China’s blockchain watchdog publishes list of registered projects

The Cyberspace Administration of China requires blockchain projects to register and “accept social supervision“ effective February 15th. On Saturday the government watchdog published a list of 197 registered projects which provides a glimpse into the breadth of China’s enterprise blockchain activities.

BATJ activities

China’s big tech companies have numerous blockchain initiatives on the list. The group are referred to as BAT in the West and BATJ in China and include China’s big search engine and AI company Baidu, Alibaba the B2C and B2B marketplace organization, Tencent the gaming and social network company, and online retailer JD.com. All of the big four provide Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) cloud offerings. Both Baidu and Tencent have blockchain protocols that compete with the likes of Hyperledger Fabric.

Article continues …

---