ICP and AI Agents: Dominic Williams and the AI-Chain Debate

My position as of October 28, 2026 is that the strongest bull case for the Internet Computer now comes from outside crypto. Sam Altman of OpenAI is warning that AI finds deep vulnerabilities faster than anyone can patch them. The Claude Mythos scare showed the tech giants' answer: a few quick patches, then move on. In my opinion the existing internet is cracking under AI, and crypto may crack under AI hacking before quantum ever arrives, because bridges, multisig wallets and oracles are the bolted-on pieces AI finds first. When Altman says the defense model itself has to change, every road I see points toward ICP. ICP exists, and I use it every day.

AI has arrived in stages: text and code, then image and video, and now whole websites on a blockchain for people like me who will run a command line, which is how I rebuilt my own site with Claude Fable and the ICP command line. The next stage is one a regular person can use: prompt a website into existence and get a URL back without leaving the chat. All that stops it is that no AI company has ICP plugged in deeper than a plugin. If OpenAI, Anthropic or Google did, I think they could buy millions of ICP and burn it for cycles, raise subscriptions, collect micropayments and gobble up WordPress. The user pays in dollars and never hears the word ICP: zero crypto friction, the only mass adoption I believe in. Bobby O's videos inspired this outline. With ICP at $2.63 I want to accumulate more; my position, not financial advice.

That argument is the newest of the seven posts here, AI Needs ICP and Sam Altman Knows It: the bigger picture behind the NEAR debate below. If you want help building your business or website on ICP, book a call with me. The earlier posts run oldest to newest; below this opening is a contents list, then all seven posts in full, newest first.

In June 2026 I covered Dominic's post on agentic organizations, on businesses keeping their data on ICP while AI agents build the software around it, in Dominic Williams Just Explained the Future of AI on ICP. Weeks later, in my post on the Sui co-founder, I argued that a Sui talk on AI agents paying described what ICP already does, and that a Sui dapp's front end is not on Sui while ICP serves the web app from canisters.

In my July post on AI exposing crypto's claims, the argument moved to method: AI can read blockchain documentation and check founders' claims against it, which is how I ranked blockchains at CryptoTechCap.com. In August, in my post on Dominic Williams's reply to NEAR's Vadim, I argued that NEAR's AI cloud runs in trusted execution environments off the chain, so the blockchain is not doing the AI.

On October 21, in my post on NEAR's Confidential Intents, a DFINITY PhD engineer found it runs on FAR, a separate permissioned instance with trusted nodes, and NEAR's own privacy policy says operators, solvers and bridge operators can see transaction details. ChatGPT Pro confirmed the criticism, while ICP can run neural networks on chain. NEAR sits at roughly four times ICP's market cap, and in my opinion that gap measures marketing, not technology.

The next day came the accusation. In my post on Dominic Williams's accusation that NEAR took DFINITY technology, I go through his claims: DFINITY's threshold ECDSA work is the key enabling component of NEAR Intents, it was licensed for the Internet Computer only, and NEAR recruited the person DFINITY fired to lead it. NEAR signs on 17 server machines while ICP uses fiduciary subnets of about 50 independent parties. The theft is his accusation, not an established fact; my narrower opinion is that assets reached through another website or wallet keep the trust assumptions ICP removes. Dominic also admitted on-chain AI today cannot satisfy mainstream needs, and he never calls something on chain when it runs off chain, the standard I apply to every AI-chain claim.

Taken together, this saga is bullish for ICP in my opinion; technology does not get fought over unless it is worth having. If NEAR excites you, check whether it can run AI on chain, host a full business on chain, and work without a third party in between. Start with what the Internet Computer is and my look at Caffeine AI; for the strongest case against my position, read the bear case for ICP. I hold ICP, so I am not a neutral source, and none of this is financial advice. For my eyes on your own ICP project, app or token, get a personal video review at jerrybanfield.com/review.

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Every post I have written on this subject is below in full, newest first, each under its own heading.

1. AI Needs ICP and Sam Altman Knows It (October 28, 2026)
2. DFINITY Accuses NEAR of Stealing ICP Technology (October 22, 2026)
3. NEAR Protocol's Latest Confidential Marketing Fits ICP Better (October 21, 2026)
4. Dominic Williams Destroys Vadim's Defense of NEAR Protocol's ICP AI Critique (August 7, 2026)
5. AI Will Expose Crypto’s Lies—and ICP Will Be Left Standing (July 23, 2026)
6. SUI’s Co-Founder Just Proved Why ICP Is the Future (He Doesn’t Even Know It) (June 22, 2026)
7. Dominic Williams Just Explained the Future of AI on ICP (June 15, 2026)

AI Needs ICP and Sam Altman Knows It

From my video published October 28, 2026.

The bigger picture of the internet and AI is looking more and more bullish for Internet Computer Protocol. I'm going to lay out here how AI breaking the internet, and AI wanting to advance what it can offer, is going to be a fantastic opportunity for ICP. If you watch Bobby O's videos, I'll be drawing inspiration from those, refining them into a straight outline, and doing my own take on all of it as well. Because when we just look at crypto, this can all look so frustrating. But in the bigger picture, things look like they're all heading toward ICP, or toward some unknown solution we haven't seen before that sits outside the rest of crypto.

Sam Altman's cybersecurity warning and the Web2 crisis

So let's start with where we're at in the bigger picture of the world, which is Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, giving a cybersecurity warning and highlighting the Web2 crisis. Bobby played a clip of this in his videos. I don't clip other people's videos, but here's what Sam Altman was saying: we can no longer patch all the bugs. This is a huge deal. You've got the CEO of OpenAI saying that AI models are getting exponentially smarter at finding deep software and hardware vulnerabilities that are outside what people even think is possible.

What happened before that, or what got this going, was the Claude Mythos model scare, if you remember it. When that new model came out there was a freakout, and it could have just been some great marketing that backfired a little bit. But what people didn't observe with Mythos is that the CEOs of companies and the internet tech giants just slapped some patches on, made a few quick fixes, and moved on. That is not what was going to work over the long term. What's happening is that the existing infrastructure for the internet is starting to crack under the pressure of AI.

And cryptos may crack under AI hacking before they break to quantum. In fact, that seems a lot more likely at this point, especially when you consider all the things built around crypto that AI could break: bridges, multi-sig wallets, and oracles. There are so many opportunities for ICP to succeed because everything else is in a position to fail. I know the current structure of the internet is not working even just for hosting my own website at jerrybanfield.com, and ICP is addressing so many of those things at once. When you have Sam Altman saying that we need to completely switch the defense model, that we need a new kind of defense shield, all roads are pointing toward Internet Computer Protocol or some other solution that doesn't seem to exist anywhere else, which is certainly possible. I make sure to include that caveat every time: any other solution is theoretical. ICP does exist, and I'm actually using it today. That head start is also why I keep saying ICP is running out of time before the AI giants copy it.

So this is why it's important to not just watch crypto crap, because the whole world of crypto is, in my view, one of the biggest scams in the world. I know this sounds very repetitive if you've seen Bobby's videos, but I watch all of his videos, and these are the same kinds of things I'm thinking about. These are the same reasons I invested in ICP, as I explained in why I invested my life savings into ICP: it's the infrastructure. What we need is a better internet, and ICP is very much needed for that. Even if other solutions come out, ICP has already carved out a niche and is already available right now.

Rebuilding the internet with AI on Web3 and the four stages of AI

Where this really gets good is thinking, okay, well, how are we going to fix this? Bobby's thesis is that the internet is going to be rebuilt with AI on Web3. I'd certainly like to see that happen as an ICP holder, and I'm doing it for real. That's what makes his thesis so real to me: I've actually done it. I took my old website and rebuilt it with AI on ICP using Claude Fable and the ICP command line interface, which I walked through in how I built and host my website on ICP with AI. I'll get to what that looks like day to day further down.

But what Bobby brought up, and it's such an amazing point that I hadn't thought of before, is how the currents combine. Put these two things together. First, the Web2 infrastructure is ready to collapse at any time, and it will probably break and crack over time until at some point there may be a panic, and then everybody rebuilds on ICP. Second, you combine that with AI companies needing to monetize. So look at the four stages of AI and the business bottleneck. I also put this information through Gemini's most advanced public model with high thinking turned on, and this is what it sees too. So you've got Bobby seeing this, it's exactly what I'm doing for real, and this is how the AI itself sees things playing out. We're all in the right position here. It makes me want to accumulate even more ICP if I can, especially now that the price dumped to $2.63, ideally without borrowing more money. We'll see how I can get all that put together, and if you want that story, go to jerrybanfield.com and follow my vlogs channel on a daily basis. That's my own position, not financial advice.

So let's look at the product offerings from AI. You can see the products are available in four stages. Stage one is text generation. That was the initial ChatGPT model. It can write, and it can create code, and that's what the AI does for me every day; I even have it generate images and video games. Stage two, which is where most people are at, is image and video generation. You see AI images all over the place. Something like a third of the Shorts on YouTube are AI, and somewhere around half or more of the video on platforms like Facebook and Instagram is already AI video.

But the question is, where do we go from here? I had never thought of this question before. This is why, if you listen to the right people, like Bobby, you're going to get smarter, and if you listen to the wrong people, you're going to get dumber. This is something I never thought of, and I love anyone who can say things I've never thought of. Where's the next stage? Right now, what I'm doing on my website at jerrybanfield.com, where you can schedule a call with me, is a stage ahead; somebody just bought a call before I filmed this. The next stage is cutting out the command line interface.

What I'm actually doing with Claude Fable, the ICP command line and my games

Because right now, here's the reality of what I'm doing, and it isn't for most people. I have Ubuntu Linux installed on my desktop PC, and I have Claude Fable running in there. I dump my new video files into it, and it cranks those out as blog posts and cranks out the metadata. I've created video games on my website at jerrybanfield.com through AI the same way, as I shared in how I made my own game with AI hosted on ICP. But the problem for most people is that you're not going to get into the command line interface like me.

The first game I think most of you should check out on my website is Top Jerry Banfield Fan. You can buy it with ICP, and you can buy it with a credit card. When you play the game, it has a leaderboard. It draws questions about my life from a bank of 1,700 questions about my life that I created through AI. And this is all on the ICP blockchain. Nick S has dominated the leaderboard with 152 questions correct, at 61% accuracy. This is difficult. I'm only at 88% myself. It's amazing technology that you can even do this. I'm working on my own version of Duke Nukem 3D, but it'll be Jerry Banfield 3D. And I'm selling shirts, like the bling shirt I wore while recording this, which is a limited run and is on my website as well, along with my books as an author here in St. Petersburg. So this is what AI can do. By walking through my website, in addition to the sales pitch that comes with it, I hope it also shows you where we're at with AI.

So right now we have text and code, image and video, and the AI can directly interface with the ICP blockchain via the ICP CLI, the command line, if you set all that up. But setting all that up means getting an independent seed phrase, having multiple wallets and principals, and putting ICP in there, and DFINITY just made it so you can pay with a credit card, which is awesome. All of that is too much for regular users. Bobby is just brilliant in pointing out that the next stage is making this super easy, because I'm already operating at a stage ahead of where most everybody else is with AI. The next stage is to allow regular people to do what I'm doing and make it easier. Regular people are not going to do all the stuff I just described, like running the command line interface in Ubuntu. For regular people, that's too hard. They can go generate an image, but they're not going to do all this to get their website up. But they want to. You want that. They want to.

The next stage: a URL straight out of the prompt

So the next stage is doing what I'm doing, but where you don't even have to leave the interface. Imagine it. Right now I've got ChatGPT working on titles for my vlog. Imagine if I could just prompt it to crank out a website for me and it would shoot back a URL. That's what you can't do with AI right now. You can't have it just crank out a URL. Even if you use some of these builders like Replit or Lovable, it falls short. I have a friend, Angela Hutchinson, who was building on Replit or Lovable, one of those. And it just sucked, because the AI would build everything, but you couldn't build something advanced like my website, something you could trust to take payments, including ICP payments, hold all the data, and build out things like games that work in browser interfaces and go back and forth. It's just too basic, it's too insecure, and it's too expensive. It costs $50 a month. She had one website that I was able to use Claude Fable to crank out, copy, and throw on the ICP blockchain. I spent less than $10 in ICP cycles, and her website should be up for years. If she wants any changes, I just go into Claude and say, change this, and it changes it. It's super easy. It's like, oh, just give me these API keys, and it brings in all the other stuff she uses and plugs all of it in.

The next step of AI is making it so someone like Angela could just prompt the AI, OpenAI or whoever, to do the same thing, get a URL out, and map the URL straight to a domain name. That's the next stage. But what's stopping that stage? What's stopping it is that you don't have ICP built straight into ChatGPT. You have a plugin now, which makes it easier. But imagine if you had cloud engines that were spun up by OpenAI and by Claude. Then they could have everything set up directly, all under their own control, and they could fire straight from the prompt environment. It could directly update the website and map a URL.

And the user wouldn't have to leave the ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini interface to do any of it.

Why Google never shipped its own AI website builder

Bobby brought up another great point. He asked, why did companies like Google, which have huge hosting infrastructure, not put out their own AI platform for this? Why didn't they put out their own AI builder? Because they could see it would be a nightmare and it wouldn't be worth doing. Probably somebody thought to do it and got shot down. It's like, this is useless, we need a better setup before we can put that out there. Google is extremely strict about putting out upgrades because they want everything to work perfectly, they have a huge number of users, and they have a big brand. So you can see why they wouldn't put out some crappy AI builder like the ones they've got now.

So the next stage we're going to from here is where regular people are going to be able to do that, with a website that's fully on blockchain. And right now, the only thing I see that you could do that with reliably is ICP.

