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“Coinbase meets Internet Computer” — a cloud-proof path goes fully on-chain
Following a series of high-profile AWS outages that disrupted services worldwide — and coincided with Coinbase users reporting login/access issues acknowledged by the exchange — a clear direction is emerging: move the critical stack on-chain.
Why this matters:
♾ Cloud single-points-of-failure: When AWS stumbles, “web3” frontends, RPCs, and gateways fall with it.
♾ ICP’s model: Internet Computer $ICP runs frontend, backend, and storage directly on-chain (canisters) — no AWS, no gateways, no custodians.
♾ Uptime by protocol, not SLAs: Apps are served from the chain itself; outages in a cloud region don’t take them down.
♾ Interoperability built-in: Chain-Key tech enables native interactions with Bitcoin/EVM chains without bridges.
♾ Real UX: Reverse-gas means users pay $0; developers pre-fund compute with cycles.
What’s next:
Coinbase will begin by piloting an on-chain front end on the Internet Computer—serving status pages and non-custodial flows directly from canisters—and then will progressively migrate high-availability components (frontends, critical services, auxiliary data) onto ICP. The goal: eliminate cloud single points of failure, harden uptime at the protocol layer, and deliver a verifiable, censorship-resistant user experience.
Welcome to on-chain Coinbase.
a @SuiNetwork wallet built on #ICP:
> send, receive and keep #SUI assets
> rest part of the app (frontend, etc.) hosted on #ICP
same thing can be done for any other #SUI projects
#ICP doesn't compete w other l1s - it complements them by providing a better alternative to aws
Expecting Internet Computer #ICP to enable LLM AIs to run inside canister smart contracts 🧠 thanks to new node types.
Well be amazing for e.g. creating a medical AI as contracts will make provable: 1) the model code, 2) the training data, and 3) that a given prompt produces the provided response/so no human meddling.
Compute will be more expensive, but won't matter for such applications. Likely 4X or 7X replication.
Crypto buffs will note that modern AI relies on floating point GPU hardware, which is non-deterministic, and would cause a chain to fork. But the good news is it can be transformed to rely on deterministic integer arithmetic, which is also supported by new GPU hardware.
Like a lot of work DFINITY pursues, this is non-trivial, but hoping we can at least get a strong PoC onto the network in 18-24 months. No guarantees.
Meanwhile, we are aiming to help get the network supporting much simpler "AI compute units" this year.
These won't run as smart contracts that can support creation of fully trustless AIs. However, they will run on a decentralized public network, use enclave tech, maximize efficiency, be natively integrated with Web3, have significant computational power, and provide unique capabilities to be explained later, which will prove very, very important...
Blockchain will host AI and imbue it with special properties.
#BuildOnTheNetwork
Just want to double down on this tweet to make sure @TaggrNetwork gets its due credit.
From where I stand, Taggr is the first ever fully decentralized app, with everything on-chain and governed by a DAO.
Let that sink in... Everything on-chain.
#EverythingBlockchain@mechaquan
1/ We have switched https://t.co/Kr32V1LViq from #btc testnet to mainnet, being one of the first to conduct real #btc transactions on #internetcomputer, as well as one of the first to conduct private #btc transactions!
I'm not surprised about media and advertising people on @Tamedia's TX conference asking the rhetholical question who needs blockchain technology. The privacy it introduces could kill your business.
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Before joining @dfinity I had a hard time getting a high-level overview of what the IC actually is.
Since then, I've learned a thing or two, and sat down this week with Dieter and Thomas to write and share the story with you 🚀
https://t.co/JnrZ5Gyfdl
@ArthurFalls Very well written and inspiring article.
I want to note that only the initial set of node providers went through KYC. The onboarding since launch is lonely based on NNS proposals.
I prefer bravenet over badlands. Brave because node rewards are paid for actual utilisation.
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@ICP_Updates @dfinity The number of commits per week that the team is producing is actually forcing us to do weekly rollouts. Longer release periods would add more risk to the rollouts. I guess that other projects have either less changes/progress or their QA processes don't allow weekly rollouts.
@blockpunk2077@dominic_w The big difference to other projects is that the IC has the capabilities to provide a decentralized DNS first time in history. It's only a matter of time #WeAreHiring
@blockpunk2077@dominic_w The IC doesn't depend on AWS. With CF it's different. The NS record for https://t.co/VebaymPf0U points to CF. Means the IC currently depends on centralized DNS like any other project but not any other CF services like CDN.