EEA Member Highlight with Wanchain’s Vice President of Engineering Dr. Weijia Zhang – Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

As an EEA member, Wanchain is a part of the EEA group of organizations working to advance Ethereum and drive {industry} adoption. Within the Q&A beneath, the EEA interviewed Dr. Weijia Zhang, Wanchain’s Vice President of Engineering, about how the group contributes to the Ethereum enterprise ecosystem. Dr. Weijia Zhang serves because the EEA’s Regional Head in China and the EEA’s Crosschain Interoperability Working Group Co-Chair.

Please introduce your organization and your self briefly.

Wanchain’s mission is to drive blockchain adoption by way of interoperability. We accomplish that by constructing crosschain infrastructure that connects the world’s many siloed blockchain networks. The aim of this infrastructure is to empower builders to construct decentralized crosschain functions that energy the way forward for Web3.

I function the EEA’s Regional Head in China and Co-Chair of the EEA’s Crosschain Interoperability Working Group, the place I lead and promote the event of crosschain interoperability requirements. It ought to come as no shock that Wanchain goes to nice lengths to make sure that our crosschain infrastructure abides by the most effective practices established by the EEA. 

At Wanchain, I lead the design of infrastructure. I’ve intensive R&D and engineering expertise in blockchain, cognitive sciences, computational fluid dynamics, software program modeling, pc applied sciences, and industrial requirements. Over time, I’ve printed greater than thirty analysis and technical papers and have secured greater than twenty patents in pc and digital know-how. I additionally educate good contract growth on the College of Texas at Austin and just lately co-authored a textbook entitled Blockchain and Ethereum Smart Contract Solution Development.

What first introduced you to the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, and why did you resolve to change into a member?

Wanchain has been a member of the EEA since 2018. Very early on, we realized that interoperability was a prerequisite to the widespread adoption of blockchain options. We additionally knew that it was essential to have formalized finest practices and requirements. As such, aligning ourselves with each Ethereum and the EEA was an apparent determination. The EEA’s mission is complementary to our personal and the EEA’s member-driven tradition creates implausible alternatives to alternate concepts with and be taught from different {industry} specialists whereas selling the necessity for interoperability all through the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain {industry} at giant. We are able to consider no entity that’s higher suited to steer the event of research-based finest practices and requirements than the EEA, which is spurring technical innovation and blockchain adoption. 

What are you at the moment engaged on with reference to Ethereum? How will end-users profit out of your work? 

Wanchain’s crosschain infrastructure contains a sustainable Layer 1 proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain and a decentralized, wide-area community of blockchains. The Wanchain Layer 1 PoS blockchain is a full Ethereum-like setting that works with industry-standard Ethereum instruments, dApps, and protocols. Wanchain’s large space community of blockchains is a decentralized system of direct, non-custodial crosschain bridges connecting greater than 18 totally different Layer 0, Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks, together with each EVM and non-EVM blockchains.

We have been among the many first to deploy bridges to Ethereum and have pioneered a wide range of mechanisms which can be commonplace as we speak, together with however not restricted to the lock-mint-burn-unlock mechanism. We have been additionally the primary to deploy decentralized direct bridges connecting Bitcoin and Ethereum. Now, we proceed to make incremental enhancements to our infrastructure whereas rising the variety of supported chains and transaction varieties with out sacrificing safety and decentralization. Whereas end-users can and do use our bridges to switch fungible tokens and NFTs throughout our large space community of blockchains, the actual profit to end-users comes from builders who leverage our infrastructure to construct decentralized crosschain functions and artistic use instances. 

After all, Wanchain continues to work intently with the EEA to submit EIPs aimed toward enhancing interoperability. We additionally usually publish papers formalizing use instances for crosschain functions, finest practices for crosschain safety, finest practices for decentralization, and extra.

How will the EEA improve your group’s present efforts?

The EEA has been invaluable in connecting its members and offering alternatives to share information and experience. We sit up for the EEA persevering with to develop its enterprise and schooling outputs in order that specialists industry-wide can proceed to be taught in regards to the newest enterprise and technical improvements. As well as, I’ve lengthy been enthusiastic about schooling. So, for me, probably the most attention-grabbing EEA packages are instructional in nature, for instance, the varied instructional webinars and EEA Working Teams and Curiosity Teams. The EEA’s primers, instructional seminars and topic-specific Working and Interest Groups additionally habitually end in essential takeaways that profit Wanchain, EEA members and the Ethereum enterprise ecosystem. 

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The EEA allows organizations to undertake and use Ethereum know-how of their every day enterprise operations. We empower the Ethereum ecosystem to develop new enterprise alternatives, drive {industry} adoption, and be taught and collaborate. Be part of us and contribute to our work!

Learn more about EEA membership, join the latest updates, and phone [email protected]. 

Dr. Weijia Zhang and Tej Anand printed the ebook “Blockchain and Ethereum Sensible Contract Answer Growth”. This ebook is written for each enterprise and technology-oriented readers. The primary a part of the ebook helps readers perceive blockchain structure, core parts, and enterprise semantics and functions. The second a part of the ebook helps readers be taught in regards to the Ethereum blockchain and write good contracts with Solidity and construct decentralized functions. This ebook is printed by Springer/Apress and is on the market by way of Amazon and Barnes & Noble.