According to ChainCatcher news, as reported by Xinhua Finance, the national-level scientific journal "Financial Electrification," supervised by the People's Bank of China, will publish an article titled "Exploring the Standardization of Practical Experience in Blockchain Digital Bond Innovation" in the second half of August 2024. The article is authored by the Central Government Securities Depository and Clearing Co., Ltd.'s China Bond Blockchain Digital Bond Project Team.The article states: As a national pilot unit for blockchain innovation applications, the Central Government Securities Depository and Clearing Co., Ltd. is actively promoting the implementation and standardization of the blockchain digital bond project. It is necessary to summarize and form specialized standards in a timely manner, striving to achieve replicable and scalable practices to promote the formation of an industry ecosystem and standardized development. Since exploring blockchain technology in 2018, it launched the country's first blockchain digital bond issuance platform in 2021 and has continuously optimized and enhanced system functionality and cross-chain interoperability.The platform has supported the issuance of multiple bonds, covering institutions such as state-owned banks and securities companies, promoting the integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy, while strengthening regulatory capabilities and industry norms. As the initiator of the alliance chain and the provider of system services, the Central Clearing Company is responsible for formulating business operation rules, establishing and improving alliance governance mechanisms, and maintaining the safe and stable operation of the system; it explores the effective coordination of necessary centralized management principles as stipulated by laws and regulations with distributed ledger technology, consensus algorithms, and smart contracts.The alliance chain does not change the legal central confirmation attributes and member access management authority of the Central Clearing Company. It efficiently achieves consensus formation in business processes through smart contracts and enhances the auditability, verifiability, and multi-party supervision of operations by the Central Clearing Company and market institutions through distributed ledgers and encryption algorithms. Market institutions, under the premise of complying with the alliance system, can orderly carry out business innovation, provide beneficial feedback and cooperative supervision, and jointly promote the high-quality development of the bond market.

ChainCatcher news, published in the second half of August 2024 issue of the national-level scientific journal "Financial Electrification," supervised by the People's Bank of China, features an article titled "Exploring the Standardization of Practical Experience in Blockchain Digital Bond Innovation." The authors of the article are the Central Government Securities Depository and Clearing Co., Ltd. Blockchain Digital Bond Project Team.The article states: As a pilot unit for national blockchain innovation applications, the Central Government Securities Depository and Clearing Co., Ltd. is actively promoting the implementation and standardization of the blockchain digital bond project. It is necessary to summarize and form specialized standards in a timely manner, striving to achieve replicable and scalable practices that promote the formation of an industry ecosystem and standardized development.Since exploring blockchain technology in 2018, the company launched the country's first blockchain digital bond issuance platform in 2021, continuously optimizing and enhancing system functionality and cross-chain interoperability. This platform has supported the issuance of multiple bonds, covering institutions such as state-owned banks and securities companies, promoting the integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy, while strengthening regulatory capabilities and industry norms.As the initiator of the alliance chain and the provider of system services, the Central Clearing Company is responsible for formulating business operation rules, establishing and improving alliance governance mechanisms, and maintaining the safe and stable operation of the system; exploring effective coordination between the necessary centralized management principles stipulated by laws and regulations and the technical architectures of distributed ledgers, consensus algorithms, and smart contracts.The alliance chain does not change the legal central confirmation attributes and member access management authority of the Central Clearing Company. It efficiently achieves consensus formation in business processes through smart contracts and enhances the auditability, verifiability, and multi-party supervision of operations by the Central Clearing Company and market institutions through distributed ledgers and encryption algorithms. Market institutions, under the premise of complying with the alliance system, can orderly carry out business innovations, provide beneficial feedback and collaborative supervision, and jointly promote the high-quality development of the bond market. (Xinhua Finance)

ChainCatcher News: The Japanese gaming public blockchain Oasys has announced its technical roadmap, which aims to develop and expand the overall ecosystem through "application data availability."Oasys will promote collaboration with ecosystem partners to standardize gaming assets and create actual gaming use cases based on this; it will provide the Oasys Verse Developer Kit (Oasys VDK) to reduce developers' resource and time costs.In addition, Oasys has set a mid-term plan for the next two to three years, which includes addressing protocol layer issues, developing standardized protocols to achieve interoperability, and providing more developer tools.

