School of blockchain information science and Engineering

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Although the blockchain technology is still in the early stage of development, the corresponding talents are in short supply

Computer (software engineering, information and computing science, information technology, information security, etc.)

2, mathematics related majors

3, economics related majors

4, cryptography

at present, various well-known institutions around the world are competing to launch blockchain teaching courses, Some universities have even set up corresponding completion certificates for blockchain courses

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"The unique credit mechanism built by blockchain technology is very promising," Qiao Xinliang, vice president of Suning technology group, told reporters. On July 20, 2018, Suning Technology Research Institute, Suning Financial Research Institute and Suning cloud jointly released the "Suning blockchain white paper", which interprets in detail the application scenarios of blockchain in Suning's advantageous instries such as retail, logistics, science and technology, finance, cultural and creative instries and public services, and points out the development route for many instries that blockchain technology can serve in the future. At the same time, based on the in-depth study of the application mode, landing scenarios and solutions of the blockchain in the smart retail ecosystem, this paper focuses on the specific solutions under each scenario

"large companies, especially those with a large number of instrial layout, have advantages in the application of new technologies such as blockchain. Because these companies have the commercial infrastructure and data operation ability to promote the use of technology, they can more effectively promote the aggregation of Commerce and accelerate the landing application," said Liu Xiaofan

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3. 99% of them are deceiving. It's deceiving to say how much it will appreciate. It's just a technology, its application is valuable.

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Blockchain is a new application mode of distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm and other computer technologies. Blockchain is an important concept of bitcoin. It is essentially a decentralized database. At the same time, as the underlying technology of bitcoin, it is a series of data blocks generated by using cryptographic methods. Each data block contains a batch of information about bitcoin network transactions, Used to verify the validity of its information (anti-counterfeiting) and generate the next block

if such technology wants to be put into application, the biggest problem is the "Impossible Triangle problem"

that is, scalability, decentralization and security cannot be achieved at the same time, and only two of them can be achieved

most of the existing public chain projects in the market are difficult to put into use on a large scale

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Three questions blockchain (economic hot spot)

recently, news about bitcoin is very eye-catching, and blockchain is on fire. In the capital market, the rise and fall of various blockchain concept stocks is like a roller coaster. It can be seen from the sensitive capital market that the blockchain is on the way and is highly concerned by all parties

"blockchain technology is essentially a kind of database technology, specifically a kind of ledger technology. The account book records the asset changes and transactions of one or more accounts. In fact, it is a kind of database with the simplest structure. The daily accounts we usually record in the small account book and the statements sent by the bank are typical account books. " Wang Jun, chief researcher of Tencent Financial technology think tank, said that security is a major feature of blockchain technology, which is mainly reflected in two aspects: one is the distributed storage architecture. The more nodes there are, the higher the security of data storage is; The other is the ingenious design of tamper proof and decentralization, which makes it difficult for anyone to modify data without following the rules

take the online shopping transaction as an example, the traditional mode is that the buyer purchases the goods, and then sends the money to the intermediary platform of the third-party payment institution. After the seller delivers the goods and the buyer confirms the receipt, the buyer informs the payment institution to send the money to the seller's account. The transaction mode supported by blockchain technology is different. Buyers and sellers can trade directly without any intermediary platform. After the transaction between the buyer and the seller, the system publishes the transaction information in the form of broadcast, and all hosts receiving the information record the transaction after confirming that the information is correct, which means that all hosts have done data backup for the transaction. Even if a machine has problems in the future, it will not affect the data recording, because there are countless machines as backup

when it comes to blockchain, many people associate it with bitcoin, and many even equate blockchain with bitcoin. He Fei said that bitcoin is a way of presenting blockchain, but blockchain is not the same as bitcoin. Blockchain is the underlying technology and infrastructure of bitcoin, and bitcoin is a successful application of blockchain, but it does not mean that blockchain can only be applied to bitcoin

