On April 16, Ant officially announced its new blockchain product "Open Alliance Chain". "Open Alliance Chain" is said to be a national product for small and medium-sized enterprises and developers. It is "fast and low-cost" and focuses on helping developers quickly deploy and develop blockchain-related applications.

According to Jin Ge of the ant blockchain, the "open alliance chain" began testing in June 5438+February last year. After more than three months of public beta, it has accumulated thousands of customers and developers (the active ratio exceeds 10%) and built dozens of DApp on products.

This official announcement also marks that the "open alliance chain" has officially moved from public beta to commercialization.

Lowering the threshold is an eternal topic in the development of blockchain.

Previously, when various Internet giants were in the field of cross-border blockchain, they were happy to start with BaaS services.

BaaS service mainly focuses on providing a complete set of development tools for developers, thus lowering the threshold for developers to build their own alliance chain system.

How is the "open alliance chain" that emphasizes further lowering the entry threshold realized?

The biggest difference between "open alliance chain" and BaaS service is that developers can use blockchain without buying servers or building nodes.

Specifically, small and medium-sized developers can directly access the blockchain and conduct online business through the IDE, smart contract development template, DApp development assistant and other components provided by the ant blockchain.

Jin Ge, General Manager of Ant Blockchain Platform Products Department, takes the traceability scene as an example:

"Open alliance chain" is actually a product between public chain and industrial alliance chain, but it is more inclined to industrial alliance chain in form.

There are also differences between "open alliance chain" and industry alliance chain, covering different customer levels and business models.

In terms of customer hierarchy differences, the industry alliance chain covers head customers, such as listed companies or head enterprises with similar scale to listed companies, and has great influence in the industry. The "open alliance chain" covers small and medium-sized customers and some developers with smaller revenues.

On the difference of business model, the industrial alliance chain is more project-oriented, with a long implementation cycle and more than one million projects. The "open alliance chain" emphasizes the mode of pay-as-you-go and on-demand pricing, and the threshold is low.

At the press conference, Jin Ge also specifically analyzed the five capabilities of the "open alliance chain":

Generally speaking, the "open alliance chain" is developing towards a low-cost and low-threshold pricing service model.

As can be seen from official website, the open alliance chain provides users with two versions, the professional version and the enterprise version. The product pricing is 100 yuan/month (professional version for test developers), 999 yuan/year (professional version for developers who really need to access the blockchain) and 4888 yuan/year (enterprise version for enterprise developers with relatively high transaction volume).

The enterprise version is suitable for high-frequency scenes such as game socialization, bill livelihood and public welfare, while the professional version is suitable for low-frequency scenes such as copyright contract, organization and traceability.

Both professional edition and enterprise edition can enjoy the basic services provided by the open alliance chain. In addition to the price, the biggest difference between the two is that the professional version of user rights TPS≤ 10, and the monthly available fuel 10 billion; Enterprise users' rights and interests can be TPS≤ 100, and monthly fuel can be used 100 billion. In addition, the first batch of 100 enterprise users can also obtain the status of "open alliance chain" as a creative product.

In addition to lowering the threshold, big companies are always happy to do scenes in the blockchain. The evolution from BaaS to "open alliance chain" is also the embodiment that giants feed back application scenarios and attract more developers by lowering the threshold.

According to reports, the main application scenarios in the open alliance chain are mainly 2C services, involving game interaction, public welfare traceability, copyright, bills and people's livelihood.

Customers who bring their own scenes are also more likely to form a relatively stable group.

The follow-up plan of the "open alliance chain" is also closely related to the landing of the blockchain scene.

Jin Ge also introduced three future plans of the "open alliance chain":

1. Create more valuable industry scenarios on the basis of existing customers, and hope to expand more blockchain service providers in the future and contribute more scenarios to SMEs, such as education, retail, agriculture, medical care, cultural tourism and other industries;

Second, provide the ant industry alliance chain to customers in the form of on-demand pricing;

Third, according to the market rhythm, more industry alliance chain technologies, such as digital identity, cross-chain and cloud integration capabilities, are gradually added to the open alliance chain, further lowering the development threshold of developers and solving technical problems.