ChainCatcher message, UniSat announced on social media that it is actively promoting the standardization work related to brc20-swap. In a meeting this Monday, the maintainer of the brc-20 standard expressed hope that UniSat could provide a complete specification document for the swap, clearly defining the swap behavior to minimize ambiguity and undefined behavior.UniSat stated that it will make every effort to complete the draft of the specification within this week and submit it to the BRC20 Supervisory Committee for review before this Friday, while also soliciting feedback from all parties.In addition, UniSat plans to fully open source the entire codebase of the swap in the first week of May, allowing anyone to use the code for deployment and operation. They will also assist BestInSlots in completing the second implementation on OPI, ensuring that the behavior of the UniSat version of the swap is consistent with that of the OPI version.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology today released the "Public Announcement of the Establishment Plan for the Metaverse Standardization Working Group." The document states that, based on the needs of industrial development and industry management, relevant units have proposed the establishment plan for the Metaverse Standardization Working Group. To further gather opinions from all sectors of society, the list of relevant committee members is now publicly announced, with a deadline of February 18, 2024. The list includes 60 individuals, with Fan Shujian, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, serving as the chairman.

ChainCatcher news, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is publicly soliciting opinions on the "Draft Proposal for the Establishment of the Metaverse Standardization Working Group (for Comments)." According to relevant documents, the work scope of the Metaverse Standardization Working Group includes:Research and analyze the standardization demand directions in the metaverse field, build and maintain the metaverse industry standard system, and propose projects for the formulation and revision of industry standards in the metaverse field;Carry out the formulation and revision of industry standards in the metaverse field;Conduct preliminary research on application standards for the metaverse in industrial manufacturing, communications, and other fields, as well as key technology standards related to digital identity, virtual digital humans, and other areas;Carry out standard promotion, application promotion, and talent training in the metaverse field;Actively connect with international standardization organizations in the metaverse and timely propose and participate in the formulation and revision of international standards for the metaverse.

ChainCatcher news, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Energy Administration, and the National Standardization Administration issued a notice on the release of the "Implementation Plan for the New Industry Standardization Navigation Project (2023-2035)." The "Implementation Plan" mainly focuses on the standardization work of emerging industries and future industries, forming a new industrial standardization key area of "8+9."Among them, emerging industries focus on eight major fields: new generation information technology, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, new energy vehicles, green environmental protection, civil aviation, and ship and marine engineering equipment; future industries focus on nine major fields: metaverse, brain-computer interfaces, quantum information, humanoid robots, generative artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, future displays, future networks, and new energy storage.

ChainCatcher news, the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) have collaborated to create a dynamic alliance for blockchain assurance and standardization. This alliance will study the blockchain field and its various solutions, while gathering opinions and making recommendations to the United Nations, providing practices and guidance for different industries that are using or considering the use of blockchain.The relevant industries targeted by the alliance include artificial intelligence, communication infrastructure, digital identity, economic development, environmental management, and supply chain.

ChainCatcher news, the MakerDAO community has initiated a PSM parameter standardization poll. Proposal option one is to diversify the stablecoin reserves of the Peg Stability Module (PSM) to mitigate risks and enhance the resilience of stablecoin liquidity. Option two is to maintain USDC as the primary reserve. Currently, the voting approval rate for option two is 60.24%. The voting will end on March 23 at 00:00.Option two aims to maintain USDC as Maker's primary liquidity reserve by eliminating the fee for converting USDC to DAI. For the USDC PSM, the proposed parameters are to reduce the swap fee for converting USDC to DAI from 1% to 0%, and to increase the target available debt from 250 million DAI to 400 million DAI. (source link)