Blockchain, the background color of new commercial times
If one word is used to describe the present era, it is undoubtedly appropriate that new technologies have reached a critical point and new business categories and models have emerged.
The evolution of AI technology we see, the emergence of large models we see, and the emergence of metauniverse we see are almost all born under such a big background.
However, through these technologies and models, we can always find a main line.
It is such a main line that leads the development of technology and mode, from one peak to another, from an unknown field to another unknown field.
If we summarize such a main line, I prefer to regard it as an extension and expansion of blockchain.
It can be said that these technologies and models all reveal the thinking of blockchain, all show the magic of blockchain, and all open people’s beautiful imagination of blockchain.
And this, perhaps, is what the blockchain really looks like.
The more at this moment, the more we have to straighten out the logic between blockchain and them, and the more we have to find out the pivotal role played by the spirit, thought and technology of blockchain.
Only in this way can we truly understand that blockchain is not just a false concept, not just a tool to circle money, but a subversive existence that can really bring changes to technology and business.
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Blockchain is breaking the barriers and bottlenecks of new technologies.
The technology dominated by Internet mode has brought profound and thorough changes to people’s production and life, which not only affects people’s production mode, but also affects people’s lifestyle.
Now, the Internet has become a new type of infrastructure, which supports people’s production and life like hydropower and coal in the traditional sense.
It can be said that without the internet, our life will be hard to move.
However, what we should also see is that the development model dominated by internet technology has begun to encounter more and more difficulties, and the business dominated by the internet model has begun to encounter more and more criticisms.
Whether it is the peak of flow or the decline of efficiency, it is a direct manifestation of such a phenomenon.
As a result, people began to look for ways to break the internet model, whether from the innovation of business model, from the basic research of technology, or even from the deep transformation of play.
However, in the end, people still have to settle on the innovation and evolution of the underlying technology.
Whether it is the rise of big data, the emergence of cloud computing, or even the flowering of AI, it is almost a direct manifestation of such a phenomenon.
It has to be said that new technologies have opened people’s new imagination, new technologies, derived new business models and new technologies, and realized the transformation of the Internet.
However, we also need to see that these new technologies are almost all in a state of fragmentation, and they rarely establish contact with each other, let alone form a joint force like the Internet.
As a result, the evolution of new technologies began to encounter new bottlenecks.
It is no longer just to regard the evolution of new technology as an independent and closed existence, but to truly twist new technology into a rope and form a joint force, thus bringing people’s lives into an era similar to the Internet, which is the key to truly breaking through the bottleneck.
To achieve this, we still need to start from the lowest and most basic places.
It is at such a moment that the blockchain has been pushed to the foreground.
We all know that the essence of blockchain is a technology, and what it really solves is actually the problem of underlying data transmission.
Whether it is big data, cloud computing, or even AI, their essence is actually the reshaping and change of the underlying data transmission method.
Undoubtedly, this is similar to blockchain. The essence of blockchain is to break the problem of data transmission in the traditional sense, that is, to reconstruct a brand-new data transmission mode.
With the help of blockchain, we can break down the barriers between new technologies represented by big data, cloud computing and AI, so that they are no longer closed, but synergistic, so that they are no longer isolated, but integrated.
At this time, the era we live in is no longer an era of different types of new technologies, but a brand-new era that can be truly unified and form a joint force like the Internet era.
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Blockchain is giving birth to new business models.
If we summarize the business model in the Internet era, centralization and platformization are undoubtedly more appropriate.
We are familiar with Internet players, all of which are centralized platforms and centers where various resources gather.
It can be said that players who have gathered enough resources on their own platforms, but have achieved scale advantages in a certain industry and field, have almost become winners.
For example, e-commerce platforms represented by Ali, JD.COM and Pinduoduo;
For example, social platforms represented by WeChat, Facebook and Twitter;
For example, short video platforms represented by Tik Tok and Aauto Quicker are all the same.
