first "Qin Du Tiger Talisman" NFT

3.5 Founder of Keno Capital: We are preparing a fund with a scale of more than 1 billion to invest in the blockchain copyright market

3.6 Ningbo's key large and medium-sized supermarkets and agricultural wholesale markets have achieved full coverage of the "Zhejiang Food Chain"

3.7 Nanjing Releases "Blockchain + Medical Health" Industry Patent Navigation Report

3.8 Tencent's digital resources copyright authentication patent is authorized and applied to the blockchain network

3.9 Jinan uses the "Quancheng Chain" platform to strengthen the authorized use and safety supervision of government data

3.10 Baidu super chain enters NFT and is exploring fields such as Metaverse

3.11 Xinchen Technology: The company's blockchain research technology includes NFT direction and will actively explore related applications.

3.12 TR Lab, an NFT art distribution and collection platform, will cooperate with writers Chen Qiufan and Li Kaifu to launch NFT series works

3.13 Chen Guanxi shared The Heart Project NFT works on the social platform Instagram

3.14 Hubei launches blockchain technology application innovation and entrepreneurship competition

3.15 Nanjing blockchain rural credit platform was selected as a national innovation pilot

3.16 Tencent applied for the Metaverse trademark of Peace Elite. Tencent has applied for nearly 100 Metaverse trademarks in September

3.17 Lingang Holdings, Shanghai Institute of Quality Science and Okey Cloud Chain established a blockchain technology security service station

3.18 AntChain: Resolutely oppose all forms of blockchain digital collection hype

3.19 Hengxin Dongfang: The company has explored or applied blockchain, interaction, AI, network suppression and other technologies

3.20 Advanced Datacom: Currently, work involving blockchain technology research is mainly focused on basic technology research

3.21 Beijing starts to build the world's leading blockchain computing power platform

3.22 Di Gang of the Central Bank's Digital Research Institute: Actively explore blockchain applications in the digital RMB system

3.23 Hu Houkun, Rotating Chairman of Huawei: Metaverse is a direction full of imagination

foreign:

4.1 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security signs a $1.36 million contract with Coinbase for blockchain software development

4.2 Nukkleus partners with Polygon to provide grant to Bollant Industries to use blockchain to deal with urban waste in India

4.3 Indian state-owned telecom company BSNL has registered 7,477 businesses on its blockchain-based communication platform

4.4 Toppan Printing and other three companies join the Japanese content blockchain plan

4.5 India's Central Board of Secondary Education will use blockchain technology to record board exam results

4.6 DBS Bank of Singapore plans to hire 150 developers and engineers proficient in AI and blockchain

4.7 Latin diva Shakira issues NFT on the MakersPlace platform

4.8 The Philadelphia 76ers has reached a cooperation with Crypto.com and will release its first NFT

4.9 Real Madrid player Gareth Bale plans to release NFT on Crypto.com NFT

4.10 Ripple partners with the Central Bank of Bhutan to launch a CBDC trial

4.11 Bicycle manufacturer Colnago adopts blockchain technology in new products

4.12 "Time" magazine established the NFT community TIME Pieces

4.13 Nervos integrates with blockchain index solution provider Covalent

4.14 Report: 81 of the top 100 companies in the world by market capitalization use blockchain technology

4.15 Luxury brands Coach and GQLab cooperate with NFT protocol ZKBox to issue six limited edition NFTs

4.16 Warren Buffett's granddaughter Nicole Buffett creates NFT for her paintings

4.17 The Central Bank of Chile will set up a group to study the issue of CBDC

4.18 The British Museum and the NFT platform LaCollection jointly released the NFT works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai

4.19 Kobe Bryant KB24 NFT art collection will be released on October 8

Application landing:

5.1 HUAWEI CLOUD officially launches blockchain services

5.2 Ant Group officially released the Moss privacy computing all-in-one machine developed by its AntChain team

5.3 The Boston Blockchain Association releases a toolkit for Massachusetts state lawmakers to promote the transformation of the state into a blockchain technology center

5.4 Blockchain Integrated Partners Releases Patent for Virtual Data Room

Preface Comments:

Policy:

This week, two documents led by the Development and Reform Commission and the central bank were issued simultaneously. On September 24, 10 ministries and commissions including the central bank and the Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission jointly issued the "Notice on Further Preventing and Dealing with the Risk of Hype in Virtual Currency Transactions." The "Notice" stated that relevant departments will severely crack down on illegal financial activities related to virtual currency and criminal activities involving virtual currency. Compared with the previous documents of five ministries and seven ministries and commissions, 10 institutions participated this time, including powerful departments such as the Supreme Law, the Supreme Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Public Security. In addition, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange also participated. Enforcement will likely be greater.

