TL;DR
- China’s new 96-core blockchain chip delivers 50x faster performance than general-purpose processors.
- The integrated system enables secure data sharing between 16 ministries and 27 state-owned enterprises.
- More than 300,000 companies currently use this infrastructure for cross-border trade and supply chain financing.
March 5, 2026, Dong Jin — Director Representative of Beijing Blockchain and Edge Computing Institute and National People’s Congress — announced Development of China’s first high-speed blockchain chip. device pack 96 special cores It also runs alongside a proprietary operating system built on 3 million lines of open source code designed from the kernel level on to extract maximum output from the underlying hardware.
Don’t miss the leap in performance this chip delivers. While traditional general-purpose processors currently power most blockchain networks, the new Chinese chips handle basic cryptographic operations (signature verification and hash calculations) through parallel hardware pipelines.
Results: Network throughput 50 times Better than solutions built on standard x86 or ARM architectures. In terms of raw capacity, this system processes hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. This is a threshold that exceeds the processing capacity of global payment networks such as Visa and Mastercard.
From research institutes to 16 ministries and agencies to 300,000 companies
This technology is well past the experimental stage. At the time of announcement, the system was already running internally. 16 central ministries and committees and the other side 27 state-owned enterpriseswhich aims to break down data silos between public agencies and enable the secure exchange of information without exposing sensitive records.
Commercial expansion also extends to the private sector. more 300,000 companies It is already using the infrastructure for foreign trade operations, and the transaction amount exceeds 1 trillion yuan. At the same time, the system: Tens of billions of invoices annuallyrecords each document in an immutable format from the moment of publication.
This eliminates document fraud, enables banks to provide near-instant financing to small supplier businesses, and allows accounts receivable to be converted into fractional digital certificates that can be distributed throughout the chain.
Beyond operational efficiency, the project carries the name “China Chip” and pursues the clear goal of technological independence. By designing and producing hardware domestically, China is building a digital infrastructure that is not dependent on foreign supply chains and is not exposed to sanctions risks or hardware-level backdoors. As global tensions around technology increase, this discussion is as important as any other performance benchmark.
