Honestly, I’m really impressed — and this is before the big update.
With the current version of Caffeine, I’ve already been able to put four completely different apps into production, something that not long ago felt out of reach:
• Lola — a fully decentralized agenda to sync events and contacts between people …https://t.co/Zz20HKidkI
• Crossing Green — a platform to create and join public events https://t.co/pM1nlgZVId
• Mystic — a mystical chat / spiritual assistant https://t.co/IqYyGNj0Kq
• Valentina — a chat focused on pregnancy tracking and support https://t.co/SKjtpOis9G
If this is what Caffeine can do before v2, what’s coming next looks 🔥
It’s performing incredibly well already.
Feb 2nd, https://t.co/c91gCXdahA will begin to roll out it's all-new fully agentic "automated tech team" (v2.0)
Big advances coming for self-writing cloud and ICP ☕💪
🐶 Un vínculo que desafió la tragedia
Después de permanecer 14 días atrapado bajo los escombros en La Guaira tras el terremoto, un niño fue encontrado con vida junto a su perro, que nunca se separó de él.
El menor contó que, cada vez que perdía el conocimiento, su mascota lo estimulaba y permanecía a su lado, convirtiéndose en su mayor apoyo durante la espera.
Ambos fueron rescatados con vida, dejando una de las historias más conmovedoras surgidas en medio de la tragedia que golpeó a Venezuela.
One of the most uncomfortable scenes in "Combat Obscura." A Marine points his pistol at Afghan kids on donkeys, screaming for the location of the Taliban. A chilling look at the fear and confusion on the ground in Helmand Province. 🇦🇫🪖
Deep liquidity, not features, will decide whether https://t.co/BJiwXUzkrr changes the game for $ICP.
I'm bullish on the product. It'll mature, unlock new functionality, and improve with every iteration.🔥
My question is whether the liquidity will match the ambition. How much liquidity will @dfinity and/or its partners actually commit?🤷♂️
Launching in Play Mode is the right call. Find the bugs and polish the UX before real money is on the line.
But the real test comes after. If a $10M $ICP trade still gets crushed by slippage, we're still missing a huge part of the market.
Today, large ICP trades are forced onto KYC exchanges. That shuts out an entire class of whales, funds, and DeFi-native traders.
@dominic_w one feature I'd love to see is private OTC trades. Let users create a trade that only the intended counterparty can see and execute.
Large blocks could move without touching the public order book, no market impact and no unnecessary slippage. Ship that, and onchain becomes the default venue for large block trading.
👉Head over to https://t.co/WpgEJAtKll, grab your $100K in play money, and see what it can do.
Introducing SAPP: Self-Aware Apps.
Today I don’t want to present you an application.
I want to introduce you to a new category of software.
For decades, all applications have followed the same model: an interface, a server and a database. The app seemed smart, but it actually depended on an external infrastructure to remember who it was, what had happened and how it was working.
If that backend failed, the application lost its memory. If the provider disappeared or changed the rules, that memory was no longer under the control of the application itself.
With Internet Computer a different model appears.
For the first time, an application can run its logic and maintain its persistent state natively, without relying on a traditional backend. Your memory ceases to be an external service and becomes part of the application itself.
And that changes the conversation.
Because now you can ask him directly:
“How are you?”
“What has changed since yesterday?”
“What problem are you detecting?”
The response no longer comes from a server interpreting records. It comes from the application itself, describing its real and verifiable state.
That’s what we call SAPP: Self-Aware Apps.
Not because they have conscience.
But because they can inspect, understand and communicate their own state directly.
Artificial intelligence provides language.
Internet Computer provides sovereign memory.
Together they make possible a new generation of software: more transparent applications, more autonomous and capable of explaining their behavior based on data that are part of themselves.
I think that in a few years we will stop talking simply about “apps with AI”.
We’ll talk about Self-Aware Apps.
And we will remember that this new category was born thanks to Internet Computer.
Caffeine now has a plan made for teams.
One shared workspace. Invite your team to comment, collaborate, and build apps together.
Plus the admin controls you'd expect: roles, permissions, credits, billing. Decide who can publish to the App Market. Who can buy domains. Who does what.
Same Caffeine you already know.
Only now, your team's ideas go in. And your team's apps come out.
Introducing SAPP: Self-Aware Apps.
Today I don’t want to present you an application.
I want to introduce you to a new category of software.
For decades, all applications have followed the same model: an interface, a server and a database. The app seemed smart, but it actually depended on an external infrastructure to remember who it was, what had happened and how it was working.
If that backend failed, the application lost its memory. If the provider disappeared or changed the rules, that memory was no longer under the control of the application itself.
With Internet Computer a different model appears.