However, when such a platform-based and centralized development model reaches its peak, we will find that the relative concentration of resources begins to lead to monopoly, and the relative aggregation of elements begins to lead to the decline of efficiency.
In the past, people’s tried-and-true Internet-style business model began to encounter more and more problems and criticisms;
In the past, people’s high hopes for the dragon boy began to become a dragon, so we saw that people began to look for ways and means to crack the Internet-style business model.
It is under such circumstances that we have seen the emergence of a new business model represented by deplatform and decentralization, the derivative of a new style of play represented by activating individuals and releasing their potential, and the emergence of a new business logic represented by the inside out and the bottom up.
If we summarize these new business models, we will find that they are also deeply related to the blockchain.
The reason is that the blockchain is actually a decentralized existence, and the business model derived from it is actually dominated by activating individuals and releasing their vitality.
Undoubtedly, this is similar to the business model of deplatform and decentralization that people are exploring at present.
Different from the decentralized business model established in different industries and fields, the decentralized business model led by blockchain is more pure and more universal.
Simply put, the decentralized business model of blockchain is more universal, and new business models such as decentralization of e-commerce and social decentralization can basically be classified under the blockchain business model.
It can be said that the blockchain is giving birth to a new business model, and it is linking the business models that were not too related, and thus bringing people’s production methods and lifestyles into a decentralized stage.
If we regard the era dominated by the Internet-style centralized business model as the Internet era, then the decentralized business model dominated by blockchain is a veritable blockchain era.
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Blockchain is building a new ecology.
For any era, it is a true representation of business ecology.
In the Internet era, we have seen the emergence and appearance of one ecology after another. These ecosystems are superimposed on each other, which has brought people’s production and life to a new stage.
Therefore, if a new era can replace the Internet era in the future, then it must be an existence that can build a brand-new ecology.
All along, we have been saying that the era of digital economy is coming;
All along, we have been exploring the ways and methods of the integration of numbers and facts.
In the final analysis, we just want to build a brand-new ecology. Under such a brand-new ecology, the barriers between virtual and physical are broken, and the transmission of data and numbers is more efficient.
However, we also want to see that even if the deep integration of virtual and entity is realized, even if the efficient transmission of digital and data is realized, if these phenomena only occur in a limited industry and only in a limited number of scenarios, and the barriers between industries and scenarios are not broken, and the deep integration of different industries and scenarios is realized, then such a state is still inefficient and fragmented.
In the final analysis, we still have to build a unified ecology and realize the deep integration of different industries and different scenes.
This requires us to look at the digital economy with a more basic and pure thinking;
This requires us to explore a new method of integrating numbers and facts from a more effective and inclusive perspective.
Blockchain just provides us with such a perspective.
Through the blockchain, different industries and different scenes are no longer isolated from each other, no longer closed to each other, but can be linked together to form an ecological one.
When different industries and different scenarios can operate under the blockchain ecology, then what we see will be a new ecology similar to the Internet era.
Under such an ecology, the blockchain has become the infrastructure, the blockchain has become the underlying technology, and the blockchain has built the connection between different industries and different scenes, thus bringing people’s production and life to a brand-new development stage.
At this time, different business models and different technical forms can be unified and coordinated with each other;
At this time, we can truly enter the blockchain era from the Internet era;
At this time, the essence and original meaning of blockchain can be maximized.
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When new technologies reach the critical point, when new businesses are hatched, we need to find the commonness behind these phenomena, and we need to find new interpretations of these phenomena.
If you want to find the background color of these new technologies and new businesses, blockchain is undoubtedly the most appropriate.
With the help of blockchain, new technologies are no longer separate from each other, and new businesses are no longer closed to each other. They have formed a system, constructed an ecology and reached a consensus.
Such a system, such an ecology, and such a consensus are all the reappearance of blockchain, the mapping of blockchain, and the new commercial existence with blockchain as the background.
(Meng Yonghui is a senior writer and columnist)
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