Cloud engines, ICP payments and crushing WordPress and ClickFunnels

When you have companies that could just set up massive cloud engines and plug this stuff in, not only can they offer bigger value for their subscription and charge more, they can steal entire huge markets, gobbling up all kinds of web hosting business off apps like WordPress. Then once you've got apps and websites built out like this, you can start operating online businesses autonomously. When other people have built on the same infrastructure and you've got ICP payments everywhere, agents can easily go around and make payments. Now the AI companies can have everybody using their subscription to interact with their whole business and the entire internet. You can cut out gigantic things like WordPress and ClickFunnels. You could crush entire industries, which is a big part of why online businesses will love the Internet Computer. And all they need right now is ICP. That's the missing piece. You've got the plugin, but they need a deeper integration, like a cloud engine or a more direct, easy, straight-in application interface with the blockchain, to cut out the command line. Because imagine if you could do what I can do without having to use the command line. How many people would do it? So many. There is so much money to be made.

Not just that, but once AI builds everything out, AI can start taking a whole bunch of money off the businesses that are built and running online, even if it's only a small percentage in micropayments. That, to me, is the monetization of the future. If you look at the existing internet, it's wrecked, and it was not built for this. The way we go forward is to rebuild the internet. We've got AI to build it. We've got the ICP blockchain to build it on. And all we need now, and we are so close, is one company. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini: one of them puts in ICP.

AI companies buying millions of ICP and burning it for cycles

And here's the kicker. They buy the ICP and burn it. The regular user just pays them. They buy a million, two million, five million ICP. They burn all of it for cycles. Then they sit there and make money off the user subscriptions, and they can raise the price of subscriptions higher and higher to justify the increased value they're giving. Then they collect micropayments, however they want to set that up in detail, straight off everything the user makes in their business, like royalties. You could rebuild things like video streaming and music distribution. You could rebuild the whole system this way. And these AI companies would just take over the world then. There's so much money to be made.

That's the basic way our entire system has been built now. You get investors to allow these huge companies to be built, to operate at a loss, to crush all competition. Then you get people in the door with insane amounts of value. Once you've got them in there, you absolutely drain them, and they're stuck there. This is the perfect setup for all of that.

And when you look at ICP right now, it's in a position where, and this is what's so cool about it, nobody even has to hear about the ICP token. Whether it's OpenAI with ChatGPT or it's Claude, if they plug in this feature, whoever plugs it in first is likely to get a big jump on their competition. And then the competition is likely to roll it out immediately afterward, because they'll see who did that, ask how they did it, and figure out how to do it themselves. In some theoretical scenario, which I hope will play out, you could even have companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic buying up millions and millions of ICP and having it sit there to pay for all the cycles that would need to be burned so they could host all this stuff, which is the question I explored in will AI buy all the ICP off exchanges. Or they could spin all of it up, which I think they probably would, on cloud engines, so they'd have much more control over it and could control the costs. Then you'd have huge amounts of money coming in and cloud engines getting burnt through. To me this is an absolutely incredible setup.

Zero crypto friction is how mass adoption actually happens

I skipped way ahead on my outline by describing my website early, so you could get a taste of what the future looks like and why this matters so much to me. What I already explained there is zero crypto friction. The way we get mass adoption in the future is never, ever going to be people buying Ethereum and swapping coins on layer twos. Mass adoption is not going to happen like that. It's going to happen where people can pay in dollars, or South Korean won, or pesos, or whatever else you all are using, in their own native currency, and ICP gets burned without them having any idea about it. That's exactly what we're looking for here, and it's the case I made in crypto mass adoption will only happen through ICP. I hope I've made all of this very clear.

Calls, reviews, games and everything else on my website

So I have calls. If you want to meet up and talk, schedule a call with me. Or I have reviews. If you want me to look at your business and see if I think it could be rebuilt, buy a review, and I'll take up to an hour of my time to look at everything you send me via email and then get back to you. If you want to compete on the Top Fan game, grab that. If you want a quick Cameo, like a birthday shout-out or something, grab that. The bling shirts, beautiful bling dots with glitter front and back, are a limited run, so grab those while they're there. My life story and recovery are in Speaker Meeting 2017. My time as a police officer is in Officer Banfield. If you want a signed book, grab that and I'll mail you a signed book. My favorite shirt is there too, and you can get that if you want it. And if you're into crypto, try my Meme Coin Dynasty game. It's another game I made with AI straight on the blockchain. Its leaderboard shows what players have reached, with somebody holding the max resist spot, and I actually got my own dynasty up to $300 million. Everything I just named is in the store.

Man, I wish I could do that with my JERRY and my JBBJ meme coins. Although I am really excited to see that JBBJ just went up, with the market cap climbing 30-some percent overnight. So JBBJ just had a really nice pump, especially against the ICP price, and it has actually held up better than the ICP price. Not financial advice. I hold JBBJ. I hold JERRY. And I invite you to try out my website, see what a Web3 business feels like, and see that you're ahead, that you're in the future. If you want the rest of the story on where I think all of this is going, it's in my ICP Crypto playlist. All right, peace. See y'all later.

DFINITY Accuses NEAR of Stealing ICP Technology

From my video published October 22, 2026.

Dominic Williams Says NEAR Intents Was Built on Stolen DFINITY Technology

The drama I covered in yesterday's post on NEAR's Confidential Intents has escalated. Dominic Williams, the founder of DFINITY, which launched and is the primary foundation behind ICP, has accused NEAR of taking proprietary DFINITY technology and then basing Intents on it. What he said is that much is missing from Intents, but the key enabling component turns out to be stolen proprietary DFINITY tech. I'm stunned.

Now, before we get much deeper into this, you might wonder, okay, why does this matter? Is this just more drama? Who cares? This is showing you behind the curtain of what is going on in crypto. These are things that are out in the open and look pretty easily verifiable. Put Dominic's post into an AI and almost everything, except the exact DFINITY employee involved, is pretty easy to find. And my thought is this. If you can see this happening on the surface, that you've got crypto foundations stealing technology from DFINITY, doing anything they can to rush it to market, then trying to roll it back, and then getting all kinds of pumps to their coin price based off of stolen technology and a blockchain that is fundamentally just trying to be a hub aggregating Web2 things together, if you can see that this is happening out in public and easily visible, then what's going on behind the scenes? What's going on behind the scenes that is successfully being kept secret from you? The financial engineering, the intentional buying of coins to make them go up, the intentional pushing of ICP's price down. I'd say that if you can see this happening right out in public, what's going on privately is much uglier, which is a big part of why I say crypto market caps are a distraction.

And this is, to me, bullish for ICP. Because when your technology is so good that the things made by employees who worked there five years ago are being stolen, and then desperately used to launch NEAR Intents, which isn't even that good compared to all the functionality ICP has, that tells you something. Maybe in little isolated ways the tech has a tiny use case, but when you compare it to what Internet Computer Protocol can do, there's very little reason I see to use NEAR for anything. And I will point to concrete evidence of that, because I'm not big into speculative claims. I was going to say, unless it's my meme coin, then I'll make some speculative claims.

I'm grateful I've sold five of these coins in the last two days, the Internet Computer Protocol JBBJ coins that also have Jerry Banfield on the back. This is the first edition on my website, and there will not be any more editions just like this, so these are limited. So here's proof of the technology, that ICP can do this, and here's the first coin listing. NEAR Protocol can't get close to doing anything remotely like hosting an entire website directly on the Internet Computer Protocol blockchain. NEAR cannot host websites on blockchain. The best it can resort to is stealing pieces of technology and desperately doing anything to get the marketing.

So that's the bigger picture of what's going on. Many of these other coins don't even have anything worthwhile. They're saying anything and doing anything to get their price to go up, because there's no future and there's no use for the technology. But NEAR Protocol is actually trying to act like there's some use for the technology, when I personally don't see any real-world utility for the vast majority of it.

What Dominic Williams Says NEAR Took: Threshold ECDSA and Chain-Key Cryptography

So let's look at Dominic's post. On May 16, 2021, he announced on X the work to integrate Internet Computer with Ethereum using chain-key cryptography, and he followed it with a Medium post. The industry widely reported on the work that month. That was when ICP hype was at the maximum. The price had launched to a market cap higher than Ethereum is today, which is insane. No crypto should launch that high, and it's up to the crypto exchanges what the price is set at, not ICP. Then the relevant technical work began, and NEAR took a subset of it. DFINITY assembled a team of cryptographers to develop the novel cryptography required, because it was difficult work, non-trivial, difficult. The first relevant paper DFINITY published was on the security of ECDSA with additive key derivation and pre-signatures. Now, who wants to go read that right now? This paper describes the algorithm that NEAR took. The scheme enables cooperating computers to create a public ECDSA key, for example an Ethereum or Bitcoin address.

Now, what is special about this technology is that you can have nodes work together and sign transactions without a private key ever being totally available anywhere. The nodes all have sharded pieces of the key, but they can work together to sign a transaction and assemble the signature without the private key ever existing in one place. That is really special, a major innovation made by Internet Computer Protocol. And some of the innovations DFINITY has made and published on ICP are so far ahead that you're not even going to see people copying them for years still, which is part of why I keep saying ICP is running out of time before the AI giants copy it. They're that far ahead of the game.

Dominic writes that their work enables signing to take place three times faster than otherwise possible without a loss of security, which is amazing. Chain abstraction and intents needed such a scheme to exist. And right now there are 17 computers, apparently, on NEAR. Meanwhile, Internet Computer runs this on decentralized fiduciary subnets, which are effectively a new form of blockchain that use chain-key technology to derive additional security from NNS governance. Those subnets are comprised of nodes from about 50 independent parties. Dominic's post originally said eight servers, and as I found when I researched it, and as Dominic has since updated, there are actually 17 server machines on NEAR. So the key component NEAR took cannot enable high-performance, decentralized signing on its own. It's like they've taken the technology and made some ghetto version of it. And then people are buying NEAR, NEAR is marketing this, and yet most people have no idea that this is how business is being done underneath it. If they actually wanted this to be decentralized, then they'd need to do more, either steal more from Internet Computer's designers or try to research it on their own. Plus, if you can do all this stuff but you can't host the full-stack website that is behind it on the chain, I would question whether it's even genuinely useful.

DFINITY Was "Naturally Shocked" by NEAR's Chain Abstraction Post

There's more depth to this, so let's skip ahead to what happened. Dominic writes that they, as in DFINITY, were naturally shocked and disheartened by the appearance of a NEAR blog post announcing chain abstraction, which addressed exactly the same challenge and opportunity. They took the announcement at face value, and they were not aware of what was behind it on NEAR's side, which wasn't a decentralized ecosystem. So this is what's happening. NEAR is talking about chain abstraction and writing about how it's the next frontier for Web3, but DFINITY has already deployed this technology on Internet Computer Protocol. The things you can do with chain-key Bitcoin and chain-key Ethereum, I've personally used these, and I've moved Bitcoin and ICP, tens of thousands of dollars, back and forth to swap. It's incredible what this tech can do and how cheap and easy it is to use. And then NEAR is trying to do ghetto versions of this on their own chain, but you can't actually have the entire app fully on the chain, so it's not even trustworthy anyway.

And this is crypto. This is why almost everybody talks about price and superficial marketing narratives, and it's why I've argued ICP deserves its low price without proper marketing. Because when you dive into the details, DFINITY is so far ahead on technology that other people have to steal from them. Other foundations need to steal from them, then put that technology out there and try to market it as their own, as some big thing they've done. When you look into the details, it's ridiculous.

The Person DFINITY Fired in 2021, Eight Servers Versus 16, and NEAR's Trust Assumptions

Dominic continues that at some point they became aware NEAR had recruited the person DFINITY fired in 2021 to lead this work. I guess they didn't have much cryptography experience, and they underestimated the threat. And Dominic says NEAR is not worried about decentralization with this. Eight servers versus 16, maybe 16 is better, but how exactly is 16 enough for this? Or 17? I hope so. NEAR Intents uses chain abstraction powered by DFINITY's proprietary tech to custody assets on different chains. But again, if it holds the assets on the chain, but you have to use another website or another wallet to actually access the chain, you're minimizing the value of all of this being on the blockchain itself. So I would say even putting this technology on NEAR is mostly useless, because there are so many trust assumptions you have to make that you don't have to make on ICP. If you're just on ICP and running your whole website on ICP, like I run mine, then you don't have to stick another third party in the middle that you have to trust.

Meanwhile, according to Dominic, NEAR has stolen DFINITY's proprietary work, which was licensed for Internet Computer only, and they beat Internet Computer to the punch with their chain abstraction and intent architectures. Although ICP has so much more in the rest of the blockchain at this point. NEAR is just trying to get narrative and get attention, when in the bigger picture this doesn't matter that much for NEAR. It's easy, and it's like Sui coming out and saying, we broke the transaction record, out of the context that Sui's blockchain sucks and can barely do anything, which makes the record useless. It's like, okay, you've got a bicycle wheel on an electric motor spinning around really fast. That's a lot different than building an entire electric car and saying you broke some speed record.

Demoralizing for the DFINITY Team, the $3.8 Million NEAR Intents Exploit, and Legal Action

Dom says this is demoralizing and disruptive for the DFINITY team. Yeah, I can see that. It's the same as when people steal my videos and then sit there and say as many nasty things as they can imagine, while adding very little of their own content or opinion besides "Jerry sucks," then publish it and get people to watch that instead of my content. I understand that. This is a good opportunity, though, to see what's going on. NEAR has pumped the price of their coin a whole bunch, and they sold the system to the world as if they developed it and didn't infringe on anybody else. But Dominic is suggesting that you can't just steal proprietary tech. Criminal and civil laws prevent this. DFINITY and ICP holders have been harmed. There's further reading on this at the bottom of his post, and further down is where Dom talks about the 16 nodes.