A number of ministries and commissions, including the National Development and Reform Commission, issued the "Notice on Rectifying Virtual Currency "Mining" Activities." The general idea of "increasing and properly handling the stock", "under the premise of ensuring a smooth transition, scientifically determine the exit timetable and implementation path in light of the actual situation in each region". Be positive and steady. In the process of rectifying virtual currency "mining" activities, it is necessary to actively act and steadily advance, not only to achieve accelerated withdrawal, but also to properly resolve conflicts and disputes to ensure social stability. How to properly handle the stock is still unknown. Carry out a comprehensive investigation of whether there is virtual currency "mining" activities in big data industrial parks and high-tech parks, accurately distinguish data centers from virtual currency "mines", and ensure that the local virtual currency "mining" investigation work does not leave blank; resolutely Put an end to power generation companies, especially small hydropower companies, supplying power to the virtual currency "mining" project network, direct power supply through dedicated lines, etc. The measures are very targeted.

Industry dynamics:

This week, the Hubei Provincial Government Information Office held a press conference on September 24 to announce that the 2021 Hubei Provincial Blockchain Technology Application Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition will be held from September 24 to the end of November. The competition is divided into two groups: universities and enterprises. The university group focuses on solving the pain points of economic and social development, giving full play to the application value of blockchain technology, and providing blockchain solutions. The enterprise group chooses the direction of participation from 10 virtual government application scenarios provided by the province's development and reform, justice, ecological environment, transportation, agriculture and rural areas, emergency response, market supervision, local financial supervision and other departments, and provides blockchain solutions. In recent years, Hubei Province has successively issued a series of policies to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in the application of blockchain technology, striving to establish a new system of blockchain technology empowerment and industrial integration development with Hubei characteristics. In June of this year, Wuhan City issued the "Municipal People's Government's Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Blockchain Technology and Industrial Innovation", proposing to "build Wuhan into a 'blockchain city' with national influence". Yuan Defang, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said that Hubei is following the development trend of the blockchain technology industry, formulating policies, promoting innovation, promoting scenarios, building ecology, attracting talents, and making every effort to build a blockchain innovation and development cluster with national influence. The holding of this competition will further create a strong atmosphere for blockchain technology innovation and entrepreneurship, provide a stage for blockchain technology companies and talent teams to display and publicize, cultivate and introduce blockchain technology innovation talents, and accelerate the development of Hubei's blockchain industry .

Application:

This week, Ant Group officially released the Moss privacy computing all-in-one machine developed by its AntChain team. Privacy computing uses encryption processing, multi-party computing and other methods to process customer privacy data, which can realize "data is available but not visible". One of the important paths to balance data utilization and security, in the context of the rapid development of the global digital economy, privacy computing, as a key technology in the field of data security, has attracted wide attention in the industry. In fact, China's privacy computing technology is booming and close to industrialization. According to a report released by the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, the number of patent applications for privacy computing in China has increased rapidly in the past two years, and the top three companies with the most patents are Ant Group, Alibaba and WeBank. Enterprises from China not only achieved breakthroughs in the number of patents and practices, but also actively participated in the formulation of international standards. Previously, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) released for the first time an international standard in the field of privacy computing technology, which was jointly formulated by Ant Group, China Unicom and Zhijiang Lab. This means that China's industry and scientific research institutions have been recognized by international authoritative organizations for their exploration of emerging technology privacy computing.

2. Blockchain Policy Highlights

2.1 Jinan will build a national supercomputing Internet to provide low-cost computing power services for the blockchain

On September 20th, according to the website of the Jinan Municipal People's Government, the Jinan Municipal Government recently issued the "Promotion Plan for Accelerating the High-quality Development of Digitalization and Building a Digital Pioneer City", which clearly stated that it will build Jinan Intelligent Computing Center to provide artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. The integrated application development in various industries provides low-cost and convenient computing power services, and will build a national supercomputing Internet to explore the provision of supercomputing application services for the Yellow River Basin.

2.2 The central bank and other ten departments issued a document: virtual currency does not have the same legal status as legal tender. Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities

On September 24th, the People's Bank of China issued a notice to further prevent and deal with the risk of speculation in virtual currency transactions. The notice pointed out that recently, virtual currency trading hype activities have been on the rise, disrupting economic and financial order, breeding illegal and criminal activities such as gambling, illegal fund-raising, fraud, pyramid schemes, and money laundering, and seriously endangering the property safety of the people. Virtual currencies do not have the same legal status as legal tender. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether and other virtual currencies have the main characteristics of being issued by non-monetary authorities, using encryption technology and distributed accounts or similar technologies, and existing in digital form. For circulation use. It is also an illegal financial activity for foreign virtual currency exchanges to provide services to residents in my country through the Internet. Financial institutions and non-bank payment institutions shall not provide services for virtual currency-related business activities.

