ICON Master Roadmap

At the end of 2021, as many were awaiting the announcement of the block height for the highly-anticipated $ICY snapshot, the ICON Foundation dropped even more good news on ICON holders by unveiling yet another blockchain, SNOW, and its native token, $ICZ. This was welcome news for all — another…

While the original “DeFi summer” was only a bit more than a year ago, the rapidity of innovation in the crypto space makes it feel like a lifetime ago. Ever since Compound began offering it’s governance token as an incentive for liquidity providers — the unofficial kickoff of DeFi summer…

With the launch of ICON 2.0 right over the horizon, we’re getting closer to the official launch of BTP, the Blockchain Transmission Protocol. BTP is the keystone of the ICON project’s promise of interoperability, and it’s what many ICX holders have waited years for. Despite that anticipation, BTP remains a…

Back in June, in surprising fashion, ICON announced that the ICON ecosystem would be creating a new Layer 1 blockchain called “ICE.” I wrote a lengthy piece back then explaining the reasons why ICON decided to take this step, which I encourage you to read. …

As we’re merely months away from the official launch of ICON’s premiere technology, the Blockchain Transfer Protocol (BTP), I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what sort of actual impact that BTP will have on the ICX token, and how it could be ICON’s greatest weapon against inflation. …

On June 14th, 2021, the ICON Foundation Twitter account dropped one of the most significant announcements in the history of the project. By now, you’ve probably read through the tweet-thread. If you haven’t, I encourage you to do so. The community’s reaction was overwhelmingly positive — as it should…

Now that we’re about two weeks past the launch of Balanced, we’re able to digest the initial wave of data that the platform has generated. While I’d argue that we’re still in the very early stages and that this data should be taken with a grain of salt, I do…

In the last chapter, we looked at the “automated market makers” (AMMs) that operate on ICON. AMMs work great for exchanging assets that trade at different prices. But what about assets that should — under normal conditions — trade at the same price? The best example of this would be…