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This is the 72nd edition of #ICP Pulse [Season 4], your daily dose of all things Internet Computer.
Today, we will explore R&D meeting minutes.
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1/ $ICP Price Action
Well, the price action has been chopping for sometime, as alts currently have little to no action atm in this crypto cycle.
As of press time, these are the important ranges atm to keep an eye on:
Support: 4.4 - 5.0 USD
Resistance: 5.2 - 5.6 USD
Other conditions: coinglass metrics indicate that derivatives volumes are up by 27%, sitting at 66.48M USD, with open interest steadily maintaining the 80M USD range, but for a potential run, should spike over 70M USD in volume. It's better to take some notes at this point.
As always, do note that this analysis is solely for educational purposes, so ensure you do the necessary due diligence🙏
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 26th of June 2025.
2/ R&D Meeting Minutes June 2025 @ DFINITY HQ
🟪Host: Rüdiger Birkner, Computer Networks Scientist & Team Lead Node Team @ DFINITY
The agenda is as follows:
I/ IC CDK by Adam Spofford
According to Adam,
➡️The foundation shipped v0.18 of the Rust CDK to production, changing execution from an "immediate" to a "scheduled" state.
➡️Here's what has changed:
II/ ICP Ninja Cycleops Integration by Jorgen Hookham
Here's what Jorgen had to say:
➡️The ICP Ninja and Cycleops teams have teamed up to improve the developer experience on the mainnet.
➡️Here's what is new in the context of this segment:
➡️This makes ICP Ninja an embedded IDE live on the ICP mainnet, allowing direct deployment vs the deprecated Motoko Playground.
➡️An API is used to establish the link between Cycleops and ICP Ninja.
III/ Roadmap Updates by Samuel Burri
According to Sam,
➡️The foundation was able to achieve a significant number of milestones, ranging from Solenoid to Coulomb, within the first half of 2025.
➡️Sam did an explanation on highlights so far from the year, including Caffeine.
➡️Additional highlights included the Solana RPC canister release, the interview with Liquidium, the Vetkeys release, the TEE roadmap, and v2 of Internet Identity.
IV/ Component Model and WASI by Andriy Berestovskyy
According to Andriy,
➡️ This model is laser-focused on improving DX, accelerating adoption, and strengthening network security.
➡️These aim to address the fragmentation among programming languages used in the ecosystem, limitations of available Motoko libraries, and the lack of virtualization.
➡️This is how the model works for TLDR folks:
➡️An explanation of how Canonical ABI [ the plug that connects works was also done.
➡️Currently, the foundation is working on supporting wasm32+64 components along with Motoko bindings and toolchains, while long-term goals include WASI [WASM System Interface] p2 support.
V/ Internet Identity V2 by Andri Schatz & Thomas Gladdines
According to Andri,
➡️This is what's new:
➡️Thomas conducted a wonderful demo on II v2.
VI/ Canbench Instruction Tracing by Jason Zhu
According to Jason,
➡️Canbench is a benchmarking tool for Rust canisters on the Internet Computer that focuses on cycles management and related aspects.
➡️A quick walkthrough on how Canbench works:
➡️Jason also conducted a demo covering the registry canister and invariant checks.
➡️Huge thanks to Yan Chen for IC Wasm instrumentation, Islam El Ashi for initial reviews, and Andriy Berestovskyy for the final code review.
VII/ Community Demo on Toko by Donna Powell
In case you are new here, Donna Powell, aka thyassa, is one of the two big brains behind Dragginz and also a co-founder of Neopets, a game that has been loved for generations.
First time spotlighting this legend on Binance Square if I am not wrong :)
According to Donna,
➡️Toko is the upcoming next-gen NFT platform for the Internet Computer, by the Dragginz team.
➡️The reason for building this platform:
➡️10+ existing NFT collections on the Internet Computer, along with 1M+ ICP in volumes, are already ready to be onboarded to the platform, thanks to the strong community support👀
➡️The project's workflow is as follows:
➡️A wonderful demonstration of the platform was also conducted.
➡️They are currently aiming to initiate the creator platform alpha launch late this July, with the user platform alpha to launch by September 2025.
➡️ They are also working on adding support for Generated Layers, Auctions, and Dynamic Ownerships, along with many other exciting features to the platform.
Well, that's all for today😇
Thanks for staying this far🫡
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I'll see ya tomorrow with your daily dose on ICP🫡
Until then, take care👋
