Internet Computer ICP
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CM Profile: Internet Computer
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about ICP, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.22% and 0.30%, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
- Not established
- What an on-chain sale would return on Base and Ethereum. It trades mostly off-chain there, so we do not measure it on-chain.
- One of its chains is not among the 3 we read.
- Whether it can be held without a company. We have no sourced answer yet.
- 4 other questions about what it can do have no written answer. Some may not apply to it.
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold ICP. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 8 October- Price down 10.6% since 1 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell ICP
Selling $100,000 of ICP into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken ICP/USD | 0.22% | $99,775 | 2026-10-08 |
| Coinbase ICP/USD | 0.30% | $99,702 | 2026-10-08 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps ICP on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Internet Computer is
The Internet Computer launched in May 2021, built by the DFINITY Foundation under Dominic Williams. Its ambition is broader than most: not to settle transactions, but to host entire applications — including their web front ends — on-chain, so a site can be served directly from the network with no cloud provider involved.
It works through canisters, which are smart contracts that hold both code and data and can respond to web requests. Fees are inverted relative to most chains: developers pre-pay for computation, so end users can interact with an application without holding any token at all.
Its launch is the part worth knowing. The token debuted at a very high valuation and fell more than ninety percent within months, amid a public dispute over how early allocations and unlock schedules had been communicated. The node machines are also a permissioned set, approved through governance and subject to hardware requirements, which makes the network materially less open to participation than the marketing implies. Its architecture is largely self-contained, so the tooling, wallets and developer ecosystem that grew up around Ethereum mostly do not apply here.
What Internet Computer can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.22% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
ICP can be locked in the network's governance system to vote on proposals and earn rewards, paid in newly created ICP. A lock needs a waiting period of at least 2 weeks to vote, and the wait before the ICP can be taken back out can be set as long as 2 years.
Source: Internet Computer docs: governance · checked 2 October 2026
The Internet Computer runs programs it calls canisters. Each pays for its own computing with cycles, which are made by destroying ICP, so the people using an app pay no fee. Each app is its own code with its own flaws.
Source: Internet Computer docs: cycles · checked 2 October 2026
The supply of ICP moves both ways. New ICP is created to pay the operators of the network's machines and as voting rewards, and ICP is destroyed when it is converted to pay for computing and as transaction fees. Which side is larger depends on how the network is used.
Source: Internet Computer docs: network economics · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where ICP lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Internet Computer data synced 4m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell ICP.