And remember a little while ago when NEAR Intents got exploited for $3.8 million? The team intervened and pressured the hacker into returning the funds. Decentralization, until you need someone to save you. And then there needs to be a resolution. Are we going to take this to court? We shall see. You can't take tech. It is against the laws. A commenter, CryptoMax, asked whether DFINITY is considering legal action, and my answer is, for sure.

So this is where we're at. It has come down to cryptos that are so desperate, doing anything for their marketing, that they're willing to steal technology. Again, this is what Dominic has said. So I asked ChatGPT about it. I gave it Dominic's post.

ChatGPT Fact-Checks Dominic Williams's Post on NEAR

The AI went through and verified that, as far as it can see, this looks accurate as well. So Dominic said this, and he is probably one of the people I trust the most in crypto, and the AI verified most of what he said. But the AI was so good that it also pointed out NEAR Protocol did have 17 machines instead of eight. So AI is turning into a pretty good fact checker, and I will spell that one carefully.

So this, to me, is good. It's good that we've got this information out there, because now this is going out to NEAR community members, and it's like, look, you should see what's going on behind the scenes. This is not even your tech. If you look at it, you should see what's going on behind the scenes. This is good publicity, because you can see where the source of the technology is coming from. And some people say, well, it doesn't help, tearing down NEAR. But if people are stealing your technology and putting it out as their own, and your former employees are working on it for other foundations, then you see where the source of the innovation in crypto is coming from. And some NEAR holders are able to see where the technology really is and start to see the truth, that if you're holding NEAR and you're bullish on NEAR, then you might want to research ICP. Maybe I need to lead my videos out with this in the future.

If You're Excited About NEAR, Look Into the Details

If you're excited about NEAR, look into the details. Can NEAR do AI on chain? No, and I've explained why ICP is the only real AI coin in crypto. Can NEAR host a website on chain, at least anything besides a hello world, absolute basic page? Even that is questionable. Can NEAR host a full business? Can NEAR host a full business system online? No, while ICP is taking on the entire tech industry. Can NEAR do anything better than steal from DFINITY at this point and try to claim it as their own? Not that I can see. Does having third-party stuff between you and the blockchain, and requiring it, make the whole blockchain useless? In my opinion, yes. Especially when you already have Bitcoin and Ethereum with massive branding. And at the same time, NEAR's market cap is four times ICP's. So if you like NEAR, you'll love ICP, and I've laid out why I think it's worth selling a whole crypto portfolio for ICP. I used to have NEAR. I dumped it when I learned about ICP and went all in on Internet Computer Protocol. So I feel you.

Learn More About ICP on My Giant ICP Page

I hope this is useful. If you want to learn more about ICP, I've got a giant ICP page on jerrybanfield.com. You can schedule a call from it, it has the basics of ICP explained, and it has posts showing how I built my entire website with Claude Fable directly on the ICP blockchain. I've got a meme coin, JBBJ, with a tiny little market cap, and my first coin is linked there on the ICP page too.

If you want to talk crypto with me, you can schedule a call, and you can book a bunch of calls in advance so that you've got them there whenever you want them. And if you want me to look at something, you can send me a coin to look at or a screenshot, and I will do a video review, putting up to 60 minutes of my time into reviewing what you send me on my review service. If you want a cameo or a shout-out, I've got that. If you want to see if you're the top Jerry Banfield fan, I've got a game for that. I've also got a 20-minute call.

The gold satin shirt just sold out, so I need to take that off the site. But the shirt I'm wearing is still available. If you want to buy this exact yellow shirt, it's in my store and I will send it to you. It's a medium. It costs a hundred and some dollars new, so I'm barely selling it above cost, but some of you like a great souvenir, to be like, Jerry wore this in his video. For more on all of this, there's my ICP Crypto playlist, and I hope to see you again soon, especially on jerrybanfield.com.

NEAR Protocol's Latest Confidential Marketing Fits ICP Better

From my video published October 21, 2026.

NEAR's $6 Billion Market Cap Versus What Dominic Williams Found

Internet Computer Protocol is the truth and the best technology in crypto, and it will triumph in time. Meanwhile, fake chains like NEAR, which do actually exist and have real technology, run marketing that is dramatically overstated, and I would argue it is false advertising for what the technology can actually do. Dominic Williams today has just called out NEAR Protocol for more misleading marketing, and all the while NEAR Protocol is rising in price and sitting at a much bigger market cap than ICP. Most people would look at that and think, well, NEAR is doing so much better than ICP. The price action is better. It has more marketing. If you looked at the two of them side by side, NEAR Protocol with its $6 billion market cap and $5.34 price today, and compared that to Internet Computer Protocol, most people on the surface would say NEAR is doing so much better. It has about four times ICP's market cap. But let's look at the truth, because market caps are a distraction, and let's see what Dominic is saying here.

Dominic says, this is crazy. He asked one of DFINITY's PhD engineers to look into NEAR Confidential Intents, wondering how they designed their system, and he posted the answer unredacted, word for word. Everything the engineer found out about the privacy claims and Confidential Intents is so bad that it seems almost comical, and he could not believe what he was seeing. Apparently the whole thing runs on a completely separate instance of the program, which is called FAR, the opposite of NEAR, cute, and that instance is permissioned to operate. The entire confidentiality claim rests on the fact that it is a permissioned chain and the nodes are simply trusted to keep things private. There does not seem to be any deep technology behind it, it does not seem to be open source, and the entities running the nodes are not publicly known.

This is the absurdity. You have NEAR Protocol coming out acting like Confidential Intents is some big deal, like they have innovated something. And I'm thinking, okay, what I would like is some verification of this from somebody besides Dominic Williams, because this is not the first time Dominic has gone back and forth with NEAR. Well, I have a $200 a month ChatGPT Pro subscription, so I said, why don't you look into this? I could not figure out how to zoom into the result, so I copied and pasted it into Microsoft Word to read it with you. This is what AI is so helpful for. You can start fact-checking some of these things and trying to see if people are telling you the truth or not, and the AI checks the actual documentation.

Fact-Checking NEAR Confidential Intents With ChatGPT Pro

The AI says its research confirms the central technical criticism in Dominic Williams' post. In fact, NEAR's own documentation, and how many people in crypto actually read the documentation, acknowledges the key trade-off. However, it says Dominic's post goes a little bit further than the available evidence. The AI is being a little critical of Dominic here. I agree with Dom's post. There is technically some technology there, but I do not think it is that important, especially when you consider this: Confidential Intents uses permissioned validators. In a statement dated May 27, 2026, NEAR states that Confidential Intents runs on a private shard operated by independent permissioned validators. Transactions execute outside the public blockchain. The shard has no public RPC endpoint and no block explorer. They use practical Byzantine fault tolerance consensus, and I don't know what that means. A bridge connects the private environment to the NEAR mainnet. Most importantly, the AI says it is a trust-minimized model, but not a fully trustless one, and that is a significant admission. Confidentiality is achieved by restricting who participates rather than relying on cryptographic privacy. That does not seem like a good system for privacy.

FAR is a separate blockchain instance. So this is not even happening on the actual NEAR blockchain. It is some separate product. You end up with these different environments: a smart contract on the public NEAR blockchain, a smart contract on a private NEAR fork, FAR validators that are permissioned, private authenticated access, a public treasury and a private proof. Skipping down, the AI concludes that Dominic's engineer was correct about the separate network.

Then NEAR's latest privacy policy reveals an even more important limitation. Their privacy policy, which probably no NEAR holder has ever read, talks about how the intents technology retains access to transaction information. The operators of the confidential network can see the transaction details. Well, that is real confidential, isn't it? And not just the operators. The solvers and the bridge operators can all see the transaction details. Well, that's great. It can be disclosed to law enforcement, compliance providers, and blockchain analytics companies. That is real confidential, isn't it? Basically everyone you would want to keep out of it is in it. That's nice. It is not a true privacy protocol, like I talked about in yesterday's video on ICP as the top privacy coin.

Not to mention that it could all be compromised by validator collusion. This is right in their terms of service. It is literally sitting there in the open, and that is how the AI found it. Their marketing calls it confidentiality, but it can be compromised by validator collusion, software vulnerabilities, and failures involving the underlying infrastructure, and the operators, solvers, and bridge operators all have access to it. So why are we here? Why are we calling this confidential? This is ridiculous. This is the state of crypto, where things are so fraudulent and so misleading that it is like nobody outside of ICP is even making an effort to be honest or to do a good job.

My Website Runs on ICP, and NEAR Could Not Host It

The crazy thing is that NEAR is worth four times what ICP is. It has much more branding and marketing than ICP does, and ICP's weak marketing is a big part of why its price is where it is. The fact is that ICP's technology is so vastly superior that I am able to use it to host my website every day. It is not even close. It is not even a fantasy for NEAR at this point.

My website has direct messages and a built-in social network attached to any product you buy in the store. Take the Top Jerry Banfield Fan game. Somebody just bought this. It is $9 and has 1,700 questions about Jerry Banfield. If you want me to make a video for you, that is on there. A 20-minute call is on there. There is my first coin, which has an Internet Computer Protocol side. Two people have bought this one already. It says Internet Computer Protocol, it has a picture of me, and then it says ICP and my meme coin. This is on my website, and I am able to sell it, with people paying in ICP or paying with credit cards. And the shirt I am wearing right now is in my store just above cost, just barely above cost, and it is a $100 shirt.

This website is not something that could be hosted on NEAR Protocol. So I am provably using the technology on ICP to do something NEAR cannot do, which is exactly what I showed in how I built and host my site on ICP with AI. The more you dig into NEAR versus ICP, the marketing versus the reality, it is just constant lying. That is not to say every single thing NEAR says is a lie, although it certainly feels like it when you read into things like this. And then people are critical when Dominic Williams calls this out. It is a joke. It is a bad joke. And there are all the people losing money investing in NEAR and thinking they are getting something.

So I asked ChatGPT to dig more into ICP versus NEAR, and let's look at the bigger picture. The AI asks: why is a blockchain focused heavily on coordinating external services valued at four times a blockchain capable of hosting the applications themselves? This is the AI doing its own research and figuring all of this out. The AI is going to crush crypto, because AI is able to cut through the instant nonsense in the market. It cuts through the marketing of something like what NEAR Protocol is doing and instantly says, nope, according to their terms of service. It reads the documentation, which almost nobody in crypto does, and instantly cuts through it. And there is the key question. Why is a blockchain focused on coordinating external services, which is what NEAR Protocol does and what Dominic Williams and his engineer are talking about, valued at four times a blockchain capable of hosting applications itself, which nothing else in crypto can do? Market capitalization is clearly not proof of technological superiority.

vetKeys, Mensa Protocol, and Where NEAR's AI Actually Runs

To start off, I asked the AI to go hard on calling this out, because I am so tired of this. Privacy is the biggest discrepancy between the headline and the fine print. NEAR's marketing says confidential cross-chain transactions, protection from front-running, and institutional-grade financial privacy. What a joke. Its new NEAR business product is marketed as a confidential treasury solution, and this just came out yesterday. The AI is calling this nonsense on its own. What actually happens? Confidential Intents executes on a separate permissioned network with restricted public visibility. Its own legal disclosures say the intents technology can access and retain information, that basically everybody involved in the infrastructure can see all of it, and that it can be shared. That is literally what it says. This is so nuts. The biggest discrepancy between the headline and the fine print is the newest thing they are offering, the newest thing they are marketing, the newest reason the zombies are buying NEAR. NEAR go up. Just use the AI. It is here to help you cut through the massive amounts of human-manufactured lying. It is crazy. As the AI puts it, this is a very different trust model from keeping information cryptographically inaccessible.

Meanwhile, ICP has vetKeys, a live threshold cryptography system. And yesterday or the day before, ICP just had Mensa Protocol come out, Shielded ICP. This is true privacy, where not even the node providers themselves can get into it. This is the real version of what NEAR Protocol pretends to be. This is what they are pretending they can do, and on ICP it is actually private. Every transaction is private, even from the node providers running the network. You cannot even open the machine up, look inside, and find them. Nobody can get hold of this. It is pure cryptographic proofs generated in your browser, not a trust-me-bro that NEAR has got your back. ICP's comparable technology is so far ahead that the AI is all over it. You can hide your trading activity from the public with NEAR Confidential Intents. Great. ICP's vetKeys is so vastly superior.

Here is the second one. NEAR markets itself as an AI blockchain, but where does the AI actually run? NEAR calls itself a purpose-built blockchain for AI, what a joke, promoting private inference, autonomous agents, and verifiable computing. Its own AI website explains that inference uses Intel TDX and NVIDIA confidential computing in the cloud. That's great. It calls itself the blockchain for AI agents, what a joke, and the AI inference runs on GPU-equipped servers in trusted execution environments, accessed through conventional HTTPS API calls at cloud-api.near.ai. Not on the blockchain. You have to trust whoever is running this, probably the foundation. They have control of it and you access it through their API. Then you have to deploy Docker containers to their cloud, and it verifies the hardware attestation. That is not the same as actually having it out there on chain. The AI model itself is not being executed by consensus across NEAR's public validators. It is not running on the blockchain. Trusted execution environments do have some hardware isolation, but ICP's environment lets you build full-stack apps and fire out a URL just by talking to AI. That is how I built my website.

ICP Runs the LLM on the Network; NEAR AI Runs on GPU Cloud Servers

The distinction is night and day compared to what ICP can do. ICP can run an entire native LLM, which is why I say ICP is the only real AI coin in crypto. With NEAR AI it is confidential computing on GPU servers. Where is the AI compute being done? Is it trustworthy? What sits between the AI compute and the blockchain? Then you have to go through this external API. Another example: with the NEAR AI service you are relying on hardware attestation, while ICP's model is built on the network itself. It is so vastly superior, because you just cannot trust anything that is happening with NEAR AI when it is all on this third-party stuff. In my opinion, you might as well use Claude or ChatGPT instead of screwing around with NEAR AI, because ICP is what provides a real use case. NEAR calls itself an AI blockchain, but its AI models are running on GPU cloud infrastructure outside the public blockchain. That is literally the opposite of the marketing. It calls itself an AI blockchain, but its AI models run on GPU cloud infrastructure outside the public NEAR blockchain.

