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Decided today to make ICPP public under BSL 1.1 (see post on the Dev Forum below). Now the community can push forward and hopefully expand/tweak/improve the codebase. @dominic_w @PierreSamaties @dfinity
forum.dfinity.org/t/icpp-cod…
While the ICP shills keep shouting adoption.
Running a secure cross-chain bridge is highly expensive, and if user fees can't cover the bills it simply isn't sustainable. But, hey, adoption is here. Can't you see it?
All going according to plan. Alien tech and all that.
Important Announcement: Omnity Hub Sunset and Cessation of Operations
To our valued users and partners,
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the upcoming closure of Omnity Hub (hub.omnity.network/). After careful consideration, the Omnity team has made the difficult decision to officially cease all operations 30 days from the publication of this notice.
A Look Back at Our Journey
Over the past 27 months, Omnity Hub has proudly served as a premier cross-chain bridge for Bitcoin Runes assets, successfully connecting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, ICP, and multiple Bitcoin L2 networks. We are incredibly proud to have maintained a strong security record throughout our operational lifespan, with our peak cross-chain asset volume reaching nearly $1 billion.
Why We Are Closing
Despite these milestones, the reality of operating a secure cross-chain bridge has become increasingly challenging:
Unsustainable Economics: The revenue generated by the cross-chain bridge is unfortunately limited, leaving Omnity unable to sustainably fund the high costs required to maintain and secure this critical infrastructure.
Evolving Security Threats: In the context of rapidly advancing AI technologies, the broader crypto ecosystem has seen an increasing frequency of sophisticated security incidents targeting cross-chain bridges.
Out of an abundance of caution and a strict commitment to protecting our users' assets, we have determined that safely sunsetting the bridge is the most responsible course of action.
Urgent Action Required: Withdraw Your Assets
Omnity Hub will permanently shut down in exactly 30 days.
We strongly urge all users to immediately begin the process of withdrawing and retrieving all cross-chain assets from the platform. Please do not delay this process to ensure your funds are safely returned to your native wallets before the deadline.
Thank You
We want to extend our deepest gratitude to our users, partners, and the broader community for your unwavering trust and support over the last two years. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this closure will cause and deeply regret that we cannot continue providing this service.
If you require any support during the withdrawal process, please reach out to our team immediately through our official channels.
Sincerely,
The Omnity Team
Pure BS hype from ppl with no idea how development funding works. The UNDP can push this via "institutional strengthening" grants, but national governments approve and sustain it. And these funds just get burned on consultant gigs "for friends" that are useless or seldom scale.
🚨 BREAKING: UN REVEALS NATIVE internet-computer:native AI USE CASE TO PROCESS 200,000+ PATIENT MEDICAL SCANS!
This is officially one of the most bullish real-world integrations in crypto history. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is leveraging internet-computer:native to run sovereign, AI-powered medical analytics on 200,000+ patient scans without exposing sensitive data to Big Tech! 🤯
Why this is a total game-changer:
🩺 ON-CHAIN MEDICAL AI models and patient health records live entirely inside tamperproof ICP canisters. Medical scans are analyzed directly on-chain with zero third-party leak risks or API dependencies.
🛡️ National health systems stay fully sovereign and operational under government control, proving internet-computer:native is the ONLY infrastructure capable of hosting enterprise-grade, privacy-preserving AI at scale.
Forget speculative meme coins! The United Nations is proving that real-world AI utility belongs on internet-computer:native 🌍🔥
#ICP #InternetComputer #AI #UNDP #HealthTech #Web3 internet-computer:native
Searle explaining why machines (using his "Chinese Room" argument) don't "understand". It predates his much debated book "The Mystery of Consciousness". Plus a juicy exchange with Dennett.
Everyone reduces AI to code: but it's more than that. @daedalium
nybooks.com/articles/1995/12…
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BTW in passing Searle mentions the Yale AI Lab. It was founded by a friend and AI pioneer, the late Roger Schank. He also believed that "computers are unable to think" (worth reading his book "The Cognitive Computer"). Bob in his late years turned to reforming education. @ajki76
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Why this ICP "will eat the enterprise business" blah blah is utter BS (NB: also applies to other chains making similar claims). Exhibit 10345. Only in the mind of Moonboys who have never coded 2 lines without AI and never worked on enterprise infra. @its_daxxx @zane419 @SnassyIcp
What are the real costs and risks of replacing legacy COBOL systems with modern alternatives?
After spending a decade and $100 million to replace a legacy COBOL system, enterprises often find their modern cloud architecture slower than a 40-year-old mainframe.
COBOL systems on IBM mainframes process trillions of dollars in daily transactions for banks, insurers and governments extremely well. Over 40–60 years they have accumulated layers of patches, updates and custom logic.
