The Internet Computer Review: Recent Episodes
Arthur Falls
Coverage of the ICP Community Conference by Code & State. It was great. hear the (belated) rundown here.
Check out the talks on the Code & State Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@code-and-state
This is a riff on the ethos creation discussion in the DFINITY Developer forum.
https://forum.dfinity.org/t/proposal-defining-an-ethos-for-the-nns/16090/37
Comparing the NNS to existing structures and examining some of the issues with Internet Computer governance. Establishing a foundation for a discussion of best practices for named neurons.
Kyle and I dive deep into the structures that underly Internet Computer governance and imagine ways to make more effective decisions.
Kyle Langham, publisher of the ICP Analysis newsletter joins for a discussion of IC analysis methodology & findings
https://kylelangham.substack.com/
cycledao.xyz
Catalyze aims to offer communities on the IC the ability to better track and represent their collective activities. This is the inverse of surveillance capitalism - disclosure capitalism. NFTs and other crypto token-based commodities are often assessed based on the activity of the communities that surround them. This activity is actually worth money but currently there is no way to accurately represent it.
Cayalyze is a Discord-type app primarily hosted on the IC. Founder Raymond Laracuenta joins to discuss.
Principal Engineer, John Wiegley joins Diego Pratts in this episode to reduce the practice of staking ICP to common English.
We discuss ICP economics, burning & staking, the importance of governance on the IC and a whole lot more along the way.
John Wiegley's community conversation on the subject can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVNSxFFAYUo
Founder of IC-focused Identity Labs, Dan Ostrovsky, explains the vision he and his team are working toward: A more advanced, user-friendly identity experience.
https://twitter.com/danostrovsky
cycledao.xyz
"Web" can be used as a performance descriptor to represent the expectations of contemporary users. Does the IC achieve this? Where does it hit and where does it miss. In this episode, we explore the nuance of this term and gain a deeper grasp of the Internet Computer as a product.
cycledao.xyz
From the early days of entrepreneurship to the deep inner workings of the Internet Computer, Matt Grogan discusses his history working with Dominic Williams. We then deep dive on OpenChat, application design patterns, and the SNS.
Andrew and Evan of The Internet Computer Report join to discuss the state of the community, events in New York, and global opportunities for IC-based products.
cycledao.xyz
https://www.youtube.com/c/InternetComputerReport
The Internet Computer requires a large amount of tooling to support web & enterprise developers. Austin Fatheree believes that should be developed by the community. Grants are already active for significant tooling, creating an independent alternative to the DFINITY Developer Grants program.
icdevs.org
cycledao.xyz
Community Manager Moritz Fuller explains his decision to build a Liquity front end on the Internet Computer. From here we discuss the challenges of hosting DeFi products on the IC, upgrading canisters, and the mysterious role of boundary nodes.
Waterslide Announcement:
https://blog.waterslide.app/waterslide-the-first-defi-frontend-on-dfinitys-internet-computer/
cycledao.xyz
The Internet Computer native website builder, ICME, is the brainchild of Houman Shadab & Wyatt Benno, a lawyer/no code enthusiast and startup builder respectively. The website builder is the first step on their path to democratise application building on the IC.
icme.io
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IC App production studio Aikin is in the process of launching its first product: The Nuance blogging platform. Founder Nick O'Neill describes how he came to the Internet Computer and the significance of a decentralised blogging platfom.
Nuance
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Bob Bodily, Chief Product Officer of Toniq Labs dives deep on NFTs and Toniq Labs' plans to expand their offerings.
https://toniqlabs.com/
cycledao.xyz
https://entrepot.app/
Manu Drijversdrops a knowledge bomb in this session, answering your questions about the inner workings of the IC.
cycledao.xyz
Norton Wang discusses the future of governance on the IC. The Axon neuron manager, cycle_dao, ICRocks, combine to form a Voltronic image of application & IC governance and code verification.
cycledao.xyz
axon.ooo
ic.rocks
Building an Internet Computer-hosted board game has led the team at Toniq Labs toward a complete metaverse infrastructure. Following the runaway success of their NFT marketplace which sold $350,000 worth of Chronic NFTs, we discuss a universal gaming currency, Stoic wallet, and the future of the Rise of the Magni game.
