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Pakistan’s messenger app run entirely on ICP for the nation of Pakistan. The first of many applications Pakistan is going to build on ICP.

https://chatty.pk/

https://x.com/mosesibb/status/2105366269637828697?s=46

Ali Theyab Al-Zuhairi's team surveyed community organizations in countries with limited digital access. 86% had no digital platform or application of their own, despite having clear digital needs when you ask them. 68% are women-led. 98% were still at pilot or prototype stage.

That is the opportunity he wants to move on: the need is already articulated, and the people doing the work are already there.

@AliATheyab @UNDP

With Q4 basically here, I figured I’d put together some of my expectations for ICP and the broader ecosystem over the next few months.

The biggest thing I’m expecting is more movement around AI.

Dominic talked months ago about an AI demo involving a smart contract and said at the time that something would be shown within a couple of weeks. That obviously never ended up happening, so I’m still expecting that thread to resurface at some point. Whether it’s that exact demo or something broader around AI on ICP, I’d be surprised if we got through Q4 without seeing something meaningful there.

I also think there’s a decent chance we see the MULTI DEX come online during Q4. That one is a little more of a “we’ll see,” but it feels like something that could realistically land before the end of the year.

On the adoption side, I think Pakistan and the UNDP are probably going to be some of the more interesting things to watch.

I expect the UNDP to eventually talk more publicly about the five countries they’ve selected to explore ICP infrastructure. I also think the Pakistan national messenger app has a good chance of launching during Q4, along with continued progress on the other apps and government services being built on ICP.

OpenChat should also become much more visible on mobile. I’m expecting the iOS and Android versions to move toward a wider public release during Q4.

Another thing I expect is for Cloud Engines to mature into a more complete product offering. Dominic has talked about OpenSaaS as part of that broader direction, and I think there’s a good chance we see that released or at least become much more concrete during Q4.

Then there are a couple of things I’m much less confident about, but I’m watching them anyway.

The first is the HBAR partnership that was discussed earlier this year. Pierre said months ago that they would provide an update when appropriate. Nothing may happen this quarter, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we finally hear something before the end of the year.

The other is Cardano. Charles Hoskinson mentioned ICP on X and talked about potential collaboration, so I think there’s at least a possibility that something more concrete develops next quarter. Again, that part is pure speculation. There may be no announcement at all.

So overall, my rough Q4 expectations are:

• More AI related announcements or demos
• Possible MULTI DEX launch
• More information from the UNDP about the five selected countries
• Pakistan national messenger launch
• Continued expansion of Pakistan’s ICP based applications
• Wider iOS/Android release for OpenChat
• Cloud Engines becoming more fully featured
• Possible OpenSaaS release
• Potential HBAR update
• Potential Cardano related development

The last two are definitely the most speculative. The rest are things I think have a much stronger chance of seeing meaningful progress before the end of the year.

Curious what everyone else is expecting from Q4, especially anything I may have missed.

Edit: One last thing…..the OISY wallet and the standalone update for World Liberty Finance stablecoin addition a couple weeks ago. I remember responding to the post and saying that’s interesting how it’s a single update for a stablecoin and Pierre liked my comment so that just made me go hmmm. Could be nothing but it’s something I wanted to add because we could see an update to that in some form in Q4.

Edit 2: I forgot one of the biggest points lol….Q4 from my understanding is when we learn about the company that’s listed on the NASDAQ that is apparently using ICP in some way. It’s a company in the healthcare industry apparently.

Today at 11:35 UTC the network's cycle burn rate jumped from about 0.05 to about 0.30 TCycles per second. It held flat for 58 minutes and dropped back in a single step at 12:31 UTC.

This is the third time. The same shape appeared on 28 Aug and 26 Sep, each about one hour, each roughly 1,000 XDR of cycles above baseline.

What we measured.

All of it came from one subnet, pzp6e, the 34-node fiduciary subnet. It accounts for 99% of the excess. Every other subnet was flat.

On that subnet during the hour: message rate flat, instruction rate flat, block rate flat, canister count unchanged. The cycles were not spent on computation.

The ckBTC and ckETH minters show single-digit withdrawals in the window. It was not them.

What it is not.

Nothing on the subnet stopped, slowed, or lost canisters. No extra messages were executed, so it was not a usage spike. Finalisation sat at its normal 175 to 200 blocks per second throughout.

What it looks like.

A canister on pzp6e paying for work that is not instruction-metered. On a 34-node subnet the two things that charge that way are threshold signatures and HTTPS outcalls with large responses. A flat one-hour plateau with a hard stop is the shape of a job with a fixed budget, not the shape of a failure.

What we do not claim.

Which canister paid. Whether the three events share one operator. We will sample the candidates during the next occurrence and report what we find.

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Pakistan's national identity and financial payments system will be integrated into the Pakistan Chatty national app that is built on top of $ICP.

UNDP, with offices in over 170 countries, will help countries replicate what $ICP is doing with Pakistan.

The ICP Cloud Engine is the feature!

Many are not even ready. They are still busy chasing shadows while $ICP is quietly building the infrastructure that will change this space.

$ICP will take this space by surprise.

Figure just took a big step toward useful home robots.

Its Helix 2.5 humanoids tidied rooms, folded towels, and made beds across 30 unfamiliar homes, without training in those homes.

Pretraining on human behavior boosted full task success from 9% to 56%, over 6x higher.

We're so close...

more details:

Zero-shot whole-body autonomy across 30 real homes. Helix 2.5 performs three long-horizon behaviors across 30 unseen homes, with no data collection, fine-tuning, or adaptation in those environments or manipulated objects. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of zero-shot whole-body generalization at this scope on a humanoid.

One foundation model, three whole-body behaviors. A single Index-pretrained base model was adapted to three distinct behaviors spanning locomotion, rigid and deformable manipulation, bimanual coordination, and active perception.

Index pretraining drives generalization. Holding task-specific data, architecture, training, and evaluation fixed, Index pretraining alone increased zero-shot success from 9% to 56%.

Behavior specification got 2x cheaper while its scope expanded 30x. Helix 2.5 used half as much task-specific data as a representative Helix 02 behavior, then generalized that behavior across 30 unseen homes.

A human-to-humanoid robot transfer scaling law. Repeatedly doubling Index pretraining data improved downstream robot-action prediction smoothly enough to forecast our largest run’s loss to four decimal places before training.

So MEXC, the crypto exchange keeps using the ♾️ symbol and people are saying it’s marketing for themselves or its ICP related and someone found this which is an interesting find.