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About Internet Computer
Internet Computer (ICP) is a utility token that allows users to participate in and govern the Internet Computer blockchain network. The network aims to help developers create websites, enterprise IT systems, internet services, and DeFi applications by "installing their code directly on the public Internet." ICP can also be staked or "converted into cycles" that can be used to power computation for dApps and traditional applications.
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Trading Insights
Buyer Ratio
69%0%
Traders
1.1K
8.29%
Buyers
742
6.3%
Sellers
353
9.63%
Searched
1.1K
Market Stats
Market Cap
$2.52B
FDV
$2.52B
Circ. Supply
537M ICP
Max Supply
Not enough data
Total Supply
537M ICP
Performance
Popularity
#43
Dominance
0.07%
Volume (24H)
$68.27M
20.86%
Volume (7D)
$415.50M
Volume (30D)
$1.80B
All time high
$630.00
Price Change (1Y)
-37.85%
Additional details
Market details
ICP vs markets
↘ 65.91%
ICP vs BTC
↘ 65.78%
ICP vs ETH
↘ 64.03%
Tags
platform
ai-big-data
smart-contracts
layer-1
+3
Network & Addresses
Network | Address | |
|---|---|---|
Internet Computer Protocol | NA |
Price history
Time | Price | Change |
|---|---|---|
Today | $4.66 | ↘ 4.75% |
1 Day | $4.91 | ↘ 4.75% |
1 Week | $5.28 | ↘ 11.37% |
1 Month | $5.16 | ↘ 9.35% |
1 Year | $7.53 | ↘ 37.85% |
Coinbase insights
Happening now
AI generated 3h ago
ICP volume surged ↗11% over the weekend, despite its price dropping 3% in the last few hours of Sunday trading.
Market Position
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Underperforms Layer 1 category, down ↘10% weekly while IP gained ↗26%
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24-hour volume growth outpaces broader crypto market's ↘1% decline
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Currently about 99% below all-time high, lagging behind other Layer 1s
Past Stories
Recent trends
The latest ICP price is $4.66. Compared to Internet Computer's value of $4.91 from 24 hours ago, there's been a -5% decrease, while the current price is -11% down from $5.28 which was recorded one week ago. Internet Computer's all time high is $630.00, which was reached on May 10, 2021. This is a -99% change from its price today.
The market cap is currently $2.52B, which is a result of multiplying the current price of Internet Computer($4.66) by the total supply(537,426,679 ICP). The fully diluted valuation of Internet Computer is $2.52B. The diluted valuation of Internet Computer is $2.52B.
Internet Computer had 742 buyers, 353 sellers and total 1,071 trades in the last 24h. Internet Computer was searched 1,077 times in the last 24h.
FAQ
Internet Computer (ICP) is a set of protocols that allow independent data centers worldwide to band together. ICP's basic idea is to create a new kind of decentralized Internet and global computing system — where independent data centers all over the world could join together to create an alternative to the cloud services (from companies like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud) that power most of the current Internet. Its innovative design and vision position the Internet Computer as a scalable and efficient platform for building almost any online system or service, including demanding web applications, without the need for traditional IT infrastructure. The Internet Computer has also launched its own token, the ICP token, which is used for governance (holders can vote on the future of the network), to reward network participants for good behavior, and to pay fees for making transactions. Originally called DFINITY, ICP's global and distributed network of data centers can run most of the applications that are accessible via traditional Internet standards, such as DNS (the domain name system you use via web browsers and smartphones).
The Internet Computer works by running canister smart contracts on a network of node machines. These node machines are connected using the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), which enables them to communicate and coordinate their actions. As explained in the MIT Technology Review's profile of the Internet Computer: "Instead of running on a dedicated server in Google Cloud, for example, the software would have no fixed physical address, moving between servers owned by independent data centers around the world." You can think of ICP as a way of converting crypto into processing power — the network will establish a fee based on the amount of computing power required by a developer's project. The website will run on the public Internet as long as the fee is paid. Finally, the Internet Computer network is controlled and managed by a master subnet, which runs an advanced permissionless Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) called the Network Nervous System (NNS). This system instructs the node machines how to structure the network and verifies that the instructions they have received are genuine.
Popular applications on the web are often closed-source, proprietary, and hosted on a handful of data centers owned by big tech firms. If one critical data center fails, huge swathes of the web can also shut down with it. Another major concern with the web (particularly for privacy advocates) is that centralized, corporate web service providers have the ability to censor or de-platform applications. This is why the Internet Computer attempts to offer a fundamental alternative to the current solution, so that developers can build, host, and serve applications in a more decentralized way — allowing websites to be deployed directly onto the public Internet. Internet Computer can be used to build almost any online system or service, including demanding web applications, without the need for traditional and centralized IT infrastructure, making it possible to create fully decentralized online systems and services that are tamperproof, unstoppable, and that can trustlessly interact with the outside world. In theory, any kind of application can be created and run on the Internet Computer — from social networks similar to LinkedIn and TikTok to software similar to all the familiar applications you know today to new kinds of applications not yet conceived. Because it operates via open standards, Internet Computer tends to reduce the conflicts of interest that can arise when a major cloud-computing provider hosts products that compete with its own services.
The Internet Computer was developed by the DFINITY Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Zürich, Switzerland. The foundation was established in October 2016 with the goal of developing the Internet Computer blockchain. The project's founder, Dominic Williams, first used the name DFINITY in early 2015 to refer to his theoretical crypto work, which he hoped would make a World Computer possible. In February 2017, the DFINITY Foundation ran an early public Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to raise funds and scale out its open-source project. This was then supplemented by private fundraising rounds in 2018. By mid-2022, DFINITY employed almost 300 people, primarily in R&D. Researchers worldwide contribute to the foundations' work — including cryptographers who hold around 100,000 academic citations and 200 patents.
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The current market cap of Internet Computer is $2.52B. A high market cap implies that the asset is highly valued by the market.
The all-time high of Internet Computer is $630.00. This all-time high is highest price paid for Internet Computer since it was launched.
Over the last 24 hours, the trading volume of Internet Computer is $68.27M.
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The current circulating supply of Internet Computer is 537 million.
Internet Computer ranks 37 among tradable assets on Coinbase. Popularity is currently based on relative market cap.
Currently, 99% of Coinbase users are buying Internet Computer. In other words, 99% of Coinbase customers have increased their net position in Internet Computer over the past 24 hours through trading.
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Internet Computer news
Trending articles
Social stats
Popularity in posts
#39
Contributors
322
Posts
665
% About Internet Computer
0.533%
Articles
5
Hold times
0 days
X (Twitter)
47.22% bullish
Sentiment
4.0 ★
Highlights
322 unique individuals are talking about Internet Computer and it is ranked #39 in most mentions and activity from collected posts. In the last 24 hours, across all social media platforms, Internet Computer has an average sentiment score of 80 out of 5. Finally, Internet Computer is becoming less newsworthy, with 5 news articles published about Internet Computer.
On Twitter, people are mostly neutral about Internet Computer. There were 49.11% of tweets with bullish sentiment compared to 3.99% of tweets with a bearish sentiment about Internet Computer. 50.89% of tweets were neutral about Internet Computer. These sentiments are based on 425 tweets.
On Reddit, Internet Computer was mentioned in 46 Reddit posts and there were 585 comments about Internet Computer. On average, there were less upvotes compared to downvotes on Reddit posts and more upvotes compared to downvotes on Reddit comments.
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