What is the use of

blockchain

can solve the pain points and difficulties in many fields such as finance, public welfare, supervision, anti-counterfeiting, but there are many applicable conditions

financial service is the first application field of blockchain technology. The application of blockchain technology can solve the pain points in payment, asset management, securities and other fields

taking the payment field as an example, the cost of reconciliation, clearing and settlement among financial institutions, especially cross-border financial institutions, is high, involving many manual processes, which not only leads to high costs for users and financial institutions' back-end business, but also makes it difficult to develop micro payment business. The application of blockchain technology helps to rece the cost of reconciliation and dispute resolution between financial institutions, and significantly improve the processing efficiency of payment business. In addition, the cost and efficiency advantages brought by blockchain technology in the field of payment enable financial institutions to better handle the small cross-border payment which was considered unrealistic e to high cost in the past, and contribute to the realization of Inclusive Finance

for example, in order to solve the problem of high reconciliation cost among financial institutions, in August 2016, Weizhong bank and Shanghai Huarui Bank launched the inter agency reconciliation platform of micro loan, which is also the first application scenario of banking alliance chain running in the proction environment in China. Zhang Kaixiang, chief architect of Weizhong bank's blockchain, believes that the high cost problem that the traditional "batch file reconciliation" model has failed to solve for a long time is exactly where blockchain technology can be used. Subsequently, Bank of Luoyang and Bank of Changsha have also been connected to the inter agency reconciliation platform. Through the blockchain technology, the inter agency reconciliation process in the micro loan business has been optimized, achieving the goals of quasi real-time reconciliation, improving operation efficiency and recing operation cost. Up to now, the platform has been running stably for more than one year, with zero failure, and the number of real transactions recorded has reached tens of millions

in the field of public welfare, blockchain technology is also promising. The first application scenario of ant financial services involving blockchain is public welfare, which helps a group of hearing-impaired children get a donation, and then uses blockchain technology to promote public welfare to be more open and transparent. Hu Danqing, senior proct expert of ant financial services technology laboratory, said: "the blockchain public welfare platform is like a post office dedicated to mailing funds on the Internet. Every sum of money donated by users will be packaged into a package, which will be delivered through the blockchain platform. Every node we pass through will be stamped with a postmark and finally delivered to the recipient. This can ensure that every sum of money donated by users is transparent, traceable and difficult to tamper with. "

blockchain technology can be used to crack down on counterfeit goods. Hu Danqing introced that ant financial services has applied blockchain technology to the traceability of authentic procts. At present, some seafood procts from Australia and New Zealand, such as milk powder, are swept away with Alipay, so they can know if they are genuine procts. Different from previous businesses' self input of commodity information, blockchain allows multiple "bookkeepers" to complete bookkeeping fairly, independently and non repudiately. "

for financial supervision, blockchain technology can also play a role. According to the white paper of FISCO bcos, the underlying platform of financial blockchain, issued by the financial blockchain cooperation alliance (Shenzhen) in 2017, blockchain provides consistent and easy to audit data for financial regulators. Through the data analysis of inter agency blockchain, it can supervise financial business faster and more accurately than the traditional audit process. For example, in the anti money laundering scenario, the balance and transaction records of each account are traceable, and any link of any transaction will not be separated from the regulatory line of sight, which will greatly improve the anti money laundering efforts

some people in the instry believe that blockchain 1.0 is mainly aimed at digital currency; Blockchain 2.0 aims at smart contracts and can be applied in financial markets; Blockchain 3.0 will apply to more scenarios, and even create a "blockchain era"

He Fei believes that blockchain can indeed solve the pain points and difficulties in many fields, but blockchain is not omnipotent and has many applicable conditions

for example, the decentralization of blockchain technology is suitable for multi-party participation scenarios, and if it is only unilateral or bilateral participation, the value is not great. Due to the need for each node to check, blockchain technology is not suitable for those high-frequency trading activities

for another example, blockchain emphasizes openness and transparency, which is not suitable for scenarios with high data privacy requirements

will blockchain become a new outlet

technology is not yet mature enough. We must be alert to the concept of speculation. In particular, we should distinguish between technological innovation or fund-raising innovation. We can not block the chain chain concept of

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in recent years, the development ecology of blockchain has been graally improved and enriched. Instry insiders believe that with national policy support, extensive attention and financial support, blockchain technology can achieve graal and stable progress. Although the prospect of blockchain technology is broad, we should also keep an ordinary mind

