In 2008, BTC and blockchain appeared. Around 2015, the blockchain has become a professional research object. Many monographs, academic papers, and popular science literature on blockchain have been published, and the concept of blockchain has also been popularized. What is even more shocking is that in the past 3 years, the application of blockchain technology has entered the real economy from encrypted currency and interacted with the rise and development of the digital economy. According to official data, global spending on blockchain solutions reached US$ 2.9 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach US$ 12.4 billion by 2022.
Blockchain has completed 20 years of the Internet in nearly 10 years. The next 10 years are to open up the real physical world and the virtual digital world. Blockchain technology plays a crucial role. In this process, the development of the blockchain general operating system is particularly critical and even determines whether the blockchain industry can go far.
The Brief of Traditional Operation System
We all know that computers, tablets, and smartphones all have an operating system (OS), such as Windows, Linux or Android, Apple OS X, or iOS. What is the operating system? The operating system manages all hardware resources of the computer system, including software resources and data sources. Control program operation; Improving man-machine interface; Provide support for other application software, etc., so that all resources of the computer system can play their role to the maximum extent and provide users with convenient, effective, and friendly service interfaces. To use a more straightforward analogy to describe: hardware equipment can be directly regarded as human body parts, the operating system is just like the basic functions of human beings, such as eating, drinking, pulling, sleeping, and application software is just like all kinds of advanced abilities possessed by human beings, such as painting, playing piano, singing, dancing, etc.
The operating system came out with GMOs in the 1950s while Windows was first introduced in 1985. Today, the number of personal computers in the world has far exceeded 1 billion, and nearly 4 billion smartphones have far exceeded the number of cars in the world. These devices all require an operating system. The operating system has become one of the most successful technology applications in history. In 2019, the latest data on the global operating system market share released by NetMarketShare showed that Microsoft alone accounted for 88.17% of the global market share in the top 10 list of operating systems, followed by apple's Mac OS system, accounting for about 8.59% of the global market share. However, Microsoft's Windows, Apple's Mac OS, and Linux operating systems account for 98.31% of the world's market share. What amazing data.
Recently, Huawei's Harmony OS operating system has become the focus of attention in the industry. The operating system is the world's first full-scene distributed operating system based on a microkernel, which is also Huawei's preparation for the interconnection of everything in the 5G era. In other words, the Harmony OS system has taken the first step to build Huawei's ecosystem in the future. In terms of hardware, Huawei 5G technology is far ahead. The next step is to upgrade the operating system. Next, 5G is fully integrated with the system.
Blockchain Industry also need Operation System
The current blockchain is just like the original Internet. In addition to the rapid growth of the industry, the current product experience is extremely poor, 90% of the participants do not even know what the simplest operation is, and the installation of wallets and browsers is extremely low.
Blockchain has a very high cognitive threshold for ordinary people, and even for most employees in the industry, the cognition of blockchain is insufficient. Users need to have a certain knowledge of blockchain technology. Take the basic digital cash transaction as an example, users may need to know What is the Private Key and What is the Mnemonic Word, etc. Most users who come into contact for the first time cannot understand and operate through their understanding in a short time. The education of users of the blockchain has only just begun.
For developers, the blockchain also has a high technical threshold. For example, at present, the development of the on-line application (DAPP) may require mastering a new language (e.g. Solidity), but at present, there are not many such tutorials and there is a lack of perfect information on the Internet. There may be many loopholes in the developed DAPP. Blockchain itself is an interdisciplinary edge technology, involving many unrelated disciplines such as cryptography, distributed network, computer software, game theory, and so on. Moreover, the data is scarce, technology development is extremely rapid, and the knowledge update is very fast. It is very difficult for developers to fully understand and master it. It requires a lot of time and energy to conduct research, resulting in low development efficiency. Among the many problems faced by blockchain development, interoperability between blockchains greatly limits the application space of blockchains. No matter for public chain or private chain, cross-link technology is the key to realize the value of blockchain. In addition to the difficulty in implementing cross-link technology, the blockchain still faces the problem that it cannot directly interact with external information. At present, the intelligent contract cannot actively interact with external data or information. When the triggering conditions of the intelligent contract depend on information outside the blockchain, the information must be written into the blockchain first, but at present, the blockchain cannot actively complete this operation.
