Zurich-based non-profit organization DFINITY Foundation is launching the Internet Computer, the world’s first blockchain that runs at web speed with unlimited capacity.
DFINITY plans to turn the public internet into a decentralized global computer that extends the functionality of the internet to a network that provides millions of developers and entrepreneurs with a public compute platform for crypto-based startups and blockchain-ready enterprises.
Supported by 48 independent data centers across North America, Europe, and Asia, the Internet Computer will solve the “blockchain trilemma” by producing a blockchain network that is decentralized, secure, and scalable.
Dominic Williams, DFINITY Chief Scientist and Founder told TechRadar Pro that the project is essentially to extend the internet as we currently take it for granted.
“Creating this revolutionary, permissionless open domain cyberspace that has led to an enormous amount of innovation and growth and all kinds of transformations in the way society works. But the one thing it didn’t do was move how we build systems and…