Folks, It has been some time since I engaged with the IC community of developers, last time was the end of last year when I was doing security audits of the IC code. Since then a lot has happened in the blockchain world: The cypto bear market is in full swing affecting all crypto currencies. The…

Yes to all of your numbered questions. Why would you expect any changes in those respects? Maybe you’re actually asking more about how cloud engines work? Those are just new options for how to host canisters, and not quite production-ready yet (although you can play around with them already not qui…

[image] josephgranata: Dfxvm is the new CLI for developers. I think you meant icp-cli https://cli.internetcomputer.org . Other than this, nothing much has changed fundamentally.

GOOD NEWS despite the noise then Lorimer. Thanks for your prompt answer.

Thank you, I missed this one, so yet another update icp-cli instead of dfx and friends. Another cool news is the arrival of ICP Skills for coding that is AI Accelerated.

Yes indeed, please feel free to give feedback : [image] Icp-cli announcements and feedback discussion Developers Hey folks, this thread will aggregate all icp-cli related announcements. Take a look at: The docs: https://cli.internetcomputer.org The examples…

Thanks ZackDS, I will report back.

[image] josephgranata: update icp-cli instead of dfx and friends we are in the process to migrate all examples to icp-cli. most have already been updated and soon ICP Ninja will also receive an update to fully support icp-cli (which isn’t the case right now). [image] josephgranata: How …

In addition to the official response, let me add : Yes you can choose to deploy to subnet re2t4 that is currently open for public and is the first SEV enabled. Only thing worth knowing is that the cycle cost on this 7 node subnet are the same as on normal 13 nodes subnets. Some observations a…

Thanks Mr. Marco Walz, much appreciated. Regarding my question about how to pay for ICP canisters, just to confirm we can do it via the NNS Wallet, and public exchanges online correct? I asked because I wondered if the Oisy Wallet would eventually remove the ability to buy ICP from the NNS Wallet. …

You can pay for cycles using the icp cli tool mentioned above. The documentation is here: Tokens and Cycles | ICP CLI You would type something like icp canister top-up my-canister --amount 1T -e ic You can buy the cycles from an exchange like icpswap and them send them to the PID for your icp-cli…

ICP for Developers is Very Confusing - Some Help Please

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Yes indeed, please feel free to give feedback :

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