@toniqlabs
toniqlabs.com
cycledao.xyz
InfinitySwap aims to provide an AMM to establish liquidity pools for DeFi products and fundraising on the IC.
https://infinityswap.one/
cycledao.xyz
From a background in traditional systems to the forefront of decentralisation in traditional industry, Mike Shwartz has seen a lot. His project, Origyn, is an effort to make robust NTFs, or digital twins, of real-world objects. This extends to something he calls a "Plan Industry Platform" - an administrative platform for entire industries.
origyn.ch
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Singapore-based decentralised finance-oriented accelerator, DeFiStarter, is gunning for the Internet Computer financial ecosystem.
By onboarding Ethereum-based teams and mirroring their applications on the Internet Computer, DeFiStarter gains access to both communities and, once IC Ethereum integration is complete, the benefits of cross-platform solutions.
CTO, Sam, explains
https://www.dfistarter.io/
cycledao.xyz
Hazel is back to discuss token standards on the IC. We dive deep on the HZLD token, canister upgradability, NFTs and Micropayments. After this interview was recorded, Hazel launched an NFT experiment, the background of which is described here.
@suddenlyhazel
cycledao.xyz
To those who saw the HZLD token experiment on Twitter, Hazel will be a familiar figure. HZLD was actually a component in a much larger experiment: Hazels decentralised Patreon challenger Bunchd.
In this chat, we discuss Hazel's reasons for building on DFINITY and her vision for Bunchd.
@suddenlyhazel
@GetBunchd
@hzld_
Distrikt is a decentralised professional social media platform that began its life inside the DFINITY Foundation as Linkedup. Co-founder Andra Georgescu describes Distrikt's ambitions and her vision for decentralised social media.
distrikt.io
cycledao.xyz
Between the Internet Identity System and application scaling, there are a large number of subjects that the Internet Computer community is still coming to understand. Especially in the context of the prior described vision of the IC.
Jordan Last addresses misconceptions and reformulates unanswered questions, bringing clarity to areas of ambiguity.
DSCVR is in essence a decentralised Reddit - or news aggregator - hosted on the Internet Computer. Rick Porter, formerly BCG, began building DSCVR in 2020 on a hunch that a decentralised news aggregator might be a significantly impactful app. The project has taken him on a journey through token economics, scaling and future application design on the Internet Computer.
Longtime DFINITY Community member, Jordan Last takes us on a journey from his love of technology as a youth to his discovery of the Internet Computer. We discuss Sudograph , Jordan's open-source implementation of the GraphQL database for the Internet Computer, and some of his other numerous projects. Among them, his new podcast Demergence hosted entirely on the IC.
@lastmjs
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/demergence/id1570746602
Harrison Hines is back with an insightful discussion into the future of infrastructure funding and an examination of DAOs as infrastructure builders
In this session, Dominic Williams, Founder of DFINITY, creator of the Internet Computer, and all-round good dude explains how the internet computer interoperates with Ethereum.
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Harrison Hines of Fleek discusses the challenges faced by the current generation of decentralised applications. Namely, the lack of decentralised frontend hosting. Enter the decentralised web, also known as Web 3.
Fleek is a provider of decentralised web tooling. visit at Fleek.co or follow on Twitter: @FleekHQ
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This episode of the Internet Computer Weekly features hybrid decentralised exchange Tacen, which enables users to settle trades atomically, matching trades using a centralised service but storing the orderbook and settlement information in user run oracles living on the Internet Computer. This approach is interesting in its use of an orderbook instead of the automated market maker design used by Uniswap and its derivatives. This is made possible by the inexpensive storage and compute the Internet Computer provides. I’ll let the team fill you in . . .
Find out more at tacen.com and follow the project on twitter @tacen_app
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Nadim Kobeissi of the Capsule decentralised social media project describes the need for an alternative to the existing big-tech offerings and the reason the Internet Computer was chosen as a hosting layer.
capsule.social
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