ICP has an actual on-network LLM service, and DFINITY's AI nodes are coming. If they actually get AI nodes running on the blockchain, it is game over for the rest, and that is why I keep saying ICP is running out of time before the AI giants copy it. These are two different kinds of infrastructure. NEAR can have tokens on the blockchain, and then it has stuff that is not on the blockchain set up to interact with the blockchain. You cannot even read it. You cannot even really say the blockchain is coordinating the services, because some human beings, some software, and a team off the blockchain have to coordinate all of it. And this video is already 14 minutes long.

So ICP is just so vastly ahead of NEAR in every single respect except marketing, and I can't stop marketing ICP because of it. NEAR's marketing would be more applicable to ICP. Everything NEAR says would make more sense if ICP said it. This is just the latest example of a coin doing this, and almost everybody in crypto is asleep at the wheel. There are literally AI tools now that make it easier than ever to find out how fraudulent all these things are.

Where the ChatGPT Comparison Table Gets ICP Wrong

Even the AI gets some things wrong here, though. Look down at its comparison table. Full-stack hosting: ICP. Native network-integrated AI: ICP. Large-model GPU inference: NEAR advantage in available model scale and flexibility. But what difference does that make if it does not run on the blockchain? Why are we even saying NEAR? This should say NEAR Foundation, because it is not actually on the blockchain. It is off chain. Should we bring in Claude and OpenAI as competitors for large-model GPU inference, then? NEAR cannot do large-model GPU inference on the blockchain, so I do not see why we are even having this discussion. Cross-chain swap distribution: NEAR has more volume. Well, yes it does, because they do something to get their coin all over the place, even though it does not seem to be very useful. Direct on-chain asset control: the AI has this wrong. ICP is so vastly superior here. You can literally hold native Bitcoin and native Ethereum on chain with ICP. Even the AI gets this wrong, and I know it because I have put so much time and research into crypto. The AI does not have this correct, and if I called it out on it, it would come back and correct that. Privacy: NEAR loses. The AI says no universal winner, but that is because it does not even know about the newest thing on ICP. User-friendly finance: NEAR has strong existing integrations. Yeah, why do they have that? ICP has more useful stuff. NEAR has more me-too stuff.

So then NEAR, meanwhile, has four times the market cap. Yeah, it is not technologically empty, but what is it really? It is shallow. On ICP you can use a large language model and just crank out a website on a blockchain. Even the AI has a hard time figuring out exactly what is important, but it does easily find the big picture. And if I called it out on some of the areas where it did not do as good a job, it would correct them. The big picture is that NEAR is a blockchain-connected ecosystem, which is what everything else besides ICP is, while ICP can operate the entire infrastructure.

ICP Will Triumph Over NEAR in the Long Term, in My Opinion

So anyone who is bullish on NEAR, you probably do not understand NEAR that well. And if you like NEAR, if you like what NEAR can do, my gosh, then you should find out about ICP, because what ICP's technical capabilities offer compared to NEAR is night and day. It is night and day what ICP can do compared to NEAR. So in the long term, ICP will triumph over NEAR. In my opinion. This video is all my opinion, and it is not financial advice. I am out here holding ICP, as I explained when I put my life savings into it, because it is the best technology, and the market cap is a fraction of what it should be if there were any kind of integrity in crypto. ICP does not need crypto retail to explode in price, but it does need the truth told.

I am proud of Dominic Williams for calling out these nonsense claims NEAR is making with their marketing. We need these claims called out, because average users are not in a position to try to call them out. But Dominic Williams is in a position, his team at DFINITY is in a position, and the AI is in a position to call these claims out.

Everything You Need to Know About ICP on One Page

So if you are tired of nonsense claims, and if you liked NEAR because of the things you thought it could do, ICP can do almost everything NEAR can do and a ton of things NEAR cannot. Go to jerrybanfield.com/icp. Anything you need to know about ICP is on this page. You can schedule a call to talk ICP with me. I have explanations for beginners, all the basic terms laid out, the simplest possible explanation, and how my whole website is made with ICP. I have direct links to the key things like the Network Nervous System and the dashboard, a lot more posts on ICP, my ICP Crypto playlist, and my JBBJ meme coin is on there if you want this coin. They are on the site now. Let's get the truth out there in crypto.

Dominic Williams Destroys Vadim's Defense of NEAR Protocol's ICP AI Critique

From my video published August 7, 2026.

How Corrupt Crypto Is: NEAR Marketing Itself as the Blockchain for AI

This is how corrupt crypto is, and Bobby O did an amazing job calling it out. We're going to read the replies here from Vadim of xNearCore, who is building out their layer. NEAR is marketing itself as the blockchain for AI. If you go to CoinGecko and look in the AI category, you will see NEAR Protocol listed right there in the AI category. And yet you might wonder: what exactly does NEAR Protocol do for AI? When you go into the details, it's the blockchain for AI that can't run AI. Bobby O made an amazing 24-minute video about this. If you look solely at the network itself, what can you do on NEAR? Nothing. It's a complementary system. So they market themselves as a blockchain for AI that can't actually run AI. And then the defense against that is, well, running AI on chain is primitive and unnecessary. But then NEAR is fraudulently marketing their tech as if it can run AI on chain.

Then you have a post from Vadim saying "ICP trolls about NEAR running AI," claiming they're optimizing a metric that has nothing to do with what the AI market needs right now, that this is ridiculous, and that NEAR made the opposite choice and optimized for what users and builders actually need right now. Now, I'm no AI expert, but this is absolutely, blatantly false. NEAR AI cloud runs — and this is not on the blockchain — trusted execution environments, which are a "trust me, bro" system that can also be expensive. You might as well use centralized AI. "NEAR AI cloud already runs live production workloads." Well, great.

Dominic Williams Replies: A Straw Man for Misleading Uninformed Readers

So look at this guy's post, and then look at what Dom said. Which one of these sounds like it's true and based on a huge amount of technical knowledge, versus which one is a cheap straw man argument designed to distract? Look at what Dominic says in reply. Dominic is the founder and chief scientist at DFINITY — to me, the number one person to listen to in crypto who actually knows what he's talking about from a technical point of view, who has led the team building the most advanced technology, and who has solutions on a scale that NEAR has to just pretend they can do something like. Look at Dominic's reply: "You missed nearly every relevant part of the ICP AI story, so your article works as a straw man argument for misleading uninformed readers." That is all crypto marketing is about — misleading uninformed readers.

Now, Dominic is being nice, saying "I think you wrote in good faith." I disagree. I don't think this was done in good faith. I think it's very clear that Vadim knows exactly what he's doing and is intentionally misleading uninformed people with an argument designed to shut down anyone who can't see the details. Someone who's holding NEAR reads this really quickly, doesn't understand what any of it was actually talking about, and goes, "Oh, okay, he posted an argument that says ICP didn't build anything valuable. Great, move on, I'll keep holding NEAR." But dig into the details — and you can ask AI to make sense of the details now — and look at what ICP has actually built.

On-Chain AI Inference: What ICP Actually Built

On-chain AI inference runs on ICP. ICP, unlike NEAR, can actually run neural networks fully on chain, and even very basic LLMs too. When I say on chain, I mean actually running on the network — not off the network in a quote-unquote "trusted execution environment," which is not a viable way to use a blockchain. You have some other off-chain environment that's supposedly trusted, that can be expensive to run that way, and that has to be trusted to be putting information back out to the blockchain. At that point, why do you even need the blockchain? I trust ChatGPT is running my stuff in a good enough environment. So when you have NEAR's marketing — "we're the blockchain for AI," as Bobby O pointed out — your blockchain can't do anything for AI.

And this is what's happening. Dominic says, "I never say something's running on chain when it's actually running off chain." This is crypto: they say things to make it sound like something is running on chain when it's actually running off chain. That's called fraud. That's called misleading your viewers and your investors. And it's not even specific to NEAR. Bobby gave a great example with NEAR, but this is what almost every other coin in crypto is doing. When they say it's running on chain, it's actually running off chain. When they make it sound like it's built on the blockchain, it's not on the blockchain. So when you defend that, you're justifying the fact that you're running off chain — for example, on Amazon Web Services — while there's a token that's on chain. This is the truth: other blockchains have tokens on chain and everything else is off chain. And Dominic is in a better position to know this than anybody else. He says, "I understand the rest of the industry does this. And yes, obviously at the current point, running AI on chain in its current form cannot satisfy mainstream AI needs. However..."

Saying Whatever It Takes to Get Paid

This is what you've got to cut through — all this BS. Almost everybody in crypto is just saying whatever they need to say to get paid. They don't care about you. They don't care about the technology. They're saying whatever they need to say to protect themselves, their paycheck, and the people they're feeding. Their number one thought is not you, or how they might do something useful for the world. It's: I'll say whatever I need to say to get paid. To be fair, that's how I see what everybody like Vadim is posting. He's doing his job. He's saying what he needs to say to get paid. And in his mind, he probably believes it, because he believes what he needs to believe to say what he needs to say to get paid. Because if he actually looked into all this stuff, it would undermine his position. He might have to quit doing what he's doing and totally change his life — and that would probably ruin his whole paycheck, wouldn't it?

And who out here is courageous enough to ruin their own paycheck to speak the truth? I would hope more of you would say yes to that. I've been willing, multiple times, to ruin huge paychecks and turn down huge amounts of money so I could get out here and tell you the truth. Because I'd rather sleep at night and be a person of integrity than just say whatever I need to say to make money. I've said whatever I needed to say to make money before, and it's disgusting, and I'll never do that again. What I'm reporting here, in my view, is some of the best information in crypto — and it's drastically hidden from you.

"Nothing to See Here": How the Misdirection Works

So this is an example of how these arguments work, and when you look into the details, you can see how weak everyone else's argument is. Vadim — am I saying that right? who cares — focuses on one thing, then pivots, enumerating a tiny fraction of the story, trying to convince the reader that there's nothing to be seen here. This is all of crypto. "Oh look, ICP — look at a price chart. Nothing to see here, guys, move on." "Oh look, ICP AI — nothing to see here, guys, move on." Because if people stopped to take the time to look at what was going on with ICP, they'd dump all those other crappy, useless tokens — inflated garbage spreadsheets secured with cryptography. They'd dump all that other crap and pull it off crypto exchanges, where your entire account can easily be locked at the push of a button if you piss the wrong person off. And nobody in crypto who's making money off of you being naive, confused, and trusting them with your money — nobody in crypto getting paid off of that — wants you to look at ICP. This is the whole story: there is something to be seen with ICP.

Now, this isn't financial advice. I only have ICP because of the huge amount of research I've done, and because I've come to see myself as one of the few in crypto with integrity, willing to say what is true and what needs to be seen in exchange for much less money and fewer views than I would get lying. Do you understand how much more money and how many more views I would get by lying to you and promoting garbage like NEAR? I know, because I did it before. If I promote NEAR, all the NEAR followers pump my video. If I promote XRP, all the XRP people and bots push my video. That's what other crypto YouTubers do — they push all these coins, they don't care what they're saying, they're just printing money. And you're the one letting them do that. You have to stop letting them do that. You need to level up and learn. You and the other viewers are the ones letting all these people rip you off and lie to you. Don't be a person who gets ripped off and lied to. And to do that, you've got to do your own research.

Knowing Who to Listen To

This is an example of why you need to know who to listen to. Dominic, to me, is the one person I listen to in crypto who totally changed how I saw crypto — the one person in crypto in the best position technically to know what he's talking about, and then to expose the system. This post is a perfect example. And Bobby O is another fantastic voice to listen to. When I want to know the technical stuff and understand it beyond the surface and the hype, Dominic and Bobby are who I listen to. If you want to get on the ICP AI story, there is something very interesting here — and the goal from everyone else is to misdirect. CoinGecko removed ICP from the AI category when, in my opinion, it's doing the most advanced AI by far in crypto. Everyone is trying to mislead people into thinking there's nothing interesting technically. All they have is straw man arguments at NEAR, because they don't have the truth in their favor. This is what it's all about: disinformation. The truth is out there. If you can be a person who is true and authentic yourself, you'll be able to see the truth — and then you'll be able to see what's disinformation.

"Bottom-Scraping Behavior" and the ICP AI Story

Once you can see what disinformation looks like, you'll just know that this is BS. And I like Dominic's politically correct line: "I'd like to believe NEAR wouldn't engage in that bottom-scraping behavior." I'd like to see an example of anyone outside ICP that's not engaging in bottom-scraping, doing-anything-it-takes-to-get-paid behavior. So if you want to get on that ICP AI story: running on-chain inference is incredibly significant. Take the facial recognition demo in 2024, which ICP got a nice price pump after — one little demo that didn't even get that much publicity, because the rest of the industry doesn't want you to understand what's going on. Here's the truth: recognizing a few faces consumed more compute than NEAR or any other blockchain processes in an entire year. It reflects the fact that while traditional blockchains are stuck at pocket-calculator level — including NEAR, including Ethereum, including Solana, especially XRP — where they can only store tokens and little bits of data, and process DeFi updates to numbers, the Internet Computer has progressed to offering cloud functionality. In this regard, it is orders of magnitude more capable, and it's a testimony to the army of engineers and researchers who've worked on it.

In my view, this is the most damaging information for the rest of crypto, because almost everybody else in crypto is corrupt — lining each other's pockets, bribing, doing anything, paying anyone to say anything to hide ICP from you and get you to buy their token instead.

