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Following Xunlei, Kuaibo, and Baofeng, Jirou, a domestic smart router manufacturer, has also jumped on the blockchain train.

On December 25, 2017, Jirou took advantage of Christmas to release the JiX plan, announcing that it would release the world's first blockchain router. The official selling price is 1,024 yuan.

According to the official introduction of Jirou,

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> "'X' represents the link, which links the Internet of Things, blockchain, and artificial intelligence together. JiRoute will upgrade its 200W+ online smart router, allowing ordinary routers to transform into blockchain routers. JiRoute will also release a dedicated Blockchain hardware provides massive hives for artificial intelligence. The Extreme Many third-party partners use blockchain routers to jointly create a new value Internet.”

 What role does blockchain play in this?

According to official disclosures, Jirou will be the first to cooperate with the public chain Achain to jointly realize the combination of blockchain and smart hardware. Achain provides an exclusive blockchain network for Jirou. Combined with JiX's usage scenarios, a new chain is forked based on Achain's original public chain, and each level X will become a node in this exclusive network. The network calculates based on user traffic, service time, and network bandwidth, and provides rewards to users in the form of tokens.

Achain partner Wang Li said that the combination of blockchain and smart hardware is not only an exploration and extension of blockchain technology in more fields, but also an innovation in the intelligent upgrading of smart hardware. This cooperation between the two parties is mainly divided into three stage::

The first stage is network sharing - users purchase original Jirou products and build a blockchain virtual network. The network establishes a transmission channel for blockchain data. By sharing network resources, users can obtain token income, "for example, during the day How many users participate in total, how much bandwidth is shared in total, and what proportion each user accounts for, thereby allocating token rewards to each user.”

The second stage, network + storage sharing - users purchase blockchain routing products and add mobile storage based on the first stage. This storage can be used as a container for blockchain ledgers and can also store digital content (such as music). , videos, e-books, photos, etc.), by sharing network + storage resources, users gain token income;

The third stage, network + storage + computing power sharing - on the basis of the second stage, AI chip computing sharing is added. These routers can be regarded as small computers, which can run Achain's LVM, execute contract content, and execute Some other calculation stuff. Users obtain token income by sharing the above three resources.

 Start with infrastructure to solve the problem of large-scale node deployment

JiRoute founder Wang Chuyun further explained the logic of the blockchain router:

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> "In the process of blockchain implementation, the most lacking thing currently is infrastructure. More than 80% of white papers do not talk about how nodes are deployed. Most of them just have a server, and the program is written as a blockchain. But in In actual implementation, if the user base is not enough, the number of IPs cannot be guaranteed, and there are not enough nodes, the core point of the blockchain is to ensure a sufficient number of nodes. The logic is to start with infrastructure and solve the problem of large-scale deployment of nodes.”

As a smart hardware manufacturer, why did Jirou enter the blockchain? Wang Chuyun believes that the core of blockchain and router are naturally matched.

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> "As an important device in the home, the router connects the Internet and the LAN in the home. In the entire network topology, the router is actually a naturally distributed device, also P2P, and an edge node of the Internet. Compare the block The core of the blockchain is a decentralized, point-to-point encrypted network. The location and operating mechanism of the blockchain network are very similar to that of the router. This is a natural transition.

In terms of specific implementation, JiRoute directly deploys the blockchain into the router. Wang Chuyun introduced that in the configuration of blockchain routers, compared with traditional routers, various performances such as storage will be greatly improved, such as the memory reaching 1G. For old users before Jirou, most of the previous-generation devices are equipped with USB interfaces. As long as the user agrees to the relevant agreement and inserts the hard disk, they can upgrade to the blockchain logic and deploy the corresponding program to the traditional router. Similarly, Can become an accounting node.

Jirou also plans to popularize science among more users and expand the ecosystem. In order to allow users who do not understand blockchain to experience the process of blockchain, JiRoute will also give away small amounts of tokens to routers that have not “mined”, allowing users to experience the blockchain and wallet. concept.

It is worth noting that JiRoute’s blockchain router does not issue its own tokens, but welcomes other blockchains to join. JiRoute provides large-scale nodes as infrastructure to allow blockchain to spread faster.

Wang Chuyun revealed that this blockchain router will be officially launched in March 2018.

Since Xunlei's "Player Plan" set off a storm of blockchain + smart hardware, many traditional hardware manufacturers have already transformed their shared CDN into blockchain +. On the one hand, this kind of testing has allowed more new users to join the blockchain community, which has relatively high thresholds and strong professionalism. On the other hand, it has also injected new vitality into the original hardware manufacturers. The trend is unstoppable, and I believe there will be more in the future. More manufacturers like Jirou will join in.