2018年是區(qū)塊鏈技術應用進入大眾視野、產業(yè)生態(tài)初步形成的元年。相比互聯(lián)網和移動互聯(lián)網的普及，它的發(fā)展趨勢更為迅猛！區(qū)塊鏈技術被認為是繼蒸汽機、電氣化、互聯(lián)網之后的第四次工業(yè)革命的重要組成部分之一。憑借點對點網絡設計、加密技術應用、分布式算法、數據存儲技術等底層技術的支撐，未來區(qū)塊鏈技術必將廣泛應用在各行各業(yè)。

2018 is the first year that the application of blockchain technology enters the community and creates the initial formation of industrial ecosystem. Compared with the popularity of the Internet and mobile Internet, the development trend of blockchain technology is more rapid ! Blockchain technology is considered to be one of the key components of the fourth industrial revolution following the steam engine, electrification, and the Internet. With the support of peer-to-peer network design, encryption technology applications, distributed algorithms, and data storage technologies, the future of blockchain technology will be widely applied in all walks of life.

區(qū)塊鏈技術相關的專利申請數量在過去的這兩年里也是飛速增長。其中，與訪問控制、公鑰解密、區(qū)塊構建、數據處理等相對底層的技術相關的專利申請量占到了50%左右。另外一半的專利申請主要與區(qū)塊鏈技術在各行各業(yè)的落地應用方案有關，有身份認證、藥品打簽、食品追蹤、審計注冊、金融機構信息協(xié)同、個人征信及報稅和一些其他的工業(yè)化的應用等。

The number of patent applications related to blockchain technology has grown rapidly over the past two years. Among them, the number of applications related to relatively underlying technologies such as access control, public key decryption, block construction, and data processing accounted for about 50%. The other half of the patent applications are mainly related to the application of blockchain technology in various industries, such as identity authentication, drug tagging, food tracking, audit registration, financial institution information coordination, personal credit reporting and tax filing, and some other industrial applications.

“2018全球區(qū)塊鏈知識產權峰會”峰會基于2018年2月IPRdaily聯(lián)合incopat發(fā)布的‘全球區(qū)塊鏈企業(yè)專利排行榜’，在投資界、區(qū)塊鏈領域以及幣圈引起了熱烈的反響與探討。與此同時，專利對于區(qū)塊鏈技術的價值也在不斷的被認可和拔高，企業(yè)如何利用區(qū)塊鏈專利布局來促進應用落地，未雨綢繆，獲得未來技術和市場競爭的戰(zhàn)略制高點，值得所有行業(yè)參與者深思與關注。

The 2018 Global Blockchain Intellectual Property Summit was based on the Global Blockchain Enterprise Patent Rankings released jointly by IPRdaily and Incopat in February 2018, which triggered a heated discussion among the investment community, blockchain field, and the coin circle. At the same time, the value of blockchain patents is also constantly being recognized and exalting. How to use the well strategy layout of blockchain patent to get favorable competition of technology and market is worthy of every enterprise to participate and pay attention.