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Welcome to the 62nd episode of The
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$ICP Price action
Well, well look what we have here after that dipping dip, another chance for the folks who jeeted in the top✊
Now speaking in terms of numbers, these are the ranges I am looking to for the upside.
Support: 9.9 -10.3 USD [ Known support zone, with a deep liquidity band]
Resistance: 10.8 - 11.1 USD [ Heavily backed by the 14 and 50 EMAs]
The playbook for me is to chop until Trump arrives in the office and to take over following the event.
Now we wait🤝
As always, This is Not Financial Advice, So DYOR✊
Note that we aren't going into a deep analysis of our usual stuff, as we have to discuss what happened at the R&D Meeting, which was released on the 27th of December 2024 to YT.
2️⃣R&D Meeting Minutes December 2024 @ DFINITY HQ
🟪Host: The Legend, Dr Jan Camenisch CTO @ DFINITY
Agenda
Metrics By KyleLangham and Yvonne-Anne PignoletCore Protocol By Manu DrijversTopology and Incidents By Sasa TomicBoundary & Trust By Rüdiger BirknerUTOPIA By Yvonne-Anne PignvoletChain Fusion By Gregory DemayGovernance By Lara SchmidAI By Islam El AshiR&D Team By Samuel Burri
1️⃣ Metrics By KyleLangham and Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
According to Kyle,
➡️22 out of 25 most active DAOS in web3 are in ICP, according to DeFiLlama🦙
➡️ICP saw 15 new SNS deployments in 2024
Yapignolet also joined the session to deep dive into these metrics.
So, According to Yvonne-Anne,
➡️The IC saw a staggering 5x growth in instruction rate and 50% more usage of HTTPS outcalls.
➡️The IC was able to ship the above 15 features this year, related to developer experience👇
Back to Kyle.
➡️ICP was the 2nd fastest-growing full-time developer ecosystem, according to the Electric Capital Report.
➡️The IC was among the L1s ranked 4th in total network revenue, according to tokenterminal.
2️⃣Core Protocol By manudrijvers
According to Manu,
➡️The IC saw many improvements including the below👇
➡️Manu also provided some explanations on the recent milestones, especially Tokamak.
➡️In addition, features such as 3x improved bandwidth on subnets, 1TB state per subnet, 500 GB memory per canister, and the Fair Cycles Pricing mechanism were spotlighted.
3️⃣Topology and Incidents By Sasa Tomic
According to Sasa,
➡️The foundation worked on increasing decentralization without additional node machines, and here is how it was done👇
➡️How more compute capacity was added to the IC👇
➡️This year the IC experienced 1870 subnet upgrades, 79 hotfixes, and 44 regular releases.
➡️SEV-1 alerts were as low as 1.05% this year.
4️⃣Boundary & Trust By Rüdiger Birkner
According to Rüdiger,
➡️The foundation is working on a new boundary node architecture👇
➡️ This is planned to be deployed early this year and is expected to improve the capacity of these nodes.
➡️Explanations on the HTTP-Gateway library, Certification Libraries, and Chunked certification was done.
5️⃣UTOPIA By Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
According to Yapignolet,
➡️Utopia aims to be the Private ICP instance for large-scale usage.
➡️Here is the progress on Utopia so far👇
➡️This year the foundation aims to ship this to production level.
➡️The foundation has also received solid interest from Major Institutions and governments aiming to utilize Utopia.
6️⃣Chain Fusion By Gregory Demay
According to gdemay,
➡️This is how Chain Fusion has evolved across the past years👇
➡️A brief explanation of the Tritium Milestone, which activated the EVM RPC canister and enabled ckERC20 on the IC, and the Deuterium Milestone, which connected the BRC20 ecosystem with the IC was also conducted.
➡️At the beginning of the year the total ck TVL was at around 9M USD and has grown to 28.67M USD, leading to an impressive 3x growth.
➡️ckUSDT saw rapid growth in terms of its ratio in TVL.
7️⃣Governance By Lara Schmid
According to Lara_A_Schmid,
➡️NNS highlights in 2024 include enabling and Deterministic Time Slashing [DTS] on System Subnets to bring their settings closer to application subnets and Migrating neurons to stable storage [to be commenced in Jan 2025]
➡️Actionable [proposals were activated on the NNS and voting grants were established to improve voting participation.
➡️In addition, the foundation also shipped the NNS explained Video Series so folks can better understand how to participate in governance.
➡️The foundation is currently working on periodic confirmations as we speak.
➡️The growth of SNS DAOs is as follows👇
➡️Limitations were added to SNS treasuries to improve security and SNS upgrades are now much simpler.
Meanwhile, many SNS DAOs rebranded to better approach their audiences.
➡️Finally a brief explanation of The DAO Circle, operated via OpenChat was also conducted.
8️⃣AI By Islam El Ashi
According to ielashi,
➡️ICGPT was the first LLM to run on the IC, initially in 2023.
➡️The foundation then released the Image Classification Demo in March 2024, using Mobilenet v2
➡️The Foundation shipped Floating Point Optimization in April, WASM SIMD in May, The Face Recognition Demo in June, and GPT 2 by DecideAI in July this year.
➡️An explanation of the Cyclotron Milestone was also conducted.
➡️A huge shoutout to Kinic, DecideAI, and OnicaiHQ for their work utilizing AI.
➡️What's next for 2025, with a hint on Caffeine AI which should allow folks to interact with the LLM and deploy dApps seamlessly on the IC👇
Right, I know you are feeling kinda exhausted, but just hold around a bit as we head to the final segment of this episode🤝
8️⃣R&D Team By Samuel Burri
According to Sam,
➡️Here is how the R&D team has grown within the year👇
➡️How the team has been allocated within the foundation👇
So, Here I wrap up for the day😇
Hats off for staying this far🫡
Now, before we wind up, feel free to share this with everyone who might lack some ICP Alpha, especially to our
#BitcoinInSwissReserves fam.
As usual, the quiz will be allocated today, so stay tuned✊
I will see ya tomorrow with the daily dose on all things ICP :)
Until then, Take care👋