IOTA 和 Chainlink 引领区块链-物联网整合竞赛

区块链的世界非常广阔——如今，有超过 10,000 个加密项目，其中许多项目都有自己的区块链网络。

The Internet of Things has become one of the defining technologies of our time. Studies suggest that it could add between $5.5 trillion and $12.6 trillion to global GDP by the decade’s end. Today, there exists over 15 billion interconnected IoT devices, from smart home appliances and wearable tech to self-driving cars and industrial sensors. This number could triple by 2030, according to the latest studies.

物联网已成为我们这个时代的决定性技术之一。研究表明，到本十年末，全球 GDP 可能会增加 5.5 万亿至 12.6 万亿美元。如今，从智能家电和可穿戴技术到自动驾驶汽车和工业传感器，已有超过 150 亿个互连物联网设备。根据最新研究，到 2030 年，这个数字可能会增加两倍。

Beyond the statistics, IoT is having a real impact on the quality of life. These devices are enhancing efficiency and automating most processes, lowering costs by reducing downtime, providing real-time data and insights for improved decision-making, offering better customer experience through personalized services and opening up new business models and economic opportunities.

除了统计数据之外，物联网正在对生活质量产生真正的影响。这些设备正在提高效率并实现大多数流程的自动化，通过减少停机时间来降低成本，提供实时数据和见解以改进决策，通过个性化服务提供更好的客户体验，并开辟新的业务模式和经济机会。

While IoT is transformative, it still needs to integrate with other technologies for optimum performance – security, efficiency and privacy, none more than blockchain. Today, many IoT projects rely on blockchain to secure their endpoints, verify and protect data, enhance machine-to-machine microtransactions and more.

虽然物联网具有变革性，但它仍然需要与其他技术集成以获得最佳性能——安全性、效率和隐私，区块链就是其中之一。如今，许多物联网项目依靠区块链来保护其端点、验证和保护数据、增强机器对机器的微交易等。

Now, let’s take a look at some of the blockchain networks that are cracking the IoT market.

现在，让我们来看看一些正在攻克物联网市场的区块链网络。

IOTA

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The IOTA network was built with machine-to-machine interconnections in mind, as founder Dominik Schiener told CNF. One of IOTA’s biggest strengths is its ability to scale effortlessly to handle very high throughput through its Tangle technology. With over 80 billion IoT endpoints this year, only a blockchain technology that scales massively can handle the workload. While some networks like Bitcoin handle some functions, like storing value extremely well, they are not equipped for these scaling demands.

正如创始人 Dominik Schiener 告诉 CNF 的那样，IOTA 网络在构建时考虑了机器对机器的互连。 IOTA 的最大优势之一是能够通过其 Tangle 技术轻松扩展以处理非常高的吞吐量。今年物联网端点超过 800 亿个，只有大规模扩展的区块链技术才能处理工作负载。虽然比特币等一些网络可以很好地处理某些功能，例如存储价值，但它们无法满足这些扩展需求。

Additionally, IOTA offers feeless transactions, and with trillions of messages expected to be sent between IoT devices daily by 2030, it would cost an astronomical amount to pay for each transaction. IOTA’s decentralization, low resource requirements and data integrity also make it uniquely positioned to handle IoT.

此外，IOTA 提供免费交易，预计到 2030 年，物联网设备之间每天将发送数万亿条消息，每笔交易的支付费用将是天文数字。 IOTA 的去中心化、低资源需求和数据完整性也使其在处理物联网方面具有独特的优势。

Chainlink

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One of Chainlink’s biggest strengths is its interoperability solutions. Today, CCIP is the world’s premier blockchain interoperability solution and connects dozens of the top networks, with new apps integrating it every other day. Additionally, Chainlink’s decentralized oracles connect blockchains to off-chain data, which includes data generated by IoT devices. Essentially, blockchain and IoT integration is almost impossible with Chainlink.

Chainlink 的最大优势之一是其互操作性解决方案。如今，CCIP 是世界上首屈一指的区块链互操作性解决方案，连接数十个顶级网络，每隔一天就会有新的应用程序集成它。此外，Chainlink 的去中心化预言机将区块链与链下数据连接起来，其中包括物联网设备生成的数据。从本质上讲，使用 Chainlink 几乎不可能实现区块链和物联网的集成。

VeChain

唯链

VeChain has also been accruing important patents for the blockchain-IoT sector, as we reported.

据我们报道，唯链还为区块链物联网领域积累了重要专利。