2.3 Development and Reform Commission: It is strictly forbidden to carry out virtual currency "mining" activities in the name of data centers

On September 24th, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments issued a notice to rectify virtual currency "mining" activities, strengthen the supervision and investigation of virtual currency "mining" activities, and clearly distinguish "mining" from blockchain, big data, cloud computing and other industries To guide relevant enterprises to develop high-tech industries with low resource consumption and high added value, it is strictly forbidden to use data centers to carry out virtual currency "mining" activities, and it is prohibited to promote and expand virtual currency "mining" activities in the name of developing digital economy and strategic emerging industries. Mine" project.

2.4 Ministry of Transport: Promote electronic delivery of imported containers based on blockchain

September 24th, according to the website of the Ministry of Transport, recently, the Ministry of Transport issued the "Guidelines for the Construction of an Electronic Delivery Platform for Imported Containers Based on Blockchain", which put forward the requirements for platform construction, and clarified the bill of lading, shipping bill, and equipment handover. The data format and interaction requirements of single-class container documents on the chain will promote port and shipping companies to strengthen coordination and linkage, accelerate platform application and data sharing, promote electronic delivery of imported containers based on blockchain, promote digital transformation of shipping, and improve port operations. business environment. At present, 8 ports including Shanghai and Ningbo Zhoushan have realized the electronic release of imported container ports based on blockchain, and the average processing time for major imported e-commerce cargo port and air documents has been reduced from 2 days to less than 4 hours.

2.5 Implementation Plan for Beijing to Cultivate and Build an International Consumption Center City: Promote the Application of Digital RMB in Key Scenarios

On September 24, the General Office of the Beijing Municipal People's Government issued the "Implementation Plan for Cultivating and Building an International Consumption Center City in Beijing (2021-2025)". The "Plan" pointed out that modern information technologies such as blockchain should be used to promote a new model of digital economy, and promote the application and promotion of digital renminbi in key scenarios such as transportation, catering and accommodation, shopping consumption, tourism, medical and health care, communication services, and ticketing entertainment in this city. . Cultivate a new ecology of digital consumption. Continue to promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, apply 5G, blockchain, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other modern information technologies, and actively promote smart manufacturing, reverse customization, digital retail, social e-commerce, online New digital economic models such as fitness, online diagnosis and treatment, cloud tourism, cloud exhibition, and cloud performance.

2.6 Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission: The development of blockchain is a major opportunity to cultivate new economic growth points

On September 24th, at the press conference of the 2021 Hubei Provincial Blockchain Technology Application Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition held by the Information Office of the Hubei Provincial Government, Yuan Defang, deputy director of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said, "The development of blockchain is to cultivate new economic growth points. A number of blockchain companies with innovative vitality and development prospects have emerged in Hubei, and blockchain application scenarios in the fields of supply chain management and product traceability have gradually landed, forming a good atmosphere for innovation and entrepreneurship." Hubei Province Tang Bing, the second-level inspector of the Cyberspace Administration of China, said, "At present, the development of blockchain in our province is showing a good trend. In recent years, blockchain technology has developed rapidly and has become an important driving force for technological revolution and industrial transformation. The development of blockchain will accelerate the development of blockchain technology and industrial innovation, and provide impetus and support for the high-quality economic and social development of Hubei Province."

2.7 UK regulator FCA plans to use blockchain technology to strengthen its regulatory reporting

On September 23, the British regulator FCA plans to use blockchain technology to enhance its regulatory reporting. According to the FCA, a blockchain-based digital regulatory reporting initiative aimed at reducing the cost of compliance checks is currently underway in partnership with the Bank of England. FCA chief Nikhil Rathi noted that current regulatory reporting is expected to cost between £1.5 billion and £4 billion a year for 20,000 regulations across 58,000 firms: “That’s why we’re working with the Bank of England on a digital regulatory reporting initiative. Blockchain and API technology connects companies and deploys machine-readable and executable regulations, and compliance checks can be done in near real time.” The agency will also use blockchain technology to regulate businesses that are considered to have greater data volumes , noting that as demand for data increases, businesses may use, market or restrict data in ways that create adverse user outcomes.

3. Domestic industry dynamics

3.1 Shanghai Maritime University and blockchain start-up company Conflux cooperate to establish a research laboratory

On September 20th, Shanghai Maritime University announced the establishment of a research laboratory in cooperation with blockchain startup Conflux, aiming to build a financial and shipping center. It is reported that the blockchain technology laboratory is the first of its kind in Shanghai and is located in the Lingang area of Pudong New District. Its goal is to increase the application of blockchain in the area, such as providing offshore electronic yuan transactions.

