DFINITY The-Internet-Computer Info
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DFINITY is a stiftung registered in Zug[1] that oversees research and development centers in Palo Alto,[2][3] San Francisco,[4] and Zürich,[5][6] as well as remote teams across the world, who specialize in blockchain-based cloud computing[7] and support the development of the Internet Computer, a "blockchain that runs at web speed and can increase its capacity without bound."[8]
Cryptography
Andreas Rossberg
WebAssembly
Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
Distributed Systems
Jens Groth
Cryptography
Victor Shoup
Lara Schmid
Information Security
Distributed Systems
Andrea Cerulli
https://internetcomputer.org/
https://twitter.com/dominic_w
https://internetcomputer.org/become-a-member
https://medium.com/dfinity/understanding-the-internet-computers-network-nervous-system-neurons-and-icp-utility-tokens-730dab65cae8
The DFINITY Foundation, a not-for profit scientific research organization based in Zurich, Switzerland, comprised of the world’s top cryptographers and distributed systems and programming language experts, with nearly 100,000 academic citations and 200 patents collectively from their prior and current experience. Notable technologists at DFINITY include:
- Jan Camenisch, PhD (VP of Research) - world-renowned cryptographer & privacy researcher, led IBM’s Cryptography / Research department for 19 years
- Andreas Rossberg, PhD (Principal Engineer and Researcher) - the co-creator of WebAssembly and former team lead for the Google Chrome V8 engine
- Ben Lynn, PhD (Sr Staff Engineer & Researcher) - world-renowned cryptographer and Google Engineer, the “L” in BLS cryptography, the key signature system being used in Ethereum 2.0
- Jens Groth, PhD (Principal Researcher) - world-renowned cryptographer, known for pioneering non-interactive zero knowledge proofs
- Timo Hanke, PhD (Principal Researcher) - creator of AsicBoost, one of the few proven algorithmic optimizations for Bitcoin mining
- Paul Liu, PhD (Staff Engineer) - architected Intel’s Haskell compiler and received his PhD under Paul Hudak, a key designer of Haskell
- Johan Georg Granström, PhD (Director of Engineering) - former Sr Staff Software Engineer at Google responsible for scaling YouTube system infrastructure
The project was founded in October 2016 by Dominic Williams, and attracted notable interest from the crypto community. DFINITY raised a total of $121 million from contributors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, SV Angel, Aspect Ventures, Electric Capital, ZeroEx, Scalar Capital, and Multicoin Capital, and several notable early Ethereum supporters. In 2018, over 50,000 registered participants received ICP utility tokens in an airdrop. On December 18, 2020, DFINITY launched the alpha mainnet of the Internet Computer. In a final step towards decentralization, on May 10, 2021, DFINITY launched the Internet Computer into the public domain. This major milestone means that the internet now functions as a decentralized global computer — marked by the release of all of the Internet Computer’s source code into the public domain, as well as ICP utility token allowing tens of thousands of community members to govern the Internet Computer network.
DFINITY raised $61 million from Andreesen Horowitz and Polychain Capital in a February 2018 funding round.[10] At the time, DFINITY said it wanted to create an "internet computer" to cut the costs of running cloud-based business applications.[11] A further $102 million funding round in August 2018 brought the project's total funding to $195 million.[12][13]
May 2018, DFINITY announced plans to distribute around $35 million worth of DFINITY tokens in an airdrop. It was part of the company's plan to create a "Cloud 3.0." Because of regulatory concerns, none of the tokens went to US residents.[14]
May 2021, DFINITY launched its own decentralized network, called the “Internet Computer".[15]
Roadmap
The Internet Computer created by DFINITY has been developed through several named versions, which have gone through Copper to Sodium, and another version is planned, called Mercury.
Copper
Copper introduced the first public version of the DFINITY Canister SDK (V0.3.0) as well as Motoko, a new programming language that was optimized for creating tamper-proof software and open internet services for the Internet Computer using WebAssembly (Wasm).[20]
Bronze
Unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bronze demonstrated an example of a new class of open internet services that can be powered by the Internet Computer — in this case, a social network for professional profiles called LinkedUp (an open version of LinkedIn) that runs on the Internet Computer.
Tungsten
The Tungsten launch event provides a showcase of the Internet Computer development platform. The presentations included a technical overview of the Internet Computer, demos in Motoko and Rust, and discussions about how decentralized computing architectures represent the next major stage of computer technology, making possible services and applications that create new engines of innovation free from platform risk.
Sodium
Sodium unveils the Network Nervous System (NNS), an open algorithmic governance system that controls the Internet Computer. The NNS oversees participation in the network, and is responsible for inducting and rewarding data centers. The Sodium launch event will detail how the NNS manages the token economics behind the Internet Computer and explain how ICP tokens will be used for “cycles” and governance.
Mercury
Mercury is the last of the five milestones leading up to the public launch of the Internet Computer, when the network will spin out as part of the public internet.
On December 18, 2020, as part of the Mercury milestone, the Internet Computer's Alpha Mainnet was created[21]. This means the network is hosted on special “node machines” owned and operated by independent parties, and run from independent data centers around the world, that have been placed under the control of the Network Nervous System (NNS)[22].
On May 7th, 2021 The Internet Computer Mercury Genesis Launch Event[23]
marked the official termination of the Mercury milestone leading to a
final “Genesis Unlock” decentralization step. This released ICP utility
tokens, and resulted in the creation of large numbers of new "voting
neurons" that control the NNS and thus the entire network. In order for
the NNS to trigger Genesis Unlock, numerous technical and operational
gates were be passed.
In a final step towards decentralization, on May 10, 2021, the DFINITY Foundation launched the Internet Computer into the public domain.
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