Quick Start

Become a “World Computer” developer who builds sovereign social media, games, enterprise apps, AI, Web3, DeFi and _

The Internet Computer (ICP) provides a 100% decentralized platform where devs can build without Big Tech and traditional IT.

End-to-end decentralization makes services immune to cyber attack, unstoppable, censorship-resistant, and optionally tokenized and autonomous.

Storage Costs

$5 / GB / Year

Cost per Instruction

$0.000000000000536

Canisters

Languages

Beginner or pro, our comprehensive guides, tutorials, samples, and API docs have you covered.

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Motoko

Get started with an easy to learn domain-specific language that is able to leverage ICP features and is also perfect to let AI code solo when desired. This is a great choice for beginners.

Go to Motoko docs

Rust

Use Rust - a high performance and safe programming language to build high efficiency apps on Internet Computer

Go to Rust docs

Typescript

Code in the language of the web, TypeScript and JavaScript, using Azle.

Go to TypeScript docs

Solidity

Deploy Solidity smart contracts on the Internet Computer with Bitfinity.

Go to Solidity docs

Courses

Start your developer ladder with Jessie

Work your way up to ICP Astronaut with this 5-level video series

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Hackathon Prep Course

Jump-start your Hackathon project by learning the ICP essentials

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ICP Demystified: Learn the Essentials

Explore the protocol and its features with our “Zero to dApp Educate Series”.

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Chain Fusion

Develop cross-chain applications using ICP's direct integrations with other networks

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Supported chains

Learn which chains ICP integrates with and how

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Bitcoin

ICP has a direct integration with the Bitcoin network using a Bitcoin adapter and threshold signatures such as t-ECDSA and t-Schnorr. Learn how your canister can sign and submit transactions for BRC-20, Ordinals, Runes, and more

Learn more about the Bitcoin integration

Ethereum

ICP canisters can sign and submit transactions directly to Ethereum and EVM chains through the EVM RPC canister. Learn more about how you can build Ethereum applications on ICP

Learn more about the Ethereum integration

Chain-key tokens

Chain-key tokens are digital twins of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and ERC-20 tokens that are secured on ICP with chain-key cryptography

Learn more about chain-key tokens

Quick starts & frameworks

Start deploying on ICP easily with our Quickstart guides for developers, tailored to your preferred language

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Juno

Juno is a cutting-edge blockchain-as-a-service platform designed to enable developers to create decentralized applications at lightning speed

Go to Juno docs

Testnets

In contrast to other blockchain networks, there are no testnets on ICP. Instead, you can deploy a smart contract for free on the playground using the IC SDK

Learn more about the playground

React

Start here if you're coming to the Internet Computer Protocol as a React developer

Go to React quickstart

Developer weekly update December 18, 2024

Dev Blog

December 28, 2024

Developer weekly update December 18, 2024

This week, we're going to take a look at the road ahead for ICP developers in 2025 and dive into some roadmap items and ongoing initiatives that we'll see take the stage in the new year.

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