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This is the 47th edition of #ICP Pulse [Season 4], your daily dose of all things Internet Computer Protocol.
Today, we will explore R&D Meeting updates.
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1/ $ICP Price Action
Nice, the price action is incrementally heading towards the upside, as of press time.
Although we are yet to see increasing volumes, I think its fine.
Now, into the numerical aspects.
Breakthrough 5 USD along with the 14 EMA, and another potential retest by cracking the 50 EMA, should potentially lead the way towards Valhalla.
But for now, we wait👀
As always, remember to do proper research before aping in AS THIS IS NFA, also only for educational and informational purposes🙏
Note that we aren't going into a deep analysis of our usual stuff, as we have to discuss what happened at the R&D Meeting, which was released on the 30th of April 2025.
2/ R&D Meeting Minutes April 2025 @ DFINITY HQ
🟪Host: David Derler, Engineering Manager, Consensus Division @ DFINITY
The agenda is as follows:
1/ Metrics by Kyle Langham
According to Kyle,
➡️As ICP nears 4YA, the metrics are exploding.
➡️Notably 1.5M ICP, which is worth around a staggering 6.7M USD YTD.
➡️Huge shoutout to the devs and the community for their unwavering work towards the network.
2/ Changes to the NNS dApp by Yusef Fernandez
According to Yusef,
➡️The NNS consists of newly revamped features such as SNS cards, Fiat values on check out flows and the new command palette.
➡️Yusef also conducted a demo on these features in a testnet environment.
3/ DX Roadmap by Raymond Khalife
According to Raymond,
➡️The latest updates DFX, Rust CDK and Motoko are as follows:
➡️The foundation is currently working on a new CLI for the Internet Computer, to introduce canister environment variables and standardization of agent behaviour in the network.
➡️The new version of CLI will add support to the ARM64 & AMD64 architectures.
4/ICP Ninja Usage by Elias Datler
According to Elias,
➡️ICP Ninja is the replacement for the Motoko playground.
➡️ICP Ninja should see and improved build and a feedback pipeline, along with support for permanent deployments through the dApp, in the near future.
5/HostOS upgrade by Andrew Battat
According to Andrew,
➡️The foundation completes the thirst Host OS upgrade on the Internet Computer.
➡️An explanation on HostOS is as follows:
➡️Why HostOS is important to the network:
Andrew's Continued Explanation | Credits: DFINITY
➡️The foundation plans to release upcoming HostOS upgrades on a weekly basis.
➡️Also a huge shout out to the Decentralized Reliability Engineering [DRE] & IDX teams.
6/ ICP Dashboard by Artem Korotkikh & Dylan Miller
According to Artem,
➡️ICP Dashboard received the first update recently.
➡️The focus on this upgrade was to combine all the relevant metrics to build up the big picture, with a revamped UI.
➡️Data understanding has taken a huge emphasis in this upgrade, making sure the end users are able to get information easily.
➡️50+ ecosystem projects are being displayed now.
➡️A huge shoutout to the design and engineering teams for the effort towards the implementation.
➡️Continued to Dylan's Explanation:
➡️Dylan did a nice walkaround on the revamped dashboard.
7/ Community demo by ckBoost
Levan from the ckBoost team attended the R&D meeting session.
According to Levan,
➡️ckBoost aims to improve interoperability finality speeds to its maximum possibility.
A sample scenario:
➡️An explanation of their codebase and a demo of utilizing ckBTC was also demonstrated.
Well, that's all for today😇
Thanks for staying this far🫡
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I'll see ya tomorrow with your weekly recap on ICP🫡
Until then, take care👋
