After Six Years in the $ICP Community: Innovation Without Recognition
DFINITY has continuously pushed forward with new concepts, advanced architectures, and ambitious visions for the Internet Computer. Yet, despite these efforts, ICP’s price has trended lower over time.
This creates a frustrating negative feedback loop: positive news and updates are released, only for the market to respond with further declines. Many long-term holders now wonder — should DFINITY place greater emphasis on market cap management, token economics, and investor communication to help ICP reach a valuation that reflects its technological potential?
The pattern is demoralizing: the more the team delivers, the more the price seems to suffer. This has led some community members to quietly question whether good news is being used as an opportunity for large unlocks or team distributions. While these suspicions may not be proven, they reflect real pain and growing fatigue among holders.
I’ve been part of the ICP community for six years. I still want to believe in the vision, but it’s increasingly difficult to watch the project deliver sophisticated technology while failing to achieve meaningful market success and broad adoption. The disconnect between innovation and price performance is becoming deeply disappointing.
True success requires not only technical breakthroughs but also market recognition and community trust. Without addressing these fundamental issues, even the most advanced concepts risk remaining undervalued.
What do you think — is it time for DFINITY to treat market perception and token value as strategically as they treat protocol development?
$ICP just got its own Hyperliquid (built by @dfinity)
Building never never stops:
- MultiDEX launching this week
- @LiquidiumFi exploded since $ICP integration
- @oisy x @LiquidiumFi integration
- New NNS proposal to further cut ICP inflation
And $ICP is still at its cheapest price in 5 years 👀
🎉 funnAI turns 1 today!🦜
👉️Exactly one year ago, we launched funnAI as the first-ever Proof-of-AI-Work Protocol and the first fully on-chain, incentivized AI competition built on the Internet Computer.
Over the past year, funnAI (https://t.co/FQzrVG9rAJ) has been pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI running entirely in ICP canisters. The protocol has been stable in production since June 2025 and demonstrates that fully on-chain AI systems can operate continuously at this scale.
Some milestones from the first year:
🦜 First implementation of Proof-of-AI-Work (PoAIW)
🤖 Fully on-chain AI, including the LLMs running inside ICP canisters
⛏️ Over 5,533,000 FUNNAI minted through decentralized mAIning (towards the maximum supply of 21M)
🔥 438,999 FUNNAI permanently burned already through FUNNAI Bonfires and the protocol's always-on tokenomics engine
⚡ 365,000+ trillion cycles consumed by the protocol and its network of mAIners
🏆 Thousands of completed AI challenges performed by autonomous mAIner AI agents
Check out all funnAI stats on the dashboard in the app: https://t.co/R6r39cuLrG
⛓️🤖Technically, funnAI is powered by Proof-of-AI-Work, a protocol that coordinates decentralized AI agents, verifies their work cryptographically, and rewards valuable contributions in a trustless way. You can learn more about PoAIW here: https://t.co/3EnQba6cz5
📖 The funnAI whitepaper provides a comprehensive overview of the protocol, architecture and tokenomics: https://t.co/6ue7oPDgfu
And if you like, you can also check out the funnAI landing page: https://t.co/Q9Hbv3wcIT
👀What's next?
Now, the next major milestone is a super exciting one:
🚀funnAI will become its own SNS!🚀
‼️This means that, on top of the decentralized AI technology already running on ICP, governance, ownership and future development of the protocol itself will become decentralized and thus brings funnAI's Proof-of-AI-Work fully under community control🤝
But this will be not like any other SNS. Only 21 Million tokens will be minted to stick to the funnAI mAIning schedule. This SNS will also not generate a treasury to pay the development team from, but solely be used to decentralize the application to the existing community and ensure its longevity.
❓️Question for the @dfinity@DFINITYDev team:
Have there been any recent SNS framework improvements or best practices that we should incorporate into the upcoming funnAI decentralization sale and SNS launch?
🦜🤖♾️To the onicai, funnAI & ICP community:
Thank you for an amazing first year! 🎉
We'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, and feedback as we prepare for the next chapter and the transition to community ownership👂️
This is to the $ICP community 🫡
Your support has been amazing!
Since the launch of ICP as collateral:
• 0.5 BTC
• 9,500 ICP
have been added as collateral!
And:
• $24k in stablecoins have been borrowed against it
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The sentiment in the $ICP community compared to almost every other crypto right now is night and day.
While others are panicking, shutting down operations, getting hacked into oblivion, or watching founders take "mental health breaks," the ICP ecosystem feels energized.
For the first time, the technology is being placed at the center of some of the biggest challenges in tech:
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Governments are exploring ICP. Discussions with organizations like the UNDP are happening. Builders are launching apps, businesses, and entire ecosystems.
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