Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) Unveils New Roadmap for Decentralized AI and Chain Interoperability

The Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) for the decentralized blockchain network has released a new roadmap for driving decentralized artificial intelligence (DeAI) and blockchain integration into the web3 space.

According to an official statement sent to CryptoPotatoICP unveils its fourth-year Internet Computer Roadmap to celebrate the third anniversary of the launch of its mainnet.

ICP releases new roadmap

The new roadmap summarizes three years of progress on the ICP mainnet and identifies key development areas to position the network as the home of DeAI and the coordination layer for the blockchain industry. Although the new roadmap outlines several pivotal areas, the highlights are DeAI and chain mergers.

The DeAI roadmap describes a path by which AI models are trained to operate on-chain, moving them beyond black boxes that do not provide users with visibility into how their data is being used. ICP's AI smart contracts will be designed to improve inference engines, enhancing AI consistency, reliability and responsiveness.

ICP looks forward to achieving several long-term goals and delivering first-of-its-kind use cases with these new AI models. Some of them include off-the-shelf trained AI models that are traded as non-fungible tokens, AI smart contracts that verify Ethereum smart contract code, and web3 communities that control AI models through decentralized autonomous organizations.

Dominic Williams, Chief Scientist and Founder of Dfinity, creator and major contributor to ICP, said:

“The Internet Computer is the first and only third-generation public blockchain. The mission is to drive the 'Blockchain Singularity', whereby fully decentralized blockchains, over time, become the world's dominant technology set, even running secure artificial intelligence that cannot “Stop it.”

Dealing with liquidity fragmentation

Furthermore, ICP's on-chain integration roadmap aims to facilitate direct interoperability with major blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Ethereum Virtual Machines without intermediaries.

Chain merging would solve the problem of liquidity fragmentation and tribalism in the blockchain space, as ICP smart contracts allow developers to create contracts that span multiple chains by reading from and writing to them.

“The DFINITY Foundation and its outstanding team of cryptographers, research scientists, and engineers are now moving forward with a new roadmap, crafting contributions that will make the network faster, more efficient, and stronger than ever before,” Williams added.

Meanwhile, ICP boasts that it has not experienced any downtime since the launch of its mainnet in May 2021. The network has processed more than three billion blocks and amassed more than $3 billion in total value locked.