Alibaba

Partners/money links

• Partners with Neo
• Partnership with OnChain to provide an email certification service for Ali Cloud
• Alibaba, is a part owner of Ant Financial, Ant Group and its AntChain.
• Partners (2-4-2020) with iExec.
• One of the sponsors (3-10-2019) of Hyperledger Avalon. (iExec is one of the main participants in this project)
• Got mentioned as one of the creditors of FTX (26-1-2023).

Former Employees

• Some team members of Qtum come from Alibaba. Dai, Patrick; “Previously employed by Alibaba, and committed to the blockchain technology development, with abundant blockchain industry development experience.”
• Hitters Xu; former Director of Ant Financial's Blockchain Platform (Alibaba’s financial arm)
• Centrality claims their team members come from (10-4-2020) all kinds of big organisations, one of which is Alibaba.
• Liam Young; "used to be a product manager"
• Trias; claims core members come from here (1-2023).

Other links

• Alibaba has patented (30-4-2020) a blockchain-based means of vetting the originality of songs.