China is shown as dominating in the 2019 Global Blockchain Invention Patent Ranking report from IPRDaily and incoPat. China accounted for the top three spots, seven of the top ten and 19 out of 30. A partial list of the top 100 is shown below.
But Vitalik Buterin, the Ethereum founder, is not impressed by these sorts of rankings. Most blockchain protocols are open source. The leader in these blockchain rankings, Alipay, has the Ant Financial Blockchain protocol which is one of the few that says it’s proprietary.
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