yvonne-anne pignolet

Director of Research @DFINITY

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

@Zforever97 @caffeineai @JanCamenisch Hi Z
I hope it was a temporary problem and it works now. In general, please send suport requests to [email protected]. Information you add (project id, browser version etc) helps us to debug your issue more quickly.

[Stefan Schmid @schmiste_ch]

Democracy for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)? Congratulations to our student Burak Arda Okutan @TUBerlin for winning the Best Student Paper award at IEEE ICBC 2025. Link: https://t.co/CHCALY8J9v @yapignolet Case Study: @dfinity #ICP

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

#Only_on_ICP 🚀🚀🚀

[DFINITY Developers ∞ @DFINITYDev]

Ryan Croote, Islam El-Ashi (@ielashi), Thomas Locher & Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (@yapignolet) from the @DFINITY foundation will talk about "Enabling Bitcoin Smart Contracts on the Internet Computer" @ICDCS2025 #ICP

📅 Monday, July 21, 2025
⏱️15:15-16:45

Research paper👉 https://t.co/y0h9Y9PBgW
ICDCS 2025 program👉 https://t.co/Hl3nhylM4r

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

An event not just for coffee addicts :)

[caffeine @caffeineai]

Heads up San Francisco 🇺🇸

​Join us for a day to explore the Self-Writing Internet:

🗓️ July 15 | 🕙 10 AM–10 PM PDT
📍 San Francisco | Dogpatch Studios
🌐 Livestream
🎟️ RSVP: https://t.co/EjOMJU3jq0

Highlights:
​- Main Stage: Keynotes, demos, panels, and presentations.
​- Hackathon: A high-energy builder zone for technical and non-technical participants.
- Caffeine Experience Pods: Stations open to everyone looking to test Caffeine.

See you there!

[bjoern.icp ∞ @bjoerntm]

I know that @caffeineai is the news of the day but have you heard that
- ICP storage layer improvements reduce checkpointing times by 50x
- on-chain encryption is now available with a pre-prod key on ICP mainnet
- the Solana RPC canister is ready for testing on mainnet and will complete ICP/Solana integration
- https://t.co/YVq2XmV6EO will enable super fast fully decentralized bridging between ICP and Ethereum and L2s
- https://t.co/ZCwWKVwGwU will enable cross-chain lending between Bitcoin and Solana, built on ICP
- https://t.co/8qhpMStakh will enable native Solana/ICP swaps
- https://t.co/DK5Oxsc2zN will enable lending/borrowing on ICP and later cross-chain
- Oisy Earn will enable user-friendly in-wallet yield from different chains
… and we’re only just getting started.

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

In our talk @robert_lauko and I will explain how #ICP #chainfusion enables Liquity v2 users to benefit from autonomous interest rate management. Hope to see you at UZH on Friday!

[EthereumZuri.ch @EthereumZurich]

Thrilled to welcome @yapignolet, Director of Research at @DFINITY, and @robert_lauko, Founder and Head of Research of @LiquityProtocol, to talk about interest rate management! 📊

Learn more and grab your ticket! ⬇️
🎟️ https://t.co/CzxynlGmdV

[Liquity @LiquityProtocol]

Liquity V2 is LIVE on Ethereum Mainnet! 🎉

- Borrow on your own terms with user-set interest rates
- Hold or deposit $BOLD , an immutable stablecoin with real yield
- Stake $LQTY to direct protocol incentivized liquidity
- Participate in the wider V2 friendly fork ecosystem

🧵👇

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

Apps on #ICP are now easier to build, can store more data and as a cheery on top they run faster. Definitely a reason to celebrate, Team #DFINITY!

If you want to read about the technical details, head over to https://t.co/30RbfkLXs4

[DFINITY Foundation @dfinity]

Today is the day

3 big milestones are LIVE: Tokamak, Beryllium, & Stellarator 🥳

ICP’s latest milestones bring Web3 users closer than ever to Web2-level performance & scale

Key functions:
✅ Reduced latency
✅ Canister devops
✅ Onchain storage

Explore https://t.co/9xWHdF1hP3

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

Can't wait for the event to start! London, here we come

[Encode Club @encodeclub]

It’s officially Encode London week and we’re READY! 🚀

At Shoreditch Exchange, we’re all set for hacking, networking, and good vibes 🙌

3 days packed with leading researchers, speakers, pizzas and snacks 🍕!

Secure your spot here 👇
https://t.co/kG3aMKzurg

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

I' m excited to be speaking at Encode London’s Research Conference, hope to see you there!

[Encode Club @encodeclub]

New speakers, new partners, and even more excitement 🤩

We’re back for more at Encode London 🇬🇧 Expect cutting-edge insights, exciting bounties, and plenty of chances to network with the brightest minds in Web3 🧠

📅 Dates: 25th-27th October
📍 Location: Shoreditch Exchange, London
🎟️ Tickets are going fast—grab yours now!

https://t.co/ESun7YSHuM

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

I hope to see you in Munich next week!

