$icp will not stay at this price for more than few weeks. Hopefully we go to 5-6 dollar mark but if not we might hit 1.9 or lower. Brace yourself, either way you are in for a ride. Cheers.
🚨 $ICP IS NOT ANOTHER BLOCKCHAIN — IT IS THE DECENTRALIZED CLOUD, AI, AND SUPERCOMPUTE STACK CRYPTO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND YET
Stop comparing $ICP to ordinary chains.
That comparison is too small.
Most blockchains move tokens.
$ICP runs software.
Most chains process transactions.
$ICP runs canisters, subnets, identity, governance, DAOs, compute, storage, and web-serving applications directly on-chain.
That is the difference.
Live facts:
• 1,207,234 canister smart contracts
• 10.622 TiB total canister state
• 49 subnets
• Subnets across 33 countries
• 673 node machines in subnets
• 104 node providers
• 100 data centers listed in subnet view
• 76 data center owners
• 69 regions
• 3,183,609 Internet Identities
• 5,168.73 live TX/s
• 122,789 ETH-equivalent TX/s
• 12,067 MIEPs compute load
• 154.89 blocks/s finalization rate
• 240,886,973 ICP staked
• 43.5% of total supply staked
• 213,957,787 ICP not dissolving
• 437,330+ neurons
• 87.85% overall governance participation
• 37 launched SNS DAOs
• $80M raised through SNS launches
• 515+ SNS proposals in the last 30 days
This is not a meme chain.
This is not another copy-paste L1.
This is decentralized compute infrastructure already running at scale.
Now add artificial intelligence.
AI does not only need tokens.
AI needs compute.
AI needs storage.
AI needs identity.
AI needs secure execution.
AI needs verifiable infrastructure.
AI needs autonomous services.
AI needs governance.
AI needs payments.
AI needs applications that can run without centralized cloud dependency.
That is where $ICP becomes dangerous.
Because $ICP is not just blockchain settlement.
$ICP is compute infrastructure.
Canisters are scalable smart contract compute units that bundle code and state.
Subnets replicate computation across independent node machines.
The NNS governs and upgrades the network.
SNS DAOs allow dapps and AI services to become community-governed.
Internet Identity gives users cryptographic access.
Cycles power computation.
The network executes millions of instructions per second.
That is why $ICP is positioned for AI-native Web3.
Not because of hype.
Because AI needs infrastructure.
And $ICP is infrastructure.
Most blockchains cannot host real AI services on-chain.
They settle tokens around AI.
They launch AI coins.
They wrap APIs.
They depend on centralized cloud.
They use centralized front ends.
They use centralized models.
They use centralized compute.
Then they call it decentralized AI.
That is not enough.
$ICP is one of the only networks built to move closer to the real requirement:
On-chain services.
On-chain logic.
On-chain state.
On-chain identity.
On-chain governance.
On-chain application hosting.
Decentralized compute coordination.
Subnet-based scaling.
AI-ready architecture.
That is the SUPERCOMPUTE angle.
$ICP is not one computer.
It is a global network of node machines organized into subnets, executing replicated computation, governed by the NNS, and capable of scaling through additional subnet capacity.
That is not normal blockchain design.
That is decentralized supercompute infrastructure.
Now compare it properly.
Bitcoin is hard money.
Massive achievement.
But it is not an AI compute network.
Ethereum is the dominant smart contract settlement layer.
Massive achievement.
But most dapps still depend on external cloud infrastructure.
Solana is high-speed execution.
Massive achievement.
But it is not a full decentralized cloud stack.
L2s scale execution and settlement.
Useful.
But they do not replace the cloud.
Most chains are still financial rails.
$ICP is attacking the cloud layer.
That is the real battle.
Cloud is where the apps run.
Cloud is where the data sits.
Cloud is where AI runs.
Cloud is where infrastructure control sits.
$ICP is building the decentralized alternative.
Compute.
Storage.
Identity.
Governance.
Smart contracts.
Web serving.
Subnets.
DAOs.
AI-ready services.
Bitcoin integration.
Confidential compute direction.
Cloud engine expansion.
This is why the market is still wrong.
The market keeps pricing $ICP like another token.
Wrong lens.
$ICP is not only crypto.
$ICP is decentralized cloud infrastructure.
$ICP is sovereign compute.
$ICP is Web3 hosting.
$ICP is on-chain software.
$ICP is DAO-governed applications.
$ICP is AI-ready execution.
$ICP is supercompute power distributed across a global blockchain network.
Over 1.2 million canisters already deployed.
Over 10.622 TiB of canister state.
Over 240 million ICP staked.
Over 3.18 million Internet Identities.
Over 49 subnets.
Over 154 blocks per second finalization.
Over 122,000 ETH-equivalent transactions per second.
