Maria Irene

Maria Irene is a journalist and author covering the Internet Computer Protocol, Bitcoin, DeFi, and the broader decentralised web. She is the founder and editor of LedgerLife.io, an independent, reader-funded publication dedicated to clear-eyed reporting on the ICP ecosystem and Web3 technology. She is the author of two books: Money Without Masters: The Story of Crypto (Amazon) and The World Computer: Decentralised Computing and the Rise of the Internet Computer Protocol (Amazon). Her work focuses on making complex blockchain technology accessible without losing precision or depth.
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ICPay launches on-chain storage alternative to AWS S3

ICPay has launched icBucket, an on-chain storage service designed to give developers, AI agents and decentralised applications an alternative to traditional cloud object storage. Built...

Dvinity DAO opens vote on treasury participation in Menese SNS launch

Dvinity DAO has opened Proposal 19, giving its stakers the opportunity to vote on whether treasury ICP should be used to participate in the...

AI data centre growth faces US power shortfall

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States is facing a growing electricity challenge, with data centre power requirements expected to...

GPT-6 Sol comes to Caffeine for faster app building

Caffeine has added OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol to its lineup of AI models for app development, giving users another option for longer development sessions where...
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Internet Computer expands storage capacity as it targets data-heavy applications

The Internet Computer has quietly expanded its storage capacity, moving from around 50GB per subnet at launch to roughly 2TB today, a forty-fold increase....
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ZenDB brings MongoDB-style queries to Motoko developers on the Internet Computer

Motoko developers building on the Internet Computer now have a new option for handling large datasets with the release of ZenDB, an embedded document...
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Onicai moves to single-token model after community debate

Onicai has confirmed it will move to a single-token structure for its SNS, bringing its ecosystem under one banner with ONICAI as the sole...
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ICP Supply Jumps After Largest Token Mint in 18 Months

More than two million ICP tokens were minted in a single day, marking the largest daily increase in supply over the past 18 months,...
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Dominic Williams Frames ICP’s Cloud Ambitions Around AI-Built Software

Internet Computer founder Dominic Williams has offered a clear explanation for why ICP is targeting the cloud sector, a market that generates around $1...
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icp-py-core v2.1.0 Brings Faster Parsing and Broader Python Support for Internet...

A new release of icp-py-core has landed with version 2.1.0, delivering a range of updates aimed at Python developers building on the Internet Computer....