From university academician to chief academician

A young white man with a slicked back hair and a light blue suit ran up from the stage and walked to a microphone supported by a tripod.

"Hello everyone, welcome to the EDGE Awards Ceremony, I'm Robert!"

Robert spoke in a brisk tone with a bright smile on his face.

The whole person looks very sunny and talkative.

Westerners may have a lot of extrovert personalities due to education reasons.

“It has been nine years since the blockchain was proposed in 2008.”

"We have experienced the blockchain 1.0 era, and in 2014, we entered the blockchain 2.0 era. Now, we are about to enter the blockchain 3.0 era..."

Blockchain 1.0 is the decentralization of digital currency, 2.0 is the financial application of smart contract digital assets, and 3.0 is a decentralized mutual trust network and a decentralized trust mechanism.

The so-called decentralization of digital currencies is most typical of Bitcoin.

Smart contract digital asset financial applications, the most typical one is Ethereum.

Decentralized mutual trust network, decentralized trust mechanism, this is the combination of blockchain and multiple industries, changing part of human life style.

This was the original intention of the blockchain when it was first created, rather than being used to make money as it is now.

Ye Feixin said: "1.0 made Mochizuki Shinichi, 2.0 made V God, I don't know who 3.0 will make."

Both 1.0 and 2.0 have been used to make money, and 3.0 is the entry stage of the greatest moment of blockchain.

If someone can create Blockchain 3.0, he will become one of the richest people in the world.

His net worth will reach hundreds of billions of dollars in a short period of time, and he may even become the richest man in the world.

"There's still 4.0." Ye Feixin said.

Blockchain 4.0 is even more remarkable. It is the ultimate form of blockchain, and mankind will enter the Web3.0 era.

Things like VR, AR, and the Metaverse are all built on the basis of Web3.0.

Robert said: "I hope we will enter the blockchain 3.0 era as soon as possible. It will definitely be a more brilliant and exciting era."

"Okay, without further ado, let me introduce the guests present..."

After introducing everyone in the first two rows, Robert said: "In the EDGE awards ceremony, a total of five awards will be awarded, namely the annual blockchain technology breakthrough award, the annual Yuanverse entrepreneurial organization, the annual NFT leader award, and the annual GamerFi award. and Talker of the Year Award.”

Among these awards, the NFT Annual Leader Award is the most important award.

"Now, Mr. Carter, the chairman of the International Computer Federation, will announce the winner of the award. Everyone is welcome!"

"Bah bang bang..." Everyone applauded enthusiastically.

A middle-aged white man stood up from the middle of the first row, turned around and waved to the people behind him, and then walked onto the stage.

After shaking hands with Robert on stage, he walked to the microphone and said: "This year's winner of the Blockchain Technology Breakthrough Award is Thor Beckman."

In an instant, a half-length photo of Thor Beckmann was displayed on the LCD screen behind the stage, with a text description next to it.

Thor Beckman, chief technology officer of Apple's blockchain department, developed a cross-chain in 2026...

Soon, a middle-aged white man stood up from the audience. He waved around and then walked toward the stage.

After taking the stage, he shook hands with Carter. Carter picked up the medal from the square plate brought by the staff beside him, put it on Thor's neck, and handed the certificate to Thor.

The two then stood together and reporters from around the auditorium took photos of them.

Thor walked to the microphone and said with a smile: "I am very grateful to ACM for awarding this award to me. I feel honored, but what I want to thank most is Professor Ye Fei from Xia Guo. If it weren't for him in the global block early last year, If cross-chain is proposed at a chain academic conference and R\u0026D directions are given, I may not be able to develop cross-chain."

"Thanks!"

The reporters in the audience immediately turned their cameras to Ye Fei, who was sitting in the audience.

Everyone in the audience also looked at Ye Fei.

Ye Fei's face showed a smile in time.

2026 is a year of great changes for the blockchain, and the initiator is Ye Fei.

If Ye Fei had not pointed out the future development direction and research methods of blockchain at the global blockchain academic conference, it might have taken several years for cross-chain to be developed.

Lin Yi looked arrogantly and said to the white young man beside him: "Look, this is my mentor, isn't he awesome!"

The white young man snorted disdainfully and thought to himself: "What's so great is that I can just propose the direction of blockchain research and development. That's not as good as my uncle!"

Lin Yi and Wang Yuan looked at Ye Fei with admiration. This was their lifelong goal.

After Thor went down, Carter said: "The Metaverse Entrepreneurship Organization of the Year is Google!"

Google is the company with the most blockchain technology among all companies in the world.

This is because in 2021, 40 of the top 100 companies in the world by market capitalization have invested in blockchain-related fields.

Among them, Google leads the industry with a total investment of US$1.5 billion. In the following years, it invested another US$500 million in some blockchain companies every year.

Until now, the total investment has reached 4 billion US dollars.

It is precisely because of this that Google has the largest number of blockchain technologies.

Moss, Google's blockchain chief technology officer, stood up from the audience, waved around, and walked toward the stage.

