🧧While other projects are still extensively promoting their future blueprints and painting dreams to attract attention, the ICN Protocol has quietly landed in actual scenarios, processing over 1.5 billion operation requests on average each week. It is one of the few truly decentralized cloud protocols running on real demand.
The biggest feature of the ICN Protocol is that it modularizes all four core capabilities of Web3 cloud — scheduling, storage, verification, and resource allocation — and designs them into a pluggable microservices architecture, which is fully open-source. This means that any developer or application can integrate and expand according to their own needs, achieving truly flexible deployment and high customization.
Technically, ICN is not just theoretical. In the past 90 days, the entire protocol has cumulatively processed over 2 billion requests, with a data write volume reaching 250PB, P99 latency of only 210 milliseconds, and overall availability as high as 99.985%. Such performance is extremely competitive even in the Web2 world.
On the hardware level, the HyperNode node system launched by ICN is a key support. Each HyperNode combines trusted hardware, TEE secure execution environments, and zk zero-knowledge proofs to ensure the transparency and verifiability of node computation and resource output. Importantly, each node needs to bind 2,500 tokens of $ICNT as collateral to participate in network operation and gain real earnings in computing power and bandwidth.
The $ICNT token plays three major roles in the entire ecosystem:
1. As fuel (Gas), used for billing the usage of computation and storage;
2. As collateral (Stake), used to activate HyperNode and obtain node earnings;
3. As a governance tool (Governance), allowing token holders to participate in voting and decision-making of important protocol parameters.
The total supply is designed to be 700 million tokens, of which the node allocation accounts for only 20%. This means that users who participate in staking earlier are more likely to seize the scarce node resources and earnings shares, and early APY performance is currently very impressive.
In summary, the ICN Protocol is a decentralized cloud solution that is "already running and creating real value." Compared to projects still planning for the future, ICNT has already built a truly usable foundation for Web3. If you missed Filecoin and Akash in the past, this time, consider delving into ICNT and seize the first wave of benefits from node staking.