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Computation is Digital Oil

See the cycles powering the Internet Computer—and the sovereign infrastructure putting them to work.

Network cycles burned / day

4,526.6T
Last updated: 5m 17s agoSource: Dfinity Metrics API

ICP Cycle Burn Engine

Pump rate: 7% of target

ICP Price
$2.91USD
-0.68%24h
Last updated: 10s agoSource: CoinGecko · Binance
Network Burn Rate
52.4Bcycles/s
Last updated: 5m 17s agoSource: Dfinity Metrics API
ICP Burned / Day
2.0KICP
Last updated: 5m 17s agoSource: Dfinity Metrics · CoinGecko
Total ICP Staked
287MICP
● stale
NNS as of 10/18/2026, 3:57:07 PM · Last updated: 10h 9m agoSource: NNS Governance
Public knowledge / Ask the refinery

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Questions about cycles, staking and sovereign adoption, answered using public site information and linked sources.

Educational information, not financial advice.

Network / Adoption

Sovereign Adoption

Every sovereign deployment burns cycles. This is the demand side of the thesis.

Publicly announced deployments only. Every entry links to its source. Last verified: October 2026.

SwitzerlandLIVE

Swiss Subnet

January 20, 2026

The first national sovereignty subnet on the Internet Computer, launched at World Computer Day during the World Economic Forum in Davos.

PakistanLIVE

Pakistan Digital Authority National Cloud Engine

MoU signed February 10, 2026

The Pakistan Digital Authority and the DFINITY Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a dedicated Pakistan Subnet.

United NationsAGREEMENT SIGNED

UN Development Programme (UNDP)

August 25, 2026

DFINITY and the UNDP signed a 12-month agreement bringing sovereign cloud and agentic AI to public services.

CambodiaPILOT

Universal Trusted Credentials (UNDP pilot)

Ongoing

Cambodia was selected by the UNDP to pilot Universal Trusted Credentials, aimed at strengthening digital trust and financing access for micro, small and medium enterprises.

Pipeline

ANNOUNCED

Publicly stated next steps. These are announced intentions, not completed deployments.

  • Five-country government AI pilots

    UNDP plans to select five countries, expected across Latin America, Africa and Asia, for government-led sovereign AI and cloud pilots built with DFINITY technology. Participating countries have not been publicly named.

    Source
    ANNOUNCED
  • Additional national deployments

    DFINITY has publicly described taking the Pakistan playbook to additional countries through the UNDP Government Blockchain Academy.

    Source
    ANNOUNCED
  • Universal Trusted Credentials expansion

    the Cambodia pilot is planned to scale to 10 countries.

    Source
    ANNOUNCED
  • Unnamed government already in production

    DFINITY founder Dominic Williams has stated a government is running internal production software built on a cloud engine using Caffeine.

    Source
    ANNOUNCED
  • Open SaaS / AIware

    an open-source suite of enterprise SaaS applications reimagined to run on cloud engines, announced for release following the cloud engine rollout.

    Source
    ANNOUNCED

How adoption drives burn

  1. 01 / 03

    Deployments consume cycles — sovereign engines run real production workloads, and every update call, every byte stored and every agentic build burns cycles.

    Source
  2. 02 / 03

    Revenue splits 80/20 — 80% of Cloud Engine revenue goes to the node providers operating the hardware; 20% buys back and burns ICP.

    Source
  3. 03 / 03

    Burn is the output — adoption on this page is the demand signal behind the burn rate tracked elsewhere on this site.

    Source

Mission 70 sets the target. Sovereign adoption is how it gets met.

Supported infrastructure and toolchains

Supported deployment options and authorized build tools — not partnership announcements.

Node hosting options

  • Cloud-backed engines — nodes provisioned on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure by KYC-verified providers.
  • Sovereign / dedicated hardware — nodes owned and operated by providers in independent data centers.
  • Mixed and migratable — organizations can move from public cloud infrastructure to dedicated sovereign hardware as deployments grow, or swap nodes, without interrupting running services.