3.2 The first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Shopping Festival hosted by Alibaba will release the NFT Moon Lucky Draw

On September 20th, the first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Shopping Festival Mid-Autumn Festival Gala hosted by Alibaba launched a digital moon NFT lottery. The official stated that at 21:00 on September 21, my country's in-orbit remote sensing satellite "Jilin-1" will take photos of the Mid-Autumn Festival from an altitude of 550,000 meters, and generate NFT collections through the technical support provided by AntChain.

3.3 The first community-based food bank in China uses blockchain technology to solve the problem of "surplus mooncakes"

On September 21st, Changning District of Shanghai organized a "renovation of surplus mooncakes", aiming to use food banks to solve the problem of surplus mooncakes. The first community-based food bank in China, Shanghai Oasis Public Welfare Development Center, uses blockchain technology to establish a huge food information database to ensure that every piece of food that enters the recycling network is safe and reliable, which not only avoids waste, but also benefits poor households.

3.4 Shaanxi History Museum launched the first "Qin Du Tiger Talisman" NFT

On September 21st, the Shaanxi History Museum announced that it will cooperate with the ODinNFT platform to use "Qin Du Tiger Talisman" as the first batch of special cooperative NFT digital cultural and creative collections. This NFT was released at 14:00 on September 21st, with a total of 40 pieces.

3.5 Founder of Keno Capital: We are preparing a fund with a scale of more than 1 billion to invest in the blockchain copyright market

On September 21, Han Tianxin, founder and president of Keno Capital, introduced at the Fifth International Film IP Licensing and Derivative Industry Development Forum that we are preparing a fund for investment in the blockchain copyright market, which may at least 1 billion scale or more. Infringements in the current cultural industry are ubiquitous, so it is necessary to clarify the value of various copyrights that occur during the creation process to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the creation market.

3.6 Ningbo's key large and medium-sized supermarkets and agricultural wholesale markets have achieved full coverage of the "Zhejiang Food Chain"

On September 22, it was learned from the Ningbo Municipal Market Supervision Bureau that with the continuous advancement of digital reform, Ningbo City has initially realized the traceability management of the entire process of food safety information, and the agricultural batch market has achieved 100% coverage of the "Zhejiang Food Chain" application. 100% of the medium-sized supermarkets are on the "Zhejiang Food Chain", and more and more food on the people's table can be traced from the table to the field. In other words, the ins and outs of food in the Ningbo market have become more transparent and clearer, and food safety has become more secure.

3.7 Nanjing Releases "Blockchain + Medical Health" Industry Patent Navigation Report

News on September 22, according to the Nanjing Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, recently, the Provincial Institute of Science and Technology Information organized a "Blockchain + Medical Health" industry patent navigation report conference. The research group released the "blockchain + medical health" industry patent navigation report, and gave lectures on how to carry out patent navigation and how to use patent databases.

3.8 Tencent's digital resources copyright authentication patent is authorized and applied to the blockchain network

On September 22, the patent of Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. "a digital resource copyright authentication method, device, system and storage medium" was authorized, and the publication number is CN108932410B. The patent abstract of Qichacha shows that the digital resource copyright authentication method is applied to the blockchain network, which includes authentication nodes and storage nodes; the method includes: the authentication node scans the network disseminated digital resources; if the authentication node determines that the scanned digital resources are copyright protection resources, then read the copyright transfer information corresponding to the digital resources from the storage node; the authentication node according to the read copyright The information is transferred to determine the authentication result; the authentication node stores the authentication result in the storage node.

3.9 Jinan uses the "Quancheng Chain" platform to strengthen the authorized use and safety supervision of government data

September 23rd, in the opening of government data, how to ensure the authorization of individuals (enterprises) and how to ensure that business secrets and personal privacy are not disclosed have always been a bottleneck restricting the government from promoting the development and utilization of data resources. In order to solve this problem, Jinan City is actively innovating and exploring, using the characteristics of blockchain decentralization, tamper-proof, anti-repudiation, privacy protection, traceability, etc., to create the first "government data on-chain + personal on-chain authorization + social chain use + The new model of data credible sharing with traceability and supervision throughout the whole process realizes "returning the data to the people" and "precise authorization" to protect the decision-making and right-to-know information of enterprises and individuals on public data. Enterprises and individuals decide whether to share their public data with third parties. supply.

3.10 Baidu super chain enters NFT and is exploring fields such as Metaverse

On September 23rd, Baidu Super Chain announced that it will provide blockchain technology and service support for the NFT release of the first domestic public welfare music "The Voice of a Tree". Through the Baidu super chain, the right to publish works can be confirmed, and the transaction and circulation process of works can be recorded. According to Baidu Superchain, it has helped art collections, music and other multi-industry partners to realize the distribution and management of digital goods, and is also actively exploring and deploying in more fields such as Metaverse.

