IPFS is included in the National Radio and Television Administration's blockchain technology application series of white papers, and the distributed storage industry is developing at the right time

At present, major countries around the world are accelerating the development of blockchain technology and elevating blockchain to a strategic level as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies. In order to actively promote the innovative application of blockchain technology in the fields of radio, television and online audio-visual, the State Administration of Radio and Television recently organized the compilation of a series of white papers on the application of blockchain technology.

Among them, Interstellar File System IPFS, as the next generation Internet underlying communication protocol benchmarked against HTTP, ranks at the forefront. "P2P" peer-to-peer system, "CND" content distribution network, "DAPP" distributed application, etc. are also mentioned. The relevant terms in these white papers may appear in the broadcasts we hear in the near future~

The State Administration of Radio and Television, also known as the SARFT, is a ministerial-level agency directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China responsible for supervising and managing radio and television work. It is mainly responsible for implementing the propaganda policies of the CPC Central Committee, formulating policies and measures for radio and television management and supervising their implementation, and coordinating and guiding the development of radio and television and industry. The release of the blockchain technology application series of white papers by the SARFT is just like the inclusion of blockchain in the new infrastructure, which is of great significance to the development of blockchain itself, blockchain practitioners and even the development of the times.

Three Eras of Blockchain Development

In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", which elaborated on the concept of building an electronic cash system based on the integration of multiple technologies such as peer-to-peer networks, encryption, timestamps, and consensus mechanisms, and thus opened the door to the blockchain; the Bitcoin system began to operate on January 3, 2009.

Blockchain technology has roughly gone through three stages of development:

• The blockchain 1.0 era represented by Bitcoin provides a new distributed accounting method that is different from the traditional accounting method. It has the characteristics of decentralization, difficulty in tampering, non-forgeability, and traceability. The main application scenarios are digital currency issuance, payment, and circulation .

• The blockchain 2.0 era represented by Ethereum adds smart contracts to the 1.0 era . Smart contracts are a piece of program code running on blockchain nodes. When the pre-set terms are met or triggered, the smart contract is automatically executed. Smart contracts enable programmable transactions without human intervention, making operations more transparent and efficient.

• In the era of blockchain 3.0 , which is the era of blockchain exploration and popularization, there is no recognized typical application of blockchain 3.0, but blockchain is rapidly moving towards the stage of exploration and popularization of applications in various industries. It is considered to be the basic platform for building a value network and can realize the free flow of value on the Internet. In addition, the application of blockchain technology has extended to multiple fields such as digital finance, Internet of Things, intelligent manufacturing, supply chain management, digital asset trading, etc., showing the prospect of wide application.

  
  

The blockchain 3.0 era will inevitably be an era in which blockchain is popularized and enters thousands of households. Although there is no recognized representative of the blockchain 3.0 era today, Filecoin, as the incentive layer of IPFS, can effectively solve the problem of blockchain data storage with its distributed storage characteristics. At present, Ethereum, Polkadot, and Ontology have bridged FIL; as the underlying highway of the blockchain industry, Filecoin may be able to assist the arrival of blockchain 3.0. In time, Filecoin may become a recognized representative of the blockchain 3.0 era .

• The integration of blockchain and 5G technology can achieve high-speed synchronization of blockchain data in a 5G network environment, reduce the generation of differential data, thereby improving the reliability of the blockchain network and reducing errors and forks caused by network delays; in the 5G era, blockchain technology will become an indispensable "trust machine" in the process of information transmission, and while moving from the "Internet of Things Era" to the "Internet of Things Era", it will also lock information security.

• The integration of blockchain and IoT technology , placing IoT devices in blockchain nodes for management, can improve the efficiency of IoT device authentication, data collection and storage processing, and multi-device collaboration, and achieve decentralized control of distributed IoT. In addition, IoT technology can solve the credibility problem of mapping physical assets with blockchain data, ensure that the original data is authentic, and ensure that physical assets and digital assets have a unique mapping relationship.

• The integration of blockchain and artificial intelligence technology can allow blockchain to be responsible for providing trusted data at the data layer, while artificial intelligence is responsible for automated business processing and intelligent decision-making, thereby realizing the automation, autonomy and intelligence of blockchain. Artificial intelligence relies on data, and more accurate data can be obtained through blockchain technology, which can help artificial intelligence improve its trustworthiness and reduce the risk of attacks on artificial intelligence applications.

  
  

• The integration of blockchain and cloud computing technology will accelerate the maturity of blockchain technology and promote the expansion of blockchain into more application areas. Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Huawei, Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, JD.com and other technology giants have begun to deploy BaaS platform services to quickly establish the required blockchain development environment for developers, help developers verify concepts and models more quickly, and provide developers with a convenient and high-performance blockchain ecological environment and ecological supporting services to support the business expansion and operation support of blockchain developers.