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ICP isn’t just trying to build another blockchain… it’s trying to put the internet itself on-chain. 🌐⛓️ Apps, data, websites — and even direct interaction with Bitcoin & Ethereum. Maybe it’s time to take another look at internet-computer:native 👀

Digital sovereignty is now a concern across all major governments, and Pierre Samaties says it produces one demand: a new kind of cloud. Data infrastructure has become a target in modern warfare, so it has to be tamperproof and always-on. It also has to fit a world where AI is not only the best hacker but the best builder of software. The Internet Computer is built for both: applications on a cloud engine, queryable by an agent in real time, with nothing in between. @PierreSamaties @dfinity

X Space: Internet Computer for Nations Sunday 20 September 1:00 PM CEST · 3:00 PM GST · 4:00 PM PKT · 7:00 AM EDT nitter.net/i/spaces/1aKbdEqdAvqJX… Hear the latest on: • Pakistan, the first country operating a Sovereign Cloud Engine, using Caffeine.ai to build and deploy government apps directly onto its own infrastructure • The pilot of a sovereign messaging app for Pakistan • The @UNDP and DFINITY collaboration to bring sovereign digital technology to other nations and institutions, capitalizing on the progress driven by the Pakistan Digital Authority (@digitalauthpk) • The Internet Computer as a new tech stack for AIware that empowers agentic nations With: Dr. Sohail Munir, Chairperson, Pakistan Digital Authority (@sohailmunir) Ali Theyab Al-Zuhairi, Digital Economies Lead, UNDP (@AliATheyab) Pierre Samaties, Chief Business Officer, DFINITY Foundation (@PierreSamaties) Matt Grogan, Co-founder, OpenChat (@Grogan73)