3.11 Xinchen Technology: The company's blockchain research technology includes NFT direction and will actively explore related applications.

On September 23, Xinchen Technology stated on the investor interaction platform that the company's blockchain research technology includes NFT direction, which can be used to confirm the rights of digital assets, and the company will actively explore related applications.

3.12 TR Lab, an NFT art distribution and collection platform, will cooperate with writers Chen Qiufan and Li Kaifu to launch NFT series works

On September 23rd, TR Lab, an NFT art distribution and collection platform incubated and invested by Dragonfly, announced that it will cooperate with writers Chen Qiufan and Li Kaifu to launch NFT works. release. This series of NFT works was created by TR Lab by a number of well-known digital artists around the future world of artificial intelligence described in the book twenty years later.

3.13 Chen Guanxi shared The Heart Project NFT works on the social platform Instagram

News on September 23, Chen Guanxi shared an NFT work of The Heart Project, an NFT collection project, on his personal social platform Instagram, and attached a text for his first attempt to enter the digital world.

3.14 Hubei launches blockchain technology application innovation and entrepreneurship competition

On September 24th, the press conference of the 2021 Hubei Provincial Blockchain Technology Application Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, co-sponsored by the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission and the Provincial Party Committee's Internet Information Office, and undertaken by the Jianghan District People's Government of Wuhan City, was held in Wuhan. The competition is divided into two groups: universities and enterprises. The enterprise group consists of the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Provincial Department of Justice, the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, the Provincial Department of Transportation, the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Provincial Emergency Department, the Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, and the provincial local government. Choose the direction of participation from the 10 virtual government application scenarios provided by the Financial Supervision Bureau and provide blockchain solutions; the university group focuses on solving the pain points of economic and social development and giving full play to the application value of blockchain technology.

3.15 Nanjing blockchain rural credit platform was selected as a national innovation pilot

News on September 24, recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced 16 2021 financial support agriculture innovation pilots. Among them, Nanjing's new agricultural business entity information credit management platform was selected into the pilot list. According to the information on the official website of the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the above-mentioned pilot platform is planned and managed by the department, AntChain provides technical support, and Nanjing University Shangcheng provides service support. In addition, MYbank, Jiangsu Zijin Rural Commercial Bank and other institutions will jointly provide fintech services. As an innovative pilot, one of the biggest highlights of the Nanjing Rural Credit Platform is the use of new-generation information technologies such as blockchain. Among them, the blockchain technology provided by AntChain is used as the base to make the information on the chain real and credible, and to ensure the safety and compliance of information flow through privacy computing and other technologies, so as to facilitate the effective supervision of relevant departments.

3.16 Tencent applied for the Metaverse trademark of Peace Elite. Tencent has applied for nearly 100 Metaverse trademarks in September

September 24 news, Tianyancha App shows that recently, Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. has applied for registration of a number of "Peace Elite Universe" and "Oasis Qiyuan Universe" trademarks. The international classification involves scientific instruments, social services, etc. The current trademark The status is in application. It is worth mentioning that in September this year, Tencent has applied for the registration of nearly 100 Metaverse-related trademarks, such as "King Metaverse", "Tianyuan Universe", "Reverse War Metaverse", "Tencent Music Metaverse" and so on.

3.17 Lingang Holdings, Shanghai Institute of Quality Science and Okey Cloud Chain established a blockchain technology security service station

On September 24th, at the site of "Innovation & Leading the 2021 Yangtze River Delta Economic Digital Transformation Development Forum", Shanghai Lingang Holdings Co., Ltd., Shanghai Quality Management Science Research Institute and Okey Cloud Chain Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement to form the first Blockchain technology security service station. In the future, the three parties will focus on in-depth cooperation in promoting the clustering of blockchain application demonstration industries, promoting the collaborative innovation of industry-university-research applications, building blockchain-related standard systems, and cultivating talents.

3.18 AntChain: Resolutely oppose all forms of blockchain digital collection hype

On September 24th, AntChain officially issued a solemn statement stating that it resolutely opposes all forms of digital collection hype, resolutely resists any form of illegal activities related to virtual currency in the name of digital collections, and resolutely resists any form of digital collections. The price of digital collections is maliciously hyped, and technical means are used to ensure that commodity prices reflect the reasonable needs of the market; resolutely resist any form of digital collections for rights and interests transactions, standardized contract transactions and other violations of laws and regulations, and oppose the financial productization of digital collections.

3.19 Hengxin Dongfang: The company has explored or applied blockchain, interaction, AI, network suppression and other technologies

On September 24th, the person in charge of Hengxin Oriental Technology said in an interview with a reporter from the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" that the six supporting technologies in the Metaverse - blockchain, interactive technology, AI, network and computing, video game technology, The company has explored or applied the Internet of Things and other aspects. "In terms of blockchain, we mainly completed the research reserve of the multi-consensus mechanism framework and the consensus algorithm of the random computing power pool, and applied for the innovation project of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission."