For the first time, an application can run its logic and maintain its persistent state natively, without relying on a traditional backend. Your memory ceases to be an external service and becomes part of the application itself.
And that changes the conversation.
Because now you can ask him directly:
“How are you?”
“What has changed since yesterday?”
“What problem are you detecting?”
The response no longer comes from a server interpreting records. It comes from the application itself, describing its real and verifiable state.
That’s what we call SAPP: Self-Aware Apps.
Not because they have conscience.
But because they can inspect, understand and communicate their own state directly.
Artificial intelligence provides language.
Internet Computer provides sovereign memory.
Together they make possible a new generation of software: more transparent applications, more autonomous and capable of explaining their behavior based on data that are part of themselves.
I think that in a few years we will stop talking simply about “apps with AI”.
We’ll talk about Self-Aware Apps.
And we will remember that this new category was born thanks to Internet Computer.
Introducing SAPP: Self-Aware Apps.
Today I don’t want to present you an application.
I want to introduce you to a new category of software.
For decades, all applications have followed the same model: an interface, a server and a database. The app seemed smart, but it actually depended on an external infrastructure to remember who it was, what had happened and how it was working.
If that backend failed, the application lost its memory. If the provider disappeared or changed the rules, that memory was no longer under the control of the application itself.
With Internet Computer a different model appears.
For the first time, an application can run its logic and maintain its persistent state natively, without relying on a traditional backend. Your memory ceases to be an external service and becomes part of the application itself.
And that changes the conversation.
Because now you can ask him directly:
“How are you?”
“What has changed since yesterday?”
“What problem are you detecting?”
The response no longer comes from a server interpreting records. It comes from the application itself, describing its real and verifiable state.
That’s what we call SAPP: Self-Aware Apps.
Not because they have conscience.
But because they can inspect, understand and communicate their own state directly.
Artificial intelligence provides language.
Internet Computer provides sovereign memory.
Together they make possible a new generation of software: more transparent applications, more autonomous and capable of explaining their behavior based on data that are part of themselves.
I think that in a few years we will stop talking simply about “apps with AI”.
We’ll talk about Self-Aware Apps.
And we will remember that this new category was born thanks to Internet Computer.
@caffeineai@dfinity@dominic_w@PierreSamaties 🧵 Introducing SAPP: Self-Aware Apps.
I believe we’re witnessing the birth of a new software category.
Not just an improvement to existing apps.
A paradigm shift.
Self-Aware Apps (SAPP).
1/ For years, we’ve called applications “smart.”
But the truth is, they don’t know anything about themselves.
They’re interfaces connected to a backend.
When you ask what’s happening, a server queries a database, processes the data, and generates a response.
The application itself never speaks.
2/ A SAPP works differently.
Its logic, state, and memory live together.
It doesn’t rely on a traditional backend to remember who it is, what has happened, or what its current condition is.
3/ That enables something fundamentally new.
You can ask the application:
“How are you doing?”
And the answer doesn’t come from a chatbot reading logs.
It comes from the application itself, describing its own real, verifiable state.
4/ Imagine asking:
“How many users do you have?”
“Which module is consuming the most resources?”
“What changed since yesterday?”
“Have you detected any issues?”
And receiving answers based on the application’s actual state—not an external layer trying to reconstruct it.
5/ The difference sounds subtle.
It isn’t.
Traditional apps have memory.
Self-Aware Apps can understand, inspect, and communicate their own state in natural language.
Memory is no longer just storage.
It becomes part of the application’s identity.
6/ This creates a new generation of software.
Applications that are more transparent.
More autonomous.
More auditable.
And capable of explaining what they’re doing using verifiable data.
7/ This isn’t just about AI.
Large language models provide the conversation.
But the conversation only becomes meaningful when the application has direct access to its own state.
Otherwise, you’re just talking to an assistant standing outside the system.
8/ Internet Computer is the first blockchain architecture designed to make this practical.
Applications can run their logic, maintain persistent state, and expose that state directly through canisters—without relying on a traditional backend.
That’s what makes Self-Aware Apps possible as a complete software model.
9/ SAPPs aren’t simply “AI apps.”
They’re applications that can reason about their own operational state and explain it naturally.
That’s a much bigger shift than adding a chatbot to existing software.
10/ We went from static websites…
…to web applications.
From web applications…
…to mobile apps.
The next evolution may be this:
Self-Aware Apps.
A new software category.
And we’re only at the beginning.
@PierreSamaties Traditional apps store data. SAPPs know and can explain their own status. You ask them “how are you?” And respond from their verifiable on-chain state, not from an external server. Welcome to the Self-Aware Apps. Only possible on Internet Computer.