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去年，谷歌云加入领先的区块链创新和性能开源平台EOS社区、并准备成为超级节点从而支持EOS公链。那时，我们就提到我们规划参与的活动能够凸显区块链对于企业、政府和社会未来的重要性。今天，我想聊聊为什么谷歌云是Block.one和其它分布式账本技术（DLT）公司的优秀合作伙伴。
最近，我们看到随着很大一部分经济活动分转到线上，各行业都在进行数字转型，其速度前所未有。新企业和传统企业都把自己重新定位为软件公司，预期到2025年，这些企业算起来会达到经济活动的30%，而今天它们仅占1%。
而随着企业推进数字化转型，它们也更加需要搭建集成的服务网络，同时它们也会有信任和协作的强烈需求。这就是DLT可以提供的。EOSIO协议是由Block.one开发、是EOS公链的基础，它就是这样的一个DLT。其设计理念是速度、规模化、低成本转账——这三个要素让EOSIO成为搭建联网应用的优秀平台。
这就是谷歌云要加入的地方。我们是唯一一个能够帮助Block.one和其它企业开发和运营DLT网络的公司。我们的很多产品特别适用于DLT应用，不管是从网络的规模和可靠性、我们在加密计算上的创新、还是我们在人工智能/机器学习和数据分析的领导力上都是如此。
加密计算
加密计算是把正在使用的数据在数据处理过程中加密的一种新兴技术。加密计算环境让数据在内存和CPU外的任何地方都实现加密。利用谷歌云在传输的数据和静止的数据两方面的先进技术，加密计算在处理数据的过程中对其加密，这就给加密提供了第三“支柱”。现在有九个谷歌云区域可以使用加密计算，未来我们还会扩大到更大的范围，支持Block.one这样的客户。
机密计算利用第二代AMD EPYC™ CPU支持的安全加密虚拟化技术，保证数据保持私有化，并在使用、索引、检索和训练的过程中被加密。GKE加密节点和后续的加密运算虚拟机是谷歌云加密计算组合的头两大产品。加密运算虚拟机和GKE加密节点提供加密层面的隔绝同时让顾客有简单好用的解决方案，而不需要在应用内换节点或降低性能。
直接在加密数据上计算是监管和处理数字资产的必须品，它也会产生极好的新的可能，如在私人数据上进行机器学习、去中心化资产交易所，还能防止相互勾结、信息外流和不良用户导致的网络污染。
人工智能和数据分析
谷歌云领先的云AI服务以及构建该服务的智能分析服务，都让企业能够从数据中获得更多价值。其广泛的应用在其许多和多样的用例中就可见一斑，如贸易融资AI和广告决策支持系统。
正如我们已经展示的，开放网络中的DLT数据天生是公开的，因此可以被检索和搜索， 这也是我们会继续为比特币、以太坊、许多其它公共DLT提供相应支持，而我们的合作伙伴通过BigQuery中的DLT数据ETL技术跟随我们的领导。
更重要的是，把云AI和加密计算结合之后还产生了新的机遇。比如，通过在受信任的执行环境中执行DLT智能合约，机器学习加速器，如Cloud TPU，可以被用作DLT共同处理。除了算力，API的可信度也可以得到保证，这样外部数据就可以在智能合约中使用。我们先前就写过构建DLT/云混合应用的可能性。
网络性能和安全
谷歌云的低延迟高级网络层让对等网络能够更快同步，从而实现更高的交易吞吐量。我们的网络还和很多ISP直接对等，这就意味着客户他们的数字资产交互的时候延迟会减少，这对现实用例，如零售POS（销售点实时情报系统）和游戏业，有重要的作用。
谷歌系统的设计目标是全球范围内的安全性和可靠性。DLT客户选择云平台的时候，他们寻找的一大部分是基础架构。我们的基础架构不依赖某个单一的技术实现安全。我们的栈是通过渐进层深度实现防御来确保安全的。从物理前提和有目的构建的服务器、网络设备和客户安全芯片、到每台机器运行的底层级软件栈，我们整个硬件基础架构都由谷歌控制、确保安全、构建和强化。
了解更多、参与进来
开发者们，你们可以在EOSIO 超越区块链黑客马拉松中获得更多利用EOSIO搭建在谷歌云上的项目，2021年4月6日之前你们都可以提交项目。你也可以马上就开始学习如何用EOSIO构建项目。了解更多谷歌最新的EOS超级节点活动，请见https://dlt.withgoogle.com/eos
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Late last year, Google Cloud joined the EOS community, a leading open-source platform for blockchain innovation and performance, and is taking steps to support the EOS Public Blockchain by becoming a block producer (BP). At the time, we outlined how our planned participation underscores the importance of blockchain to the future of business, government, and society. Today, I want to outline why Google Cloud is uniquely positioned to be an excellent partner for Block.one and other distributed ledger technology (DLT) companies.