Whether for ordinary users or developers, the current blockchain infrastructure is not perfect. Just like when the operating system was in iOS 1.0, developers could not make games like the glory of the king, and users could not participate in this nationwide hand tour. There is no doubt that this infrastructure is a blockchain common operating system.
At present, the development of the blockchain industry itself faces three difficult problems of technology research and development, application scenarios, and user education. There are still communication barriers between chains, between chains and applications, and between technologies and users. The root cause is the lack of a truly universal operating system in the blockchain.
Features of BlockChain General Operating System
Just as Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and other operating systems have become part of the centralized technology world, the blockchain operating system will also become a key component of the decentralized world. In the history of modern science and technology, blockchain is undoubtedly a technology with rich scientific and conceptual connotations, which is significantly different from traditional hardware technology. It is a technology with development potential and widely applied imagination. Blockchain's general operating system is the foundation of all public chains, private chains, alliance chains, and applications. Without the support of the general operating system, other software cannot be installed and run. It occupies a pivotal position in the whole blockchain system. Blockchain operating systems are designed to facilitate easier development, and the results will naturally eventually lead to better user experience.
The problem of the high cognitive threshold cannot be solved in a short time or may not need to be solved. Just like the development of the Internet up to now, everyone is using WeChat and Alipay. They have no idea how the third-party platform settles accounts with banks and what technologies are used to realize and protect asset security. The development and expansion of blockchain general operating systems will also reduce the use threshold for ordinary users. For the technical threshold of application, the blockchain general operating system will promote more mature underlying technologies, more perfect infrastructure, more friendly development environment and language, so that ordinary developers can get started directly, and enterprises can quickly and efficiently put their productivity into various business scenarios based on blockchain technology. At the same time, more and more intelligent contract developers, enterprises, and investment organizations are involved, and the related contents of the blockchain general operating system will be improved day by day.
Supported by the general operating system, the blockchain technology will have a disruptive impact on the world's real economic system. Blockchain technology will lead to the birth of new industries and transform traditional industries, accelerate the process of the digital economy, and finally apply to almost all application scenarios.
As a new technology, the blockchain has not yet formed a strong technical barrier. For all countries in the world, it is basically at the same starting line. Before this, ETH was compared to the "Windows" operating system in the blockchain. Baidu's newly released super chain also calls itself the blockchain operating system. Recently, AK, which was on fire, also made a high-profile announcement to enter the blockchain operating system (System A) and released the "Block Earth 2077 Development Prospect" which caused a sensation throughout the network. System A is different from ETH's development environment and "operating system" for only its public blockchain and developers. AK's original team has laid out a general operating system that includes future public blockchain, alliance chain, private chain, and various DAPP. Developers can efficiently innovate various blockchain technologies, develop various chains, and DAPP on top of it, and more importantly, it belongs to the public. Ordinary users can easily experience strong perception and serve every aspect of daily life and business activities, thus becoming an infrastructure project in a blockchain world.
As a leader in the industry, the AK team seized the opportunity to reconstruct the blockchain from the bottom, which may also be the biggest opportunity in the blockchain world. Just as Microsoft accounts for 88.17% of desktop operating systems, its current market value is as high as $1.36 trillion.
The Meaning of Blockchain General Operation System
The best way to predict the future is to look back at history. The world's earliest washing machine was born in 1908 and was invented by Hurley Company. The Internet in 2003 and the blockchain in 2020 experienced the same messy, complicated, and users did not know how to use the Hurley washing machine in 1908. However, I fully believe that blockchain applications in 50 years will be as popular as today's Internet applications, and this key node is the advent of a universal operating system. Blockchain operation system-App-Developer-User-Innovation-Investor, this is the whole blockchain ecosystem.
We know that the blockchain encouraged by the current policy is different from the blockchain industry that grew naturally a few years ago. At present, blockchain is encouraged as an application technology to combine with traditional or other industries to realize empowerment and value enhancement. The blockchain universal operating system is the heart of the blockchain and is also the key in the process of realizing the popularization, commercialization, and globalization of blockchain technology. The birth of a universal operating system will raise the standard of the entire blockchain industry to a higher level. Only with the help of the universal operating system can the entire industry generate real productivity. With the help of the powerful infrastructure power of the universal operating system, it can push and deploy the application of the blockchain to the ground and guide the blockchain technology to the mainstream society better and faster.
One small step for developers is a big step for human scientific and technological progress.