The owner of the major social media app TikTok, ByteDance, is apparently launching a joint venture with the state owned Chinese media group and ThePaper.cn operator Shanghai Donfang Newspaper in order to develop business models which will include blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI). The reports about the TikTok owner were first issued on Bloomberg.
“A unit of ByteDance has 49% of the new firm, which has registered capital of 10 million yuan ($1.4 million); Shanghai Dongfang Newspaper Co. owns the rest, according to a statement on the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, an official business registration website,” the publication wrote.
As they show, the joint venture was launched in the capital of eastern China – specifically the Shandong province Jinan – on December 10. There was a registered capital of 10 million yuan ($1.43 million) where ByteDance owns 49% and the rest of the venture is owned by the Chinese media group.
Meanwhile, TikTok is a giant and a social network with more than 500 million monthly active users. As such, it is the second most downloaded app in the Apple App Store in the United States. The short video feed is completely managed by a purpose-built AI which predicts and delivers content that the user will likely prefer.
Even though it is still not clear how the TikTok owner ByteDance could benefit from the blockchain technology, a possible use case shows that the collaboration might extend to digital media data verification. For instance, the US law enforcement Axon Enterprise aims to test blockchain for its body cameras and fight deepfake AI-generated videos.
Meanwhile, recent reports in the blockchain news today show that the technology is rapidly maturing and seeing wide adoption in China. As we reported before, earlier this month the Bank of China issued 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) in blockchain financial bonds as reports showed. China is also expected to conduct the first real world test of its central bank digital currency in the near future.
All in all, TikTok is a major player and since it taps into a technology like blockchain, we can expect many new developments and potential use cases for the tech that is backing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin in the future.
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