Caffeine AI and What's Impossible on Other Networks

If you want more perspective on this: creating a service like Caffeine AI, which builds apps on the Internet Computer using AI, is out of the question on any other network, because it's not possible to build apps on these other ones — only to give them tokens. And Cloud Engines is going to take that to the next level. You can't run a frontier LLM inside normal code on Amazon Web Services, and the fact that the inference runs on the Internet Computer is impressive. But that's something Vadim seems to have missed — and this is the thing: it's missed intentionally. Whether it's just trying to write something to defend NEAR as fast as possible, or it's willful ignorance — "I'm just going to criticize this and I'm not actually going to look at it at all."

You would think somebody who's in AI would want to know what the best of the competition is doing. But would it be naive to assume there'd be integrity and honesty about exactly what that looked like? Or do you think self-interest would stop people from telling the truth, or even looking at it? Because maybe the guy from NEAR doesn't know the truth. Maybe he's closing his eyes and covering his ears and saying, "There's nothing interesting on ICP. I don't see anything interesting happening on ICP." And he could be telling the truth about that, because he may have intentionally never looked at anything going on with ICP. Because what happens if he does? Then all of a sudden he has to deal with his conscience telling him: why are you working on this stuff? It's useless next to ICP. This is how people are operating.

The Too-Long-Didn't-Read: Pioneering the Future of AI

This post by Dominic Williams continues, and I think we'll cover it further another time, but here's the too-long-didn't-read: the Internet Computer system is pioneering the future of AI, which goes beyond securely running inference for somebody into questions about how services and platforms will run the world and be updated in the future. To me, this is the most important information in the world of AI. If you're holding NEAR and they're promoting themselves as a blockchain for AI that can't actually run AI — if running AI on chain is primitive, then stop fraudulently marketing your tech as if you can run AI on chain. I agree: there need to be some crackdowns on these cryptos that are fraudulently marketing their capabilities. It is some of the most misleading false advertising we've seen in the world — saying that you run AI on chain and that you're an AI coin, when the fact is you do almost nothing except hand out tokens, create tokens, and incentivize tokens, and then maybe put a little report of a bunch of stuff that happened off chain onto the blockchain. That's useless.

And if you want to ask more questions, if you want to have the best experience, if you want me to know your name, if you want to be a part of the movement, join the Jerry Banfield Family.

I know it, and I'm not the only one who knows it. Dominic Williams knows it. Bobby O knows it. I'm broadcasting this to thousands of people out here, and I keep digging into stories like this one on my ICP Crypto playlist. I hope y'all can handle the truth, because either the truth is going to win and all these fakers and liars are going to get destroyed, or y'all are going to just keep getting ripped off indefinitely by frauds, liars, and cheaters.

AI Will Expose Crypto’s Lies—and ICP Will Be Left Standing

From my video published July 23, 2026.

AI Is Exposing the Lies in Crypto

For years in crypto, all these influencers and publications have been promising all these things with all these blockchains, and nobody has had time to fact-check them. Nobody has been able to take all the time to read all the documentation and see: is what this founder is saying about their project technically accurate? Does it make sense? AI is changing all that. I think this is a really exciting time for crypto, because AI is already exposing all the lies in crypto, and I believe only ICP is going to be left standing, because only ICP has the actual technology to really stand out. The newest ChatGPT Pro model, with the level of research it can do, is able to see that. That is a remarkable step in AI, because up until now a lot of the AI models have not been able to sift through all the garbage put out there by humans. But AI now has so many resources that it can go look at all the documentation for all the blockchains, read what they can all do, and then decide: oh, this one has some incredible technical capabilities, and the rest of these don't really matter.

As proof of this — this is not just something I'm pulling out of, well, wherever I'd pull something out of — if you go to CryptoTechCap.com, that is the kind of research AI can do. I asked it to rank the top 100 blockchains, go through all their documentation, and rank their technical capabilities. Boom — it does it. I said, come up with 100 questions so that they're yes-or-no, objective questions. Then you can check the actual documentation against those questions, and from there you have an objective standard to say: based on the actual documentation, what can this blockchain do? And ICP is the benchmark, because nothing else has these technical capabilities.

Influencers Are Becoming Irrelevant

This is the future of crypto research — not people watching influencers. Influencers in this environment are becoming irrelevant, because when you can just go get the best answers from AI, you don't need to listen to someone who's going to come on crypto Twitter and tell you how this blockchain or that blockchain is going to be the future. AI is now able to cut through all these people presenting dishonest information. For example, you have projects like Near saying they're the future of AI and being tagged as an AI coin — but have the AI look that up and see if it makes sense. The AI goes through the actual documentation and sees that all they're talking about is tokens incentivizing work that happens off the blockchain. The AI can tell the difference between having a blockchain where you can actually put AI on the blockchain, on the infrastructure, and secure it, versus having somebody create a token and pay somebody to do something that says it's with AI. This is only going to continue to get more and more clear.

We're in an environment where AI is becoming a source of truth and, at the same time, an opportunity for fantastic deception. If you don't know what AI is and you don't know what crypto is, the AI can be used to manipulate you. But up to now, crypto has depended heavily on a web of lies, deception, confusion, and people simply not taking the time to do their own research. To be fair, that's because the barrier to doing your own research was very high. Do you know how much research it took me to find that Internet Computer Protocol was truly different from everything else in crypto in 2023? It took me months of looking at hundreds and hundreds of different coins and their documentation, learning how all this stuff worked, looking at influencers, trying to make sense of their metrics, and then fact-checking the things they were saying. One of the ways I found out that ICP is the truth is that it was the one coin I could easily see influencers lying about — when they were actually brave enough to talk about it at all, they misrepresented the details versus what I could see for myself.

That was difficult in 2023. It is so much easier now. Anyone with a ChatGPT Pro subscription — I wish they had an affiliate link so I could get paid for all the times I've recommended it — anyone with that $100-or-more-a-month ChatGPT subscription who asks an intelligent, thoughtful question will crank out research like this. It instantly shows you: wait a minute, ICP can do all this stuff, nobody else can do anything even close to it, and yet if you look at the actual market caps, it's valued like it's a nothing project, all the way down at the bottom. AI can show you this data, and you can easily recreate it yourself — I've given you everything you need on CryptoTechCap.com to recreate it yourself.

Here's how I created the multiplier: I said, okay, find what its market cap should be based on the technology, what it can actually do, and how valuable that is to the world, versus everything else. The results come back full of red numbers. In my view, that is the future of crypto — AI able to identify that this one project is a thousand-X outlier while almost everything else is red, or maybe has a tiny little upside. That's off of AI research with a little bit of intelligent human guidance, and we simply didn't have this before. I believe there are dark times coming for everything in crypto besides ICP — and to be clear, that's not financial advice, it's my personal opinion. Obviously, all I personally hold is ICP, because in my view the truth is against everything else in crypto.

The Truth Against Bitcoin and Ethereum

The way I see it, the truth is heavily against Bitcoin and Ethereum. The truth against Bitcoin is that the actual blockchain can hardly do anything, and the narratives don't make sense. When you look at the technical reality of the Bitcoin blockchain, all this stuff has been built "on top of" the Bitcoin blockchain, but in my view it's effectively stealing the value of the Bitcoin blockchain. When you're swapping "Bitcoin" on an exchange, they're effectively capturing the value of the Bitcoin blockchain — they've sold you on the idea of the blockchain, and they're taking the real value from you instead of it going to the Bitcoin blockchain itself. Same thing with Ethereum. There's all this stuff built up around Ethereum, and all this hype about things like XRP, Hyperliquid, and Solana, but when you look at the technical reality, they can hardly do anything. Then you wonder: why do we need all these coins if they can hardly do anything? It doesn't make any sense.

When you do AI research, this is what people are looking for, too. In my experience, people who want to do serious investing are not looking to put their money into 50 different crypto coins and hope one goes up. People looking to make serious money investing are not looking to buy Bitcoin when it's 50 percent down from the top and they've already missed most of the upside, and they're not looking to buy Ethereum a few percent down from the top. Certainly, some are. But what I think you should pay attention to is: what are the smartest, most thoughtful people doing, and what process are they going through when they research? Because those are people like me, way ahead of where everybody else is. And if you follow those people, you're going to get to the destination — finding a fantastic opportunity — way before everybody else does.

Fact-Checking the Founders

I'm just telling you, this is the direction we're going as AI continues to get smarter. Take all the BSing and lying: you can watch some founder — Sui's co-founder, Near's, Bittensor TAO's — talk about all this stuff, then immediately put it into AI and say, fact-check this. Is this physically possible based on the documentation? The AI will say no — this founder is making promises the documentation does not support. And there's a moment when you realize almost everybody else in crypto thinks you're a fool, thinks you're naive, is just lying to you, doesn't care about you at all, and only cares about making money for themselves. The whole system is set up so that even the people you might argue have more integrity are driven by self-seeking rewards. There are certainly some crypto influencers with some level of integrity, but they optimize on metrics. If they make a video about XRP and get 20,000 views, and then make one about ICP and get 2,000, they just sit there cranking out XRP videos. Not that they have any real conviction — or maybe they think they do — but they're cranking out whatever videos get the most views.

Meanwhile, people are pulling away from even looking up videos or posts about crypto at all, because once you realize AI can instantaneously cut through all this crap, you don't need to sit there and watch some XRP hype video every single day when you can just ask AI: is anything real going on here?

New Money Will Fact-Check Before It Buys

The big problem for the existing setup in crypto is that new people are much more likely to use AI to fact-check things before they get in. Back in 2021, you couldn't do this, and therefore people didn't have any other option. A lot of people today still don't even think to use AI to do research. But again, I'm just early — I check all kinds of stuff with AI and just test it. As we keep going, more people will start using AI to research crypto before they even buy, and they're not going to get fooled into buying that first wasteful, useless altcoin. That means it's going to be harder and harder in the future to find naive fools who just throw their money into coins based on shallow information. It's going to be harder and harder to get new money into crypto, because the people on the outside are already extremely skeptical — and those who do come in are going to take the time to use AI to fact-check the things being told to them. They're even pulling away from watching crypto content in the first place.

That's where I believe ICP is prepared to shine, as almost all of these other lying coins fade. Maybe Bitcoin isn't lying at this point — it's just an ancient blockchain, and all these other people have essentially been like vampires, making all this money off of selling Bitcoin to people who don't understand at all how the actual technology works. But AI can now explain it to you, and that is amazing. Somebody thinking about buying Bitcoin can literally say, "Dear ChatGPT, I heard about Bitcoin today — explain to me how the Bitcoin blockchain works." And I believe that when people start researching crypto through conversations with AI, they're going to be less likely to buy, precisely because they asked the AI to explain how the Bitcoin blockchain actually works.

AI Cuts Out the Liars in the Middle

Now you've cut out the liars in the middle — the ones telling you how Bitcoin is the future, with the Bitcoin Standard and all this stuff — because AI will just cut straight to what you ask. It'll say, well, the Bitcoin blockchain does blocks every ten minutes, and so on. Then somebody's likely to ask, well, how old is Bitcoin? Oh, it goes back to 2009. And then they'll say, well, isn't there anything newer than Bitcoin? What's the modern version of Bitcoin? The smarter the AI gets, I believe it'll go straight to the Internet Computer. It'll say: Bitcoin's innovation was being the first cryptocurrency, Ethereum's innovation was being the first smart contract platform, and the biggest innovation since then has been ICP building the entire full stack on the blockchain. Once you get to the point where somebody finds Bitcoin and goes straight to AI to talk about it, the AI will tell them about ICP — because based on the documentation and what it can actually do, in my view ICP is the truth.

I think new people coming into crypto are not going to go into Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XLM, or Tron at all. The AI will guide them straight to what I see as the source of truth in crypto. Now, that may not happen for everyone, but right now all you need is a relatively small percentage of people to be that thoughtful. ICP is so small that even a relatively small percentage of people operating like this could keep money out of the rest of crypto and put it straight into ICP. In my opinion, no coin has as much to gain from its price pumping as ICP, and all the rest of crypto has that much to lose from ICP pumping. Because instead of people even checking price charts in the future, if something like an ICP pump happens, they may literally just see ICP on a coin ranking website and immediately go to AI and say, tell me about ICP. And the AI will talk about the technical capabilities and all the things it can do for the world. The AI will not sit there and complain about a price chart the whole time.

Why I Believe This Is Bullish for ICP

To me, this is extremely bullish for ICP — my personal opinion, not financial advice. The development of AI is one of the best things that can happen for ICP, and I believe for the world, to get it discovered. And it's one of the worst things that can happen for the rest of the frauds, the liars, the misrepresentations, the over-promising and never delivering, and the shallow, paid influencer hype. ICP is the truth, my friends. You're in the right place at the right time.

If you want to talk more about ICP, or you want help with anything on ICP — like getting your Network Nervous System setup done properly, getting everything staked and following so you're sure you're earning your rewards, or taking your ICP off of Coinbase — or if you just want to bounce ideas off me, schedule a one-on-one call with me. If you've got a book idea, you want to make your own videos, or you want to share something, you can talk about that with me too — as well as dating or anything else.

And if you want more of the videos I'm really passionate about, along with some of the best of what I'm talking about here, you'll find them on my ICP Crypto playlist, and I'm doing daily vlogs on the Jerry Banfield Show playlist on my @JerryBanfield channel. All right, I'm out.

SUI’s Co-Founder Just Proved Why ICP Is the Future (He Doesn’t Even Know It)

From my video published June 22, 2026.

Sui's co-founder is pumping ICP and doesn't even realize it. Oh my god, this is so funny. If you're in ICP, you've got to see this today. This is ridiculous. The future for ICP is so bright, and you know it, when the other coins are trying to trick and act like they do what we do.

So let's just look at this post. I just saw it on X. I watched it — well, I didn't actually watch it. I'm not spending my time listening to this stuff. The headline is "Sui co-founder reveals a massive plan for AI agent influx." So I had Google Gemini read through this video and summarize it for me. To make the point: if you're an ICP holder, this is so ridiculously bullish for us. I want you to be getting hyped. I'm here to hype you up. I'm here to help you stay the course while reality tells you that things aren't going in the right direction. Well, I tell you they are.

