Sovereign infrastructure

Create a cloud engine, a sovereign Internet Computer subnet that you control.

If you want absolute control over where your apps are hosted, create a sovereign “cloud engine.” This will allow you to choose the underlying hardware, who operates it, where it is located (for example to address GDPR or sovereignty concerns), and the level at which the ICP protocol replicates compute for security, resilience and performance purposes. To skip this step, just use the Internet Computer's default low cost shared hosting.

Experience the frontier

Configure a sovereign cloud engine for fluid on-demand apps now

Start at opencloud.org
Ship online functionality

Create fluid on-demand apps, websites and SaaS using AI agents.

Give your agents ICP skills by pasting "https://skills.internetcomputer.org/llms.txt" into your chat, and instruct AI to create the backend of your app using the Motoko language. Agents can orchestrate deployment for you, including updating your production apps. Ask to include AI fluidity. To reduce technical complexity, use caffeine.ai, either directly, or through MCP.

For agents · primary

Give your agent ICP skills.

A growing skill library for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, and Perplexity. One install, then any coding agent ships production apps to the Internet Computer.

Browse the library

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Build through conversation

caffeine.ai

Be a tech team — build sophisticated apps, SaaS, and websites on the Internet Computer through conversation. Language is now code.

Launch Caffeine
Craft code in the browser

ICP Ninja

A web-based platform where humans can experiment with craft-coding Internet Computer apps with Motoko or Rust backends. No setup or sign-in required.

Launch online IDE
Run the SDK locally

SDK quick start

Download the dfx toolchain and build against a local replica. The same code runs unchanged on the public network when you deploy.

Open the docs
Read the work

Learn how the Internet Computer works.

Concept primers, presentation decks, and the underlying research — all in one library, all available as plain Markdown for agents.

Concepts

In a nutshell

Short explainers for the core ideas — consensus, canisters, chain-key cryptography, threshold ECDSA, and orthogonal persistence.

Browse guides
Decks

Online presentations

The slide decks the research team uses with partners and at conferences. Skim them to get a fast structural read of the platform.

Flick through
Research

Technical papers

Peer-reviewed papers from the protocol, cryptography, and language teams. The actual science the platform is built on.

Read the papers
The economy

Get involved with ICP tokenomics.

Holders direct the network through neuron-based governance, earn voting rewards, and pay for compute on behalf of hosted apps.

How it works

Network economics

Cycles, ICP, neurons, and node-provider rewards — the closed-loop model that pays for compute and incentivizes the network.

Read the model
Stake & vote

Network governance

The Network Nervous System: stake ICP into a neuron and vote on protocol upgrades, subnet creation, and treasury motions.

Open the NNS
Acquire

Buy ICP tokens

ICP trades on major centralized and decentralized exchanges. Listings, pairs, and bridges are catalogued in the economics page.

See exchanges