"despite the current blockchain craze, we still believe that it is still in a very early stage." Hu Danqing said that at present, there is a virtual heat in the concept of blockchain. Instead of using technology to solve practical problems, it is hot to raise money and speculate on valuation. In particular, most of the so-called ICO (initial token issuance) that are hot are innovation of fund-raising tools, which has nothing to do with technological innovation

blockchain technology can indeed create great value, but some risks can not be ignored

"blockchain technology is not very mature, and its application scenarios are relatively limited, so we should be more alert to the concept of capital market speculation." He Fei said that behind the blockchain boom, there will inevitably be some companies that want to speculate. They do not really carry out business, but just try to make a profit in the capital market. They should be careful to prevent the emergence of "bad money drives out good money", which will lead to the withdrawal of institutions that really want to carry out business from the market and affect the application of blockchain technology

Hu Danqing suggested that for the current blockchain craze, regulatory authorities should be more active in intervening, distinguish between technological innovation and fund-raising innovation, encourage government organizations, credible experts and instry participants to help the public identify, comprehensively curb fund-raising innovation in the name of blockchain, and let the actual controller of ICO bear responsibility for fund-raising behavior“ The basis for judging whether it is technological innovation or fund-raising innovation is actually very clear, that is, whether it starts with trust and whether it creates practical value by solving the trust problem. "

in order to better promote and use blockchain technology in the future, we need to continue to improve the infrastructure and strengthen the formulation of relevant laws and policies

Wang Jun believes that there is still room for optimization and improvement of core technologies of blockchain such as consensus algorithm; On the other hand, the processing efficiency of blockchain is difficult to meet the requirements of some high-frequency application environments in reality. At present, the mainstream blockchain technology platforms are originated in foreign countries. Domestic blockchain technology service providers should patiently start from the bottom development, achieve independent and controllable technology, and strive to lead the development of global blockchain technology. Enterprises with blockchain application scenarios should actively embrace new things and scientifically evaluate the demand for blockchain, instead of blockchain for the sake of blockchain

He Fei believes that the government can issue relevant policies to guide the enterprises who are interested in the R & D and application of blockchain technology, and at the same time, clarify some suitable application scenarios of blockchain and areas encouraged by the state

the white paper 2016 on the development of China's blockchain technology and application suggests that government departments at all levels should learn from the advanced practices of developed countries and regions and, in combination with the development of China's blockchain technology and application, timely issue support policies for blockchain technology and instrial development, focusing on supporting key technology tackling, major demonstration projects, the construction of "innovation and entrepreneurship" platform, and the development of China's blockchain technology and application System solution development and public service platform construction. At the same time, it is suggested that domestic key enterprises, scientific research institutions, universities and user units should strengthen cooperation to speed up the research of core key technologies such as consensus mechanism, programmable contract, distributed storage and digital signature

can bring money to the enterprise will become the outlet

6. Professor Hu Kai's research mainly includes:
digital economy and blockchain Technology: he is one of the earliest scholars engaged in blockchain technology in China. He has proposed and developed such theoretical methods as smart contract engineering (SCE), legal code technology, verification as a service (VAAs), etc. in the fields of combination of digital economy and blockchain, planning and consulting of digital economic Park, digital governance of blockchain, and so on Blockchain scalability, Multi Chain interconnection and blockchain formal verification technology have in-depth research and patent achievements. He presided over the research and development of Beihang blockchain series procts, including various forms of blockchain systems with independent intellectual property rights, browsers, monitors, deployment tools and blockchain big data management system (opendata)
distributed parallel computing and network: he has been engaged in cluster computing system, high-performance computing, aerospace electronic bus, and integrated network information technology research in complex computing environment for a long time. He proposed and studied the theory of reconfigurable multi cluster computing based on wolf pack and applied it to practice, and developed several application software systems
formal design and verification methods: in close cooperation with irit and INRIA, we have established a Sino French joint research laboratory for formal methods, studied model driven formal design and verification methods, proposed a number of innovative extension technologies based on AADL and synchronous language signal, and developed a number of model transformation, model validation and verification methods Verification and automatic code generation tools
in recent years, he has published more than 60 papers on SCI / EI retrieval in important academic journals at home and abroad, edited new technologies of network computing (416 pages, published by Science Press in 2001), and cooperatively completed the national authoritative textbook introction to distributed computing system (490 pages, published by Tsinghua University Press in 2014), which won the first prize of 2016 textbook, It has been adopted by more than ten key universities. He has successively presided over and participated in a number of National Natural Science Fund, national key R & D projects, 863 major projects, Junkou 863 project, National Nuclear high-tech foundation project, aerospace fund, and a number of important engineering projects in aerospace field. He won more than 30 national invention patents and soft works, won the five-year achievement award of aviation fund in 2015, and won the second-class innovation achievement award of Instry University Research Institute in 2018.

