With the development of society, the types of assets are more and more abundant. There were few kinds of assets in ancient times, mainly physical assets, land, houses and personal collections. With the advent of the Internet era, the types of assets are no longer limited to entities, and more and more virtualized or digitized assets come into people's sight, such as data and algorithms. The rapid development of blockchain in the past two years has also created many new assets, namely blockchain assets, such as EtherCat and Hash World Land.
Traditional assets are a kind of physical assets, with physical objects as the main body. With the change of social organization structure and social assistance methods, on the one hand, the types of assets are changing greatly, on the other hand, people have a new understanding of the definition of assets. Traditional physical assets can exist in a digital way, such as company stocks, creditor's rights, etc., which are supported by entities and digitized. The development of Internet accelerates the process of asset digitization, and at the same time, it brings more and more pure digital assets, such as Weibo V, equipment in games and so on.
Different assets have their unique functions and can be classified according to their different characteristics. So far, according to the main characteristics or functions of assets, the current mainstream assets can be divided into:
Blockchain indigenous class
Mainly based on assets generated by blockchain. The most important representative of such assets is digital currency. In the second half of 20 17, the price of bitcoin continued to rise, which made digital currency's attention spread rapidly around the world. Companies successively launched their own digital currency, and individual and institutional investors also entered the market quickly. In addition, there are some blockchain assets with certain meanings, such as EtherCat, Hash World Land, Netease Planet, etc. Such assets are directly generated in the blockchain and traded in the blockchain.
New data class
Assets generated mainly based on the Internet. There are many subdivisions of such assets, such as algorithms, such as artificial intelligence core algorithms and autonomous driving solutions; Such as company data, such as operational data; Or personal data, such as personal shopping records. One common feature of these assets is that they are all digital products without entities, and because most of the data are generated between users and platforms, the determination of their rights and interests can not be well guaranteed.
Equity category
This asset is the product of physical evolution so far. For example, the house itself is the function of living. Human beings have realized such a residence through their own construction. With the development of society, there is gradually a "deed of house", that is, the current property certificate and other rights and interests certificates, and the physical object has a certificate of ownership. Generally, such assets will have corresponding physical objects, which belong to the physical proof of rights and interests and can be used as a voucher for trading and circulation. This kind of assets covers a very wide range, and almost all physical objects in life can be covered, such as real estate license, company equity or stocks. If you want to define it, all projects can be granted equity asset certificates.
PE
Physical assets are the foundation of all development, that is, all kinds of objects in life, including houses, cars, celebrity calligraphy and paintings, and even mobile phones, computers, clothes and shoes. The biggest feature of such assets is the existence of entities, which are tangible and tangible. With the development of the Internet, such assets have great overlap with equity assets at present, and many equity assets are based on physical assets.