There's a crazy reason behind how I understood the true importance of fully decentralizing compute. The story needs telling, so here goes. Back in 2015, I'd long shifted to being part of the early crypto scene, but maintained Fight My Monster, a venture-backed MMO game & social network I previously founded that had 3M users, which was self-sustaining financially. I'd found a long-term home working on decentralized compute, but couldn't let down the community that played the game. Fight My Monster was built in 2010-2012, using what was a completely novel architecture at the time that enabled it to scale (i.e. add massive amounts of users) at low cost, and with minimal administration. Essentially it comprised three core backend components. The first, was simple web hosting, which served the frontend game code and assets into its users' web browsers (I used a popular content distribution network). Just like the web-serving, the two other backend components had to be "horizontally scalable," which means that to support more users, and the associated compute and data, all I had to do was add more hardware, without any need to rewrite the backend software code, or perform excessive systems administration. This enabled me to scale fast in the early days, with minimal staff and financing. The second component, was a horizontally scalable game server framework called "Starburst", which was a work of love I created myself. This was built on top of an open source server that supported RTMP, an Adobe network protocol that allowed Flash media (remember that!!) assets running inside web browsers to directly talk to it. Starburst hosted game/social network logic and routed huge numbers of events being generated by the game to users in near realtime. The third component was a horizontally scalable NoSQL database called Cassandra (if you follow databases, you'll know that a modern derivative called ScyllaDB is currently doing well serving realtime AI needs). On my team, I had the only Cassandra core committer outside the company that built it. Further, I was the first serious party using the Cassandra beta in anger, and it got corrupted at 800,000 users, which was followed by a very testy 24 hours recovering the data, and bringing it back online (one moment I was going to the moon, the next moment I thought things had gone irreversibly wrong, but luckily things worked out). What was cool about Cassandra was that you could literally just add nodes (i.e. server machines with big hard drives installed) to horizontally scale its storage capacity, read throughput, and most importantly, its write throughput, which is very rare thing, and in my application absolutely crucial, because Fight My Monster generated a simply vast amount of data. Of course, another very important aspect of Cassandra was that it was fault tolerant, and I used a replication factor of 5, which meant everyone's data was very safe (or so I thought...). A replication factor of 5 meant I only needed nodes 3 online, for any specific "quorum of data," for it to be writable. Unlike a blockchain, Cassandra wasn't Byzantine Fault Tolerant, which meant that I had to manage the security of my infrastructure carefully to make sure hackers or malware didn't get in. But back then, hackers weren't interested in an MMO game/social network where most of the users were kids, and this wasn't supposed to be a general platform for others to build on. My main technical work pressure was just that the nodes hosting the database were under enormous strain owing to the amount of data being generated, and would therefore regularly blow up! This meant that I would have to login to my infra every so often, decommission broken nodes, and add new ones, which was easy enough, because the fault tolerance meant the job didn't have to be done immediately, and the "bare metal" machines involved could be orchestrated through my cloud provider... Fight My Monster used a setup years ahead of its time, and it allowed me to scale up with ease. Moreover, the fault tolerance, and the simple backend architecture with only 3 core system components, meant minimal administration and stress was involved in keeping it running. So what was the important lesson, which plays an important role in my thinking, and in ICP, to this day? You must surely have sensed that something crazy happened, and now I will share it publicly for the first time. I was traveling in Asia, as part of the "traveling circus" associated with the early core Ethereum community, visiting related parties (people often forget the importance of Asia, and China particularly, in helping support the early crypto scene) and attending Ethereum-related events, where I mainly talked about complex Computer Science techniques I had developed that I wanted to be used to make networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum scale and perform better. I don't want to drone on about "what is used to be like in crypto," but I will say that it was a magical time, and I owe a lot to early people for some amazing memories. It was also engaging, and I wasn't checking my email. Consequently, what I did not see on my travels, were email after email warning me of the fact that the credit card that was paying for Fight My Monster's Cassandra nodes had expired.... So what did the cloud operator do when I didn't respond within a few weeks (it wasn't many, but I forget the exact number). Well, they simply deleted all the nodes!!! It's hard to describe how I felt when I got back home to Palo Alto in California, and discovered what had happened. It was a mixture of shock and horror, a kind of hollow feeling in my stomach, adrenaline surges, and unfolding dread, as I worked as fast as I could to fix it, only to confirm that what had happened was irreversible. People who've been hacked in crypto will know the feeling. That was it. Fight My Monster was dead. Some part of the community even created a change dot org website pleading for it to be brought back online. Despite the loss of what it might have been worth, and the guilt, in some ways it was liberating, as I no longer had responsibility to maintain it, which probably would have done ad infinitum for the community. Plus it became a fond memory for a generation of kids and some adults that played it, before the game had a chance to grow too old and tired, and it allowed me to focus on what had become my obsession — decentralized compute networks. The lesson however was very clear to me. You can create decentralized compute infrastructure that can scale, and is fault tolerant, but if you have a single point of failure, anywhere, at any moment, it can be toast. That's why I'm always concerned when I hear about blockchains that depend on administrator keys held by the core devs, or blockchains that go down, or almost go down, when a huge chunk of their nodes are shutdown by a cloud running them, or because the cloud running them has technical problems. This problem of great fragility is vastly more prevalent than you might imagine in our industry. The learnings from the Fight My Monster disaster informed how the Internet Computer was designed. It's not only the number of nodes that matters, there are more important things. If nodes are anonymous, the number of independent parties running the bulk of them might be far less than you might think. Further, while large in number, they often turn out to be running on a small number of clouds— and even if they are owned and operated by a few different parties, the cloud might suddenly decide it doesn't want them anymore, and shut them down overnight, as Hetzner once did to a famous blockchain. What matters in practice is the number of independent parties running the nodes, and the physical and jurisdictional independence of the nodes. This simple insight is that was behind "deterministic decentralization," which will appear in new form inside the forthcoming "ICP cloud engines" extension of the Internet Computer. ICP cloud engines allow enterprises (typically) to create what is effectively an Internet Computer subnet whose configuration they themselves control, by choosing nodes to combine from a pool that acts as a marketplace. Currently there are more than 1.5k nodes waiting, and the number is growing. An engine provides a serverless cloud platform with remarkable properties. It is the ideal place for AI-built apps and services, because the has been stack designed to allow AI to generate advanced AIware software with ease, which AIware is secure and resilient. Apps are tamperproof (immune to infrastructure hacks), always-on (and thus incredibly resilient), optionally autonomous (which means there is no backdoor), digital assets native, and many other things. Engines also run e.g. the Open SaaS suite of AIware apps that can be used to run enterprises end-to-end. Cloud engines make installing and maintaining complex apps like Open CRM or Open Email as simple as installing and maintaining phone apps. Nodes are hot-swappable. That means you can change the compute replication factor, swap out the nodes for different ones, without interrupting what the cloud engine hosts, providing freedom from compute vendor lock-in, and, if you want, you can use a new class of nodes on hyperscalers, as well as traditional Internet Computer nodes, so it will function as a general compute marketplace. The cloud engine framework guides people to combine nodes that have independence, but provides flexibility that shared Internet Computer hosting doesn't have. For example, an enterprise in Germany might choose nodes that reside only in the EU, to meet GDPR requirements. However, the cloud engine console, which is autonomous, and served from the Internet Computer network, and updated by the NNS (the Network Nervous System, the world's most advanced DAO), guides users and warns them heavily if they combine nodes from the same node provider, or which are based in the same data center, say, or run by the same cloud operator. Thus, even with ICP cloud engines, the lessons of Fight My Monster live on. People will wonder why the framework pushes them so strongly to combine independent nodes, but there is a good reason, which is just as relevant for the wider blockchain community today, as it was in 2015. Looking forward to sharing cloud engines soon.

