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Xiao Feng: Thinking about "decentralization" in the metaverse

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Xiao feng believes that we should take a comprehensive view of decentralization, remove its dregs and take its essence for our use.

Universal blockchain Xiao Feng: Thinking about "decentralization" in the Metaverse

Original source: Wanxiang Blockchain wechat official account

On the afternoon of March 30th, the new Wisdom Head of the universe forum "new Man in the universe" was held online. Many celebrities shared their love and contributed a lot of dry goods. Universal XiaoFeng block chain, chairman and general manager also invited to give a speech in the BBS, talk about the block chain, Dr XiaoFeng Web3 relationship with yuan universe, think different application scenarios can be centralized or decentralized "match", but also can do different network level centralized or decentralized "hierarchical classification".

The following is a selection of Dr. Xiao's speech.

According to Dr Xiao,The meta-universe is, after all, a web world, built on the Web3 that everyone talks about a lot these days.

From the point of view of the most basic network technology trends, the Internet is indeed evolving towards decentralization. In other words, as the web evolves from Web1 to Web2 to Web3, it is an increasingly decentralized process.

In the Web1 era, the web is a user name and password login, a read-only network, only information and information; In the Era of Web2, users log in to the Internet with App accounts, which have gone through KYC to a certain extent. They can read, write and interact on the Internet, so information becomes data, but these data belong to the Internet platform.

In the Web3 phase, the way to log in to the network evolves to the use of DID digital identity. With a digital identity, the web adds another function: ownership. Data on Web2 can then be converted into user assets.

The network foundation of the metasverse is Web3, and how can Web3 make the user's data become its own asset? This calls for blockchain technology as a distributed ledger.

Blockchain is used to register the data assets of Internet users. On the decentralized network of Web3, blockchain is a supporting decentralized economic system and financial system. The meta-universe, on top of both, is a decentralized digital world.

Only by combining the decentralized Web3 with the decentralized economic system can a complete meta-universe be formed.

In the meta-universe, the core content is not number twinning, number twinning is the basis of the meta-universe. The core, most valuable, and more innovative, creative and disruptive digital native technologies in the meta-universe.

In the digital world, digital natives can create things that are impossible in the physical world, which is the fundamental reason we need the metasurses.

Dr. Xiao feng said that in fact, the contradiction between decentralization and centralization can be interpreted in many dimensions. How to view "decentralization" determines whether we can build a real meta-universe, and even whether we can build a real digital economy. Decentralization does have its drawbacks and disadvantages, but it also has its positive meaning.

First of all,From the perspective of the development trend of basic network technology, it is understandable that networks are becoming more and more decentralized because of the need to face more and more massive data, more and more massive demands, more and more important network security and robustness requirements, and also in order to better eliminate single point of failure.

The secondFrom the perspective of economics, decentralization and centralization actually reflect the debate between fairness and efficiency. Fairness and efficiency are eternal topics in economics. Centralization emphasizes efficiency while decentralization emphasizes fairness.

Extreme decentralization, extreme centralization emphasizes extreme fairness or extreme efficiency. However, nothing can be extreme, and extreme fairness and extreme efficiency are certainly not good either.

The thirdFrom the perspective of epistemology, emergence theory matches decentralization very well. Facing the complex system brought by digital technology, emergence theory emphasizes the complexity, randomness and self-organization of the system, while reductionism originated from ancient Greece emphasizes the integrity and structuralization of the world and emphasizes the methodological analysis. There is a logic of centralization and a logic of decentralization for metadverse cognition. There is no one right or wrong.

The fourthFrom the perspective of governance mechanism, centralization refers to top-down hierarchical system and top-level design; Decentralization is about bottom-up distribution and grassroots decision-making. Ren Zhengfei said something to the effect that generals should be commanded by soldiers who can hear gunfire. That's the point.

The fifthIn terms of technological innovation, the nature of technological evolution is also "autopoietic" and "self-organizing," says Brian Arthur, former director of the Santa Fe Institute. The path of technological innovation is always from edge to core.

The sixthIn terms of business innovation, in the early stage of the industrial Revolution, the organizational form of the company was a U-shaped organization, which was highly controlled from top to bottom and the department did not have any decision-making power, which was highly centralized.

As globalization and diversification become the trend, regions and product lines are divided. At this point, headquarters can't help but give independent decision-making power to regional branches and product lines, and decentralization has value. So you have m-shaped tissue.

The seventhThe digital world is a bit-structured world, which is characterized by complexity, chaos, disorder, randomness and disequilibrium, and has the characteristics of decentralization. We can't resist the fact that we have to deal with the decentralized nature of doing things in the meta-universe.

Therefore, According to Xiao feng,We should take a holistic view of decentralization, discard its dregs and take its essence for our own use.The recommended method is as follows: On the horizontal axis, "interval matching" should be done for different application scenarios. Most application scenarios should be located in one of these two coordinate points. On the vertical axis, the network layer may be more decentralized, while the application layer may be more decentralized.