On the evening of March 12, Centrality NZ official website, a New Zealand blockchain company, announced that it had reached a strategic technical cooperation with Wanda Network Technology Group, a subsidiary of China Wanda Group.
It is understood that this cooperation does not involve investment and financing. The first stage is mainly the technical cooperation between the two parties. The application of pl^g(centrally) open source public chain technology has been developed and popularized in major scenes. After technology integration, the two sides will have more cooperation in the user circle and business circle, that is, the creation of the ecological circle.
Subsequently, Wanda NetScience and Technology Group confirmed this news, and said that blockchain is the core underlying technology of subversive "value Internet". There are many OMO (online and offline integration) scenarios suitable for blockchain technology as the infrastructure of digital transformation, while Centrality NZ is the industry-leading blockchain partner, and their PL^G underlying blockchain public chain technology is very suitable for many scenarios of Wanda.
Wanda emphasized that this cooperation does not involve any ICO, but the cooperation between the two sides in blockchain technology, community and talents, as well as the later commercial application cooperation.
It is understood that Centrality was established in July 2065438+2006, and it is a blockchain entrepreneurial studio with 75 team members. In addition to the New Zealand headquarters, we also have offices in Auckland, London and other places.
Although it has not been established for a long time, Centrality has carried out two rounds of ICO. The first round took place at 20 17 and 10, and the total amount raised reached150,000 USD. The second round took place in June this year, 5438+ 10, and the token sales raised 80 million US dollars in 6 minutes.
In fact, this cooperation is not the first time Wanda NetScience has entered the blockchain. Two years ago, Wanda was already laid out.
20 16 10 13, Wanda Group announced that it would adjust its industrial structure again, from the original three major sectors of commerce, culture and finance to four major industrial groups of commerce, culture, network and finance. Wanda Net Branch is the crystallization of Wanda Financial Group split by Wanda Group. After the spin-off, Fan Fei Information Company, Quick Money Payment Company, Credit Information Company, Network Data Center, Haiding Company and Network Credit Company under Wanda Group all belong to NetScience and Technology Group.
With the Internet finance entering the technology and finance stage from the financial license+Internet stage, technology has gradually become the core of finance. In order to comply with this trend, Wanda has gathered high-tech businesses related to network technology and established a network technology group with more than a dozen Internet brands. Now, Wanda Network Technology Group is trying to open Wanda's entity operation data+Internet model to the outside world in the form of API.
Financial technology bears the brunt of the landing scene of blockchain at the application level. Due to the market's hot speculation on blockchain technology, it has also attracted the attention of Wanda. For such a global frontier technology, the best way to master it is to join the corresponding international open source community.
On September 8th, 20 16, Wanda officially announced its participation in the Hyperledger project of the International Linux Foundation, becoming the first core board member from China.
In fact, Wanda started the research on super ledger in May of 20 16, launched its own blockchain technology research platform in June, joined the Linux Foundation super ledger project in August, and launched the blockchain credit application based on super ledger in the same month. In September, the first version of its own blockchain browser was released, and it joined the Golden Chain Alliance in the same month. In mid-September, POC concept verification based on Tencent BaaS (Blockas a Service) two DAPP decentralized applications was completed. In June, the application of blockchain financial assets exchange was launched at 5438+ 10, and the architecture design of the open source operating system Polaris blockchain technology platform was completed in the same month.
20 16 12, Wanda NetScience and Cloudera released the one-stop "Big Data+Blockchain" solution ProjectHercules.
Wang Jianlin once publicly stated that the main goal of Wanda Network Technology Group in the blockchain is to reshape the current Internet service model by using distributed ledger technology and build the next generation value Internet infrastructure. Wanda blockchain will combine the Internet of Things and big data to make business develop in a highly transparent distributed environment.