When Web3 developers start collecting stamps: five protocols can't make one application


You've definitely experienced those crashing moments—investors staring at a screen stuck at 99% loading while you're frantically checking five different protocol consoles. Building a Web3 application is more thrilling than assembling IKEA furniture: Filecoin's storage manual, Akash's computing screwdriver, Aethir's GPU parts kit... by the time you gather all the tools, the opportunity has passed.


The current DePIN track is like a giant tech flea market:



  • Filecoin: The Rolls-Royce of storage, but only this one is allowed in your garage


  • Akash: a self-service restaurant for computing power, too bad you have to bring your own utensils


  • Aethir/io.net: AI chef's exclusive cooking station, even frying an egg feels luxurious



This 'protocol stamp collecting' model allows developers to master three programming languages and five types of token economics on average, only to find that the most needed skill is actually juggling—after all, juggling five protocols at once is no less than a circus performance.


ICN: delivered a full package to Web3


While others are still fighting in the parts market, ICN has directly opened a 'cloud service supermarket':



  • Shelf A: storage freezer (-196℃ professional-grade preservation)


  • Shelf B: computing cooking station (capable of handling everything from frying eggs to molecular cuisine)


  • Shelf C: network conveyor belt (light-speed delivery services)


  • Cash register: only accepts ICNT as a digital currency (no five-currency group payments allowed)



There are no tricks like 'buy a pot, get a stove' here; instead, the kitchen, ingredients, and logistics are packaged into a combinable cloud universe. Developers no longer need to be 'protocol translators'; the same set of APIs can command storage armies, dispatch computing fleets, and deploy communication networks.


Real-world test: not PPT, but real gold and silver


Don't think this is just a pie in the sky; ICN's shopping cart has already been stuffed full by real customers:



  • 1000+ enterprise VIPs: including long-established European banks secretly using Web3 solutions


  • 50 PB online inventory: equivalent to storing all of humanity's photos five times over with some left over


  • 5 million dollars annual revenue: the 'Double Eleven' achievement in the cloud services sector



The best part is their SLA Oracle quality inspection system, which is stricter than Michelin's undercover visits. If nodes cut corners, they get kicked off the supplier list in no time.


Protocol revolution trio


1. Developers' liberation movement


The time spent integrating five protocols used to be enough to develop three new features. After a certain DEX team migrated to ICN, their development speed upgraded from a slow train to a maglev train—the key is that their CTO no longer has to answer ops calls at three in the morning.


2. Barrel becomes an aircraft carrier


Traditional solutions are always dragged down by the slowest protocols; ICN's intelligent collaborative engine allows computing to run alongside storage, and networks to revolve around demand. It's like giving each data packet its own helicopter, taking the fastest route.


3. Cost reduction fun


Merged payments eliminate multi-currency anxiety, resource scheduling eliminates idle waste. A certain NFT platform's actual test showed costs dropped by 28%, and the savings are enough to buy a gold dental grill for CryptoPunks.


The future has arrived, and supports 7 days of no-reason returns


Countdown to the ICN mainnet launch, entering now can still catch up:



  • Tech enthusiasts: using a unified SDK to take on the hackathon prize pool


  • Miners: HyperNode nodes yield 18.4% in the first month, comparable to the 'protocol mining festival'


  • Enterprise clients: 250 PB reserve orders hint at the next wave of cloud computing dividends



As a certain anonymous developer lamented: "It wasn't until I used ICN that I realized I could summon the dragon without gathering all five dragon balls."


While others are making parts, ICN is making systems.
Fragmentation is the past of DePIN; ICN is the future of integration.