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Chinese companies are still topping the blockchain patents charts – despite Beijing’s recent crackdown on crypto and some of the nation’s biggest tech firms. In an ironic twist, some of the firms that have fallen afoul of a recent crackdown on gaming, fintech, entertainment and chat app operators feature prominently in the latest global blockchain patents index , as compiled by the intellectual property industry media outlet IPR Daily and the incoPat Innovation Index Research Center. But despite Beijing’s apparent distrust of the Middle Kingdom’s biggest tech firms, it remains committed to winning the global blockchain technology race – and...