China Set for Large-Scale Blockchain Applications by 2019

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Chinese blockchain companies presented a bullish face at a major tech expo last week. Lei Chen, CEO of Xunlei Limited said that large-scale applications of blockchain technology could hit end users as soon as late 2018 or 2019.

Chen was speaking at the China International Big Data Expo in Guizhou Province. He stated that the technology has been developed much faster than predicted.

Mr Chen, said: “The era of Blockchain 3.0 has come. Xunlei’s ThunderChain makes it possible to create a blockchain-based shared computing model that involves over 1.5 million families and end users. Meanwhile, there are many startups and enterprises that are now developing large-scale applications on ThunderChain.”

Speaking on global competition, Mr Chen went on to say that China and the US are neck and neck in the race to bring the technology into everyday use. He said that the current infrastructure is set for any country to lead the world in the blockchain sector.

ThunderChain is a high-performance blockchain that can process over a million transactions per second. When prices boomed in 2017, major cryptocurrencies struggled with the additional demand which resulted in high fees. High-performance blockchains aim to cope with the demand and use techniques such as faster block times (e.g. EOS) or sharding (e.g. Zilliqa).

World-leading

The China International Big Data Expo claims to be the world’s first big-data-themed exhibition and was organized by four national Chinese bodies. This event covered the digital economy, big data and the integration of big data in everyday life.

The event also featured CEO of the Tapscott Group and co-author of “Blockchain Revolution”, Don Tapscott, who said: “Now for the first time ever, we have an internet of value [so] that anything with value – from money, stocks and music – can be managed and communicated by peer-to-peer in a secured and private way.”