On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany secretly signed the Non-Aggression Pact, in which Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were occupied by the Soviet Union.

Fifty years later on this day, to draw the world's attention to the shared historical experiences of the three countries, over 2 million people from the three nations held hands, forming a human chain over 675 kilometers long, crossing the Baltic States.

At that time, the internet was still a rarity, and the protest movement relied entirely on village radio stations for coordination. The demonstrations were broadcast on television worldwide, and soon the three countries gained independence from Soviet control two years later.

Just connecting people together, how much power can it generate? When the consensus of millions is expressed, there is no need for financial capital or violent conflict; it can still have a tremendous influence, even affecting the fate of nations.

In the current cryptocurrency space, many projects are adopting the POS model, where the more money you have, the more rewards you receive, making the poor poorer and the rich richer, concentrating chips more and more, forgetting the original intention of BTC's POW, and overlooking the power of individuals themselves.

The same goes for DePIN projects; currently, many DePIN projects simply connect devices and call it a day. This method obviously has little competitiveness against traditional cloud service providers and computing power leasing platforms. After all, if you lack recognition, acquiring customers is often limited to within the circle, which may even lead to idle waste of computing power.

Currently, I believe @ICN_Protocol is performing well; last year ICN already made its mark in web2, currently having over a thousand paying enterprise clients and an annual revenue exceeding $5 million, which is the 'grounded business model' that all exchanges are eager to pursue.

In web3, unlike Filecoin/Arweave, which only focus on storage, and Akash, which only does computing power, Aethir focuses on isolated DePIN competitors. ICN's mainnet will simultaneously support storage, computing, and networking functions, integrating these three major services into one protocol with every user in the community acting as a node.

Recently, in the India-Pakistan conflict, Pakistan's use of a complete set of China's previous generation weapons to shoot down Indian aircraft/drone components purchased at a high price clearly illustrates that, in the face of a complete system, it is possible to battle across levels.

On the ICN mainnet, developers do not need to bear the learning and usage costs of multiple component protocols; they only need to connect to ICN to utilize a complete set of standardized infrastructure systems.

To fully leverage the advantages of the community, each user can act as a super node to verify the integrity of hardware resources and services, ensuring the decentralization and seamless operation of the ICN cloud network through the joint efforts of the global community, while both the community and hardware providers can earn fair rewards, truly returning data power to the users.

Today, ICN has opened node staking and will gradually open community-distributed hardware in phases in the future, allowing developers to build projects on ICN.

A fully decentralized infrastructure is steadily advancing along the roadmap, and the days of centralized internet applications facing single points of failure due to infrastructure issues like AWS may soon become a thing of the past.