Over 12,000 MIEPs of live compute load.
This is not theory.
This is live infrastructure.
Hard truth:
AI will not run on slogans.
AI will not be decentralized because someone launches a token.
AI needs compute.
AI needs secure execution.
AI needs governed infrastructure.
AI needs scalable application hosting.
AI needs identity.
AI needs storage.
AI needs autonomous services.
AI needs a network that can actually run software.
That is why $ICP matters.
There is no second $ICP.
Name another blockchain with:
1.2M+ canisters.
49 subnets.
10.622 TiB canister state.
3.18M+ Internet Identities.
240M+ ICP staked.
37 SNS DAOs.
Executable NNS governance.
On-chain web-serving smart contracts.
Bitcoin integration.
Confidential compute direction.
Cloud engine expansion.
AI-ready decentralized compute architecture.
Name it.
You cannot.
Because $ICP is not chasing blockchain narratives.
$ICP is building the infrastructure layer those narratives will eventually need.
The market is asleep.
I am not.
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Hello MULTI/DEX 🔥 Should DFINITY release the most powerful DeFi application the world has ever seen?
What's cool about it? Here are some factoids, the craziest at the end:
1. It runs on an ICP cloud engine (soon everyone can have one) and is 100% network resident and tamperproof.
2. It is genuinely multi-chain, with no bridging hassles for users (users can deposit straight into their accounts, and withdraw directly, from the native chains of tokens).
3. It is order book based, but also provides a traditional swap interface, which swaps arbitrary assets by routing across the underlying markets.
4. It supports both spot trading, and margin trading that lets traders go long and short with leverage.
5. It has an AMM (Automated Market Maker) that uses Internet Computer outcalls to determine outside prices, then delayed matching against AMM limit orders to prevent arbitrageurs draining liquidity, as can occur with traditional DEXs providing swaps.
6. The AMM maintains a unified liquidity vault, and doesn't need two liquidity pools for every trading pair, providing outstanding capital efficiency and liquidity compared with traditional DeFi systems.
7. Users can earn by depositing into the AMM Vault, and into an insurance pool that protects the vault from margin calls that fail to recover all capital (the insurance pool gets 5% of all liquidations).
8. MULTI/DEX runs on the decentralized Internet Computer network, and is 100% open source — unlike HyperLedger, say, which remains closed source, and has an single-purpose architecture closer to federated CEX hosted on a symmetric cluster of federated servers.
9. If we go ahead, we would propose that MULTI/DEX runs as part of the Internet Computer, in the sense it is controlled and updated by the NNS (The Internet Computer's Network Nervous System, the world's largest and most sophisticated DAO, which directly orchestrates and updates the network) providing unparalleled levels of autonomy, transparency, and security.
10.... and this is the BIG ONE... its backend is built using the latest Motoko language framework (soon to be released) that puts AI *inside* of its software. That means, in another seminal inventive step from DFINITY and Caffeine Labs technology teams, that AI can see, browse and query the realtime data inside the app/dapp's persistent memory and can create and execute ad hoc queries and update logic on-the-fly (subject to permissions). So, while for much of the time traders will be using the traditional UX shown in the pic, increasingly, they will be interacting with the exchange through AI chats that have the "Internet Computer Connector" MCP installed (soon to be released). On the one hand, traders will be able to use chat to ask for simple things, like current spot pricing and market depth, and the likely slippage on a spot market order, and for orders to be submitted, but on the other, for much more demanding things that require the AI to execute ad hoc functionality, such as "Look at my positions and margin pools, and rebalance them to give me more blended market exposure, while also adjusting for risks indicated by social media coverage of forthcoming market events, but wait for my approval of your plan before proceeding."
This is a lot to take in, so I'm aiming to get a new demo video out ASAP that will demonstrate what's possible with this AIware, which will include MULTI/DEX — should be about a week!!
Btw. for those wondering what might be the big picture beyond what I just described with MULTI/DEX: At DFINITY, we are in the process of transforming ourselves into an "agentic organization," where all our existing apps/SaaS is replaced by custom on-demand apps/SaaS running on cloud engines that are created and updated by AI. Of course, these on-demand apps/SaaS are being built using the new technology described that automatically puts AI inside and provides users with fluid functionality via chat. The totality of the apps/SaaS represents an enterprise "World Model," which incorporates as much of the enterprise's data as possible, enabling AI to perform incredibly powerful analyses and actions — when you see this is in action, you can't unsee what you saw, because it's clearly a huge leap beyond the status quo of today's tech, which is exactly what the Internet Computer project is about. This wraps up our new technology stack, created by leaning on unique aspects of "The Network is The Cloud" paradigm, and years of work, and what, together with cloud engines, will finally enable the Internet Computer to strike out into the massive mainstream cloud technology market.