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What is Internet Computer (ICP)?
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About Internet Computer
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Whitepaper: https://internetcomputer.org/whitepaper.pdf
Official website: https://internetcomputer.org/
How does Internet Computer work?
What is the ICP Token?
ICP, the native and utility token of the Internet Computer, plays an important role in network governance and is used to facilitate various activities within the ecosystem:
- Participating in Governance: Token holders can lock their ICP to create neurons, allowing them to participate in the network's decentralized governance through voting, thereby influencing the network's direction.
- Facilitating Operations: The ICP token is also used to pay for computation cycles on the network, facilitating smart contracts and other decentralized applications.
- Economic Incentives: Nodes in the network are rewarded with ICP tokens for providing computing capacity, creating an incentivized system that encourages participation and ensures network integrity.
DFINITY, the team behind Internet Computer, holds a large percentage of ICP tokens, which is 22.2%. This leaves only 77.8% to the community. Though the goal of Internet Computer is to decentralize the world at large, their token distribution shows a disproportionate amount of control that the team has over the network.
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Uniqueness
The Internet Computer blockchain incorporates a radical rethink of blockchain design, powered by innovations in cryptography. It provides the first “World Computer” blockchain that can be used to build almost any online system or service, including demanding web social media, without need for traditional IT such as cloud computing services. As such it can enable full end-to-end decentralization.
Token utility
The IC makes use of a utility token called ICP. This token is used for the following functions:
- Staking in the NNS: ICP tokens may be staked in the NNS to acquire voting rights so as to participate in the DAO that controls the IC network. Users that have ICP tokens staked in the NNS and who participate in the NNS governance also receive newly minted ICP tokens as a voting reward. The amount of the award is determined by policies established and enforced by the NNS.
- Conversion to Cycles: ICP is used to pay for the usage of the IC. More specifically, ICP tokens can be converted to cycles (i.e., burned), and these cycles are used to pay for creating canisters and for the resources that canisters use (storage, CPU, and bandwidth). The rate at which ICP is converted to cycles is determined by the NNS.
- Payment to Node Providers: ICP tokens are used to pay the node providers—these are the entities that own and operate the computing nodes that host the replicas that make up the IC. At regular intervals (currently monthly), the NNS decides on the number of newly minted tokens that each node provider should receive, and sends the tokens to the node provider’s account. Payment of tokens is conditioned on providing reliable service to the IC, according to specific policies established and enforced by the NNS.
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What is the development prospect and future value of ICP?
The market value of ICP currently stands at --, and its market ranking is #40. The value of ICP is widely recognized by the market. When the bull market comes, the market value of ICP will likely continue to increase.
Moreover, if ICP can play a greater role in practical applications, such as Internet Computer builders fully leveraging the potential of ICP, partnering with more businesses, and increasing its user base, the long-term value of ICP will be significantly enhanced.
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