Alibaba Plans To Use Blockchain In Its Cloud Services
Alibaba Financial announced a possibility to use Blockchain in its new cloud service platform. This was mentioned at the Yunqi Assembly Shanghai summit in Beijing on January 20, 2016. Moreover, in a review of the year 2015, Ali Financial cloud, a service of Alibaba Group, describes the possible benefits of using the Blockchain. It states that they “are actively exploring the profound impact of [Blockchain] technology in the financial sector.” During the conference, Alibaba also released a whole chain of products for data collection, processing, analysis, etc, including Ali cloud platform.....
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