Hoje, mais de três anos se passaram desde que a rede principal $ICP foi lançada. O DFINITY continua a trabalhar arduamente em diversas áreas técnicas importantes e está totalmente comprometido em avançar em seu grande projeto. Nossas principais opiniões sobre o ICP são as seguintes:
1. Forte suporte técnico subjacente. O desempenho técnico do ICP pode não ser refletido diretamente no preço da moeda, mas seu TPS é 6 vezes maior que o do segundo colocado Solana, alcançando verdadeiramente um blockchain que “funciona na velocidade da Internet” com escalabilidade quase ilimitada. Talvez relacionado ao estilo discreto e pragmático da equipe DFINITY, o ICP é menos exagerado do que muitos projetos Web3, concentrando-se no polimento de tecnologias essenciais e avançando constantemente em direção ao ideal de "Computador Internet". O preço do ICP foi de facto sujeito a manipulação de mercado quando foi lançado pela primeira vez, mas isto não é algo que o DFINITY possa controlar, nem é o que eles querem controlar. A sua missão, do início ao fim, é entregar a tecnologia que prometem.
2. Ultra-high cost-effectiveness of storage costs. Storing 1GB of data on Ethereum for a year costs about 240 million USD, and even the so-called 'Ethereum killer' Solana costs 840,000 USD, while on ICP it only costs 5 USD, and using stablecoin-priced Cycles avoids the cost troubles of price fluctuations, making it the king of cost-effectiveness in blockchain storage.
3. Innovative NNS governance mechanism. The 'neuron' governance mechanism of ICP links voting rights and rewards to the amount and duration of staking. Many users have chosen an 8-year dissolution period (about 60%), demonstrating long-term confidence in ICP, which has formed a stable and loyal ecological support user base for ICP. However, more importantly, the NNS system of ICP promotes a vision for the larger picture of third-generation DAOs and 'open internet services'. Founder Dominic Williams believes that future newly established companies will exist more in the form of DAOs rather than traditional companies, as this will bring advantages such as automated management, increased transparency, and direct execution of rules, aligning better with a technological future.
4. Leading a new era of decentralized AI. The Cyclotron, just released in July this year, has boosted ICP's computing power by an order of magnitude (about 10 times), approaching the level of native CPU performance, making it the only blockchain with a smart contract working instance capable of fully executing facial recognition on-chain. For example, DecideAI announced at the end of August that it has fully deployed its GPT-2 LLM through the ICP blockchain. This is the first step towards running large AI models entirely on-chain, with the next goal of breaking through CPU performance limits.
5. 100% on-chain storage and computation: In addition to achieving 100% on-chain storage for static data similar to Filecoin and Arweave, ICP is the only one capable of completely achieving dynamic data processing on-chain, including handling large-scale computations, especially training large language models in the AI field. This is unique in the blockchain field, providing developers with new dimensions of innovation possibilities.
6. The superpower of 'chain fusion' technology. Just as the development of the internet was aimed at connecting different networks, blockchain technology also needs a savior to connect them, and Chain Fusion was born for this purpose. For example, smart contracts on ICP can now execute transactions based on events occurring in the Ethereum or Bitcoin networks, paving the way for previously unattainable decentralized financial operations. Additionally, AI operates as a smart contract on the ICP blockchain, while Chain Fusion releases these functionalities to other blockchains through integration. Looking ahead, Chain Fusion will continue to evolve, bringing better seamless integration to different blockchain environments. This means improvements in transaction speed, security, and user interface.
7. User-friendly account abstraction and privacy protection. ICP has the user account model closest to Web2, where users only need to register an account once without needing a wallet. This account can easily log in to any ICP ecosystem application and interact through fingerprint and facial recognition. Additionally, the same ICP account displays different IDs to the outside world when interacting with different applications, ensuring user privacy.
8. Network security. The ICP network currently has thousands of nodes worldwide, with more than half being 24/7 fully active nodes. These nodes make up the NNS of ICP, maintaining the overall security of the network. The security of each ecosystem's dApp is maintained by the subnet that builds its smart contracts. Subnets can be a fixed selection of nodes or randomly assigned groups. In the impossible triangle of blockchain, ICP provides projects and applications with maximum flexibility, achieving the best balance between scalability and decentralization.
9. Developer-friendly support system. DFINITY provides Web3 developers with an ideal growth platform, not only with incentive programs like ICP Hub and accelerators but also with community resources and technical support, encouraging developers to innovate boldly and build diverse applications.
The narrative of financial investment has shown signs of fatigue, and the market will eventually return to its essence, focusing on the underlying infrastructure services of the internet. The ultimate vision of ICP is to host software for the entire world, and the final trend of software development is towards AI. This means that for ICP to achieve its vision, it must keep pace with these changes, and a better way to achieve this goal is through AI decentralization. It has chosen the important path of combining AI narratives and has already achieved on-chain inference with AI models containing millions of parameters, taking the first step towards this grand goal. We believe this is a sustainable path worth pursuing. Once this muddy path is taken, it will become wider and flatter. Will DFINITY, or the ICP network, get closer to its 20-year roadmap? We are full of expectations for the future.
