Week in Internet Computer (#ICP) News, Mar 24, 2025
A new React + TypeScript + Vite project is live, and unmaintained IC agents with vulnerabilities are flagged. VetKeys for privacy is nearing release.
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Important Announcements
DFINITY Launches Coulomb Milestone to Enhance Developer Experience.
The ICP Ninja Hackathon has officially launched, attracting over 350 developers and 81 teams to compete in building blockchain solutions on the Internet Computer network.
lvlUSD , a next-generation stablecoin backed by Dragonfly and Polychain, has officially launched on Oisy. lvlUSD offers users an attractive ~8.3% APY on stablecoin holdings..
IC Protocol Updates
Enhancing Network Decentralization - Proposals for Identity Verification and Subnet Allocation
DFINITY plans to integrate third-party KYC providers, selected by the NNS, to verify the legal existence of node providers during onboarding and periodic re-verification.
To protect privacy, personal and corporate data will remain securely stored with KYC providers. Additionally, on-chain records will be updated to reflect the latest KYC status and certification links.
ICP Ninja Update: Coulomb Milestone Unleashed
New features and enhancements to ICP Ninja are introuced to supercharge development experience.
ICP + React + TypeScript + Vite
The project features a Rust-based backend with a single greet endpoint that returns a greeting message, and a React/Vite/TypeScript frontend that allows users to enter a name and fetch the greeting by clicking a button.
Unmaintained IC Agents Containing Vulnerabilities
DFINITY security team published some issued agents that unmaintained, including IC-Py, IC-C.
Threshold Key Derivation - Privacy on the IC
DFINITY team are getting closer to the release of the VetKeys feature.
New SNS Launch
Upcoming ICPEx SNS Decentralization Swap
SNS launch in progress and still have 1 day to participate.
Introducing Cecil the Lion DAO SNS
The SNS sale closed with 30,100.60 ICP committed in toal.
The SNS sale closed with 10'744.84 ICP committed in toal.
Applications & Builders
Total Staked ICP: 233’921’260
ckBTC: 266.7427
ckETH: 1050.0267
ckUSDC: 1,405,893
ckUSDT: 2,595,322
Neurons' Fund Maturity: 3,609,295
Total SNSs Treasury: 4,413,270
New members in Ecosystem: Big welcome!
Qwades AI, a platform that brings AI computation fully on-chain.
The Canister, a newspaper 100% hosted on the Internet Computer.
IC News, a Community-Driven On-Chain News.
Upcoming Events
Apr 8-10,Paris Blockchain Week 2025, Paris, France
Jun 23-24, European DAO Workshop 2025, Switzerland
SNS Projects Updates
OpenChat
OpenChat now has 233K users, with 41.7K verified through DecideAI.
BOOM DAO
FRENZY Studio's proposal to transfer the equivalent of $15,000 USD in ICP.
DecideAI
Proposed to approve 222222 SNS tokens for 11+ YouTube and X Videos over 6 months with Jerry Banfield.
FOMOWELL
FomoWell is integrating Base chain, enabling $WELL to circulate across Base, BSC, and more—enhancing cross-chain payments and trading.
Community Highlights
CycleOps Enhances ICP Memory Metrics
CycleOps announced its first contribution to the Internet Computer core protocol, introducing detailed memory metrics for all canisters. This update improves debugging, resource allocation, and monitoring for developers.
New Tool Maps ICP Node Provider Connections
The team at @WaterNeuron has launched a tool to analyze connections between ICP node provider reward accounts.
Industry News
ICF Funds Tharsis Labs to publish evmOS open-source, Strengthening Ethereum-Cosmos Support.
Circle has become the first stablecoin issuer to secure regulatory approval in Japan.
