On May 9th, Coinbase announced that it will launch the Internet computer project DFINITY token ICP on May 10th, and will start trading as soon as the ICP is in circulation. Coinbase, which has always been cold and strict in the selection of products in the encryption market, was the first to "grab" ICP, which has a significant demonstration and driving effect on other mainstream exchanges. On the same day, Huobi Global announced that it will open ICP deposits on or after 00:00 on May 11, Singapore time (GMT+8), and trading will start as soon as the liquidity conditions are mature. On May 10, OKEx announced that it has opened ICP deposits at 10:00 Hong Kong time on May 10, and will open transactions as soon as the liquidity conditions are met. Later on May 10, Binance also announced that it will list ICP.
In addition, exchanges such as FTX, Coinlist, CionEx, BigONEU, and KUCOIN have also announced the launch of ICP. After ICP was listed on Coinbase, the opening price was $286, and the highest rose to $497. It is now reported at $388.5, a 35.8% increase from the opening price. As of press time, according to CoinMarketCap data, ICP currently ranks eighth in market capitalization.
According to the official statement of DFINITY, ICP will be officially launched at 0:00 on May 11. That is to say, big exchanges with a strong position before are scrambling for ICP one after another, and this scene is really rare in the circle.
Animal coins are on the rise, and the DFINITY king is back
In the current encryption market, the grand launch of DFINITY is not only exciting, but also a sign of turning around the investment atmosphere.
Since Musk strongly recommended Dogecoin on Twitter, a large number of retail investors have begun to pour in, and there has been an "animal currency craze" with a new "leek" flavor in the encryption market, the most conspicuous of which is SHIB (Shiba Inu). currency). SHIB is known as the Dogecoin killer. From its launch to now, it has increased 2,000 times in two months. It is popular among retail investors around the world, and it has become a frequent visitor on Weibo and Twitter. In the encryption community, retail investors frequently burst out surprising quotations:
In addition to SHIB, there are also various animal coins, such as Akita dog coins, pig coins, etc., which also imitate SHIB to send coins to V God’s address. At present, there are dozens of various animal coins in V God’s address, and many people jokingly call it V God became a "zoo keeper".
Many old investors in the circle are wary of this hype, especially users who have experienced various outlets such as the ICO bubble in 2017. In 2020, the traditional financial market will gradually pay attention to and deploy cryptocurrencies, and its attitude will ease slightly. And if the encryption market is once again dominated by short-term speculation, it may lose the efforts of the predecessors in the impression.
As a king-level project in 2018, DFINITY has a very high reputation and recognition both at home and abroad. After several years of polishing, its technology has matured. Now its listing will have a profound impact on the blockchain industry. In the short term It also draws investors' attention from "air", celebrity effects and shouting orders to focus on products, technology and ecological construction.
The DFINITY mainnet is online, announcing the official opening of the Internet computer era
So what is so special about DFINITY that the market will place high hopes on it?
Dominic Williams, founder and chief scientist of the DFINITY Foundation, once described the innovation brought by DFINITY in this way: This is the third major innovation in the blockchain industry. This is the first real, general-purpose blockchain computer. It allows us to recreate To conceive, the way we build everything, a seamless, infinitely capable blockchain.
This passage from Dominic briefly described the three major features of DFINITY: the ability to build various applications, seamless connections, and unlimited performance. On DFINITY, developers can build programs and applications directly on the Internet ontology without cloud services, databases or payment interfaces. Developers can build applications seamlessly because they don't need to consider a lot of middleware.
A lot of time, energy, and money in the development of traditional Internet products are actually spent on various middleware and maintenance. DFINITY's move gives developers maximum freedom, developers can concentrate on product development, and many creative The product is expected to explode.
In order to show developers that all applications can be built on DFINITY, the DFINITY Foundation developed an application similar to Douyin, CanCan, with less than a thousand lines of code. Different from the current mainstream public chains that mainly develop DeFi applications, short video applications receive massive data uploaded by C-end users all the time, and also need to process these data at any time, so the requirements for performance are very high.
At present, the DFINITY main network has been launched, and there are already dozens of ecological projects built around DFINITY, involving social applications, DeFi applications, NFT applications, and infrastructure applications. The main projects include Fleek, CanCan, Capsule, Canistore, Distrikit, Dscvr.one, Openchat, etc.
DFINITY will bring a huge new opportunity for entrepreneurship
The public chain exploded in 2017. After market selection, Ethereum is already the absolute leader. At present, many emerging public chains are more likely to undertake the overflow value of Ethereum. However, DFINITY is not limited to focusing on performance and financial applications, but allows developers to no longer focus on issues such as middleware construction, which is equivalent to reducing the burden of development and allowing creative products to be trial-and-error at low cost.
It can be said that DFINITY has changed the way and content of building application services, which is a paradigm shift. This will not only bring great gains to entrepreneurs and investors, but also is expected to inspire new application forms and lead the blockchain industry out of the circle.
Although DFINITY has brought us unlimited imagination space, after all, the main network has just been launched, and the final success or failure depends on the ecological development, such as whether there are phenomenon-level applications, whether it can bring new business paradigms, and whether it can create new ones. commercial value. However, what is certain is that the mainstream exchanges voted for DFINITY with practical actions.