[TUM Blockchain Club @tbc_munich]

🎤 𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

We're thrilled to announce that @yapignolet Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Director of Research at @dfinity, will be a keynote speaker at the 2024 TUM Blockchain Conference! 🌐🔗

At @dfinity, she leads the world’s largest blockchain research team in developing the Internet Computer, bringing over a decade of expertise in distributed systems and networking, along with her lecturing experience at EPFL.

📅 Mark your calendars: September 12-13, 2024
📍 Location: Deutsches Museum, Munich
🎟️ Tickets: https://t.co/g9yw2YB4HB

Join us for an insightful journey into the future of the internet. Don’t miss this chance to learn from one of the industry’s leading experts!

#tumblockchainconference #tumblockchainclub #dfinity #web3 #blockchain #techconference

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

@junobuild Congrats!!!Looking forward to seeing lots of apps built with #Juno!

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

@CoinMarketCap $ICP

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

Excellent summary of #ICP highlights!

[Bob Bodily, PhD @BobBodily]

Internet Computer Protocol (ICP): Everything you need to know

tl;dr

ICP is a Bitcoin sidechain that provides fantastic protocol primitives for building Bitcoin applications.

1. Bitcoin light node running fully onchain (UTXOs, balances, block headers)

2. Threshold signing subnets (ECDSA, Schnorr) to sign Bitcoin and Taproot transactions

3. Bitcoin bridge to leverage BTC on ICP (ckBTC)

4. Fast finality (2 seconds)

5. Affordable onchain smart contract storage ($5/GB/year)

6. WASM-based, so devs can use TypeScript, Python, or Rust for smart contract languages

7. Host websites directly from your smart contract (full stack DAOs)

8. No gas fees or network fees for users

9. Decentralized oracles and indexers

10. Onchain recurring automated processes

- Now let’s dive deeper into what all of this means -

0. Bitcoin Sidechain

ICP has a separate consensus model and a separate token, making it a Bitcoin sidechain (using the most general form of the definition). So you can compare it to Stacks, Rootstock, Liquid, Fractal Bitcoin, Arch, and honestly up to this point, any of the Bitcoin L2s (since we don’t actually have any true L2s on Bitcoin yet other than the Lightning Network).

1. Bitcoin Light Node Running Fully Onchain

ICP has a Bitcoin light node running full onchain. This means you can retrieve the UTXOs held by an address, the balance of an address, or get block headers directly through a smart contract call. This light node has a network of nodes that pull data from multiple trusted Bitcoin full nodes, run the data through a consensus process, and then save the data onchain. This is a more decentralized process of getting Bitcoin data onto a sidechain.

2. Threshold Signing Subnets

ICP has an ECDSA signing subnet and a Schnorr signing subnet. This means that smart contracts on ICP can own Bitcoin addresses, sign L1 Bitcoin transactions directly, and can programmatically control Bitcoin in a more decentralized way. These signing subnets can power super-charged DLCs, create bridges for Bitcoin assets (Bitcoin, Ordinals, BRC-20, Runes, TAP, etc), or interact more deeply with Taproot transactions.

You can also interact directly with other ECDSA chains as well (ETH, Base, Blast, Arbitrum, Optimism) or will soon be able to interact with EDDSA chains (Solana, Cosmos). This means you can leverage this tech to bridge BRC-20s to ETH, or bridge Runes to Solana, etc.

3. Bitcoin Bridge

ckBTC is the wrapped version of Bitcoin on ICP. Users deposit Bitcoin into an ECDSA threshold signing subnet Bitcoin address, then after 6 confirmations ckBTC is minted to the destination account of your choosing. ckBTC has fast finality (2 second transfers) and only costs 10 sats per transfer (the fee is paid directly in ckBTC). We can also use threshold signing for Ordinals bridging, BRC-20 bridging, Runes bridging, or bridging for other meta-protocols.

4. Fast Finality

ICP has a subnet model for scalability. This means there are 13 geographically distributed nodes in each subnet (some have more nodes for additional security) and you only do consensus within your subnet. This means you get 2 second finality for smart contracts, but also means you lose global state verification (the tradeoff of the fast subnet model).

5. Affordable Onchain Smart Contract Storage

Every smart contract on ICP can store up to 400GB of data. This data is native smart contract data, meaning you can easily and directly access the data straight from your smart contract without calling out to a data provider service like IPFS or Arweave. The cost is $5/GB/year for this smart contract data storage. This means you can store videos, high res images, or 3D models directly onchain.

6. WASM-Based

WASM based means developers can build smart contracts in TypeScript, Python, or Rust (also Motoko, which is a proprietary language built for ICP smart contracts, similar to TypeScript). This also means you can pull in existing Rust/TS/Python libraries to build smart contracts on ICP.