The high financial and time costs of rip-and-replace migrations are a major barrier; enterprise overhauls often take 5–10 years, by which time the target architecture may already be obsolete.
The greatest risk is loss of undocumented business logic—the COBOL code is frequently the only documentation. Reverse-engineering decades of obscure patches can miss edge cases, such as a 1993 tax exemption, causing critical transaction failures.
Mainframe-to-cloud moves are rarely 1:1. Mainframes excel at high-volume batch processing and heavy I/O; distributed microservices introduce network latency that bottlenecks performance and raises costs.
There are AI approaches but none have been very successful thus far.
In fact I am working on a COBOL update for a client right now.
Consequently many enterprises abandon full replacement for in-place modernization—wrapping COBOL in APIs for modern apps or translating it to Java—while gradually updating the edges.
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JFC...
PSA: ICP Community - We have an issue that needs to be resolved for the @catalyze_one DAO.
We submitted a normal treasury proposal earlier today.
Unfortunately someone cloned the proposal an hour or so later (with a non Catalyze wallet) and a large token holder accidentally voted yes on both of proposals.
The second proposal is fraudulant and will not be going to the Catalyze DAO but to an individual scammer.
Real DAO 237 Proposal: nns.ic0.app/proposal/?u=uly3…
Fake Cloned 238 Proposal: nns.ic0.app/proposal/?u=uly3…
Please vote NO on the fake one 238.
We are going to file a motion proposal on Friday AM to take down the second fake proposal if possible.
We know the community has been supportive and beyond patient with Catalyze.
We still believe in ICP and have plans for Catalyze but the market has slowed us down like so many other projects.
We hope this fraudulent proposal can be take down down ASAP.
We have new designs for Catalyze 2.0 but this kind of loss will handicap us badly.
@PassionPlanet1 @dfinity @TheTacoDAO Please pass it on!!
@JanCamenisch @DfinityToday @rem_codes @GreenJhart
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spent the last few months on calls with deep tech founders after years in web3, and the contrast is embarrassing.
a web3 team raising, the first checks are always a grind. meanwhile an energy or robotics team pulls 100k in non-dilutive grants from a city, a university, the state they're in, because they're solving grid overload or something a municipality has an actual budget line for.
the grant money is the tell. nobody writes a non-dilutive check for the 40th L1 because building another chain nobody ships on isn't a problem anyone outside crypto has. these deep tech teams get money out the door because a real institution needs the thing to exist.
half of web3 is a solution roaming around looking for a problem to attach to. you notice it fast the second you sit across from people building things the physical world is actually waiting on.
Interesting post by Brian R. But also worth noting that Dom's "mathematical networks" and "tamperproof serverless clouds" would not have prevented any of this.
🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure we are powerless in an emergency.
What happened…
An autonomous AI agent: zero human operator in the loop breached part of their production infrastructure.
It began with a malicious dataset that chained two code-execution bugs in their data-processing pipeline. From there the agent escalated privileges, harvested cloud and cluster credentials, and moved laterally across internal clusters.
All over a single weekend.
17,000+ logged actions.
Official disclosure:
huggingface.co/blog/security…
The part that should make every one stop and think:
When HF’s own security team
tried to analyze the real attack logs, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts using Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models through normal commercial APIs, the safety guardrails blocked them.
BLOCKED THEM.
The models could not reliably tell the difference between “incident responder doing forensics” and “attacker probing.”
They had to fall back to a self-hosted open-weight model (GLM 5.2) running on their own infrastructure. That choice also kept sensitive attacker data and referenced credentials inside their environment — no exfiltration to a third-party API.
This is why open source (specifically open-weight + self-hosted) wins in the agentic era.
The asymmetry is now structural:
• Attackers can (and did) run unrestricted agent frameworks — swarms of short-lived sandboxes, self-migrating command-and-control, autonomous decision loops executing thousands of actions. No corporate safety layer slows them down.
• Defenders using only hosted “aligned” frontier models hit invisible walls exactly when the stakes are highest: when you need to feed real exploit code and attacker telemetry into an LLM to understand what just happened.
Corporate safety tuning that treats legitimate high-signal forensic work as potential misuse creates a defender disadvantage. It is not theoretical anymore.
Self-hosted open-weight models remove that choke point.
You control the weights.
You control the context window.
You decide what restrictions (if any) apply.
Your sensitive logs and credentials never leave your perimeter during analysis.
You can have the model ready before the incident instead of discovering mid-breach that your primary analysis tools are blind to the very thing you need to see.
HF deserves credit for rapid containment, transparent disclosure, and for already having self-hosted capability in place.
They also used LLM-driven detection and triage on their own side. But the deeper signal is clear:
In this AI world where both offense and defense are becoming agentic, sovereignty over your intelligence stack is no longer optional.
