Week in Internet Computer (#ICP) News, Mar 3, 2025
DFINITY Unveils 2025 ICP Roadmap Update, brings 40+ features across 10 key milestones to boosting Dev Experience & AI Integration.
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Important Announcements
DFINITY Unveils 2025 ICP Roadmap Update, brings 40+ features across 10 key milestones to boosting Dev Experience & AI Integration.
ckBTC experienced a 25% surge in supply over the past 24 hours, reportedly driven by Odin.fun.
$ICP generated more daily revenue than $SOL, signaling a potential shift in market dynamics and investor sentiment toward the Internet Computer token over Solana.
DFINITY New Article on DeAI Agent Economy: ICP Emerges as Home for Autonomous Agents. By highlighting the synergy between decentralized finance, autonomous agents, and advanced AI, DFINITY aims to spark further discussion within the blockchain community and encourage broader adoption of ICP's ecosystem.
Governance
135626, Remove GeoNodes, LLC as a Node Provider.
135630, Register Continent8 datacenter as im2 in Europe,IM,Douglas.
135594, Add one new API boundary node in the region US east.
135584, NNS Proposal to create an SNS named 'Personal DAO'.
135560, Register Continent8 datacenter as im2 in Europe, IOM, Douglas.
135556, Register a Manx Telecom datacenter as im1 in Europe, IOM, Douglas.
135446, Add 3 API boundary node(s).
135317, Register a node provider 'NODAO'.
135309, Register a node provider 'DeNoDe'.
IC Protocol Updates and Forum Digest
Increasing DFINITY Node Count and NNS Topology Exception
The current subnet recovery process expects DFINITY to have one node per subnet during recovery. An extra three nodes are dedicated to the NNS subnet for recovery resilience.
PSA(SNS): Proposal criticality to be defined based on proposal topics
DFINITY team proposed to extend the list of critical proposal types will be extended with Add nervous system function and Remove nervous system function.
PocketIC Version 8.0.0: New Response Types
The new release contains new response types and support for using the PocketIC Rust library in DFX.
DFINITY started working on enabling canister migration from one subnet to another subnet.
New Standards for Managing Real-World Asset and Stablecoin Ledgers
The token working group is exploring new standards to manage real-world asset and stablecoin ledgers, ensuring compliance, security, and operational integrity through privileged management operations.
Introducing the LLM Canister: Deploy AI agents with a few lines of code
MVP is released. For now, the Llama 3.1 8B is supported.
A couple of new CMC features: ICRC1 memo, and automatic refunds
Send ICP via ICRC Methods and Automatic Refund.
DEMO: Build an Eliza chat agent ETH wallet on ICP
Showcased how to build and deploy a conversational ElizaOS.
DFINITY is looking into adding analytics to dfx in order to better understand how it is used.
Applications & Builders
Total Staked ICP: 234’322’933
ckBTC: 274.3246
ckETH: 1’037.7077
ckUSDC: 1’514’136
ckUSDT: 2’763’406
Neurons' Fund Maturity: 3,652,795
Total SNSs Treasury: 10,889,563
Feb R&D Key Notes:
DFINITY proposed to add telemetry to dfx to collect versions of dfx, commands being used, error frequency and typers of canisters.
Neuron Periodic Confirmation: to refresh neurons every 6 months to maximize voting rewards.
Bounder-wait Inter-Canister Calls to enable safe calls to untrusted canisters and improve scalability and fairness.
Rust CDK v0.18 Alpha release to allow users to use new features like Bounder-wait Calls.
II Domains Compatibility to allow Users to log in different domains.
LLM Canister (Llama 3.1 8B) Demo: allows developers on the IC to access LLMs with a few lines of code.
Project Demo: Liquidium, a Bitcoin lending app.
New members in Ecosystem: Big welcome!
Liquidium, Bitcoin asset lending platform.
Swaprunner, swap on Internet Computer.
Mutualink, a data-driven referral system enabling individuals to regain control over their medical data and experience improved healthcare services.
DeAI.chat, a project focused on running AI models on ICP.
ICE, a task runner for the IC.
IC Bridge Dapp, designed to solve the problem of asset transfer between different blockchains.
EasyDapp, a low-code platform, simplifies the process of creating decentralized applications (DApps).
Cecil The Lion DAO SNS, an initiative dedicated to supporting vital humanitarian projects across the globe.
Upcoming Events
Apr 8-10,Paris Blockchain Week 2025, Paris, France
Jun 23-24, European DAO Workshop 2025, Switzerland
SNS Projects Updates
OpenChat
Launched "LlamaBot" as the first OpenChat bot.
Draggiz
Dragginz continuously adding liquidity to Kongswap to support its own token.
KINIC
Presented KINIC's vision to provide Tamper-proof “Personal AI” to prevent hackers from accessing users' data/contracts at ETH Denver.
Boom DAO
FRENZY Studio's proposal to transfer the equivalent of $15,000 USD in ICP as part of its strategic engagement with BOOM DAO has been rejected.
SONIC
Proposed to transfer 50,000 ICP for the next quarter to accelerate the development of key features and enhancements for the Sonic dApp.
ELNA
The team stated will have AI token launchpad feature launched soon.
SNEED
SNEED DAO launched "Swaprunner" project.
ICPanda
$PANDA will be the utility token for dMsg.net and the upcoming Anda AI Agents store.
IC Explorer
Proposed to transfer 50,000 ICP from the treasury funds to accelerate the growth and development of ICExplorer.
ALICE
Proposed to transfer 11785 ICP to ALICE Trading Agent.
Industry News
Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade goes live on Testnet.
Ethereum Foundation has donated $1.25 million to support Tornado Cash developer.
Avalanche Visa card launched.
Lido V3 is released which is giving stakers more control, flexibility & security.
Uniswap Labs launches Layer-2 ‘Unichain’.
