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Revealing the gray industrial chain of "blockchain license"
Source: beijing business today Today.
With the popularity of blockchain, a gray industry with blockchain licenses has appeared in the market, and some brokers holding "blockchain licenses" are also deeply cultivating opportunities to make big profits. However, beijing business today reporter found through investigation today that this so-called "blockchain license" is actually a business license with a blockchain, and it is not an official document to approve relevant institutions to conduct business. Analysts believe that companies that register blockchain-related names are actually a kind of speculation, and the investment is of little significance, which is suspected of flickering speculation.
"Blockchain license" starts at a minimum of 20,000 yuan.
Recently, today's reporter in beijing business today saw a message in a resource exchange group called financial license plate, "A fiery blockchain license plate was released, with no households and no business, and the transfer was completed in 15 days, and 20,000 yuan was taken away". Brokers selling licenses said that the price of existing licenses ranged from 20,000 to 65,438+10,000 yuan. If there are no special requirements, the merger can be completed with a minimum budget of 20,000 yuan.
However, today's reporter in beijing business today found some tricks in the specific information of issuing licenses. According to the requirements of the formal business license, the business license must be issued by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce or the local industrial and commercial bureau. The formal business license must have the name, type, domicile, legal representative, registered capital, date of establishment, business term and business scope. This so-called "blockchain license" is only stamped by the local industrial and commercial bureau, and does not indicate the amount of registered capital. It has a registration date but no expiration date, and there is no specific legal person information. In response to the reporter's question, the license broker did not give a positive answer.
When the reporter of beijing business today Today asked whether a new license could be obtained, the license broker said that on the whole, the nationwide blockchain registration policy is getting tighter and tighter, and the application has been completely restricted in Shanghai. Although Beijing has no restrictions, its business scope is limited to technology and technology-related types. If you choose to register in Beijing, the fee will be between1.80,000-50,000 yuan. The shortest is 15 working days, and the longest is about one month.
Analysts believe that many people focus on the business of cybersquatting and the transfer of blockchain licenses because companies with the words "blockchain" in their names have sprung up. The data shows that most of the enterprises with the word blockchain in their business scope are newly established companies within one year, with 4,266 * *, concentrated in Guangdong. Among them, there are 2 177 registered companies in Guangzhou and 502 registered companies in Shenzhen.
In this regard, Zhang, a senior researcher at Yingcan Consulting, said that at present, favorable policies are constantly being implemented in various places, and the overall business environment is good. From the perspective of participants, the current blockchain circle is very small, and there is obvious geographical concentration due to policy differences. For most participants, the rising period of the industry has great room for development and is very attractive to their entrepreneurship. For sellers, the income from selling "blockchain licenses" is much higher than the difficulty and cost of application, which also provides sellers with a large profit-seeking space.
This license is not another license?
In recent years, the concept of blockchain has become more and more popular, and various localities have introduced preferential policies for blockchain. For example, Guangzhou introduced the "Ten Blockchains", which are based on the rewards of cultivation, growth, platform and application, so many entrepreneurs saw the dividend and actively entered the market. In fact, the domestic blockchain industry has no license. As for the formal license, the official statement is "the certificate issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce to industrial and commercial enterprises and individual operators to engage in certain production and business activities". Foreign blockchain licenses are similar to financial licenses, and they are official documents to approve relevant institutions to conduct business.
Zhang told today's beijing business today reporter that the blockchain was mainly used in digital currency in the early days and had financial attributes. However, in recent years, the regulatory authorities have issued licenses for Internet finance such as "third-party payment" and "online small loans", and P2P online loans have been filed, which makes entrepreneurs mistakenly think that blockchain also has relevant licenses. Therefore, this provides conditions for the emergence of "blockchain licenses".
Zhang further stated that these so-called "blockchain licenses" are actually not licenses, but business licenses with the words "blockchain" in the company name, which is no different from other business licenses. At present, China has no clear access requirements for blockchain enterprises. At present, the policy support direction focuses on the combination of blockchain technology and real economy, and generally focuses on the technical level rather than the financial level.
A person in charge of a blockchain company admitted to today's beijing business today reporter that the current blockchain, as a fire project, is very attractive to investors, and many investors want to test the water to seize this profitable business opportunity. In the view of Lv Nan, research director of Sack Research Institute, obtaining the blockchain business license obviously makes these companies have the possibility of getting rich, but the blockchain technology companies actually don't need the blockchain business license, and such a "license" actually has no intrinsic value.
Xiao Lei, founder of Cash Exchange and president of 500 Gold Research Institute, also believes that the blockchain license is likely to be intentional speculation. At present, there is no national license and no official documents. In addition, it is difficult to issue licenses specifically for blockchain in the future, because blockchain is a technology, not a commercial form. Registering a name related to the blockchain is actually a kind of speculation, and the investment significance is not great. The most important thing is to look at the business capabilities of specific companies.
Follow the trend, speculation is risky.
Due to blind worship, the "blockchain" has always had room for conceptual speculation. In addition to the influx of retail investors, as long as listed companies disclose their contact with the blockchain, the stock price will rise sharply, and the announcement of blockchain business will be able to limit. This has also attracted many "unknown" companies to announce that they will launch blockchain projects and seek to catch up with this wave of hot spots. When receiving the inquiry letter from the exchange or the questions from the interactive platform, some companies responded positively, and some companies made urgent clarification to clear the relationship.
Xiao Lei emphasized that it is difficult for blockchain to bring real high profits to enterprises in a short time. Judging from the current situation, the risk is very high in the short term. Moreover, many enterprises' projects do not need blockchain technology to solve, but are hard-added, which requires very high investment identification ability. Now nearly 90% of the projects in the blockchain are "air" projects, which is meaningless.
Huo, director of the Beijing Financial Work Bureau, stressed at a closed meeting recently that "blockchain, as a technology, has a threshold. The blockchain in the eyes of technicians and the blockchain discussed by many people are often not the same dimension. Most people don't know much about technology, and scammers just use this to make blockchain a cloak for their own deception. Cheating with technical concepts has become a current trend. "
Talking about the reasons for hawking blockchain licenses, Shi Dalong, a senior researcher at Suning Financial Research Institute, pointed out that after tightening the supervision of tokens such as blockchain and bitcoin, the industrial and commercial registration department suspended the examination and approval of business licenses involving blockchain, and some companies that are really engaged in blockchain technology development urgently need to obtain business qualifications involving blockchain, and these enterprises will purchase such licenses; On the other hand, it may be that some speculators speculate, buying low and selling high.
"The society has an almost crazy blind worship of the blockchain, and there is also a market space for fishing in troubled waters. A large amount of capital keeps coming in, and digital currency is completely banned in China, and the registration of blockchain companies is also suspended, thus forming a' shell resource' market. At present, China has not issued any franchise license in the blockchain field. This is the' concept' of the seller's hype and has no intrinsic value. Future supervision or' blockchain' company registration and release. These' licenses' may be worthless. " Lunan said.