After shaking hands with Carter, Carter put on his medal and handed him the certificate. After taking pictures, Moss walked to the microphone and said: "I'm very happy to win this award..."

After Moss stepped down, Carter continued: "The winner of the GameFi Award of the Year is Infinity!"

Infinite Company is an NFT+metaverse game based on the Ethereum blockchain. It is a decentralized turn-based strategy game inspired by "Pokémon" and is the most popular GameFi game in 2026. .

The president of Unlimited stood up from the audience, walked onto the stage, took the medal and certificate from Carter, and then walked to the microphone to speak.

After the president of Unlimited Company left, Carter said: "The winner of the annual talker is..."

Everyone is looking at Ye Fei. After all, the hottest topic in blockchain last year was Ye Fei’s speech at a global blockchain academic conference.

Throughout the next year, changes in the blockchain were all due to Ye Fei’s speech.

Therefore, Ye Fei is most likely to win this award.

Ye Fei also feels that he should win this award himself. In terms of influence on the blockchain, it is naturally Mochizuki Shinichi, Buterin and Adam Baker who have the greatest influence.

And these three people should fight for the NFT Annual Leader Award.

Therefore, Ye Fei should win the Talker of the Year Award.

Lin Yi smiled and said: "It must be my mentor who gets it, for sure."

Wang Yuan nodded and said: "Yes, after all, the biggest talker in blockchain in the past year has been my mentor. If he doesn't get it, who is qualified?"

The white young man next to him curled his lips.

Of course, he also felt that Ye Fei should win this award.

And his uncle is definitely going to compete for the most important award, the NFT Annual Leader Award.

Carter said: "The Talker of the Year award is..."

"Mochizuki Shinichi!"

The scene fell silent instantly, and everyone stared at Carter on the stage with wide eyes in surprise.

Carter faced everyone's gaze without any panic, and still had a gentle smile on his face.

Ye Fei was surprised: "It's not me? How could it be that it's not me but Mochizuki Shinichi?"

“As a blockchain founder, shouldn’t he compete for the NFT Leader of the Year Award?”

"If he wins this award, he will not be able to win the NFT Annual Leader Award."

According to the rules of the EDGE Award, each person and each company can only receive one type of award.

Mochizuki Shinichi stood up from the stage and walked towards the stage.

Carter put a medal on his face, presented him with a certificate, and then took photos.

Mochizuki Shinichi walked up to the microphone and said: "As a blockchain founder, I know that everyone present will be surprised to receive this award. Why did I receive this award? Why don't I compete for the NFT Annual Leader Award?"

Everyone nodded, yes, why don’t you compete for the NFT Annual Leader Award.

Mochizuki Shinichi: “Because I have received enough honors from the blockchain, I don’t need more awards to decorate me.”

"So, I want to give the biggest prize to the rest of them."

“There’s someone who needs this award more than me.”

"By the way, Buterin and Adam Baker have also withdrawn from competing for the NFT Annual Leader Award."

Mochizuki stepped down as soon as he finished speaking.

Everyone exclaimed when they heard Mochizuki Shinichi's words.

Before this, everyone thought that the NFT Annual Leader Award was born between Mochizuki Shinichi, Vitalikine and Adam Baker.

However, now that these three people have withdrawn from competing for the NFT Annual Leader Award, it is full of suspense who will win the NFT Annual Leader Award.

Everyone looked around in confusion, wondering who was still qualified to compete for the NFT Annual Leader Award.

The white young man clenched his fists and said angrily: "Why did my uncle give up competing for the NFT Annual Leader Award and compete with Mochizuki Shinichi and Vitalik? Maybe he will win!"

Wang Yuan felt regretful in his heart: "What a pity. The Talker of the Year Award was won by Shinichi Mochizuki. Don't give up the NFT Leader of the Year Award, so that my mentor can win the Talker of the Year Award."

"You three great gods gave up very casually, but it was my mentor who suffered."

"This is really a fight between gods and mortals!"

"It seems like my mentor won't be able to win a single award."

"This is the first time that my mentor has been nominated and not won."

“When I go abroad for the first time, I break my own confinement.”

"It's better to go abroad less often in the future. My mentor's luck abroad is a bit unaccustomed."

"Why……"

Carter said: "The NFT Annual Leader Award will be presented below. I leave a suspense here."

"Because Mochizuki Shinichi, Vitalikine and Adam Baker have withdrawn from competing for the NFT Annual Leader Award."

"So, we select the award winner from the rest."

"They are Li Qiwei, Amin Gensile, Brock Pierce, and Tyler Winklevoss."

Every time Carter said a name, the screen behind him showed a bust of a person.

Everyone nodded, these four people are all celebrities in the blockchain field.

Li Qiwei is not from Xia country, but from Beili country.

He is the father of Litecoin, a type of cryptocurrency that is best suited for small, lightweight transactions.

Bitcoin is a currency more suitable for heavyweight transactions such as international payments.

