It is reported that former Baidu and Meituan senior technical engineer Edison Wu formally joined TRON technical team, who is mainly responsible for native code research and smart contract research.

Edison got a master’s degree in software engineering. He has a 11-years experience in Internet and enterprise software development and has profound knowledge in search technology, distributed computing and big data algorithms. He has worked for Baidu (T4 Engineer) and Meituan (Risk Control Data Platform Expert) and he is also a capable multi-technology expert with rich experience in big data processing and risk control and anti-cheat.

During his tenure at Baidu.com, Edison Wu is mainly responsible for the development and maintenance of the noah system of Baidu, and mainly engaged in the development and design of the argus monitoring system and alarm access module. More over that, during the period of serving in Meituan, he also built a platform for Meituan risk control data (including data link selection and system module development). The main work of him in Meituan: conducting big data screening to prevent cheating of multitasking accounts, establishing a merchant-user credit system, systematically bisecting the two sides, arranging the user relationship network, the risk control black-and-white list management system and the “falcon system” detecting and alerting of all user behaviors in real time. Through multi-angle and multi-dimensional methods, a complete set of anti-cheating risk control system was finished, improved the short board of network behavior detection and early warning system.

Edison himself said: “I have been working outside my own work to start working with digital assets and blockchain research in 2015. Blockchain technology is an unprecedented invention and is still in an early stage of building a foundation. I was excited to be really involved in at this time, to leave Baidu for such an excellent team as TRON and devote myself to TRON’s research of blockchain technology.”

Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, said: “We welcome Edison Wu’s coming. As TRON partners continue expanding, both technical requirements and need of the user developers are growing. Edison Wu has many years of experience in the field of software development, which will make TRON more competitive. We will continue to introduce more sophisticated research and development personnel at home and abroad to help TRON move forward. At the same time, it will also accelerate the high-level development driven by technological innovation. 2018 will be an important year for us and we wish to witness this with the supporters and believers of the general public.”

TRON is a blockchain-based decentralized protocol that aims to construct a worldwide free content entertainment system with the blockchain and distributed storage technology. The protocol allows each user to freely publish, store and own data, and in the decentralized autonomous form, decides the distribution, subscription and push of contents and enables content creators by releasing, circulating and dealing with digital assets, thus forming a decentralized content entertainment ecosystem.

Tron was founded by Justin Sun, the former chief representative for Greater China of Ripple. Justin was featured in 2015&2017 Forbes China 30 under 30, 2017 Forbes Asia 30 under 30 and was a member of the first batch of entrepreneurs at Hupan University, the founder of Alibaba Group.

According to Coinmarketcap, Tron is the 14th among the top 15 crypto currencies, with a total market cap over 3.4 billion USD, daily trading volume of 300 million USD, and there are at least 500,000 TRX holders around the world.