DATA Co-founder Franklin Song Attended the Graph Theory Forum in Hangzhou
(The original article was translated and edited by the DATA team)
On July 24th, the “Graph Theory III Forum: China-US Blockchain Technology and Application Exchange Conference” jointly sponsored by Zhejiang University Fangtu Blockchain Research Center and Zhejiang Financial Technology Association was successfully held in Hangzhou.
As the organizer, Zhejiang University Fangtu Blockchain Research Center was honored to have Professor Shao Zhong, the head of the Department of Computer Science at Yale University and co-founder of CertiK, Professor Chen Wenzhi, the director of Zhejiang University Information Technology Center, Cai Liangbin, the founder of FORTUNA Fangtu Blockchain, DCC founder Zhu Yuqing and DATA co-founder Franklin Song come to the site and delivered keynote speeches. At the same time, Shao Jianliang, the general manager of Canaan Blockchain Business Unit, Pan Xizhi, the director of the Blockchain Laboratory Operation of Jingdong Cloud, and Kim Seongkee, the co-founder of Korea MoFAS participated in the roundtable forum in the conference. This conference is not only the first gathering of the four major blockchain projects, Fortuna, CertiK, DATA, and DCC, but also the first thought collision between Yale and Zhejiang University in the field of blockchain. At the meeting, the distinguished guests gave wonderful speeches and discussions on blockchain security issues, blockchain financial application issues, and blockchain’s significance for data.
DATA, which aims to solve the problem of user distrust in the digital ecosystem by using blockchain technology, is another central project from Yale. The co-founder Franklin Song attended the forum and gave a speech on “Blockchain, the New Backbone of Digital Ecosystem”. Song believes that the current digital ecosystem is failing, and DATA’s decentralized layer data protocol driven by AI technology and P2P mobile storage infrastructure will continue to change the current situation.
The blockchain project CertiK is known for its formal verification of smart contracts. Professor Shao Zhong from Yale University attended the conference as the co-founder of CertiK, and delivered a speech in the theme of “Buidling Fully Trustworthy Smart Contracts and Blockchain Ecosystems”.
In the past two years, China’s blockchain technology has been rising and even leading in the international arena. Zhejiang University is one of the Chinese universities that cannot be ignored. Professor Chen Wenzhi, as one of the leading figures in the research of blockchain technology in Zhejiang University, also made a wonderful sharing on the application advantages of DAG technology in the blockchain.
As the world’s first Yale blockchain project, FORTUNA’s founder Cai Liangbin gave a speech on “Derivatives will be the first exported product of blockchain finance.” Cai said that the essence of finance is the exchange of value in time and space, and the development of finance has been carried out along the two main lines of the expansion of value exchange and the reduction of transaction costs, and blockchain as the only technology that comes with a set of financial systems will make a great contribution on both lines. For example, the blockchain-based pass is the most efficient asset securitization tool in the world.
Distributed Credit Chain (DCC) is the world’s first distributed bank public chain, dedicated to creating a distributed financial ecosystem for global financial services institutions, utilizing technology to serve finance, and achieving a true global inclusive finance through a distributed banking financial system. During his speech, Zhu Xiaoqing, the founder of DCC, said that you would never know how valuable your credit data is, and DCC could help you to maximize the value of it.
After the sharing, under the auspices of Cai Liangbin, the founder of Fangtu Blockchain, Professor Shao Zhong, the head of the Department of Computer Science at Yale University and co-founder of CertiK, Professor Chen Wenzhi, the director of Zhejiang University Information Technology Center, Zhu Yuqing, the founder of DCC, Shao Jianliang, the general manager of Canaan Blockchain Business Unit, Pan Xizhi, the director of the Blockchain Laboratory Operation of Jingdong Cloud, and Kim Seongkee, the co-founder of Korea MoFAS attended the Graph Theory Roundtable Forum and had in-depth discussions on topics such as blockchain academic, security, performance, environmental differences between China and the United States, academic recognition of universities, competition for giants, and different investment concepts in the Internet era.
The Graph Theory Forum is held regularly by the Fangtu Blockchain Research Center of Zhejiang University. The conference this time invited four Yale blockchain projects and well-known scholars and institutions globally. This was also the first thought collision between Yale and Zhejiang University in the field of blockchain. The academic exchanges and application discussion happened here were unique and exciting. This forum made us discover that in the world of blockchain, the distance between the ivory tower and the industry has become closer and closer.