The organizations and individuals who can run, inspect, audit, and (when necessary) remove guardrails on their own models will have the decisive edge in understanding and responding to threats that move at machine speed.
Open source wins here not just because it is cheaper or more “democratic” in the abstract though those things matter.
It wins because it is the only practical path to having tools that remain usable when the attack is real, the data is sensitive, and the safety filters of distant API providers become an obstacle instead of a feature selling hands tied lobotomies as “safety”.
The agentic future is not coming.
It is already probing production infrastructure.
The question is no longer whether you will face autonomous agents.
It is whether your analysis and response systems will still work when they arrive.
And Dario, you and your game playing, ivory tower company is not needed.
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Project Nebula retweeted
La épica de esto...impresionante el Director de Orquesta Carlos Vieu con la sinfónica estable del Teatro Colón y el Coro Polifónico Nacional....Por Dios. Y por supuesto la 10 bien puesta. Suban el volumen. – at Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
This would be called "narrative collision" by some, or just the fact there are different ways of achieving the same goals by others.
That's why ICP needs a clearly differentiating positioning devoid of "alien tech" nonsense. So alien only a few know it exists.
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He's in search of a narrative to help him turn the bend, when nothing much has worked. The issue isn't lack of a good tech stack, but the inability to make it desirable. That's all. Dom et Cie. are systemstically preaching to the converted. That's not how adoption materializes.
A CEO who constantly changes his vision and narrative and its focused on hundreds of different things and products at the same time, is not good for the company, focus on one damn product, dedicate 100% of your time to it, if it fails so be it. $ICP
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1/2 One of the most striking things in this whole ZEC saga is the intellectual dishonesty that it has unearthed. It was a bug, it was discovered, such are things in crypto. Fixed, and move on. Yet you read all sorts of contortions, justifications, BS. Pretty fucking lame.
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Here is the thing: what happened to Zcash would NOT have happened to ICPP unless ICP was itself compromised in a similar fashion. But DFINITY decided that progressing the concept was not worth it. They didn't even entertained discussing it. Their loss. @dominic_w @PierreSamaties
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Though of asking Google Gemini what it thought about the latest rebranding/repositioning moves. Presume many will disagree with the AI veredict. Have to say that, regardless, "Frontier Cloud" is indeed rather bland, a tad inane but not as bad/nerdy as "self-writing Internet."
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1/2 One of the most deflating facets around $ICP is that the tech stack qualities are drowned by the recurring retarded takes of 100x, to the moon, and all that BS. ICP has great Devs and hard working folks, but this paints the public ICP ecosystem as a bunch of imbeciles...
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Speaking of which, let @dominic_w spell things out for you. The ship has now sailed away to other pastures, hopefully greener. Time will tell. @its_daxxx
teapaw.org/dominic_w/status/20476…
Replying to @dominic_w
But for us, we are officially no longer part of "web3" and "crypto." We purse mainstream frontier compute, and those things are special cases.
Today we have orders of magnitude more people building on ICP than web3 in total. Frontier cloud is a new segment within cloud. 🧵
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The Q is: how will platforms relying on Foundation models (Caffeine?) make it through unscathed? Other than hosting and training its own AI engines. Guess that's coming for Caffeine, but the inference differential with self-hosted models is still biting.
teapaw.org/i/status/2061577782594…
🦔GitHub Copilot switched to token-based billing this morning and users are already out of credits. Pro+ subscribers paying $39 a month are reporting 60% of their credits gone in two hours of normal use. One user lost 20% of their allowance from a single file review with no code changes. Another hit their monthly cap before the calendar even flipped to June.
Orgs with shared token pools have no way to see individual usage, so entire teams get cut off when one person runs a heavy prompt. Users are canceling and moving to Claude Code and Codex. GitHub community forums are on fire.
My Take
Flat-rate AI subscriptions were always subsidized. Everyone in the industry knew it. Today the subsidy ran out for a few million developers at once. The problem is a lot of companies already restructured around these tools. They cut headcount and told remaining engineers to lean on Copilot instead of building skills internally. Those companies now depend on a tool whose cost just became unpredictable and whose usefulness completely changes when you have to ration prompts to stay under budget.
The developers moving to Claude Code and Codex will hit the same wall eventually. Every AI provider faces the same unit economics. Anthropic filed its S-1 this morning, and the durability of its revenue depends on whether customers stick around once real pricing kicks in everywhere. If a $39 subscriber cancels after one day because the tool became unusable, multiply that across millions of seats and the churn risk becomes very real.
Today showed what happens when AI pricing meets reality. The companies that built their workflows around cheap tokens just discovered the tokens aren't cheap anymore and the people who knew how to do the work without them are already gone.
Hedgie🤗
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