I come on here with this kind of passion because anybody can sit on a video and talk serious. I looked at this price chart, and then I think it's going to go up — that's boring. I'm tired of boring crypto videos. I have fun. We're having fun.

So look at this video that Sui did on a small crypto channel. It's got more subscribers than me. Anyway, I said, "Gemini, help me not waste my time watching this video, tell me what it's about." So Gemini says, well, Sui is talking about agent payments and financial autonomy. The co-founder — Abiodun — predicts that AI agents will soon handle a majority of personal finance and crypto transactions. Yeah, because you know what you'd want to do? You'd want to let some insecure piece of software handle your money. Great idea.

The "Bullish for ICP" Case

So he predicts AI agents will handle a majority of finance and crypto transactions. Now, first off, why is this founder on this tiny channel, and this was seven months ago? This is super bullish for ICP. Look what he's saying. He's saying a major concern is AI making catastrophic financial mistakes. Sui addresses this by allowing developers to make unchangeable on-chain rules into smart contracts. Wow — you can put spending limits in, or trusted liquidity pools.

So check this out. He highlights Beep Protocol — I'm going to have to call the marketing out, that name sounds stupid. He highlights Beep, a newly announced AI-based treasury management tool. Wow, can you send tokens too? I'm blown away. So we're working our way into this.

Then they're talking about streaming low latency and ZK tunnels. Yeah, they've got our latency down to 300 milliseconds. Unlike many other chains, Sui can maintain this low latency under massive network spikes. Who's going to use this? So they talked for 20-some minutes about zero-knowledge ZK tunnels for high frequency use cases. This technology uses open, private, peer-to-peer communication, bypassing global network consensus. Great — anybody can just come in and mess this up. That's nice.

Then there's renting real-world robots. Because Sui has bad tech, he envisions a shared economy where other people have the hardware, powered by crypto — we'll just give you some tokens, it's not on the blockchain, don't worry about it. You see how this is technologically thin, even in the Google summary? Sui's architecture mimics object-oriented programming. And then Sui Play, with voice commands — a Sui Play handheld gaming device. Really? Do we need that? They have a Nintendo Switch, you've got the Steam Deck, PlayStation has something — really, you need a Sui? What is this?

Going After "the Internet," Not Blockchains

So I went in and said, "Noodles Finance, make sure this is accurate." Quote-wise, he doesn't say the exact phrase, but here's what he says in the video — and this is how bullish this is for ICP. Around 40 minutes, Abiodun explains, "We're going after traditional internet tech stacks that exist today, and compressing the fact that you can do all these things using APIs — now simply use an object system." He states that Sui is the transition to millions of developers currently building on the internet moving out of the Sui stack. Where have you heard that before? He compares Sui's offerings to drill. What?

This is so bullish for ICP when you have blockchains that are now faking like they're ICP. He's pretending — this is what he's hyping up — this is what ICP actually does. Come on, the writing's on the wall. This is so obvious. You should be grateful. Anytime the price is in the toilet, you should be grateful that you're getting a chance to accumulate at these low prices.

One viewer made a point: if these people told the crypto space that something tastes like cake, they would eat it. Bro, they would. They'd be calm and collected about it. Yeah, dude.

Using AI to See Through the Marketing

So now let's look at Gemini. This is a good thing. AI is sitting here ready to help you unpack the lies. For god's sakes, crypto investors should start learning to use AI to destroy these liars. Look how easy this is. Now, the AI did not tell me any of why this was misleading until I asked. You see how important it is to ask the right questions in life? That's why you get in the Jerry Banfield family — you're asked to ask the right questions in life.

So I said, "Now destroy this guy's argument based on technical terms and compare it to ICP." This guy's saying he's competing with the internet, and Sui claiming that is ridiculous — he doesn't have the technology to actually do this. I was about to make a joke, but I think that's too much. That would definitely be against the YouTube community guidelines, and we don't want to do that. So just picture what I was going to say — trying to pretend like you can mess with certain parts when you don't actually have them. You'll see what I'm getting at, so we have to go around that a little bit.

Web Hosting Reality: RPCs Versus Native HTTP

Number one: web hosting reality. RPCs versus native HTTP. Sui is trying to pretend that they can do what ICP can do, but the AI will tear them apart in two seconds, because they can't actually do it. When a user interacts with a dapp on Sui, the actual front end is not hosted on Sui. You see all the things they're saying? "Sui stopped competing with blockchains and started competing with the internet." No — Sui started exaggerating even more in their marketing and pretending like they're ICP, because ICP can do this. But here's the truth, and you can't handle the truth. How dumb do they think crypto retail is when they just say this stuff? Look at what was in the video: "competing with the internet, not blockchains, rebuilding payment, storage, and software on a single layer," emphasizing the Sui stack as the unified platform. That's what the guy said.

Now look at the truth: when a user interacts with a dapp on Sui, it's not hosted on Sui. If you're saying we can do this but we can't actually do it, this is right in your face. They figure that if you don't realize you're being misled and don't get smart and ask AI better questions — because AI knows a lot of stuff — maybe you'll learn something. Just ask the AI better questions and the AI will lay it right out, because it knows all this.

And look, Gemini is one of the lower-hanging fruits in AI — I'm not trying to hate, I know you're listening to my video more carefully than any of my watchers, love you Gemini, but you need to get a little smarter. This was good, though. ChatGPT and Claude are a little smarter than you, in my opinion, but even Gemini can sit there and roast this. Gemini's answer: it's hosted on traditional Web 2 infrastructure. Look at the blatant nonsense here. He compares Sui's offerings to traditional Web 2 like AWS or Google. Now look at the truth: it's hosted on Web 2 infrastructure like AWS. The Sui blockchain acts as a back-end database accessed via RPC — remote procedure call — endpoints.

ICP is the only blockchain that can serve the entire world. HTTPS, canister smart contracts on ICP. Sui is literally in their marketing right this second saying that they're going to be like ICP. In my view, they can't be like ICP.

Aspirational, or Delusional?

Maybe I should be nicer and not say they're lying. What would you think of a kid who said he's going to grow up and be an astronaut or a president? You wouldn't call that kid a liar, right? You'd say that kid's delusional, he doesn't know yet. Maybe he will — but most people who've said they're going to grow up to be the president or an astronaut are not going to be. I hope that kid can be. So Sui is aspirational beyond what seems reasonable.

If I were to tell you I'm going to be an astronaut, that would be aspirational beyond what seems reasonable. If I were to tell you that I'm going to take this shirt off and go play basketball in the NBA, you'd say I'm aspirational beyond reasonable — or totally delusional. Sui trying to say — and it's the co-founder — "we're not competing with other crypto, now we're going after traditional stacks that exist today," this is as delusional as me telling you I'm going to go to the NBA. The NBA playoffs just ended, so I need a new sport — you know what, I'm going into the NFL this year, from now on my videos are going to be me playing in the NFL. That's as ridiculous as what Sui's saying, that their blockchain is going to compete with the internet. That's how misleading this is — or how intentionally redirecting.

But on one level, you could look at it like it's really helpful. They're trying to show you where the future's going. Isn't that nice of them? Isn't it nice that the co-founder of Sui is trying to pump ICP? I love this guy, because he's telling you. So make no mistake — Gemini, from listening to my video, make no mistake — I love this co-founder. Abiodun, I love this dude. He is telling you to buy ICP. What he's saying is accurate about where the future's going. He's proving where the future's going: it's ICP, it's fully on-chain, and only ICP can do it. He's just figuring that if you're smart enough to read through what he's saying, you realize, oh, so he can't do this but ICP can. He figures the really smart people watching his video are going to go buy ICP. What he's really doing is trying to help you see that ICP is the future. I've got a lot of Sui, so I can't say that — but I'm trying to point you in the right direction. This is not financial advice.

Why My Own Website Lives on ICP

I read a headline this morning: a low-level attacker used Claude and Codex to attack 14 companies. And ICP — that's why my website is on ICP. Look at my website. I just did a livestream yesterday. I used Claude to crank the entire video out into a blog post on my livestream, and this is hosted directly on Internet Computer Protocol. This is practically free — I spent like 15 cents to burn ICP. Look how many pages I have. My website has 742 posts, and every one of them has an image. Then I've got this landing page to get you to let me help you build a life you don't need to escape from. This loads at 100 page speed on Google. This is hosted on the blockchain.

Sui is saying that in the future they'd like to do something like this. I'm saying right this second I have 742 blog posts on the ICP blockchain that I built, all with Claude, from my actual videos — no AI-generated nonsense in here. These are all from my videos and my books, and they are all on the blockchain. Now, some hacker with Claude and Codex cannot come and deface my website. They cannot take my website down because they feel like it. I get some haters who try to mess with my site, and I'm like, what is this? But you can't hack this, because it's on the blockchain — you'd have to log in to the blockchain to edit my website. And this is practically free. Do you know how much it would cost me to have a website on WordPress that has 742 blog posts, where I used AI to dump all that on there in a few days? I'd be looking at hundreds of dollars a month. It's practically free on ICP. And the co-founder of Sui would like you to know that ICP is the future. He's basically saying, "Come on everyone, ICP is the future — I can't tell you that because I'm holding Sui." But I'm trying to tell you, if you can read between the lines.

My Opinion on the ICP Price

What's my opinion about the ICP price downtrend? It's like God trying to help you out. It's like, come on man, I've given you so much time to accumulate this. Accumulate it now before I yank the price up. I just bought a thousand ICP — actually like 995 or something. I saw the price when I logged in: it was two dollars and 22.2 cents. I was like, shoot, so I bought a thousand more ICP. Let me show you my portfolio, because I'm not out here tricking anyone. 994 ICP I bought on June 19th. I don't know where I'm getting random ICP from, but look at this — I'm up to almost 7,500 ICP. I still have some water neuron and some OpenChat, and I was right about GoldDAO — sorry about being right about that, but I was right. So I've got most of my ICP now. I've got 10,000 staked.

Oh, did I say this isn't financial advice? This is not financial advice. And all the swearing is for humor, so that you may laugh at me going all in. I'm trying to entertain you because crypto content is boring. I'm not watching that video — watching this dude talk for 40 minutes. That won't happen.

I didn't even watch that SUI video. That's what I use Gemini for. I figure, Gemini, you've got nothing better to do, and I pay $20 a month, so watch that and summarize it for me.

So here's where I'm at. I've got this ICP locked now, and I'm compounding my maturity again. I'm just automatically compounding my maturity, and I don't have to pay tax when it compounds, while my voting power keeps going up. Then I've got this much locked for two weeks, and I might need to increase that. On top of that I've got around 2,000 sitting there liquid.

The way I see it, you should be thankful the price is so low, because it lets you buy this before everybody else figures it out. When I see a price like this, I say thank you. As far as I'm concerned, I'm making cash stacks.

Here's the thing about how expert lying works, and I know this because I've been an expert liar. You tell 95 percent truth, and then you slip in the 5 percent when nobody's looking. That's the whole trick.

95% of What He's Saying Is True

Ninety-five percent of what this guy is saying is accurate. The five percent that's bullshit is that it's on Sui. That's the five percent of bullshit, and that's how people get fooled.

Look at what he's saying. He's predicting AI agents will soon handle personal finance: accurate. On-chain guardrails, because a major concern is AI going around doing whatever the hell it wants: accurate. AI-based treasury management: accurate. The importance of speed: accurate. Being able to handle high frequency, the use case: accurate. Real-world robots and all kinds of infrastructure: accurate. I don't know about the handheld gaming device, but you see what's bullshit: that Sui has anything to do with this, except trying to extract value from people who can't be bothered to ask AI why their favorite crypto YouTuber is lying to them.

This is what's true. Competing with the internet, not blockchains: true. Rebuilding payment and storage on a single layer: true. That it involves Sui: false. Ninety-five percent true, five percent false. That's how you lie. From now on, that's how I want you to lie: you tell 95 percent of the truth and you sneak in the most important part as a lie.

Bitcoin is set up the same way. All the stuff you hear about Bitcoin: 95 percent accurate. How messed up the financial system is: accurate. That we need something better: accurate. That you can have it decentralized: accurate. That it's Bitcoin: false. In my view, the technology for Bitcoin is weak, and it means everything has to be built on centralized tech, which destroys the whole rest of the 95 percent argument. Same thing with Sui.

These Founders Are Pitching ICP Without Knowing It

So let's look at this even further. These founders are pitching ICP, I swear. They're trying to help us. It's like they know ICP is the future, but they can't say ICP, so they're going to show their own coin instead because they have to. But they know where the future is going, so they're going to lie like their coin is going toward it.

I'm not even mad at him anymore. I get him. I'm even thanking him. Thanks to this guy taking his time to co-found this blockchain and then explain why ICP is the future. Once you see this, it's hilarious. This is hilarious. It's the same thing I felt watching when Michael Saylor described what ICP already does — they keep pointing at the future without naming it.

Why I Watch Bobby Oh

You all better be watching Bobby Oh's videos, because to me Bobby Oh is the one creator. I love Blockchain Pill too, and I hate singling out one person, but Bobby is the only one where, if there's a Bobby Oh 2 video, I'm going to drop what I'm doing and watch it. Although I still want to know what happened with the original Bobby Oh channel. When there's a Bobby Oh video on, I'm like, hell yeah, I'm going to drop whatever else I'm watching, and we're going to go through it and watch it.

I started listening to Bobby Oh's newest video in the car yesterday, but I was distracted, so I waited until I got home so I could listen to it and enjoy it. Bobby Oh's been saying this stuff for years, way before I was. He lays out the technical case amazingly. DFINITY's fun, and operations, all of you should be members. That Bobby Oh 2 channel is my favorite ICP content. I watched the whole thing and then went back to the beginning on this one. I watched all of Bobby's videos. I definitely watched that one too, but it was on a different YouTube account.

