For the fourth year, JPMorgan, Samsung, and Ant Group are among the seven companies to have been placed in the Forbes Global Blockchain 50 list every year. It is a positive recognition of their ongoing commitment to blockchain driven innovation.
The list is delivered alphabetically which suggests that Forbes are aiming to not alienate any of the companies listed by suggesting any particular favourites. Overall it is a positive sign that so many companies are now integrating blockchain into their operating systems.
Forbes Global Blockchain 50 list, Ant Group remains in top 50
Ant Group is the only Chinese company among the “Magnificent Seven”, as is called by Forbes. On Ant Group’s website they describe their vision as following. “Our vision is to build the future digital infrastructure of services, and thereby bring about constant and incremental changes that are beneficial to the world. We do not believe bigger is better; our pursuit is sustainable development that lasts at least 102 years.” Which does leave you wondering why 100 + 2 years, why not 100, 101 or 200? But maybe that is something that is lost in transition. They have shown a commitment to green issues, so hopefully it is something that will help the planet to achieve the carbon neutrality and beyond that will be needed to ensure the survival of the planet, and perhaps even the human race too.
By the end of August 2021, approximately 600 million Ant Forest users had planted over 300 million trees, located in almost twenty protected areas.
On the Forbes 50 blockchain list they focussed on Trusple, the Ant Group blockchain-powered digital platform for international trade and financial services. A feature that we wrote about previously. As we described in the following section from that article “This blockchain based technology aims to be an international trade and financial service platform to help reduce friction and barriers to trade for medium to smaller companies to sell their products and services to customers around the world.
They also state that it will reduce costs for financial institutions who wish to be part of the ecosystem. As China already moves rapidly to a cashless society – currently 80% of transactions are already done digitally – it makes sense to see initiatives like this emerging.”
Ant Group has also built an NFT (Non-Fungible Token) to work with cultural organisations such as art galleries, and museums with the aim of ensuring cultural artefacts remain relevant and accessible to as many as possible.
We are honored to have been named to the @Forbes #Blockchain 50 list every year since its start in 2018, one of the only seven companies that have made the list all four years. In addition, Ant Group is the only Chinese firm among the seven. https://t.co/CqwhnhrSAP
— Ant Group (@AntGroup) February 9, 2022
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