Week in Internet Computer (#ICP) News, Feb 10, 2025
DFINITY is set to launch its new San Francisco office with a community happy hour event. DFINITY team proposed to remove NNS controllership over SNS Swap canisters.
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Important Announcements
DFINITY, the pioneering force behind the Internet Computer Protocol, is set to launch its new San Francisco office with a community happy hour event. The celebration marks a significant expansion of DFINITY’s physical presence in the Bay Area, aimed at fostering deeper engagement with its global community of developers, enthusiasts, and partners.
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
Making Swap a proper SNS canister
DFINITY team proposed to remove NNS controllership over SNS Swap canisters.
Internet Identity and NNS Dapp Analytics
DFINITY is exploring the integration of an online analytics solution to monitor errors and aggregate usage data for the Internet Identity and NNS dapp.
A demo app that leverages Juno serverless functions to query the OpenAI API from a satellite canister with HTTP outcalls.
Pre-release `moc` 0.14.0 available in Playground
DFINITY team announced the availability of the Motoko compiler version 0.14.0 introduced a clean way of attaching explicit data migration functions to actors (and actor classes).
SNS Launch Updates:
Upcoming ICExplorer SNS Decentralization Sale
An ICP explorer hosted on the Internet Computer.
Upcoming NFID Wallet SNS Decentralization Sale
SNS launch completed with 413 participants and overall commitment of 189,274.38 ICP.
Upcoming FuelEV SNS Decentralization Sale
SNS launch in progress and still have 3 days to participate .
Applications & Builders
Total Staked ICP: 234’769’905
ckBTC: 211.2486
ckETH: 1’048.3230
ckUSDC: 1’574’622
ckUSDT: 3’062’560
Neurons' Fund Maturity: 3,618,664
Total SNSs Treasury: 4,372,687
New members in Ecosystem: Big welcome!
ICaiBus, a new messaging bus platform.
zkPoker, real Onchain Poker.
SNS Projects Highlights:
OpenChat:
New feature added to sign-in with 1 click by using Passkeys.
Dragginz:
Proposed to acquire NFID SNS neurons for Dragginz.
Yral:
Transition from YRAL to DOLR AI..
Yuku:
Proposed to rebranding Yuku DAO to Yuku AI.
ICPCC:
Proposed to Transfer 500 ICP from ICPCC DAO LLC Treasury.
ICPanda DAO:
Released Anda development roadmap..
MOTOKO:
Launched Youtube channel.
WaterNeuron:
WaterNeuron has integrated into Plug wallet, offering in-wallet staking feature.
KongSwap:
Added new feature: Import to NNS.
Fomowell:
WELL airdrop completed.
NFID:
Proposed to add liquidity to ICPSwap.
Community Updates
EasyDapp × SeeDAO AI-Powered No-Code Hackathon
ICP Hub Indonesia's 1st 2025 hackathon completed with Projects: Pilar, Rentopia and Geeka Wit Attitudes won the top 3 prizes.
ICP Hub Kenya will join Africa Tech Summit during 12th Feb - 13th 2025.
ICP Hub Mexico launched Ambassador program.
ICP Hub Bulgaria hosted ICP breakfast talks.
ICP Hub Ghana partnered with the Association of Computer Engineering Students.
ICP Hub India hosted workshop "Blockchain & Web3 Opensource Technologies".
ICP Hub Argentina will host ICP Summer Camp at National University of Mar del Plata.
ICP Hub United States's workshop at the Haas school of Business, Berkeley on 17 Feb.
Industry News
Ethereum targets April for Pectra upgrade.
Crypto exchange Gemini considers a 2025 IPO.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has granted an exemption from reporting certain personally identifiable information (PII) to the Consolidated Audit Trail for natural persons.