Since its inception in 2008, blockchain technology has been applied to important fields such as credit reporting, finance and digital transactions.
Overview of Blockchain Technology
In 2016, the State Council released the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for National Informatization", which for the first time included blockchain into the scope of new technologies and made a cutting-edge layout. In 2020, blockchain technology, as a new generation of information technology, will become China's national strategy. Mastering accurate blockchain industry data and analyzing its development context can predict the future development direction to a certain extent, and provide a basis for the strategic layout of the country and enterprises.
At present, the analysis method of the blockchain industry is that people spend a lot of time collecting blockchain-related data from massive data, filter the data that characterizes the development of the blockchain, and analyze it with reference to the indicators set based on human experience. High labor costs lead to increased economic burden, low analysis efficiency, and easy omission of blockchain-related data, resulting in inaccurate analysis results.
Wisdom Bud Discovery technology intelligence intelligent retrieval platform, through in-depth sorting of domestic and foreign scientific and technological intelligence related data sources, based on big data analysis and cloud computing, combined with artificial intelligence technology for affiliates, market reports, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, news, patents, papers Multi-dimensional data standardization and analysis processing make scientific and technological intelligence analysis intelligent, and improve the accuracy and efficiency of scientific and technological intelligence analysis of enterprises. Around the blockchain industry, the Wisdom Bud Discovery platform provides solutions from the following three scenarios:
1. Analyze the application maturity of blockchain technology and predict the development prospects of the market
Search on the Wisdom Bud Discovery platform with " blockchain " as the keyword, and the platform will match more than a dozen types of heterogeneous data such as scientific papers, patented technologies, market reports, investment and financing, company data, etc. corresponding to the keyword; For the patent and paper data obtained by keyword matching, the corresponding quantity change trend graphs are drawn respectively, as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2 .
Figure 1 Trend of patent applications for blockchain technology in the past 10 years
Figure 2 Publishing trends of blockchain technology papers in the past 10 years
Specifically, according to the trend of patent applications and paper publications, the number of patent applications and papers published in the past 10 years has shown an overall increasing trend. The number of papers published in 2020 is slightly lower than that of 2019, which may be due to the impact of the epidemic. (The patent data for 2020 and 2021 may not be comprehensive due to the lag of patent disclosure).
The platform can also draw a VC investment trend graph (including changes in VC investment amount and VC investment transaction volume) based on the VC investment data obtained by keyword matching, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3 2011-2021 Blockchain Technology Investment Transaction Amount and Transaction Volume Trend
Specifically, the VC investment trend shows that as of 2018, the VC investment transaction volume has steadily increased, and the overall amount has shown an increasing trend. In 2019, both the VC investment transaction volume and the amount showed a sharp decline, and in 2020, the VC investment transaction volume decreased (possibly due to the impact of the epidemic). ), but the amount has rebounded significantly, that is, the unit price of VC investment transactions will increase significantly in 2020. According to relevant news, in 2019, due to the end of the crazy bull market around Bitcoin and the loss of the charm of the initial coin offering, the investment transaction volume and amount have dropped significantly. Further analysis found that, aside from 2019, the unit price of VC investment transactions increased steadily after 2015. It can be seen from this that investors are still very confident in the development of blockchain technology.
Therefore, combined with the above-mentioned patent applications, paper publications and VC investment trends, blockchain technology is still in the development stage, and it is predicted that R&D investment and market applications will continue to increase in the future.
2. Analyze the profile of blockchain affiliated companies
The Wisdom Bud Discovery platform can also filter information in 8 dimensions according to the company data obtained by keyword matching, organization name, establishment time, country and region, number of employees, subject, industry, company type and whether it has been acquired.
Specifically, through the " Company " function, we learned the profiles of affiliated companies involved in blockchain technology (269 companies), and these affiliated companies are mainly located in the United States, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4 List of Blockchain Technology Affiliates
The topic is based on the topic entity tree constructed by the data provider - Microsoft Academic for the keywords in the paper (the topic entity tree is divided into 5-8 layers according to different disciplines, the total amount is about 600,000, combined with semantic recognition and unsupervised The model automatically classifies the upper and lower positions, synonyms, and synonyms of the subject entity tree, and then supplements it with certain rules for data cleaning), and removes categories such as culture, history, philosophy, etc. Entity formed after invalid vocabulary.
