Exploring the combination of blockchain and artificial intelligence: Dominic Williams and Michael Turpin's fireside chat
In a fireside chat, Dominick Williams and Michael Terpin explored the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, emphasizing the great potential of blockchain as a computing platform, especially in supporting more secure and efficient smart contracts. The two guests reviewed the early development of cryptocurrency, discussed the core role of smart contracts in decentralized applications, and explored how blockchain technology can be used to solve the growing cybersecurity problem. They also looked forward to the industry changes that blockchain-based AI models may bring in the next three to five years, especially in terms of data security and autonomy, and emphasized the unique advantages of blockchain in protecting sensitive data.
Review of ICP Community Development in 2024 and Outlook for 2025—Promoting Decentralization and AI Technology Innovation.
In 2024, the ICP (Internet Computer Platform) community experienced significant growth and transformation, focusing on advancing cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), decentralized applications (dApps), and decentralized finance (DeFi). Particularly in the application of decentralized cloud computing and cross-chain technology, ICP's innovations provide a more powerful platform and tools for global users and developers. Looking ahead to 2025, ICP will continue to drive technological breakthroughs, striving to expand its influence globally and create a more open and autonomous internet.
AI and decentralized cloud computing: Driving a new generation of technological revolution.
Internet Computer Protocols have the potential to enable NGOs to operate transparently, ensuring accountability and building trust with donors and beneficiaries. Here’s how ICP is reshaping NGO operations: 👇👇
Immutable Records
🔹With ICP, NGOs can store activity logs, financial records, and impact reports immutably on-chain. This tamper-proof system ensures all records remain accurate and accessible to stakeholders.
Smart Contracts for Fund Management
🔹ICP’s jar smart contracts automatically and transparently manage fund allocations, reducing abuse and ensuring every dollar is accounted for. Stakeholders can verify how donations are spent in real-time.
Tokenized Governance
🔹Using ICP’s SNS framework, NGOs can tokenize their operations, enabling donors and beneficiaries to participate in governance decisions. This promotes fairness and transparency in organizational policies.
Real-Time Dashboards
🔹NGOs can build dashboards powered by ICP to provide real-time updates on their activities, finances, and impact. This transparency fosters trust and strengthens relationships with donors and communities.
Interoperability and Collaboration
🔹ICP’s support for interoperability enables NGOs to seamlessly collaborate with other organizations and share transparent data, facilitating unified efforts to address global challenges.
Why this matters❓
🔹By leveraging ICP’s decentralized and transparent capabilities, NGOs can operate more efficiently, build trust, and maximize their impact. It’s not just about transparency — it’s about changing the way the world works.
"Self-Written Internet" will completely change the rules of the game for internet computing:
1) "Robby Robot" 🤖✨ is about to be released, and it can synthesize valuable custom web applications and services as needed. 2) Its hidden working principle relies on *truly* fully on-chain web3. 3) And today it only happens on #ICP
Dominic Williams 'The ICP is About to Experience the AI x Internet Revolution'
Self-written sovereign network applications and internet services that can be updated in real time simply by speaking. The Internet Computer is designed for this, and this work has been ongoing for many years. Today, I want to delve into this topic for the first time. Please note — do not confuse this area of work with the AI capabilities of the ICP network (for newcomers: the Internet Computer is undoubtedly the only public network in the world that can host and run AI in a smart contract mode, which allows it to reside on the network and be decentralized, secure, and unstoppable. For example, I recently demonstrated an on-chain neural network performing facial recognition, and upcoming enhancements to the ICP protocol will also allow LLMs to run as smart contracts). Today, I want to discuss a very different challenge that ICP will help the world address, which is creating and updating *running* web applications and internet services simply by speaking. Users will create these models for various purposes, such as creating a secure personal note manager or personal website, or creating social media, games, web3, or enterprise infrastructure models for others that involve online communities of all sizes, simply by issuing commands in natural language. Also, note that this is a much larger and different challenge compared to using AI to write and review software, which is already happening on a large scale. This goes far beyond the scope, and I will explain the reasons below…
What is the biggest change that ICP will bring to Web3 in 2025? Unleashing the influence of the mass market and ending fraud. The market is flooded with false statements. Now everything has become a meme, and 95% of CMC is garbage. Breakthrough technology applications must end hollow speculation and bring Web3 'back to the future'. 🎯
In 2025, the main goals of ICP include: 1. Continue to promote the development of adpp and defi 2. Realization of self-written internet, enhancing user autonomy 3. AI integration to enhance data processing and smart contract capabilities 4. Enhance the compatibility and interoperability of #icp with other blockchains 5. Global #ICP community expansion, attracting more developers and users These goals aim to enhance ICP's competitiveness and sustainability, promoting the popularization of decentralized internet.
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Announcing the selected projects for the Web3Labs X ICP million-dollar global acceleration program
This year, Web3Labs announced a strategic partnership with the DFINITY Foundation to jointly launch the 'ICP X Web3Labs Global Acceleration Program' on Olympus, officially opening applications for global Web3 startups to join the program. After rigorous screening, several projects with outstanding potential in innovation and technology have emerged. Selected projects will receive resource support from both parties in areas such as market, business, funding, and exchanges, including special grants and potential investment incentives. Overview of the first selected projects
TownStory Galaxy is a groundbreaking web3-based social management game that invites players to build and manage their own virtual towns, nurturing a vibrant global community. Recent achievements of the Linea Park event include over 1 million accounts on the Linea blockchain, with users consuming nearly 1 million dollars in gas in just one week. Townstory has been deployed on ICP.
🚀Decentralization is not just an ideal, but the future. ICP can combine Web2 performance with Web3 principles, making it a blockchain for real-world solutions.🌟
🌐Web2 is centralized and controlled; Web3 is open and user-owned. ICP provides the tools to bridge this gap, offering performance that matches cloud giants while not sacrificing decentralization. 🚀
🌟The possibilities of ICP are endless: decentralized social platforms, on-chain markets, and even enterprise solutions. The next wave of growth is coming—are you ready?🚀
📈 Combining innovation and scalability to drive growth. ICP is addressing real issues such as platform risks and high custody costs, paving the way for the widespread adoption of decentralized solutions. 🚀
🔮ICP is not just a blockchain - it represents a move towards a freer internet. As various industries adopt decentralized solutions, the growth potential of ICP becomes undeniable.🌐
🚀 Imagine a world where dapps are fast, scalable, and fully decentralized. ICP is making it a reality, creating the infrastructure for a more open and fair internet. 🌟
What is ICP? The Internet Computer is a public blockchain network realized from first principles by new science. Its capabilities are magnified millions of times, allowing it to replace cloud and traditional IT. The network is created by the ICP (Internet Computer Protocol), coordinated by permissionless decentralized governance, and hosted on sovereign hardware devices operated by independent parties. Its purpose is to extend the public internet through native cloud computing capabilities.
The vision of ICP is that most software in the world will be replaced by smart contracts. In order to achieve this vision, ICP aims to give smart contracts the same powerful capabilities as traditional software.
- Censorship resistance: ICP’s decentralized nature is censorship-resistant and provides an open platform for AI development. - Scalability: DeAI can be effectively scaled by leveraging a network of nodes to process tasks in parallel. - Inclusiveness: ICP promotes inclusiveness by allowing individuals and small companies to participate in AI development.
Advantages of DeAI on ICP: - Trust and Transparency: DeAI models on ICP are fully on-chain, providing users with verifiable insights into the model training and inference processes. - Data Security and Control: Unlike centralized systems, users retain ownership of their data while allowing DeAI models to securely access the data.