Week in Internet Computer (#ICP) News, Mar 17, 2025
In a major shift, Motoko Playground will transition to ICP Ninja, establishing it as the primary platform.DFINITY has proposed a new salt-sharing canister for enhanced security in API boundary nodes.
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Important Announcements
DFINITY has unveiled Orbit, a secure, on-chain multi-approver governance framework designed specifically for teams managing digital assets and smart contracts across multiple blockchains.
Pierre Samaties, representing the ICP ecosystem and DFINITY, participated in a Binance Charity campaign in collaboration with the Emirates Red Crescent during Ramadan.
ICP HUBS NETWORK is set to host the Global Pitching Round on March 28th, featuring 15+ hours of live sessions with 50+ venture capitalists, mentors, and angel investors.
Governance
135854, CO.DELTA's Known Neuron Proposal.
28 proposals raised to remove Node Providers.
135741, Proposal to create an SNS DAO for ICPEx.
135700, Increase DFINITY-Owned Nodes to 70 and Allow NNS Subnet Exception.
IC Protocol Updates
Observability with the New Boundary Node Architecture
DFINITY proposed the introduction of a new NNS-controlled salt-sharing canister to securely manage and distribute salt among all API boundary nodes.
DFINITY Governance team would like to propose a standard definition for deprecated SNSs that could be useful for many SNS frontends and tools.
Moving from the Motoko Playground to ICP Ninja
DFINITY plans to transition from Motoko Playground Frontend to ICP Ninja as the preferred platform for online canister development.
Applications & Builders
Total Staked ICP: 234’141’234
ckBTC: 268.5493
ckETH: 1’053.2822
ckUSDC: 1’369’451
ckUSDT: 2’617’450
Neurons' Fund Maturity: 3,516,444
Total SNSs Treasury: 4,430,783
New members in Ecosystem: Big welcome!
Diode, private messaging and secure access to the web and corporate resources.
ICP Studio, an all-in-One Development Platform & App Store for ICP.
CoinPrice, a fully decentralized cryptocurrency portfolio tracker.
BQ Labs, a decentralized insurance protocol.
Upcoming Events
Apr 8-10,Paris Blockchain Week 2025, Paris, France
Jun 23-24, European DAO Workshop 2025, Switzerland
SNS Projects Updates
OpenChat
Switched canister-to-canister calls to use the new "bounded-wait" feature, massively improving scalability.
Draggiz
Proposed to transfer 7020 ICP to dragginz.
Yral
Announced that New Monetization Game – pumpdump.wtf.
Catalyze
HubMaker Labs seeks funding from the Catalyze DAO to sustain operations and execute its pivot strategy, aiming to allocate 67,000 ICP from the Catalyze DAO Treasury.
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
Proposed to transfer 50000ICP for Q1 & Q2 operation..
KongSwap
Switched to new twitter account.
IC Explorer
Proposed to transfer 40,000 ICP from the treasury for Q1 & Q2 operation.
Community Highlights
Proposal: Transforming ICP Node Providers into Validator-Like Entities
Community member proposed to transform ICP Node Providers into Validator-Like Entities.
Opinion Poll: IC WebSocket support in Azle
Demergent Labs is finalizing a release candidate for Azle's 1.0 release. The poll aims to eliminate unnecessary features.
Proposal to upgrade BOB mother node
DFINITY Team created a proposal to upgrade the BOB mother node and executed.
Reproducible builds and code verification
@timo created a template for Motoko that aims to solve the issue.
Industry News
Binance has received a $2 billion investment.
Nick Begich introduced the BITCOIN Act of 2025 in the House, advocating for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve of 1M BTC within five years.