7. Blockchain mainly solves the trust and security problems of transactions, so it proposes four technological innovations to solve this problem:
(1) distributed ledger, that is, transaction bookkeeping is completed by multiple nodes distributed in different places, and each node records complete accounts, so they can participate in monitoring the legitimacy of transactions, At the same time, they can testify together
different from traditional distributed storage, the uniqueness of distributed storage of blockchain is mainly reflected in two aspects: one is that each node of blockchain stores complete data according to block chain structure, while traditional distributed storage generally stores data in multiple copies according to certain rules. Second, the storage of each node in the blockchain is independent and has the same status, which relies on the consensus mechanism to ensure the consistency of storage, while the traditional distributed storage generally synchronizes data from the central node to other backup nodes[ 8]
no single node can record the account data separately, so as to avoid the possibility that a single bookkeeper is controlled or bribed to record false accounts. In theory, unless all the nodes are destroyed, the accounts will not be lost, so as to ensure the security of the account data
(2) asymmetric encryption and authorization technology, the transaction information stored on the blockchain is public, but the account identity information is highly encrypted, which can only be accessed under the authorization of the data owner, thus ensuring the data security and personal privacy
(3) consensus mechanism is how to reach a consensus among all accounting nodes to determine the validity of a record, which is not only a means of identification, but also a means of preventing tampering. Blockchain proposes four different consensus mechanisms, which are suitable for different application scenarios and achieve a balance between efficiency and security
the consensus mechanism of blockchain has the characteristics of "the minority is subordinate to the majority" and "everyone is equal", in which "the minority is subordinate to the majority" does not completely refer to the number of nodes, but also can be the computing power, the number of shares or other characteristics that can be compared by computers“ "Everyone is equal" means that when the nodes meet the conditions, all nodes have the right to put forward the consensus results first, and then directly recognized by other nodes, and finally may become the final consensus results. Taking bitcoin as an example, the workload proof is adopted. Only when more than 51% of the accounting nodes in the whole network are controlled can a nonexistent record be forged. When there are enough nodes in the blockchain, this is basically impossible, thus eliminating the possibility of fraud.
(4) smart contract, which is based on these trusted and tamperable data, can automatically execute some pre-defined rules and terms. Take insurance as an example. If everyone's information (including medical information and risk occurrence information) is true and reliable, it is easy to carry out automatic claim settlement in some standardized insurance procts

8. Computer science and technology
software engineering
information and computing science

information technology
information security
these majors are possible to learn, and the curriculum of each school is different

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In recent years, blockchain and artificial intelligence have been very popular

first of all, blockchain is to establish a decentralized network. The so-called decentralization means that the network does not belong to you or me

it belongs to everyone

Artificial intelligence is a new technology science that researches and develops the theory, method, technology and application system for simulating, extending and expanding human intelligence. In other words, "machine self-learning"

in this way, we can think about the combination of blockchain and artificial intelligence

first of all, we need to understand that blockchain can be divided into three stages

However, in the first three stages, there are some problems, such as the lack of decentralization, low scalability, the mismatching between the incentive of the blocker and the best profit of the whole network, and the network always running at the maximum capacity. Serious waste of resources and rece efficiency

so can we combine artificial intelligence with underlying public chain technology to solve these problems

The answer is yes! And there has been team research and development, and has made a certain progress

Velas is a public chain that enhances its consensus algorithm through artificial intelligence (AI) optimized neural network, and carries out self-learning and self optimization. It is committed to improving the security, interoperability and high scalability of the transfer process and intelligent contract. Velas adopts the dpos consensus enhanced by AI, which completely realizes decentralization without recing the security and transaction speed. Not only that, AI chooses who to mortgage the token according to the needs of the blockchain; Velas only blocks when needed; Every 1 second to every 2 minutes; Scalability (up to 30000 TPS); Block procers are selected by artificial intuition