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融资高达40亿美元的这家香港技术黑马如今表示它已经是“最常用、最高效的区块链”。
Block.one这家位于香港的区块链在今年六月通过代币销售融资40亿美元，荣登全球各媒体头条，上线几个月以来，它运营的产品已经成为“最常用、最高效的区块链。”
该公司的开发技术推广部部长Serg Metelin认为，其原因是它们创立的EOS协议在短时间内就成为“第一个解决了规模化问题的区块链”。
“区块链不能规模化，这很长时间以来都是区块链面临的最大的问题。”Metelin告诉《亚洲时报》的记者，这个问题直到Block.one联合创始人、代码开发人员Dan Larimer“为某个想法量身定做了几个区块链应用时才解决……那时候，他意识到世界上有很多开发者想要建立真正的应用，而不单单是一些不能成规模的概念验证。真正的应用需要平台，而EOSIO正是这样一个平台。”
“业界其他大多数人还在想办法解决规模化这个问题的时候，”Metelin说，“我们已经转向另一个大难题——区块链的应用和可用性问题。”
Block.one另一个创始人是美国人Brendan Blumer。根据《福布斯》杂志的报导，Blumer14岁的时候就开始了他的事业，后来他从美国到香港做软件开发，那时候他还不到弱冠之年。后来，Blumer在香港创立了一个线上房产中介平台。再后来，Blumer和Larimer两个30出头的年轻人就崭露头角，融资40亿美元。
Block.one的EOS区块链协议诞生不过三个月，但已经散发着神秘的气息而引起世人关注。自然，其中一个原因在于那笔巨大的融资，但是更是因为这背后的故事。
尽管大众对区块链还算不上真的“饥渴”，但是Block.one却从不吝于制定果敢的愿景。根据《金融时报》报道，它的筹资时间长达一年，最终它共获得41.5亿美元的资金，这也让它成为迄今最大的一次ICO（初始代币发行）。
同样果敢的是，这个公司承诺，至少要从这笔融资中抽调10亿到公司的风投部门，用以帮助科技公司成立项目—当然，前提是这些项目在EOS平台上运行—但反过来，这也能有助于这个新兴行业的发展壮大。
Metelin是在九月底的伦敦Blockchain. Live直播盛会间歇的时候接受《亚洲时报》的采访，从他身上已经很明显可以看到这些风投的影响了。Block.one是这次行业活动的主要赞助商，这场活动吸引了投资人、政治家、开发者、新兴企业以及全世界的企业家，同时，Block.one “村庄”—它占据了伦敦奥林匹克展览馆最大的场馆—展示了已经在使用EOS平台的各种项目。
其中一个项目是美国的Emanate，这一个“自治音乐生态系统”能够在用户下载音乐的时候实时向作曲家付费。还有加拿大的Eva，这款“拼车应用”和Uber有相似之处，只不过它是基于区块链完成的。同样还有泰国做的IDPass，这款应用是针对发展中国家的“ID创建服务”，它可以通过扫描视网膜提供信托ID。
在七月香港召开的第一届“EOS全球黑客马拉松”中，IDPass摘得头筹，也因此获得了Block.one风投部门奖励的十万美元奖金。这几次黑客马拉松要求来自全世界的参赛者为EOS平台编写“具有大规模用户使用潜能“的软件应用。这个比赛已经在香港、悉尼、和伦敦（就在Blockchain.Live前夕）举办过了。
Serg Metelin说，伦敦的赛事迎来了“来自世界44个不同国家的468名参赛者，他们共带来了90多个不同的项目。“Metelin说，”这是开发者社区的一场大聚会……世界上有很多人有很好的想法，但是这些人可能还需要我们推一把，所以我们意识到，让他们聚在一起太重要了，这是我们普及区块链知识的开始。”
“所以我们的黑客马拉松就包含了这样的元素：在比赛中我们教参赛者如何为区块链编写代码，如果有团队想进一步展开他们的项目，我们也会提供项目投资的建议。参赛者还可能获得资金回报，每次比赛冠军都能获得10万美金的奖金，如果在12月的决赛中获胜，冠军将能获得50万美金。”
每次比赛参赛者遇到的主题都不同，伦敦这场比赛的主题是安全和隐私。Metelin告诉我们，冠军项目是EOSShield，其开发者是“来自英国的两个年轻人，他们在数据科技中有一些非常大胆的想法。他们带来的是一个非常社区导向的项目。”
Metelin表示，现在已经有“几百个项目”在开发中，但他也强调，“我们必须记住，我们才刚刚踏上征程。前方还有许多新的挑战。”
Metelin总结说，这其中最紧迫的是增加“开发人员的意识。我们相信，应用越多，整个网络获得的好处越大。我们从技术圈从大公司都聘请了大量人才来扩大EOS的规模，把它带到另一个台阶上。”
这个平台运行不过三个月，它能走多远，这个“台阶”能走多高，让我们拭目以待。
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Block.one, the Hong Kong-based blockchain startup that made global headlines in June after reportedly raising more than $4 billion via a token sale is, within months of going live, now running “the most-used and the most performant blockchain.”
