This includes information and links to the front end canisters we’ve deployed on top of our research projects:
ICDV - Can a community fund public goods open source development to support a block chain. - ICDV — Open Source Contributors
CycleShare Ledger - Can a software community use blockchain to self fund open source software using the Internet Computer’s cycles feature - https://mwoki-dyaaa-aaaai-av4ua-cai.icp0.io/
Generally, these things seem to be rather low on the list of things that the remaining community is interested in. We are tidying up the decks and facing the reality of our rapidly dwindling community. We have one more big research venture to move forward with but the platform risk is becoming rather daunting. There is basically no treasury and the little bit of income that did come from our treasury(everything in an 8-year neuron) has been M70’d.
Fortunately our mission statement has an “and related technologies” clause which seems as if it may need to come into sharper focus in the coming weeks if ICDevs is to continue on.
Let’s just say it did, what would you all want to see?
Needs some ideas? AI has really opened the door for exploring things that required much more capital in the past. We’re happy to keep pushing things forward as long as there is some interest, but unfortunately that interest is measured in dollars. We at least have to fund the bots.
We are open to your opinions and thoughts. One way or another we’d imagine things are about to get much more opinionated around here.
i actually wanna see a more market-focused “roadmap” to increase the adoption of ICP, not just bounties/researches that will improve the features of ICP.
for example;
from education perspective: kinda like “why is ICP still lacking in developer adoptions from ethereum or web2?”, so we’ll need “a tutorial for solidity devs” and “a tutorial for non-crypto devs”, respectively.
from documentations perspective: let’s strip all the buzzwords completely and call everything what they actually are, ie “smartcontracts” instead of “canisters”, “gas” instead of “cycles”, etc., so solidity devs can be onboarded on ICP faster… but perhaps we cant really do this anymore since the official docs are using those terms. maybe we need a separate docs? idk sounds like too much work.
from implementation perspective: what smartcontract services that we’re still lacking in order to increase the adoption? we need to build those services. obviously we cant win at defi anymore because ethereum is dominating it, but we can still win at deweb (decentralized web); perhaps “one click” services that will make consumers/users easier to host a static site, their own saas, their own storage, etc… like how there are many “one click” services on ethereum/solana for users to create their meme tokens or opensea nfts.
do dfinity or anyone even have a team for this purpose? if so, i wanna join them on their mission
“To deploy a token: point your solidity tools at your assigned rpc endpoint. Click deploy. Your token is now live. Mint some tokens with the mint function. Burn tokens with the burn function. Transfer will send tokens to a friend.”