We’ve recently seen an unprecedented rate of digital transformation across all industries, as a huge proportion of the economy has moved online. New startups, along with legacy businesses reimagining themselves as software companies, are in aggregate anticipated to account for thirty percent of economic activity by 2025, up from one percent today.
As this digital transformation takes hold, businesses increasingly need to build integrated service networks with strong requirements for trust and coordination. This is what a DLT can provide. The EOSIO protocol, developed by Block.one and the basis for the EOS Public Blockchain, is an example of such a DLT. It’s built for speed, scale, and low-cost transactions—all of which make EOSIO an attractive platform upon which to build networked applications.
This is where Google Cloud comes in. We are uniquely qualified to help Block.one and other companies develop and operate their DLT networks. A number of our products are well-suited to DLT applications, whether it is the scalability and reliability of our network, our innovation in Confidential Computing, or our leadership in AI/ML and data analytics.
Confidential Computing
Confidential Computing is an emerging technology that encrypts data in-use—while it is being processed. Confidential Computing environments keep data encrypted in memory and elsewhere outside of the CPUs. Along with Google Cloud’s advanced capabilities around data in-transit and at-rest, Confidential Computing adds a “third pillar” to encryption by encrypting data while in-use. Confidential Computing is available in nine Google Cloud regions and will continue to extend to a broader set of the regions to support customers like Block.one.
Confidential Computing leverages the secure encrypted virtualization supported by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs, ensuring data will stay private and encrypted while it is used, indexed, queried, or trained on. Confidential VMs followed by Confidential GKE Nodes are the first two products in Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing portfolio. Confidential VMs and Confidential GKE Nodes offer the cryptographic level of isolation while giving customers an easy-to-use solution that doesn’t require changing code in apps or compromising on performance.
Computing directly on encrypted data is a must-have for the custody and handling of digital assets, and it creates exciting new possibilities, such as machine learning on private data, decentralized exchange of assets, and preventing collusion, exfiltration, and contamination of the network by rogue peers.
AI and data analytics
Google Cloud’s leading Cloud AI services, and the smart analytics services upon which they are built, enable businesses to get more value out of their data. The broad applicability of this pattern is evident from its many and varied use cases, such as AI for trade finance and decision support for advertising.
DLT data on open networks are inherently public and can thus be indexed and made searchable, as we’ve demonstrated and continue to do for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a number of other public DLTs, and our partners have followed our lead by ETL of DLT data into BigQuery.
Perhaps more importantly, exciting new opportunities emerge by combining Cloud AI with Confidential Computing. For example, by executing DLT smart contracts within a trusted execution environment, machine learning accelerators such as Cloud TPU can be used for DLT coprocessing. In addition to computing capabilities, the trustworthiness of APIs can also be ensured and this allows external data to be used in smart contracts. We’ve previously written about the possibilities of building DLT/cloud hybrid applications.
Network performance and security
Google Cloud’s low-latency premium network tier allows peers to synchronize more quickly, enabling the higher transaction throughputs. Our network also peers directly with many ISPs, meaning that there’s less lag when customers interact with their digital assets, critical to real-world use cases such as retail point-of-sale and gaming.
Google’s systems are designed for security and reliability on a global scale. When DLT customers are selecting a cloud platform, a huge part of what they’re looking for is infrastructure. Our infrastructure doesn’t rely on any single technology to make it secure. Our stack builds security through progressive layers that deliver defense in depth. From the physical premises to the purpose-built servers, networking equipment and custom security chips, to the low-level software stack running on every machine, our entire hardware infrastructure is controlled, secured, built and hardened by Google.
Learn more and get involved
Developers, you can learn more about projects built with EOSIO on Google Cloud in the EOSIO Beyond Blockchain Hackathon—submissions are open until April 6, 2021. Or get building right away by learning how to build with EOSIO. Keep up with Google’s latest EOS block producer activities at https://dlt.withgoogle.com/eos.
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