This is because, according to Block.one’s Head of Developer Relations Serg Metelin, the company’s EOS protocol has quickly become “the first blockchain that solved the scalability challenge.”The dailyReportMust-reads from across Asia – directly to your inbox
“For a long time this was the biggest challenge. Blockchains were not scalable,” Metelin told Asia Times. This was, says Metelin, until Block.one co-founder and software code developer Dan Larimer “built a few applications where blockchains were very chiseled for a particular idea … He realized that there are many developers around the world who want to build real applications, not just proof-of-concept which doesn’t scale. Real applications need a platform and EOSIO is the platform.
“The majority of the other [industry] players are still trying to figure out this scalability aspect,” added Metelin, “but we’re now moving on to the next big challenges, which are the adoption blockchain and usability.”
The other Block.one founder is fellow American Brendan Blumer. Forbes reported that Blumer started his first business when he was 14 and relocated to Hong Kong from the United States to work as a software developer when he was still teenager. Blumer then created a successful web-based property agency in Hong Kong. Then Blumer and Larimer, still in their early 30s, went out and raised $4 billion.
Block.one’s EOS blockchain protocol has only been live for three months but already is attracting something of an enigmatic aura. And this is partly down to all the money, of course, but also because of the story behind it.
While not exactly publicity hungry, Block.one has also not been shy of setting out big and bold visions. Its year-long fund raising process, according to the Financial Times, raised an eye-popping $4.15 billion, which would make it the largest ICO (initial coin offering) yet.
The company, with typical boldness, then pledged to put at least one billion of this amount into its venture capital arm that will be allocated to help tech entrepreneurs build projects – on the EOS platform of course – that will in turn help develop and grow this nascent industry.
Metelin talked to Asia Times on the fringe of the blockchain.live event in London at the end of September and the effects of this VC investment are all around him. Block.one are the main sponsors of the industry event, that attracts investors, politicians, developers, startups and entrepreneurs from across the world and the Block.one “village” – that occupied the largest portion of the cavernous London Olympia exhibition hall – was a showcase for projects already using the EOS platform.
One such project, Emanate from the USA, is a “self-governing music ecosystem” that pays song composers in real time as their tunes are downloaded. Another, Eva from Canada, is “a cooperative ride-sharing application” a bit like Uber but based on blockchain. A third, IDPassfrom Thailand, is an “identity creation service” for underdeveloped countries where verified IDs can be issued based on a retina scan.
The IDPass project was the winner of the first “EOS Global Hackathon Series,” held in Hong Kong in July and as such received US$100,000 from Block.one’s VC arm. These global “hackathons,” that challenge developers from around the world to write software applications for the EOS platform that have the “potential for massive user adoption,” have been in held in Hong Kong, Sydney and now, just ahead of the blockchain.live event, in London as well.
Serg Metelin says the London hackathon event had “468 people involved from 44 countries working on 90 different projects.” It was, added Metelin, “a get-together for the developer community … We’ve realized that it’s important to bring people together from around the world who have ideas but need some kind of push forward, an educational component to get started.
“So there’s an element of that with out hackathons where we’re teaching people how to code for blockchain, we also provide tips from an investment projects to help if they want to take their project further. There is also the prospect of monetary prizes, a $100,000 top prize at each event and $500,000 as the grand prize at the grand finale event in December.”
Entrants to each hackathon are set a different challenge and in London this was security and privacy. The winner, says Metelin, was called EOShield and “it’s a young duo from the UK with some very progressive ideas about data technology. It’s a very community-driven project.”
Metelin reckons there are are already “a couple of hundred projects” in development but he says, with emphasis, that “we need to remember it’s very early into the journey. There are plenty of new challenges ahead of us.”
Most pressing of these, concluded Metelin, was increasing “the awareness among developers. We believe that the more applications that are out there, the more the overall network will benefit. We’re employing a lot of talent from both the tech world and from large enterprise organizations to scale things up and bring this to the next level.”
After only three months of operation it will be interesting to watch how far and high this “level” will go.
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