Dear @dominic_w @PierreSamaties @dfinity You need to have a summit with your biggest content creators, no useless dialogue, just strategy for moving forward. They won't waste your time. Many have given they're hearts to this project for nothing in return and this would be the best way to validate them internet-computer:native They won't bite and it will energize the community, at least handpick a bunch for a private space on X repost if you agree

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$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack. My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet. This part's nerdy, but here's what happened: Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases. This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases. I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today. "No way this affects me." I thought. I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online. Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew. From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied. 18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD. Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right. I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes. None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability. I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything. A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen. I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.

For years, we have used encryption and other math to secure communications over the internet, making them tamperproof, and protecting privacy ICP (Internet Computer Protocol) is a bet that the same needs to be done for compute and data. Cloud engines will now take it mainstream

The number of $ICP Node Machines in Subnets continues increasing now 12.2% up MTD (from 677 to 760) 📈 We are getting ready for Cloud Engines. 20% Burn is coming🔥

$ICP Proposal 142450 has just been submitted to register 6 new AWS data centers as "on-demand" nodes🌎 This is a big step toward making cloud engines more globally accessible and production-ready. The new regions DFINITY is adding: US West (Oregon)🇺🇸 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)🇮🇳 Asia Pacific (Singapore)🇸🇬 South America (São Paulo)🇧🇷 Middle East (UAE)🇦🇪 Africa (Cape Town)🇿🇦 These locations build on the successful initial trials and will give users way more flexibility when spinning up cloud engines🌐 Stay tuned for my next video!

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity, or Codex to Caffeine. The Caffeine MCP server is live. One URL. One browser sign-in. Describe what you want built from inside your AI tool - it sends the prompt straight to Caffeine. Get updates on what's being built without leaving your conversation. When it's done, ask your AI to review it. It reads the Caffeine conversation directly, so it has full context on every decision.

Largest sale on idGeek2.0 so far 👀 20k internet-computer:native in neurons sold for 15.5k internet-computer:native #ICP #InternetComputer

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.

$ICP will create a new wave of millionaires in 2026 🚀

552.97 million #ICP. 8.3 billion humans.👤 If #InternetComputer were distributed equally across the entire planet today… each person would receive only: 0.066 ICP ∞ Less than 1 ICP for every 15 people on Earth. Let that sink in. People still talk about ICP as if it were an “unlimited supply” asset… without realizing how scarce it actually becomes when viewed as global computational infrastructure instead of just another cryptocurrency. Bitcoin was designed to secure value. Internet Computer was designed to secure computation. And if the world truly moves toward: • sovereign AI • autonomous agents • on-chain applications • decentralized social networks • tokenized assets • world-scale computation …then the question changes completely. Not: “Is 552 million too much?” But rather: “Is it enough for a planetary-scale computer?” 🌍∞ The #WorldComputer is Here

"I'm excited to tell you that soon you'll have a new version of Motoko that lets AI browser and query the data of your apps by accessing its internal graph." —@dominic_w $ICP 🚀

$ICP vs VISA Comparison Max Theoretical TPS ICP █████████ 209,708 VISA █ ~24,000 Finality ICP █ 1 - 2 seconds VISA ██ Several seconds Scalability ICP - Theoretically infinite (scales linearly) VISA - Limited by centralized architecture Infrastructure ICP - Decentralized, runs on open interne VISA - Centralized data centers Availability ICP - 99.99%+ uptime (no single point of failure) VISA - High availability (centralized) Use Cases ICP - DeFi, dApps, Web3, AI, Identity, Enterprise Systems & more VISA - Payments, Card Transactions

Milestone Alert🎉 Since Genesis, more than 500 unique visitors did visit $HERO. In just a few days, we have reached more than 100 wallets holding HERO. Thanks to everyone for the participation🙏You are all HEROes! PS: This would not be possible without $ICP Tech & @caffeineai. The entry barrier is extremely low. I am confident that thousands startups & entrepreneurs will start using actively this Blockchain due to the value proposition (Fast, secure, cost-efficient).

Exactly. I'm excited to tell you that soon you'll have a new version of Motoko that lets AI browser and query the data of your apps by accessing its internal graph (if you let it). This is vastly superior to having AI interacting with your app data through the UX using e.g. MCP

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