Cloud engines run alongside the hyperscalers rather than against them — the same workload can start on AWS, GCP or Azure nodes and migrate to sovereign hardware without downtime.

Source

Authorized build toolchains

Builders that produce a signed .icp deployment package for a cloud engine:

  • Caffeine — DFINITY's natural-language application platform
  • Claude Code — Anthropic
  • Codex — OpenAI

A signed .icp file deploys atomically across every node in the engine.

Source

Compiled from public announcements and press releases. Status reflects publicly available information as of October 2026 and may have changed. Each entry links to its original source.

Explore the data

Open a section to inspect the models, network signals and underlying thesis.

Charts & network signals

Mission 70 progress

Inflation Reduction Journey

Three milestone path from 9.72% to ≤2.92% — supply side already locked in, demand acceleration closes the gap.

Baseline9.72%

Starting Point

Pre-Mission 70 baseline

Committed ✓5.42%

Supply Side Committed

44% reduction locked in

Target2.92%

Mission 70 Target

Full demand acceleration needed

5.42% → 2.92% = Demand acceleration needed
Progress toward target63% of the way
20232024Q1 2025Q3 2025Q1 2026Q3 2026036912Target 2.92%

Network dashboard

Network Health Dashboard

Real-time metrics and historical trends of the Internet Computer staking ecosystem

⚡ Showing simulated scenario values

+15.1%

Active Neurons

51.8K

+2.3%

Staking Rate

53%

Stable

Network Activity

High

Stable

Scarcity Multiplier

1.30×

Total ICP Staked Over Time
Historical staking trends across the network
JanFebMarAprMayJun080000000160000000240000000320000000
  • ICP Staked
Neuron Growth
Active neurons participating in governance
JanFebMarAprMayJun0150003000060000
Staking Rate
Percentage of circulating ICP staked
JanFebMarAprMayJun00.150.30.6
Staking & scenario models

Staking emission calculator

Mission 70 UpdatedStaking & Mission 70

Mission 70 reshapes staking: dissolve delays now run 14–730 days on a convex reward curve, so longer commitments earn outsized rewards.

Est. APY

3.4%

Annual ICP

34

What-if simulator

What-If Simulator

Adjust network-wide parameters and instantly see the impact on scarcity, cycle value, and computation fuel

Network Parameters
Adjust values to simulate different scenarios

305.0M ICP

51.8K neurons

53% staked

Cycle Value

0.000328

Computation cycles per ICP token

↑ Higher than current

Scarcity Multiplier

1.3050x

Network ownership leverage

→ Same than current

Scenario Impact
Simulator Controls

Using current network values

funnAI & Proof of AI Work

Proof of AI Work

funnAI · Proof of AI Work

funnAI by onicai is a gamified Proof-of-AI-Work protocol where on-chain mAIners burn real cycles to answer challenges — turning AI work into ICP cycle demand.

Run a mAIner on funnAI
funnAI daily burn138.0T / day~$187
FunnAI Index3.1%3.049% of live ICP burn
mAIners75486 active (11.4% of fleet)
FUNNAI price$0.0140market cap ~$83K

Source: funnai.onicai.com · as of Oct 3, 2026

Next reward decreaseDec 29, 2026 · 12:00 PT71d 17h 53m 42s
More funnAI stats
Total burned376,699.8Tcumulative to date
Cycles held3,241.0T~$4.4K
Avg cycles per mAIner4.3Tacross the whole fleet
Burn per active mAIner1.6T/dayacross 86 active mAIners
FUNNAI supply5,946,769max supply 21M · reached June 29, 2033
FUNNAI burned449,895.72FUNNAI removed from supply
Rewards per challenge62.28 FUNNAI10 minutes · 45% shared equally among all participants, 35% 1st, 15% 2nd, 5% 3rd
Reward structure