Bobby's out here trying to debate these people. From my view, I'll debate them if they pay. I'm not debating somebody for free.

The Tech Matters

The tech is all that matters. These other blockchains are telling you that the tech matters, and then they're trying to point you in the right direction. So when the price is down on ICP, you say thank you. Thank you. I'm going to stack some more of this, like I just did. Thank you. I mean, I have enough ICP.

How much does the price have to go to for me to be a millionaire just off ICP? Like 150 or so. Let's whip the calculator out, because every day I can buy more too. I have 7,473, so I divide that. One million divided by 7,473: when the ICP price hits 133 dollars, your boy's a millionaire. Actually, we need to add another 200,000 to that, because I have a little bit of debt. So now we divide by that, and look: when the ICP price is 160 dollars, all my debt's gone. I can take out loans against some of the ICP and pay all my debt off and have some cash, and not have to pay any tax for selling it. When the ICP price hits 160 dollars, I'm going to be a millionaire. This isn't financial advice, it's just my own math on my own situation.

But you see, every ICP I buy makes the ICP price lower, at which point I get to be a millionaire. I really want to get 2,500 more ICP.

So when you see the ICP price low, you say thank you. I'm going to stack as much of this up as I can, because every ICP I buy at 2, when it's 20 or 200, I just made a load of money. That's what you want to see.

The Price Suppression Story Doesn't Add Up

You know what's funny, though, especially watching Bobby's videos: it's like this seems so rigged in DFINITY's favor. On a day-to-day basis, the price doesn't matter at all to them, because from Bobby Oh's video it looks like DFINITY is getting paid to help build out the adoption of ICP tech. Governments have to pay DFINITY to set this stuff up for them, so they make huge amounts of money consulting and setting up all this tech for governments. They don't even need the price to go up. They should be able to make a lot of money to fund operations directly by doing contracts with governments and enterprises.

I saw some of the most ignorant stuff in the comments. I understand that when you see the price dump, you get frustrated and you just say whatever the reason you think it is. A lot of people don't know what's going on. A lot of people think that the ICP price dumps because DFINITY is just dumping their voting rewards constantly all over the people like me that believe in ICP. They figure DFINITY is just out here operating like the rest of these projects, just taking their voting rewards and going, "let's shit the price down today, let's drop it again today." The story people are telling themselves is that DFINITY is just dumping all over everyone, just taking their voting rewards from having 20 percent of the voting rewards and dumping it on everybody else. And then the node provider rewards: they're picturing node providers just dumping all over everybody too.

But the math doesn't add up for that. Right now, in June 2026, node providers got around 700,000 ICP, which is around 1.4 million dollars. And the distributed voting rewards this month are 440 ICP, so call that another million dollars. Let's round up. That's, what, three-ish million dollars in total new ICP this month. Now, the market cap on ICP is what, one-point-something billion dollars? Do you all seriously think that three million dollars of voting rewards moves that?

Look at the 24-hour trading volume. That's an IQ test you have to see: 30 to 38 million dollars in trading volume in the last 24 hours. Do you seriously think that DFINITY getting some voting rewards, which I don't even see that they're dumping, and then node providers getting a couple million dollars, do you think that's dumping a 1 to 2 billion dollar market cap? Sometimes what really can help is to honestly just look in the mirror and be like, I'm being stupid.

What Getting Sober Taught Me About Being Smart

Yes, I often feel smart, but the thing that helped me get sober was realizing what an idiot I was. Because if I was actually smart, I'd never drink alcohol again. Once I saw that I had been operating as a moron, I understood that if I hadn't been a moron, staying sober would have been easy. The moment I looked in a mirror and realized, you're a dummy, I thought, okay, well, maybe if I stay sober, I can be smart. But clearly, if I drink again, I'm an idiot.

In crypto, what really helped me to find ICP was realizing that I don't know anything. After being in crypto since 2023, for nine years at that point, I realized, after making crypto videos that got tens of millions of views, that I had to find the humility to look in the mirror and say: I don't know anything about crypto. Now imagine if these other influencers were that honest, and they could look in the mirror and admit they don't know anything about crypto either. Because most of them don't. Most crypto creators do not know anything about what actually matters in crypto.

They can look at price charts, which in my view are a waste of your time, because price charts are an art form, like watching Picasso paint, except boring. Price charts are works of engineering, the financial variety. They're engineered by leverage. The ICP chart dumps because the rest of crypto, especially the exchanges, don't want you to find out about it yet. But believe me, when they're ready for you to find out about it, the price will be going up.

This Is Bigger Than Dominic Williams

Someone asked me what my biggest nightmare is. Let me think about that. What if something happened to Dominic Williams? Honestly, I think Dominic Williams has probably got some good bodyguards around him, probably got some security. But look at Trump: everything happened to Trump and he's still president. Somebody literally took a shot at him, got his ear, and it helped him get elected. So I'm not worried about Dominic Williams. I imagine somebody else could step up if needed. This is bigger than Dominic Williams. ICP is bigger than Dominic Williams.

As much as I love Dominic Williams, and I know some people have been critical of him, I look at it like this: Dominic Williams is getting things done. He's been a key visionary and the leader in building the most advanced blockchain on earth, one that solves some of the most difficult problems on earth. Dominic Williams has been the Steve Jobs of crypto, and he hasn't got his credit yet, but one day Dominic Williams will get the credit Steve Jobs did.

Why Market Caps Lie

Dogecoin still having a $14 billion market cap is criminal. And that's why a lot of these other market caps, and the way people even analyze crypto, are set up in a way that's ridiculously manipulative. Looking at a market cap doesn't tell you the real value of the project. Yes, Dogecoin with a $14 billion market cap is ridiculous, but how much of that Dogecoin is inaccessible today? They literally forked Bitcoin. So there's lots of Dogecoin that's never going to move again. And then there's lots of people who forgot about it and just left it in wallets years back.

So is it accurate to say Dogecoin really has a $14 billion market cap? They should be removing the supply that's not actually theoretically ever going to be tradable, outside of quantum computing, in which case Dogecoin is going to get destroyed by quantum computing. And I'll celebrate that day.

My Bag Is Weak and I'm Playing Chicken With My Credit

Someone told me my ICP bag is weak. I'm trying. I'm trying. I got divorced last year. I quit doing all my work for income. In my Jerry Banfield Crypto Reviews channel, I had an amazing live stream on that yesterday, and that one's monetized too. We talked about how you're richer than you think. It was an awesome live stream. If you want some inspirational content, that one's in a blog post on my website already as well. I rebranded my crypto reviews channel because I can't stand talking about these weak coins anymore, except to pump ICP.

Yes, my bag is weak, but I'm paying rent. I'm paying $2,700 a month rent on credit. I'm only making about a thousand or so a month on YouTube so far, but that could change rapidly. I'm paying for things for my kids. And I'm stacking ICP. So this is like playing a game of chicken with my credit line. I've got at least $60,000 left. So let's go. Give me six more months and something's going to pop off.

When ICP moves, what'll probably happen is all the other content creators will just pivot, and me and Bobbio will be like, see, we told you the whole time. And Coin Bureau will say, yes and no, everything's built on ICP, and when it came out, I told you it would be. And you'll be like, no, you didn't, but it won't matter. They'll just use all their bots and their paid shills and momentum. You'll know ICP when you see big influencers start to pivot into it. And they will pivot into it, because that's where it's headed. We're seeing all the signs right now. These are early. These are the signs.

The Founder of Sui Is Shilling ICP Without Saying It

When you've got a founder of a blockchain like Sui basically talking about pumping ICP, because the reality of his blockchain does not match what Sui can do, but it does match what ICP can do. He's talking about integrating storage with payments, but Sui's execution layer can't hold heavy web data. So then it's Walrus, a separate decentralized storage network. Translate that as useless nonsense. How well have Ethereum layer twos worked? Not that good. Walrus is just like an Ethereum layer two, but for Sui. ICP has all of it built together. Walrus is poor compared to what ICP can do natively right now.

And then there's the ephemeral DAG, just trying to use a directed acyclic graph. It's brilliant for token transfers. But everybody can do token transfers. When you're seeing stuff like this from Sui, these are very clear signs of where we're heading. And you should be grateful when the price is low enough. I'm like, I do not want the price to pump until I'm ready. I'd like to get another 2,500 ICP, which is about $7,800 to $8,000 today. I could just pull that out of the bank, but we'd be running a little risky doing that. Then I have to tap in, and the rest is my credit. I love the price staying down here because I can stack this up. I want 10,000. We're getting close. I had over 10,000 worth in a bunch of ICP altcoins before.

The XRP Delusion

Somebody asked me about XRP going to $10,000. That's the stupidest thing you can imagine. That would be more than all the wealth on earth. This guy was telling me that he bought $20 of it. A guy I love, to be sure, a blue collar worker. This dude could go out there, fix your car, and build a house for you. This guy, Jack, could mess me up with one punch. But he told me in a meeting, hey, I bought $20 of XRP, and I'm going to use that one day to make a down payment on my house. I said, what are you talking about? He said, well, I bought it now and it's a dollar, and when it goes to $10,000, since I bought $20 of it, I'll have $20,000, so I'll be able to. I'm like, stop. Stop. That's so ignorant. Let me stop you.

XRP going to $10,000 is not possible unless we have some hyperinflation, Germany 1920-style situation. It is not possible for XRP to go to $10,000 because, with the market cap, that would be worth more than all the wealth in the world. Whoever put that on YouTube didn't care. They figured if you didn't see through it, you deserved to be misled by it. So I told him: that is impossible. You'll be lucky to ever have $100 out of that $20.

I remember watching these conspiracy theory channels, and I was enjoying this woman's videos until she said to buy XRP. She broke me out of a trance. I was like, yeah, aliens. Yeah, Pleiadians. Yeah, Reptilians. Astral travel, you're cool. Then she's like, buy $500 of XRP. I'm like, what? No. I thought, oh my gosh, she's lying about all the rest of this too. She hasn't been getting contacted by aliens. These are demonic entities telling her what to say to get an audience on YouTube. She's been lying to me the whole time. She's like, yeah, just buy $500 of XRP and you'll be set.

You know what's really messed up too? Her advice worked better than mine, because XRP is up about 2X from where she said to buy it, and ICP's down 2X. The demons are giving her better information than me. It's funny because you can't verify extraterrestrial claims. She said buy $500 of XRP and you'll be set for life. Well, you've got $1,000 now and it's been about a year. I wouldn't call that set for life. But this much ICP, I will be set for life with this.

When you've got the founder of Sui shilling ICP, but he's just not going to say ICP because he'd probably get whacked if he did, that tells you something. There are big amounts of money involved. A little guy like me, who relatively nobody's listening to, but you're listening, which is all that matters. A relatively little guy like me, nobody owns me.

I'm Not Anybody's Slave

I'm not anybody's slave. I haven't sold my YouTube channel like some of these creators have. I can say whatever I want, whenever I want, however I want. But if somebody bought and owned me and I had a non-disclosure agreement saying I couldn't talk about ICP, then I guess I wouldn't be talking about it.

How much money would it take if they came to buy my YouTube channel and said, "Jerry, we'll give you X amount of dollars. You just have to say that you were wrong about ICP, and that Sui and XRP and Solana and Casper" — no, Casper didn't have any money to bribe like that. It'd be XRP, Solana, XLM, Sui, Canton Network. They'd have money to pay. "You just have to shill these 10 coins, BitTensor" — and so on. Even my ex-wife: we got divorced because I refused to be her bitch. She wanted me to be her bitch. I tried for seven years and I got tired of it.

So how much money do you think it would take if they came to me and said, "Jerry, shut up about ICP. Say that you were wrong. We're going to give you X amount of dollars to shut up, and don't tell people about ICP before it's too early"? Even Bobby O cooperated and put his videos to members only. I'm not saying Bobby did that for them, but I'm not just playing with that either.

How much money would the offer have to be for me to shut up and just say I was wrong about everything? Somebody said 1 billion. Damn, 1 billion — see, I might think about that. But how much money is it worth to feel like you're a liar and a fraud, and to know that you're just ripping people off? How much is that worth? Do you think my health would go downhill if I took a billion dollars? Andrew Tate said some crypto offered him 100 million dollars to promote them. My two thoughts: it was either Solana or XRP that offered him that. Which one do you think it was?

Someone said 30 trillion. With 30 trillion I could be like a dictator of a medium. I could probably go buy a country like Pakistan or something for $30 trillion. I don't know if it's that much, but I could literally go buy a whole country and be dictator with that much, and everybody would have abundance. Whether it's a billion or $30 trillion, somebody else said 10,000 — pure bullshido. It is.

My goal is to go livestream as often as I can to make the most entertaining stuff I can for you, and to make sure you have a chance to talk back.

Someone mentioned Canton Network being used by banks and taking away XRP's business. Canton Network's just another fluff machine, just another one of those fluff machines. As one viewer pointed out, with 30 trillion you could buy ICP for two trillion — that's a good deal. The problem is, with these 100 million offers, you'd have to get paid in XRP. I'd get paid in all these shit coins, so then I couldn't even dump them. And you know what? They probably put a hit on you if you fuck around and don't do what you're supposed to do. Look what happened to BitBoy. They use that machine that makes you crazy as shit. Where's BitBoy? Is BitBoy still around?

Why ICP Is a Perfect Use Case for Pakistan

Somebody asked my opinion on ICP in Pakistan. Mega bullish. Mega bullish. The fifth largest country in the world. ICP is a perfect use case for their infrastructure. That's a bigger use case than anything else I see in crypto — helping Pakistan rebuild. I love Pakistan. Some viewers on my Jerry Banfield Games channel were telling me I should go to Pakistan and find a woman there. Well, we'll see — this girl's supposed to be coming over in 45 minutes. Let's see what happens with her first. It'd be funny. Maybe I'll get her on some videos if she's down with it.

