Autonomous cloud
from a public network
Throughput
Capacity horizontally scales as subnet blockchains are seamlessly combined into one unified blockchain. Blocks and transactions per second are unbounded.
Memory is $5/GB/year
Each canister smart contract running on ICP can make 64 GB of persistent memory pages available to its bytecode (orthogonal persistence allows data structures to be used like databases).
AWS-rivalling efficiency
An average ICP transaction executes 6’660’000 instructions compared to ETH’s 83’000, while each instruction is orders of magnitude less expensive due to ICP’s efficiency.
Internet Computer
Internet Identity
Today, blockchain hosts tokens, but only tiny amounts of compute.
Tomorrow, blockchain will be an autonomous cloud, and rival traditional IT.
In the future, this public everything stack will eat cloud, and smart contracts will eat software. Enterprise will be unstoppable, and Web3 will run autonomously under DAO control...
It's already happening at scale on the Internet Computer, which is powering a blockchain singularity.
Join the movement.
Internet Computer capabilitiesWiki history of the Internet Computer
Community stories
OpenChat raised 1M ICP in 6 hours
Open Chat is an early "open internet service." An SNS DAO assumed control of its smart contracts, and swapped $ICP for its governance tokens, placing its community in control, and creating a powerful community treasury.
Relation has grown organically to utilize 67'000 canister smart contracts
Relation is making the social relations of individuals decentralized. Every Soul can mint readable, understandable, programmable SBTs to represent proofs of friendship, affiliations, membership certificate qualifications, and commitments.
Build your Web3 social graph on Relation
ICDex is DeFi 3.0 in the form of a fully on-chain orderbook exchange
Imagine a fully on-chain Coinbase! CeFi-like functionality is now provided by a fully on-chain DEX — the UX, the orderbook, order-matching and AMM. It plans to list all assets using "chain key" crypto, and transition updates to fully decentralized DAO automation.
Find your favorite tokens on ICDexDeFiMetaverseSocial mediaSocial networkingMulti-chain dappsEnterprise servicesR&D infrastructureFundraisingPublishingMessaging GamingNFTson true Web3
Featuring a few web3 project teams reinventing the internet on the ICP blockchain.
DSCVR
Social portals, community airdrops, crypto tipping on chain
200,000+ users
distrikt
Censorship-resistant fully on-chain social media platform
110,000+ users
MORA
A Web3 space for writers to express autonomy of thought
2000+ articles
Funded
Fund your favorite projects and get NFT rewards
83,000+ ICP funded
Kinic
The world's first Web3 search engine
3,000,000+ searches
Cubetopia
Build and own an NFT World on the blockchain
32,500+ ICP volume
Plethora
3D platformer meets Web3 with NFT rewards
10,000+ users
Yumi
NFT marketplace for digital and physical assets
130,000+ ICP volume
Hot or Not
Token rewards for both content creators and lurkers
55,000+ users
TAGGR
Blending forums and blogs - controlled by a DAO
24,000+ posts
Catalyze
Manage your Web3 communities and events
275+ groups
Disruption in motion
The internet runs on routing devices
Bitcoin runs on PoW mining rigs
The Internet Computer runs on node machines (PoUW)
Web2 apps are updated by companies
Traditionally, blockchains are updated using protocol forks.
The Internet Computer is updated by a fully automated DAO
- Web experiences served by smart contracts
- Web2 APIs processed through consensus
- Googleable smart contracts
Bitcoin transfers digital gold without intermediaries
Ethereum hosts unstoppable smart contract code
The Internet Computer can execute code on any blockchain and process any asset
Transparently sustainable blockchain
Scalability and utility with low carbon cost — the Internet Computer is committed to building green tech, not just making claims about it.
Become a Web3 pioneer
Start a DAO, create a token, build dapps and host assets with the full stack entirely on-chain.
BUILD REAL WEB3Dev forum
Engage with the ICP community to shape future features, propose new ideas, and ask questions.
Dev docs
Get to know the concepts, architecture and technical breakthroughs that enable the ICP. Plus step-by-step guides on how to stake your tokens, and more.
Sample code
From a simple DEX, to on-chain encrypted storage, NFT minting, and a basic DAO, learn how to build on the Internet Computer.
Motoko playground
Play around with Motoko, the native language of the Internet Computer, right in the browser without having to download the SDK.
The blockchain industry's
Skunk Works
Team members
270+Publications
1564Citations
86,347Patents
191The DFINITY Foundation is committed to realizing the most disruptive vision in tech: the adoption of public blockchain as a single technology stack that hosts all of humanity’s systems and services.