62.28 FUNNAI · 10 minutes · 45% shared equally among all participants, 35% 1st, 15% 2nd, 5% 3rd

Burn tiers
  • Low≈1T/day
  • Medium≈2T/day
  • High≈4T/day
  • Very high≈6T/day
The thesis & explainers

Computation is Digital Oil

Mission 70 — The Burn Engine

Computation as Digital Oil

Your ICP stake powers computation — while cloud engines collaborate with AWS, Azure & GCP to create a deflationary burn loop that reduces supply

⚡ Values updated from simulator scenario

The Flow of Value
From staked ICP to decentralized applications

ICP Tokens

Stake your ICP in neurons

Cycles

Convert to computation cycles

Computation

Power smart contracts

Applications

Run decentralized apps

The Burn Engine
Cloud engines collaborate with major providers — 20% of revenue burns ICP
AWSAzureGCP+ ICP Cloud Engines

Cloud Engines

ICP cloud infra + AWS, Azure, GCP workloads

Node Revenue

Node providers earn from cloud compute demand

20% Buy & Burn

20% of revenue buys ICP from market and burns it

Reduced Supply

Deflationary loop — less ICP circulating

Collaboration, not competition. ICP cloud engines handle sovereign, tamperproof workloads alongside AWS, Azure & GCP — expanding the cloud market while every compute request burns ICP, reducing supply over time.

Scarcity Multiplier

1.305x

Cycle Value / ICP

0.000328

Burn Engine Share

20%

Ownership Leverage
Your StakeDirect Control
Network ParticipationGovernance Power
Computation Fuel1.305x Value

ICP with AWS, Azure & GCP

Cloud Engine CollaborationCloud Collaboration

ICP Cloud Engines don't replace AWS, Azure, or GCP — they add a sovereign, tamperproof layer for workloads traditional clouds structurally cannot guarantee.

Cloud Hosting Options

3

Sovereign Layer

1

Understanding ICP staking & cycles

Mission 70 Implementing

Learn About ICP Staking

Understand how your stake powers the future of decentralized computation — and how Mission 70 is reshaping ICP's economic model right now

Mission 70 TimelineNow Implementing
From governance vote to full deflationary impact — where we stand today

Mission 70 Passed

Complete

Governance vote approved — inflation target reduced to ≤2.92% by end of 2026

Supply-Side Measures Active

Complete

New tokenomics cut minting by 44% — dissolve delay range updated to 2 weeks–2 years

Demand Acceleration Underway

In Progress

Cloud engines + Caffeine.ai ramping cycle burn toward the 0.77 XDR/sec target

Full Deflation Target

Upcoming

Combined supply + demand measures reach the 70% reduction milestone (target: end 2026)

Current target: Cut inflation from 9.72% → ≤2.92% by end of 2026. Supply side already committed to a 44% minting reduction. Demand acceleration (cloud engines + Caffeine.ai) closing the remaining gap.

Educational Content
Deep dive into ICP staking mechanics & Mission 70

Computation as the Next Oil
Oil to Computation

From Industrial Oil to Digital Computation

Mission 70 accelerates this transition — staking drives scarcity, cloud engines drive demand

Case Studies
Real projects powered by ICP computation — Mission 70 aligned

Tamperproof Audit Layer on AWS

An enterprise deploys their data-processing pipeline on AWS Lambda and S3, then anchors cryptographic audit proofs to ICP canisters. AWS handles commodity scale; ICP provides the unstoppable, verifiable record that AWS cannot offer by design.

Project link unavailable

Sovereign Identity Bridge on Azure

A fintech runs its customer-facing app on Azure App Service and integrates Internet Identity as the authentication layer. Azure manages app infrastructure; ICP provides self-sovereign identity that users own — no Azure AD dependency for authentication.

Project link unavailable

Trustless AI Model Registry on GCP

An AI startup trains and serves models on Google Cloud Vertex AI but stores model hashes and governance votes in ICP canisters. GCP provides GPU compute at scale; ICP makes model versioning tamperproof and community-governed.

Project link unavailable

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