3.20 Advanced Datacom: Currently, work involving blockchain technology research is mainly focused on basic technology research

Reported on September 24th, Advanced Digital Communications stated on the interactive platform that the company's Fanrong Technology is engaged in the research of basic blockchain technology, and related products have bottom-level support for expansion in the 721 protocol-NFT application field. Currently, the work in related fields is mainly concentrated at the level of basic technology research.

3.21 Beijing starts to build the world's leading blockchain computing power platform

On September 25th, at the "Blockchain and Digital Economy Development Forum" in Zhongguancun, Beijing is building a world-leading blockchain computing power platform. Lin Jianhua, deputy head of Haidian District, introduced that Zhongguancun Science City vigorously develops blockchain technology and industries, strongly supports and leads the development of the digital economy, builds new infrastructure for data intelligence, builds blockchain advanced computing power experiment platforms, and blockchain commercial computing power Platform, build a green and energy-saving carbon-neutral computing power platform benchmark, accelerate the supply of new scenarios, build a directory blockchain, and deepen the application of all scenarios in government affairs.

3.22 Di Gang of the Central Bank's Digital Research Institute: Actively explore blockchain applications in the digital RMB system

On September 25th, Di Gang, deputy director of the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China, said at the "Blockchain and Digital Economy Development Forum" of the 2021 Zhongguancun Forum Parallel Forum on September 24 that the Digital Currency Research Institute has focused on areas in recent years. The specific practice of block chain. For example, at the issuance layer of the digital renminbi, build a unified distributed ledger based on the blockchain, improve the efficiency of reconciliation, and actively explore blockchain applications in the digital renminbi system. With the support of the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Center, the multilateral central bank digital currency bridge project was launched. At the same time, with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the central bank's trade finance blockchain platform also focuses on the application of blockchain. Now the blockchain is still a new thing in the development process, and it should be understood from the three levels of conceptual layer, logical layer, and operational layer. At present, everyone discusses the blockchain more, but not in one dimension. Therefore, it is necessary to unify at the conceptual level, so that there will be no confusion at the logical and operational levels.

3.23 Hu Houkun, Rotating Chairman of Huawei: Metaverse is a direction full of imagination

On September 25th, Hu Houkun, the rotating chairman of Huawei, said at the plenary meeting of the 2021 Zhongguancun Forum: "Everyone has also seen recently that this hotly discussed metaverse concept actually represents the further integration of virtual and reality in our entire human society. A kind of expectation and yearning. We can imagine that in this highly immersive, low-latency digital world, we have to restore to a greater extent and build an experience beyond the physical world. This is a It is a direction full of imagination. But at the same time, it also puts forward higher requirements for our current network technology, computing technology, etc."

4. Foreign industry dynamics

4.1 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security signs a $1.36 million contract with Coinbase for blockchain software development

September 19th, according to the Federal Acquisition Data System, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the US Department of Homeland Security has provided a contract worth $1.36 million to the cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase for "commercial applications" and "Application Development Software". The new deal is the largest federal contract Coinbase has signed to date. The deal, signed Thursday, is worth about 40 times the previous contract that Coinbase signed with the Department of Homeland Security. The cryptocurrency exchange also provided software to the U.S. Secret Service and the Tax Service, as previously reported.

4.2 Nukkleus partners with Polygon to provide grant to Bollant Industries to use blockchain to deal with urban waste in India

September 21st, according to PR Newswire, encrypted payment provider Nukkleus will cooperate with Polygon and Grassroots Economics to provide a blockchain community grant to Bollant Industries in Hyderabad, India, which will support development and improvement. Blockchain solutions for waste management supply chains.

4.3 Indian state-owned telecom company BSNL has registered 7,477 businesses on its blockchain-based communication platform

September 21st, according to Cointelegraph, Indian state-owned telecommunications company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has registered on its blockchain-based communication platform after the authorities implemented new regulations to protect consumers from spam and fraud. 7477 companies were recruited.

4.4 Toppan Printing and other three companies join the Japanese content blockchain plan

On September 22, three Japanese companies, Toppan Printing, Septeni Incubate, and Quaras announced to join the Japanese Content Blockchain Project. The Japan Content Blockchain Initiative is a consortium of companies that aims to accelerate the digital transformation of the Japanese media and content industry using blockchain technology. After being jointly launched by 7 companies in February last year, many companies in the industry joined in one after another. With the addition of 3 companies this time, the number of member companies has expanded to 23, including famous companies such as Asahi Shimbun, Dentsu Group, and Aihui Technology. Japan Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. is a large international company with 11,500 employees, ranking 988th on the 2020 Forbes Global Enterprise List.

