Week in Internet Computer (#ICP) News, Feb 17, 2025
DFINITY and Merkle Science collaborate to enhance security, AML, and transaction monitoring. TabbyPOS now allows customer rewards using ckBTC, boosting crypto adoption in commerce.
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Important Announcements
DFINITY partnered with Merkle Science to strengthen security, AML, & transaction monitoring.
TabbyPOS has announced that businesses can now reward their customers using ckBTC. In a move poised to boost crypto adoption in everyday commerce.
ZUG, Switzerland – Swiss Subnet AG, a legally registered entity based in the Canton of Zug, announced its ambitious vision to establish and exclusively operate a geographically limited subnet on the Internet Computer.
Governance
135253, The motion proposes a moderate increase in rewards for NPs who incur additional costs to relocate their nodes, aiming to enhance the decentralization of the IC.
135248, Updating the list of public subnets.
135244, Removing NNS controllership over Swap canisters.
IC Protocol Updates and Forum Digest
Proposal: Automatic SNS Target Version Advancement for Newly Created SNSs
Enable automatic advancement of SNS target versions for newly created SNSs.
BTC Deposit Address Generator for ckBTC Minter
An algorithm which calculates BTC address for deposits to ckBTC minter.
Send encrypted files to any Ethereum address
The demo application enables encrypted file transmission to Ethereum addresses using Identity-based encryption and VetKeys Internet Computer feature.
ICaiBus - Internet Computer AI Bus - PubSub made Easy on the IC
The bus enables publishers to announce events once, allowing subscribers to independently listen for them, rather than connecting each service to every other that needs to know about them.
AMD SEV Virtual Machine Support
DFINITY team developed a Proof of Concept (PoC) for SEV-SNP protected HTTP gateways, which we are now integrating into the core components of the IC.
Applications & Builders
Total Staked ICP: 234’654’586
ckBTC: 206.7918
ckETH: 1’047.6419
ckUSDC: 1’649’104
ckUSDT: 3’048’836
Neurons' Fund Maturity: 3,644,458
Total SNSs Treasury: 4,372,342
New members in Ecosystem: Big welcome!
IC-Solana, a solution that bridges the Internet Computer with Solana.
SaveTheLife, AI-Driven Healthcare on ICP.
SecureImageChain ICP, Secure image transfer on ICP blockchain.
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Industry News
National Bank of Canada has purchased $2 million in Bitcoin ETFs.
Uniswap Labs launches Layer-2 ‘Unichain’.
