The mysterious blockchain product that Ant has been teasing for many days has finally been unveiled.
On April 16, Ant officially announced its new blockchain product "Open Alliance Chain". The "Open Alliance Chain" is claimed to be a universal chain-linking product that "doesn't require a chain, is fast and low-cost" and is mainly aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises and developers. It focuses on helping developers quickly deploy and develop blockchain-related applications.
According to Ant Blockchain Jin Ge, the “Open Alliance Chain” began testing in December last year. After more than three months of public testing, it has accumulated thousands of customers and developers (active ratio More than 10), dozens of DApps have been built on the product.
This official announcement also heralds that the "Open Alliance Chain" will officially move from public beta to commercialization.
Lowering the threshold is an eternal topic in blockchain development.
Previously, when various Internet giants entered the cross-border blockchain field, they were willing to start with BaaS services.
BaaS services mainly focus on providing developers with a complete set of development tools to lower the threshold for developers to build their own alliance chain system.
How is the "open alliance chain" that emphasizes further lowering the entry threshold realized?
The biggest difference between "open alliance chain" and BaaS services is that developers can use the blockchain without purchasing servers or building nodes.
Specifically, small and medium-sized developers can directly access the blockchain and carry out on-chain business through the IDE, smart contract development templates, DApp development assistants, and other components provided by Ant Blockchain.
Jin Ge, general manager of the Ant Blockchain Platform Product Department, gave an example of a traceability scenario:
"Open Alliance Chain" is actually a product between a public chain and an industry alliance chain. But in terms of form, it is more inclined to the industry alliance chain.
There are also differences between "open alliance chains" and industry alliance chains. The customer levels and business models they cover are different.
In terms of customer level differences, the industry alliance chain covers leading customers, such as listed companies or leading companies of similar size to listed companies, which have greater influence in the industry. The "open alliance chain" covers small and medium-sized customers with small revenue and some developers.
In terms of business model differences, industry alliance chains are more connected in the form of projects, with long implementation cycles and project volumes exceeding one million. "Open Alliance Chain" emphasizes a ready-to-use, on-demand pricing model with a low threshold.
At the press conference, Jin Ge also made a detailed analysis of the five major capabilities of the "open alliance chain":
Generally speaking, the "open alliance chain" is currently moving towards low cost and low threshold pricing service model.
From the official website, it can be seen that the open alliance chain provides users with two versions: professional version and enterprise version. The product has three pricings, each priced at 100 yuan/month (professional version, for test-type novice developers) , 999 yuan/year (professional version, for developers who really need to access the blockchain), 4888 yuan/year (enterprise version, for enterprise-level developers with relatively high-frequency transactions).
The enterprise version is suitable for high-frequency scenarios such as games, social networking, bills and people's livelihood, and public welfare, while the professional version is suitable for low-frequency scenarios such as copyright contracts, organizations, and traceability.
Both the professional version and the enterprise version can enjoy the basic services provided by the open alliance chain. In addition to the price, the biggest difference between the two is that the TPS of the professional version user rights is ≤ 10, and the monthly available fuel is 1 billion; Enterprise The TPS available for users' rights is ≤100, and the available fuel per month is 100 billion. In addition, the first 100 enterprise version users can also obtain the creation product status of the "open alliance chain".
In addition to lowering the threshold, large companies are always willing to create scenarios when it comes to blockchain.
The evolution from BaaS to "open alliance chain" is also a manifestation of giants attracting more developers by lowering the threshold to feed back application scenarios.
According to reports, the current main application scenarios on the open alliance chain are mainly 2C services, involving game interaction, public welfare traceability, copyright, bills and people's livelihood, etc.
It is easier for customers with their own scenarios to form a relatively stable group.
The follow-up plan of "Open Alliance Chain" is also closely related to the implementation of blockchain scenarios.
Jin Ge also introduced three future plans for the "Open Alliance Chain":
1. Create more valuable industry scenarios based on existing customers, and hope In the future, we can expand more blockchain service providers in small and medium-sized enterprise industries, such as education, retail, agriculture, medical care, cultural tourism and other industries, and contribute more scenarios;
2. Integrate the Ant Industry Alliance Chain Provide it to customers on an on-demand pricing basis;
3. Gradually add more industry alliance chain technologies, such as digital identity, cross-chain, and cloud integration capabilities, to the open alliance chain according to the market pace Go inside to further lower the development threshold for developers and solve technical problems.