Topics will be updated every 1 month and will be associated and displayed as tags or categories on news, companies, investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions, experts, papers related pages. Specifically, the affiliated companies of blockchain technology are mainly involved in the fields of blockchain, software, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, digital currency, and venture capital, as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5 List of fields involved in blockchain technology affiliates
The Wisdom Bud Discovery platform can also support blockchain affiliates to tap potential competitors or partners. For example, if a financial technology company has a technical layout in blockchain technology, the company can find the competition by screening the theme of financial technology, and then combining the specific information of the screening company (such as core technology distribution, revenue, etc.) Opponent Quickbit eu AB, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6 Competitor or partner mining example
The Wisdom Bud Discovery platform analyzes news content based on big data technology, sorts out companies with competing and cooperative relationships, and displays them in the form of enterprise relationship graphs. For example, the filtering topic is digital currency, the number of employees is 100-250, and 5 companies are filtered out, as shown in Figure 7. Then, by checking the detailed pages of each filtering company, you can learn about the companies that have competing and cooperating relationships with each filtering company, as shown in Figure 8.
Figure 7 Example of preliminary screening of competitors or partners
Figure 8 Enterprise Relationship Graph
The density of the lines in the “ One- time Company Relationship Network ” corresponds to the number of companies that compete with the current filter company. The innovation intensity of the companies that compete with the current filter company can be roughly estimated by the company’s market influence. More accurate The results can be comprehensively determined in combination with corresponding patents and papers. In addition, you can also consult the data profile of affiliated companies, including investment information for evaluating their growth rate and market value, etc.), and find potential competitors/partners BitMain Technologies Holding Co, as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9 Summary of affiliated company data
3. Analysis of cutting-edge technologies in the blockchain industry
The Wisdom Bud Discovery platform can classify the patent data matched by the keyword according to the IPC international classification number, and display it in the form of a bubble chart. Among them, the size of the bubble corresponds to the patent layout amount of the keyword in the specific technical field. It not only facilitates users to quickly understand the sub-categories corresponding to technological hotspots, but also assists in analyzing technological evolution and technological gaps, so as to find new market opportunities.
Specifically, through the " Key Technology Patent Application Trend " function in the " Analysis Chart " , as shown in Figure 10. It can be clearly seen that the hotspot technologies in patent applications in recent years are G06Q data processing system or method, G06F electronic digital data processing, and H04L digital information transmission. That is, blockchain technology is mainly used for processing systems or methods such as data transmission, storage or calculation.
Figure 10 Trend of patent applications for key technologies
The Discovery platform can also extract high-frequency vocabulary for scientific papers with matching keywords, and help users quickly understand popular technologies corresponding to keywords through an intuitive display method that corresponds to the size and color of fonts and vocabulary frequencies.
Specifically, through the " Hot Research Field " (word cloud) function, as shown in Figure 11, we can clearly see the high-frequency words in blockchain-related papers in the past 10 years. Among them, some words can be ignored in analysis due to their generality. For example, " blockchain " is a representative word or first-level technical label in the field of blockchain technology, and " computer science " is a common field of information processing by computers.
Figure 11 Word cloud of technical papers related to blockchain technology in the past 10 years
Further, you can also set filter conditions at different times to view word clouds that appear in a specific time period, so as to discover the research hotspots in the corresponding time interval, as shown in Figure 12. According to the word cloud 11 and the word cloud the paper 12 , blockchain technology has been widely used in the research of new coronary pneumonia in the past year.
Figure 12 Word cloud of papers related to blockchain technology in the past year
Combined with the comprehensive analysis of patent hot technology, thesis word cloud and basic knowledge of blockchain, we can get the frontier technology/hot technology in the blockchain field: Computer security (security), cryptocurrency (encrypted currency), Proof of Work (consensus mechanism), Authentication (verification), hash function (hash algorithm), digital signature (digital signature), byzantine fault tolerance (Byzantine fault tolerance) and computer data storage (data storage).
In addition, through the word cloud of the thesis, you can also quickly understand that blockchain technology is mainly used in business, finance, telecommunications, transaction payment, medical health, construction and environmental economy; at the same time, in specific applications, it can be combined with artificial intelligence, Technologies such as big data and/or cloud computing are used in combination to solve related technical problems.
Optionally, by reading and analyzing the funding information corresponding to scientific research funds/government funding, as shown in Figure 13, the above frontier technologies/popular technologies can be verified or supplemented. Specifically, enter the funding information details page, as shown in Figure 14, and learn about the funding projects and related technologies corresponding to the funding information by viewing the abstract or source URL.
Figure 13 Funding information corresponding to scientific research fund projects/government funded projects
Figure 14 Funding details
As an innovative and transformative technology, the industry development of blockchain is crucial. Wisdom Bud Discovery scientific and technological intelligence intelligent retrieval platform provides comprehensive coverage of domestic and foreign scientific and technological intelligence related data, interconnects more than a dozen types of heterogeneous data such as scientific and technological literature, patented technology, market reports, investment and financing, and company data, and conducts in-depth mining, Quickly and accurately analyze the application maturity and market development prospects of blockchain technology, the profiles of blockchain-related companies, and the cutting-edge technology of the blockchain industry to provide a scientific basis for national or corporate decision-making.