The global distributed computing platform Dfinity is about to launch, which may reshape the internet infrastructure.

Recently, the cryptocurrency market has heated up again, with Bitcoin breaking through the high of $64,000, and mainstream coins and altcoins also rising. In this round of bull market, a project called ICP has attracted widespread attention, with its market capitalization ranking once jumping to third.

In fact, ICP is not a new project, but an established one developed by the Dfinity Foundation. Dfinity was founded in 2015 and was once hailed as one of the "four kings" of blockchain, but the mainnet has been slow to launch, earning it the nickname "king of the doves." After years of development, Dfinity's vision has shifted from being a sister chain to Ethereum to creating a global distributed internet computer system, aimed at reshaping the internet infrastructure and becoming a distributed cloud computing platform.

As the Mercury network is about to transition from Alpha to Beta, the Dfinity mainnet is expected to officially launch this April. As a representative project of distributed computing in the Web 3.0 ecosystem, Dfinity, along with public chains like Ethereum and Polkadot, as well as storage projects like FileCoin, forms the underlying infrastructure of the future internet.

Dfinity founder Dominic Williams stated that the Internet Computer ( ICP ) is the world's first blockchain that operates at internet speed, with unlimited scalability, capable of carrying massive smart contract computations and data storage, significantly improving blockchain performance and efficiency. This means that in the future, it may be possible to achieve high-traffic applications similar to WeChat, Taobao, Douyin, and so on on the blockchain, thereby changing the current situation of the blockchain industry lacking phenomenon-level applications across society.

Dfinity ensures the stable operation of its global distributed computing platform through several core modules:

1. NNS( Neural Network System ): As a decentralized governance system, NNS acts as the administrator of the ICP supercomputer network, determining its operating mechanisms and ecological benefit distribution.

2. Canister(: Similar to smart contracts, it is a basic building block on the ICP platform that can run various applications.

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3. Cycles) transaction fee(: Adopts a developer payment model, where developers need to exchange ICP tokens for Cycles as fuel for program execution.

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Currently, representative projects in the Dfinity ecosystem include:

• Capsule: decentralized social media platform
• Fleek: Plans to migrate tens of thousands of Ethereum applications and NFT projects to Dfinity
• OpenChat: decentralized encrypted communication application

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With the mainnet about to launch, Dfinity has attracted the attention of global investors and developers. As one of the important infrastructures in the decentralized world, Dfinity is expected to build a new internet ecosystem centered around user interests and personally controllable data, alongside projects like Ethereum, Polkadot, and FileCoin. Whether Dfinity can realize its grand vision and change the landscape of the internet remains to be seen.

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