Recently, during Singapore TOKEN2049, one of the world's largest web3 industry events, the industry science book "Blockchain: From Basics to Applications" published by OKLink, a well-known on-chain data service provider in the Web3 industry, was officially launched. The book explains the importance of blockchain, a decentralized distributed ledger technology, in the future technological era from the perspectives of underlying technical foundations, extended applications, and peripheral development areas.
At the event, many exhibitors showed great interest in the content of the new book after reading it, and gave full affirmation to it, and had heated discussions and interactions with the creators of the new book. It is understood that this book is edited by Ren Yu-nan, Chairman of the Board and CEO of OKLink Holdings (1499.HK), and co-authored with industry professionals. Unlike other obscure popular science books, this book is not only a basic technical guide without barriers, but also a forward-looking report of the times. The book contains both extensive theoretical discussions and practical operations, aiming to help readers who are interested in web3 fully understand and master this cutting-edge technology and application overview.
Go deep into the core and interpret the technical logic behind blockchain
In November 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the landmark paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", which officially kicked off the development of blockchain technology. In 2013, Ethereum, founded by Vitalik Buterin, further pushed this technology into the broad field of smart contracts and decentralized applications, marking the entry of blockchain into the 2.0 era. For a long time, blockchain technology has received extensive attention and discussion from all walks of life, and its deep integration and rapid development with multiple industries such as finance, supply chain management, the Internet of Things, and medical care have fully demonstrated its huge potential.
OKLink, a technology service provider that has been deeply involved in the blockchain field for many years, has keenly captured this point. While continuing to develop innovative technologies, it has also invested a lot of resources and energy to carefully compile this popular science book "Blockchain: From Basics to Applications", providing a comprehensive and easy-to-understand technical guide for industry practitioners and ordinary readers. It not only provides basic technical analysis for practitioners, but also provides ordinary readers with a convenient way to understand and recognize blockchain technology.
The book is divided into three parts: basics, applications, and peripherals, with thirteen chapters. The basics part systematically interprets the working mechanism of blockchain, starting from the basic knowledge of blockchain, including the development history, technical architecture and core characteristics of blockchain, industry basic tools crypto wallets, and industry value measurement - stablecoins; the application part focuses on interpreting several popular blockchain technology applications: decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFT), game economy (GameFi) and social economy (SocialFi), and cites a large number of real-life cases to demonstrate the advantages and challenges of blockchain technology application landing; the peripheral part covers Web3, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), crypto asset custody and the hotly discussed real-world assets (RWA) in recent years, revealing the development of blockchain derivative industries.
Focus on popularizing science and promote the upgrading of industry cognition
As mentioned in "Blockchain: From Basics to Applications": "The development of blockchain confirms an interesting phenomenon in the course of human history: it takes about 30 years for an idea or technology to be proposed and truly developed. This is not only seen in the field of science and technology, but also in philosophy, natural sciences, mathematics and other fields. Thirty years is roughly equivalent to a generation of people. The birth of an idea, algorithm or technology usually requires a generation of efforts for it to be explored, digested, practiced and applied by the public."
Since its establishment in 2013, OKLink has been observing, practicing and innovating in the blockchain industry. After launching the world's leading Web3 blockchain browser and on-chain data analysis and services, OKLink has comprehensively summarized and organized its business practice experience and poured it into the compilation of this new book. The launch of this book is not only a technical experience guide for industry pioneers, but also an important declaration that OKLink is committed to continuously promoting the rapid development of the industry.
Talking about the original intention of co-publishing the new book with Zhonghua Book Company Kaiming Bookstore, Chief Editor Ren Yunan introduced, "We hope that readers who pay attention to and participate in the construction of the blockchain field can gain valuable insights and sharing from the book. We also hope that this accumulation and effort can inspire the public to have a deeper understanding and exploration of the blockchain field. We also hope that this book can provide substantial help for the development of the blockchain industry and help the industry move in a higher and farther direction."