#山寨季何时到来
I recently studied the ICN Protocol seriously and found that they seem to be genuinely doing practical work.
While other projects are busy making promises and writing white papers, ICNT has quietly handled 2 billion requests off-chain and written 250PB of data, while maintaining 99.985% availability and a P99 latency of only 210ms. To be honest, I was a bit shocked by these numbers.
They deconstructed the 'cloud' into four microservices: scheduling, storage, verification, and resource allocation, in a modular way, with all interfaces open source, allowing external integration. Then, for the supernodes, they use a combination of trusted hardware + TEE + zk, where each node must stake 2500 of $ICNT , and the returns are calculated in real-time, which seems quite reasonable.
The token serves three purposes: one is as fuel for transaction fees, another is for staking and mining, and the last is for participating in governance voting. The design seems quite clear. The total supply is locked at 700 million, with 20% reserved for nodes.
In simple terms, the ICN Protocol moves the entire cloud system onto the blockchain, then breaks it down into components to be freely assembled by the market, which is quite an appealing direction.
I have already bought some $ICNT and am considering staking for the early bird phase; the APY looks quite attractive right now. The project isn't particularly hot, but it has a solid foundation. DYOR, anyway, I personally am willing to keep an eye on this kind of infrastructure that can really take off.