Emin Gensler is the creator of the first cryptocurrency to use the proof-of-work concept, the Karma system.

Brock Pierce is a businessman and one of the earliest investors in Bitcoin.

Moreover, he has invested in many projects in the blockchain field.

At the same time, he has served as a guest lecturer at Milken Global Conference, Singularity University, Stanford University, University of Southern California, and UCLA.

Tyler Winklevoss is an early Bitcoin investor in Beiliguo and the founder of Winklevoss Capital Management.

He is the CEO and co-founder of Gemini Exchange, the world’s first licensed digital currency exchanger.

Bit said: "And Ye Fei!"

"Ye Fei?" Everyone was shocked.

Although Ye Fei proposed the research and development direction of blockchain last year, his substantive contribution is far behind compared with the other people!

Of course, there are also contributions.

The cross-chain proposed by Ye Fei was successfully developed by many companies around the world last year, making the blockchain a big step forward.

But this influence cannot be entirely attributed to Ye Fei, only a small part of it falls on Ye Fei.

After all, Ye Fei was just the proposer, and the developer was someone else.

It's like someone proposed a conjecture, but someone else proved it and applied it in reality.

Then most of the credit should fall on the prover.

In terms of cross-chain influence, only a small part falls on Ye Fei, and there is a big gap between the influence of the other four people on the blockchain.

Carter smiled and said: "I know everyone must be confused as to why Ye Fei was chosen."

"Because Ye Fei not only proposed the research direction of blockchain, he also created a brand new asymmetric encryption algorithm."

"A month ago, I visited Xia State and I saw information about the asymmetric encryption algorithm."

"Of course, it's not all the information, just a basic framework."

"But it also taught me about this asymmetric encryption algorithm."

"That's a great asymmetric encryption algorithm."

"If this asymmetric encryption algorithm is successfully developed, it will allow the blockchain to enter the 3.0 era faster."

Everyone screamed in surprise when they heard this.

They were very surprised. Is it really so amazing?

They had heard that Ye Fei had developed a new asymmetric encryption algorithm.

But since it is only a theoretical part, applications have not yet been created.

Therefore, we don’t know what kind of asymmetric encryption algorithm Ye Fei developed.

But now hearing what Carter said, they felt that Ye Fei's asymmetric encryption algorithm must be very simple.

Mochizuki Shinichi turned his head to look at Ye Fei in astonishment, wondering in his heart: "What kind of asymmetric encryption algorithm is it that made Carter comment like this?"

“Can the blockchain enter the 3.0 era?”

“I’m really looking forward to it!”

The blockchain 3.0 era has always been the goal of blockchain researchers.

1.0 and 2.0 will be released soon, but 3.0 has not been released yet.

Because 3.0 is much more technically difficult than 1.0 and 2.0.

If the technical difficulty of 1.0 is 1, then the technical difficulty of 2.0 is also 1, and the technical difficulty of 3.0 is 5.

The technical difficulty of 3.0 is five times that of 1.0 and 2.0.

Because 1.0 is created by the decentralized nature of the blockchain.

2.0 is one of the four core technologies of blockchain, created by smart contracts.

But 3.0 requires breakthrough research on all four core technologies of blockchain.

In particular, asymmetric encryption algorithms require the greatest breakthrough research.

After that, a brand new blockchain system will be created with the asymmetric encryption algorithm as the core, and then it will enter 3.0.

This is because the asymmetric encryption algorithm is the most difficult technology among the four core technologies, and it is also the most important technology.

Carter said: "I will announce that the winner of the NFT Annual Leader Award is..."

"Xia Guo Ye Fei!"

Ye Fei was shocked. It wasn't until the people around him applauded that Ye Fei came back to his senses.

Ye Fei stood up and walked to the stage, shook hands with Carter, and Carter smiled and said, "Congratulations."

Ye Fei smiled and said: "Thank you!"

Carter put the medal on Ye Fei's head and gave Ye Fei the certificate, and then the two stood together for a photo.

Ye Fei walked to the microphone and said with a smile: "I am still confused as to why I won the award."

Ye Fei turned to look at Carter and asked, "Mr. Carter, why did I win the prize?"

People in the audience looked at Carter, yes, why did Ye Fei win the award?

Carter smiled and said: "Of course it is because of your asymmetric encryption algorithm. I am looking forward to the successful development of your asymmetric encryption algorithm. It must be a very exciting moment."

Ye Fei said helplessly: "Well, since it is my asymmetric encryption algorithm that won me the award, then I will briefly introduce my asymmetric encryption algorithm."

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Ye Fei expectantly.

Ye Feidao: "My asymmetric encryption algorithm is derived from Goldbach's conjecture."

"Woo..." Everyone exclaimed in surprise.

This is the first time in history that no asymmetric encryption algorithm in the world has been derived from seven mathematical problems.

Ye Feidao: "That's all I have to say. You will be able to see more information after the application part of my asymmetric encryption algorithm is developed."

"thank you all!"

After saying that, Ye Fei walked off the stage.