4.5 India's Central Board of Secondary Education will use blockchain technology to record board exam results

On September 22, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in India will use blockchain technology to record board examination results, aiming to ensure that academic documents are kept in a secure and tamper-proof manner and can be stored in a trusted and verifiable system. Access online.

4.6 DBS Bank of Singapore plans to hire 150 developers and engineers proficient in AI and blockchain

Singapore's DBS Bank (DBS) hopes to hire 150 developers and engineers proficient in artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain through its hackathon program, September 22. DBS has been applying artificial intelligence and blockchain technology in areas such as financial planning, wealth management, asset digitization and sustainability. Specific projects include a digital asset ecosystem supported by blockchain, which provides a complete set of digital asset value chain solutions for corporate customers and qualified investors.

4.7 Latin diva Shakira issues NFT on the MakersPlace platform

On September 22, the Latin queen Shakira released a limited edition NFT tetralogy on the MakersPlace platform. The series will be called "La Caldera" and will be produced by graphic designer Kode Abdo (BossLogic). It will start on September 21 at MakersPlace for sale. Shakira tweeted that part of the proceeds would be donated to the Pies Descalzos Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing infrastructure and resources to educational institutions in different regions of Colombia. It is reported that Shakira has won 3 Grammy Awards, 13 Latin Grammy Awards and many other international honors, and she has sold more than 80 million records.

4.8 The Philadelphia 76ers has reached a cooperation with Crypto.com and will release its first NFT

On September 22, the Philadelphia 76ers signed a six-year agreement with Crypto.com, and Crypto.com will become the sponsor of the Philadelphia 76ers' jersey advertising. The Crypto.com logo will appear on Philadelphia 76ers jerseys, advertisements around the arena, and online media promotional materials, and Crypto.com will also become the team's official international marketing partner. Additionally, the Philadelphia 76ers will issue its first NFT.

4.9 Real Madrid player Gareth Bale plans to release NFT on Crypto.com NFT

News on September 22, Real Madrid player Gareth Bale will release a series of limited NFT on Crypto.com NFT on September 28. NFTs will come in two forms. The first form of NFT will consist of player images in posters. Some poster-like images will also feature Bell's signature. The second NFT is a futuristic 3D rendition of the player's iconic goal during Real Madrid's 2018 Champions League.

4.10 Ripple partners with the Central Bank of Bhutan to launch a CBDC trial

On September 23, the Central Bank of Bhutan has selected Ripple as its CBDC partner, and the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan will begin to cooperate with Ripple to trial CBDC. Ripple has integrated its distributed ledger technology into Bhutan's existing payment system. During the trial phase, the Ripple-powered central bank digital currency will be used for cross-border remittance and settlement services.

4.11 Bicycle manufacturer Colnago adopts blockchain technology in new products

On September 23, bicycle manufacturer Colnago will use blockchain technology in the production of its new bicycles. As the first manufacturer to link its physical product to the virtual distributed ledger, Colnago is the first to ensure validity and proof of ownership of the new Colnago framework. Colnago will add blockchain transactions to team and production bikes in 2022, with information about manufacture, sales and ownership stored on MyLime's blockchain-based platform and accessible by anyone. Additionally, Colnago will provide owners with an NFT version of each bike.

4.12 "Time" magazine established the NFT community TIME Pieces

On September 23rd, Time Magazine (TIME) announced the establishment of its NFT community TIME Pieces, and will release the "Build a Better Future" (Build a Better Future) series of NFTs at 00:00 on September 24th, Beijing time. The artists in the TIME Pieces debut series are all from the artist group organized by TIME Creative Director DW Pine, about a quarter of whom have made covers for Time Magazine. The content of this series of NFTs includes photography, illustrations, paintings, etc. There are two types of static NFTs and animated NFTs. Each work is based on the theme of "Build a Better Future".

4.13 Nervos integrates with blockchain index solution provider Covalent

September 24th, Nervos today announced the integration of its testnet and mainnet with blockchain indexing solution provider Covalent to expand the availability of data on the network and simplify the experience for developers building on Polyjuice. It is reported that Polyjuice is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility layer running on top of Nervos CKB. By using the Covalent API, developers can pull Nervos mainnet data for their projects and applications.

4.14 Report: 81 of the top 100 companies in the world by market capitalization use blockchain technology

September 24th, since only two companies, PayPal and Walt Disney, set foot in the blockchain in 2014, the adoption of blockchain technology has grown exponentially. According to data from blockchain research company Blockdata, currently, 81 of the top 100 listed companies in the world by market capitalization use blockchain technology, and 27 of them have fully functional real-time products.