7. Host Websites from your Smart Contract

ICP smart contracts can natively host frontend websites. This means you can build a fully decentralized full-stack application on ICP (backend smart contracts, assets fully onchain, frontend hosted from your smart contract, backend APIs hosted in your smart contract). This means you could deploy a Bitcoin full node on ICP and then host a decentralized Bitcoin explorer directly from a smart contract (nobody has done this yet, but it is possible right now, and if you want to work on this let me know).

8. No Gas Fees for Users

ICP uses a reverse gas model, which just means all transactions are sponsored by default. Developers pay the costs for compute, hosting, and storage, and users don’t have to worry about paying fees. This makes it really easy to build fantastic user experiences because users don’t have to acquire any tokens to pay gas/network fees. This is more practical on ICP because fees are so small, so abstracting them away from the user is the best path for developers.

9. Decentralized Oracles and Indexers

ICP smart contracts can make http calls directly from the smart contract. This means that you can build your own oracles. If you want to pull in price feeds, sports data, election results, or floor prices you can do it all in your own custom-built oracle on ICP. You have flexibility to make it as robust and decentralized as you want.

In addition to oracles, you can also build decentralized indexers for Bitcoin meta-protocols. I already know of a team running a decentralized Runes indexer on ICP. This means the indexer code is running in a decentralized smart contract. Centralized indexers is one of the top tradeoffs for meta-protocols. You essentially get unlimited compute, but at the cost of doing all of the compute off-chain in a centralized indexer.

10. Onchain Recurring Automated Processes

ICP smart contracts have the ability to schedule cron jobs (or recurring processes) directly onchain. This means you can build chain hooks that watch for certain events on Bitcoin, and then respond in some fashion with your smart contract code. So you could watch the Bitcoin blockchain for someone to inscribe a specific Ordinal, and then you could programmatically send them a Runes token for inscribing the Ordinal. This would all happen in a decentralized onchain smart contract.

Summary

ICP is a general purpose protocol trying to be the decentralized web services blockchain, providing compute, hosting, and storage in a blockchain environment. ICP is a Bitcoin sidechain because you can bridge Bitcoin, Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20 to ICP, you can sign Bitcoin L1 transactions natively from ICP smart contracts, and you can pull Bitcoin data natively from the onchain Bitcoin light node using smart contract calls.

ICP has fantastic Bitcoin integration tech (threshold signing, Bitcoin bridge, Ordinals bridge, Bitcoin light node, oracles, decentralized indexers) that makes it really easy for developers to build Bitcoin applications.

Disclosure: I’ve been building on ICP since 2021. I’m CEO of Bioniq, an Ordinals marketplace and launchpad that leverages all of the tech I’ve mentioned above.

[ICP HUBS NETWORK @ICPHUBS]

Are you ready for the biggest Townhall Space on @x? 👀

We're bringing you a Master Thread of all ICP HUBS X Spaces starting in 2️⃣ days! 🥳

Are you ready? Let's go 👇 1/15🧵

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

If you're at Nexus2050 and would like to connect, ping me!

[Utopia @UtopiaCloudLabs]

UTOPIA is coming

Join us for our debut @Nexus2050Lux on June 26th-27th, 2024

Don't miss the chance to hear @dominic_w inspire with a keynote on the Main Stage

https://t.co/yz7ikujgqD

[Tom Van Cutsem @tvcutsem]

Happy to announce DFINITY's @yapignolet as our guest speaker in our Future of Blockchain Platforms seminar on 30/05 in Leuven. She will tell us all about governance of apps on the Internet Computer. Registrations are still open (physical event only) #web3 #dapps

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

I had the pleasure to present https://t.co/Cht02NJD6z at the Greenblock today, great program and audience. Thanks for all the questions and discussions, let's make this planet more green, together!

[WEB3FEST @web3fest_int]

We are pleased to announce that @yapignolet, Director of Research at @DFINITY, will be joining our speaker lineup for #SwissWEB3FEST!

📅 June 5th - 13th
📍 Switzerland
🎟️ https://t.co/e1SsLiKwJe
🔗https://t.co/Ngz93DeEYz

Don't miss out! 🚀

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

I was a blast! A big thank you to the organizers and of course, to my panelist
@uannino, @cczurich, @DominikRaub!

[DFINITY Foundation @dfinity]

Feeling the post #ICP 3rd Anniversary blues?

Relive the magic with the wrap-up video of the most epic blockchain event of the year

500 guests
60 ecosystem partners & projects
45 speakers
3 unstoppable years

Who's already counting down the days until next year's anniversary? 🙋

[yvonne-anne pignolet @yapignolet]

I'm thrilled to host a panel with @cczurich, @DominikRaub, @uannino at the #ICP's birthday party in two weeks. Join us! https://t.co/6n8pDjXjR9