<p></p><p>Over the past few years, the blockchain technology has managed to come to various sectors of the economy, from healthcare to logistics. Despite the fact that large corporations still do not trust the technology of distributed registries, the latter is increasingly used to solve various problems. It is not surprising that technology giants such as IBM, Oracle, and Amazon, one after another, are beginning to offer the market their own developments in the blockchain area, allowing them to be used in real business. Analysts at CB Insights named 7 technology giants most actively involved in the development of corporate blockchain solutions.</p><h3>Palm at IBM</h3><p>IBM has been developing in the blockchain field for several years, and the market is known for its Hyperledger Fabric controlled access infrastructure solution that allows customers to implement blockchains in their business. Since 2017, IBM has also been offering its own blockchain-as-service product (Blockchain-as-a-service, BaaS-Ed.), In which Hyperledger Fabric is involved. The product allows companies or government agencies to create trusted networks whose members can exchange information. More recently, the company also launched a DLT-platform oriented to banks, similar to the financial blockchain-consortium R3, which works with financial service providers. Today, IBM has more than 1,500 employees working with the blockchain, and the corporation claims that it accounts for 32% of the corporate blockchain-making market.</p><h3>Microsoft - 19% of the market</h3><p>As noted in CB Insights, Microsoft is extremely attentive to blockchain technology. Including Microsoft completes patents related to secure runtime environments (TEE), which can ensure the security of blockchain networks. She also presented a package of tools for developers working with blockchain - this is the Azure Blockchain Workbench platform, which is designed to simplify the development of blockchain applications. In addition, in partnership with Ernst &amp; Young, the corporation is launching a blockchain platform for managing intellectual property rights and royalties. While the solution is intended for publishers of games on the Xbox (the platform runs on the Quorum blockchain and uses Microsoft Azure cloud tools). The corporation also supports the ID2020 digital identification program, which uses the blockchain technology (in the latter until 2030<span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">, it is planned to provide the inhabitants of the Earth with digital identity documents).</span></p><h3>Facebook has invested in a crypto command</h3><p>Facebook’s interest in cryptocurrency, as well as its intention to explore the positive and negative aspects of using the latter, Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, mentioned announcing his company's plans for 2018. Meanwhile, according to CB Insights, Facebook may have much more serious plans for the blockchain. So, back in May, a blockchain team led by the ex-president of PayPal, David Marcus, who had recently left the board of Coinbase crypto birth, appeared in the company. The latter, of course, caused a wave of rumors about the corporation's own cryptocurrency.</p><p>Today, Facebook already allows users to send free money through Messenger and recently launched the virtual currency Facebook Stars to encourage content creators. Stars is not a cryptocurrency, but it is possible that the company is interested in using the blockchain to make payments. Including the use of cryptocurrency will allow users to make microtransactions, as well as buy goods on Facebook at a discount without using credit cards. The fact that Facebook is already offering data sharing partnerships to banks can also speak about ambitions in this sector. In addition, Facebook, de-facto serving as an authentication method for users in applications, can become an entry point for decentralized software solutions.</p><h3>Amazon joined the game</h3><p>The corporation announced AWS Blockchain Templates, as well as other market players offering a blockchain-as-a-service solution. The latter will allow companies to launch blockchain networks based on the Ethereum or Hyperledger Fabric protocols faster. Using the templates of the new service, it is possible to launch both public blockchain networks and private ones and to do this as quickly and simply as possible. Given the leadership in the field of cloud computing, a solution from Amazon may allow developers to test the international payments on the blockchain.</p><p>The corporation also entered into a partnership with Kaleido, a corporate cloud blockchain start-up graduate of the blockchain incubator ConsenSys. As noted in CBInsights, Amazon is still in search of ways to use its blockchain solution, but at the same time it recognizes that the technology has distributed registries have “many intriguing opportunities.” Oracle believes in smart contracts. Like other companies developing cloud solutions, Oracle offers blockchain-like service solutions to businesses that allow them to test project concepts using distributed registry technology. For example, companies can automate processes using a blockchain to track goods in the supply chain or process financial transactions. The new product is based on the open source Hyperledger Fabric platform. Currently, the service is already used by the Arab Jordanian Investment Bank, the company CargoSmart and Intelipost, as well as the customs of Nigeria. According to Oracle, the next frontier will be to help business companies create smart contracts.</p><h3>Tencent launches pilots</h3><p>In 2017, the Chinese giant behind WeChat service announced the launch of its own pilot platform for TrustSQL blockchain services. The latter provides the ability to use the blockchain for corporate needs. The platform offers enterprise-class blockchain infrastructure, industrial solutions, as well as secure, reliable and flexible cloud services on the blockchain. In addition, the platform allows for cash payments and transfers. Back in 2016, Tencent subsidiary joined Blockchain Shenzen financial consortium, which includes more than 30 companies collaborating to develop and implement blockchain solutions.</p><h3>Baidu: blockchain experiments</h3><p>The Chinese giant BAIDU debuted with the blockchain project Totem, which allows rights management intellectual property on images. In this way, the corporation expects to prevent the illegal use of images on the Internet, as well as to provide more efficient licensing of rights to the latter. In addition, Baidu expects to launch awards for authors of images. Also, the team of the blockchain-developers of the company has released a digital game on the blockchain in the style of CryptoKitties called Leci Gou, the main characters of which are puppies.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.if24.ru">Source</a></p>