4.15 Luxury brands Coach and GQLab cooperate with NFT protocol ZKBox to issue six limited edition NFTs

September 24th, according to CoinDesk, the luxury brand Coach, GQLab and the NFT agreement ZKBox will issue six limited edition NFTs. This cooperation is the first attempt of Coach and GQLab in the NFT field.

4.16 Warren Buffett's granddaughter Nicole Buffett creates NFT for her paintings

September 24th, Warren Buffett’s 45-year-old granddaughter Nicole Buffett has released four series of NFT since she created her first painting NFT a few months ago, the most popular being the first Series Spirit Coins. She said that her foray into the DeFi space was in many ways influenced by her grandfather's approach to value investing. She noted that the approach to investing in NFTs or artwork is no different than the approach to investing in stocks, bonds, or any other asset class.

4.17 The Central Bank of Chile will set up a group to study the issue of CBDC

On September 25th, the Central Bank of Chile is exploring the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Chilean central bank president Mario Marcel said on Wednesday that the bank will form a team to analyze the goals, requirements and regulations for developing a CBDC. The team will present a white paper in the first quarter of 2022, which will propose a framework for action, strategic objectives, courses of action and expected outcomes.

4.18 The British Museum and the NFT platform LaCollection jointly released the NFT works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai

News on September 25th, LaCollection, a new NFT platform dedicated to museum and institutional collections, was launched on September 30th. The British Museum will cooperate with the platform to launch NFT works by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

4.19 Kobe Bryant KB24 NFT art collection will be released on October 8th

News on September 25th, the Kobe Bryant (Kobe Bryant) KB24 NFT team announced the release date of the NFT art collection. The project is officially scheduled for October 8, 2021. Celebrities and NBA players such as Dwight Howard, Nerlens Noel, Metta World Peace, Kenny Smith expressed support for a cause cause. Proceeds from the project, founded by two longtime Lakers fans, Andy Treys and Sako Waves, will go to the Mamba and Mambassita Sports Foundation, whose mission is to help athletes and young women advance in sports.

5. Application cases

5.1 HUAWEI CLOUD officially launches blockchain services

On September 23, Zhang Pingan, vice president of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud, announced today that Huawei Cloud officially launched blockchain services. Zhang Pingan said that using the newly developed blockchain engine, a single chain can support 50,000 pieces of product information per second to be uploaded to the chain at the same time, and the throughput has increased by 10 times. At present, the service has been implemented in the Internet e-commerce industry, and can be used for cross-border data traceability of the whole life cycle of red wine and other products. It is reported that HUAWEI CLOUD's new blockchain service will support 10,000 participants, and at the same time open the blockchain-based digital copyright DCI protection service.

5.2 Ant Group officially released the Moss privacy computing all-in-one machine developed by its AntChain team

On September 25th, the 2021 World Internet Conference "Light of the Internet" Expo opened. Ant Group officially released the Moss privacy computing all-in-one machine developed by its AntChain team, adding new industry practices to realize "data is available but not visible". According to reports, the Ant MOS privacy computing all-in-one machine is based on the AntChain MOS multi-party security computing platform, which deeply integrates various self-developed technologies such as privacy computing, trusted hardware, and blockchain. According to Yin Shan, technical director of Ant Chain Morse and senior technical expert of Ant Privacy Computing, the Morse all-in-one machine is embedded with the industry's first multi-party secure computing algorithm accelerator card developed by Ant, which improves the computing performance by dozens of times; in addition, Equipped with a self-developed national secret authentication cipher card, which provides the highest level of encryption key management, strictly prevents hacker attacks, and uses hardware to ensure key and communication security.

5.3 The Boston Blockchain Association releases a toolkit for Massachusetts state lawmakers to promote the transformation of the state into a blockchain technology center

September 20th, according to Business Wire, Media Shower and the Boston Blockchain Association (BBA) have partnered with the Digital Assets and Blockchain Industry Trade Association, the Digital Chamber of Commerce, to release the Massachusetts version of the blockchain technology legislator’s tool. package to guide Massachusetts lawmakers in creating a favorable regulatory environment for the industry.

5.4 Blockchain Integrated Partners Releases Patent for Virtual Data Room

On September 23, Blockchain Integrated Partners, LLC announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a U.S. patent for its distributed ledger technology. The technology, titled "System and Method for Data Verification and Assurance" (US Patent 11061886), makes document management and preservation more accurate and efficient while reducing costs. The patent supports the Blockchain Integration Partners (BIPs) business model, including the provision of the first virtual data room (VDR) associated with blockchain technology provided by TruDoss, LLC, the company operating the BIPs. VDR is a digital repository for collecting, displaying and reviewing documents. Linking VDR to TruDoss' distributed ledger, content owners can transfer ownership of the chain and create tradable blocks of information that are monitored and updated at threshold intervals.

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