2018年是区块链技术应用进入大众视野、产业生态初步形成的元年。相比互联网和移动互联网的普及，它的发展趋势更为迅猛！区块链技术被认为是继蒸汽机、电气化、互联网之后的第四次工业革命的重要组成部分之一。凭借点对点网络设计、加密技术应用、分布式算法、数据存储技术等底层技术的支撑，未来区块链技术必将广泛应用在各行各业。

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.

区块链技术相关的专利申请数量在过去的这两年里也是飞速增长。其中，与访问控制、公钥解密、区块构建、数据处理等相对底层的技术相关的专利申请量占到了50%左右。另外一半的专利申请主要与区块链技术在各行各业的落地应用方案有关，有身份认证、药品打签、食品追踪、审计注册、金融机构信息协同、个人征信及报税和一些其他的工业化的应用等。

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全球区块链知识产权峰会”峰会基于2018年2月IPRdaily联合incopat发布的‘全球区块链企业专利排行榜’，在投资界、区块链领域以及币圈引起了热烈的反响与探讨。与此同时，专利对于区块链技术的价值也在不断的被认可和拔高，企业如何利用区块链专利布局来促进应用落地，未雨绸缪，获得未来技术和市场竞争的战略制高点，值得所有行业参与者深思与关注。

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.