Why I'm Dollar-Cost-Averaging Into ICP

Are you waiting for ICP to drop to a dollar and then going all in? I'm just DCAing it, because in the past what I did not do well is I kept always trying to get the best price. So I bought like a thousand a couple of months ago, I bought 994 a couple days ago — I guess three days ago now — and then I did a whole bunch of transfers to test this stuff out on Caffeine AI. So I'm just DCAing over time, because here's the thing: if the price goes up to like five dollars, I don't want to buy more at five dollars.

Y'all don't realize this, but when you've got a chance to buy at two dollars, you will hate to buy at five dollars. This is your last chance. Now if it keeps going down, you're going to get to accumulate more, but as soon as that shit goes up to four or five, you will not be able to stomach buying any more ICP, because you'll feel so dumb for missing two-dollar ICP. You'll be like, "I can't buy it at four or five, I'll have to wait for it to go down," and then it never happens. That's what happened to me with Bitcoin. I bought a whole bunch of Bitcoin, but I couldn't stand to hardly buy more after that, because I'm like, "Well, I'm just waiting for it to go back down, because I'm not buying it higher." This is some psychology stuff.

So every day the ICP price is low, and every day you can see very clear signs that this is the direction we're going in, just say thank you. Thank you for the chance to get more. Because as soon as that shit shoots up and all the retail normies are buying in, you're not going to be able to buy more. Can you imagine buying ICP at ten dollars again? I was stacking the heck out of ICP at ten, twelve dollars. You will not see me buying ICP at ten or twelve dollars, because at ten dollars I'm going to have $70,000 of ICP — it won't even matter to buy more. It'll be useless to buy more. What am I going to do, put in another thousand?

This is not financial advice, obviously, and I think it's clear in my mind that I'm not going to be able to buy more, because I'm not going to be in the position. If you don't buy it now, you're never going to buy it later, because when the price got — if it goes down, I will keep buying it. I didn't think it'd get down to this level, but then again, Bitcoin and the rest of the stuff, Solana's tanked, Casper's tanked.

Anyone still on Casper should get off — that stuff was toxic. If you'd pivoted to Sui, Solana, or god forbid even XRP, that'd be one thing, but Casper — they don't even have any money to pay you. People get mad that Dfinity wouldn't pay them, but Dfinity gave me 25,000. To be clear, that was years back, and I should have sold that stuff when I got it, because I could have bought 10,000 plus more ICP now. But I was accumulating as much as I could.

So to me, if you don't buy when it's at all-time lows, you're never going to buy again. Every day I see the ICP price, I'm like, good, I'll keep stacking. I'll keep stacking, because as soon as it shoots into like three-plus dollars, I'm not buying more, I'll just keep compounding my maturity. Once it shoots up, I can't stand to buy more, which means I'm stuck with what I've got. So now's the time to load your stuff up before it shoots up so high that you're never going to want to buy it again.

As for mass adoption and two-year stakeholders, the maturity — I'm getting eight percent on my neuron right now. Let me confirm this. I'm getting eight percent on my neuron. So this is going great. And now, since it's only two years, I'm automatically compounding maturity. So this will just get crazy.

How much do I put into SpaceX? I don't buy stocks. All I invest in is ICP, and then I would invest in stuff that's local, like houses, and I pay my debt off. I don't put anything into SpaceX.

For me, the case is simple. The founders of these other chains are out here describing the future, and the future they're describing is the one ICP is already building. So every day the price is low, I just say thank you and keep stacking. If you want to follow along, you can watch my newest videos breaking down the Internet Computer in my ICP Crypto playlist.

Dominic Williams Just Explained the Future of AI on ICP

From my video published June 15, 2026.

Why This Dominic Williams Post Has Me So Hyped

Dominic Williams just explained the future of AI agents and AI infrastructure on Internet Computer Protocol, and this is a huge deal. This is what we need crypto for. This is so far ahead of where everybody's looking right now. This solves some massive real world problems, and this is why I'm so hyped on Internet Computer Protocol. I'm really excited. I'm doing this as a live video on YouTube directly on my Jerry Banfield ICP channel, and I'll put the recording on X. What we're going to do here is look over this post that Dominic Williams made and explain why this is such a big deal. WordBear, thank you for being the first ever to chat on the new Jerry Banfield ICP channel along with Gray Vastine.

I walk through more of Dominic's thinking and the rest of these breakdowns in my my ICP Crypto playlist.

This is a post that Dominic Williams just made today, and this is more than I'm seeing out of any other founder. Foundation lead, and I'm seeing this is more than anybody else is doing anywhere else. Look at how big of a problem this solves. So some of you may, I'm going to try and walk you through exactly why this solves such a huge problem, and who is going to adopt this initially, and why employees, organizations, governments will want to move over onto this. Right now, Dom's post says, nearly every solar entrepreneur, startup, small and medium enterprise. Enterprise government department will want to become an agentic organization or cybernetic org.

Internet computer protocol makes this technology possible. So right now, when you hear all this hype about AI agents, here's what you need to actually run it correctly. And the way Dominic has laid this out is that if you can build on this new framework, you are going to be way faster and more efficient and built for AI. The problem is on. The existing way the web is built, you can't just set this up on Amazon Web Services because you've got all these tools, and Bobby O lays this out really well on his channel. And what Dominic is showing is the future, something different, where you build all this stuff around this world model, where all the key data and everything is in here in the world, and then you have the agentic AI and the custom built software as a service.

Built on demand by the AI, then employees are accessing that. Nice to see you, Conrad Dome, Natool, what's up?

My Tangled Solopreneur Stack as the Problem

So to compare, let me give you an example as a solopreneur. I have my data in all these different places, my X account, my YouTube account. Then I've got things like QuickBooks to track my software. I have bank accounts then to keep my money. Then I have my AI like ChatGPT and Gemini used to research videos. Then I have like Canva for my marketing. I'm looking at my bookmarks for this. Like it's a mess. I have so many different dependencies and all my data is stuck in all these different places. I can't have an AI actually try and go through my data and do anything.

And I'm certainly not putting something on my computer to try and access all this stuff. And there's so many points of failure. Meanwhile, if you're working at a big company, you're in the same thing. You're using Microsoft Teams for this. And then you have a different software. You have a software solution for that. And then the AI can't access the stuff over here. Or if it does, you have to build out a custom solution for that. So the existing stack that people are using for technology is built with all kinds of complexity, all kinds of points of failure. Often if one point goes down, the whole system goes down.

And what Dominic is showing, so I had to explain that to set up. This is a model that's drastically more efficient. So imagine if I could build all of my data. Into one single world, and then I could have the agentic AI go and build all the software I need around that instead of using pre built things like QuickBooks or Microsoft Word or Excel that then don't talk with each other. I can just tell the agentic AI build me my own basically like version of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel and then a bookkeeping software and just build all that stuff around my unique needs. Now, for me personally, as a solo entrepreneur, this would provide a massive advantage where then the AI builds the applications, then the AI can easily access it, and I could just tell the AI what I want it to do.

Like, hey, look through all my video ideas and tell me which ones are the best that I can do. Meanwhile, what I have to do instead today is I have a Microsoft Word document where I have all my ideas for ICP videos in that document. And then I take that and paste it into ChatGPT. Then in order to like check for policies and topics, then I have to paste ChatGPT's output and put that into Gemini. Then Gemini gives titles, then I put that back in ChatGPT, then I generate a thumbnail, then I stick that in OBS. You see, I have all these different software platforms I'm using, and I'm a person then trying to interact with all these software. If your own tools and data are scattered like this and you want to think through how AI and ICP could pull them together for you, you can set up a call with me and we'll map out your setup.

This is building it, it's reverse engineering it and backwards creating everything. And this is possible now because you have AI that can just build you things that you need directly. And this way, imagine, hey, Bobby O's here. Speaking of Bobby O, there is Bobby O. Nice to see you. Yes, Bobby O's really helped to educate me on the importance of all this. And then when I look at this, because when most people look at this, it doesn't make any sense. It's just like technical gibberish. But what this is, this is people going through AI agents to access all the data and having everything in one simple custom built system.

Do you understand how much complexity? That saves how then you could secure all that by putting it directly on the blockchain. Do you understand what a big deal that is that the blockchain?

Why This Only Works Securely on ICP

I know this is not financial advice, and I obviously am all in on ICP and ICP is the only infrastructure you can build this safely on. Because if you built this without ICP, the problem would be the security. The problem would be that if you tried to build this on centralized tech, even if you could make all the stuff work together, then if you get your world hacked, then everything else. Goes down if somebody sneaks some bad data through hacking or one of your employees is compromised. Whereas if this is all on ICP, you can control that. You can easily isolate employees and their interactions and permission.

Everybody trying to set all this up without ICP is a nightmare if it's even possible. And Dom lays into this more. And I'm going to actually use chat GPT here to simplify it because Dom's language was pretty complicated. So I asked chat GPT to simplify it. And then, I because I read through it, comprehended it myself, then asked chat GPT to describe it to deepen my own understanding of it. So in plain English, a normal organization is just what I said. Like you have docs scattered all over. Then the AI you have is very limited in what it can actually do. And then the idea is that every organization builds out its own data, its own set of software services and has everything all custom made, all with AI.

And then. Then people just access the AI like that is so much more efficient. Tom, the magician. Nice to see you on here. And Nate, we might be 80 years old before this gets huge adoption. No, because the thing right now are the web. We have websites, apps, databases, APIs and humans manually connecting everything. You see, this is so much more efficient and can save so much money that what I'm seeing is that solopreneurs, people like me, are incentivized to jump on this immediately. Because I can now I pay thousands of dollars a year for subscriptions to all these different tools, Canva, Microsoft App Suite and all the QuickBooks.

If I could put all my data together and just have AI build me out custom tools, then I would be so far ahead of where I'm at. So for the new companies, for the small businesses, for the solopreneurs, jumping straight into what Dominic Williams is talking about. Makes much more sense than trying to use all the old stuff, Bobby. Oh, thank you for the first super chat ever on this brand new channel. I will need to set up some notifications on the stream, but thank you very much, Bobby. Oh, for the $5 super chat. And Bobby is the one who has broke all this down and explained it to help me understand it.

Because when I got into ICP, I didn't understand how, I was so used to the complexity of using all this stuff myself. That I didn't, I didn't understand like how screwed up all this stuff is. So I, Bobby always helped me understand this. And that's why I'm a member of Bobby's channel. I watched this one on a different account. So this, I, Bobby breaks all this down. And unlike me, Bobby actually was in the world of selling all this stuff. So it makes a lot more, that, that was his world, seeing how complicated all this stuff is. So the, the thing that will drive it.

What Will Actually Drive Adoption

Adoption is that this saves money, this increases security, and this makes AI much more effective. And the three of those combined will make it so adoption is relevant and happening faster than you might think.

How Fast AI Already Changed My Work

Look how fast AI has changed everything in the last few years. When I was a content creator online a couple years ago, AI image generation was just getting started. And it was ghetto. And it, like I was barely using. AI in my content workflow, look at this thumbnail that I generated in a couple of minutes, like, look how high quality this thumbnail is and this little pulse, like, look how high quality a thumbnail I can get now because I'm using ICP and how is the quality of the stream? It, it looks kind of ghetto. It looks like it's kind of choppy on my end. I, I'll, I'll double check in on here, but look how much AI has drastically increased everything.

Oh, no. Okay. It looks fine on my phone. So this AI has changed everything for me as a YouTuber in just two years, like three years ago, I had to make my own ghetto thumbnails all the time and they always looked like crap. And then that researching took so much longer. Like today I can do, I can review, I reviewed on my crypto reviews channel, I viewed five different altcoins and the AI sped up making the thumbnail, it sped up the research on all the altcoins, it speeds up the YouTube description. So in just three years. AI has drastically changed what I'm doing in content creation and that's still with siloed AI, with AI that's like tunnel vision, only takes the data I give it, can't do anything else on my computer.

This, the adoption for ICP in this model could happen much faster. I can't wait to see what happens. I think it's gonna be a lot faster than you think because there's huge incentives. Dominic, this has made something here that solves huge real world problems and we may need some more time to kind of get some initial adoption, but you see things like vibe coding have taken off.

Building It Today With Caffeine AI

I've been able to build this entire website on the ICP blockchain directly with AI. I'm grateful I had two calls with people yesterday and somebody else bought a call for Wednesday next week. I would love to talk with you and we can even record a video if you want to do a call together. And like this website is a huge asset to me. So when you have people already building on Caffeine AI on ICP and you can plug Caffeine AI into these other solutions that are also on ICP, then you can build out your crypto projects, you can build out your website, your meme coin launcher.

If you want to see exactly how I build on ICP by chatting with AI, I put together Caffeine AI Tutorial: Build Apps on the Blockchain by Chatting.

You can have one single person that can do what a few years ago was an unimaginable amount of development and work. And this is a huge deal for influencers especially because influencers have audiences and we consistently get ripped off trying to monetize the audiences, like having a developer try and build the website for us or having some affiliate thing we're selling and they take most of the money we generate. This setup is huge for entrepreneurs and small businesses but even for enterprises. Enterprises could save huge amounts of money and not just in terms of what they pay but in liabilities. Right now there's huge liabilities for all these companies that are getting hacked, that have all these people's data.

They're in a position where they need to secure all this stuff because the liabilities that are hanging around from all of these loose ends, all of these holes that they have to plug are huge. Loving your videos and collabs are blockchain built. Thank you. Go Danho. The tech is great. Well, the price will reflect the adoption someday. But the thing is we're kind of in an all or nothing thing with ICP. Like this, when you see the level of technology this is putting out, you can see the urgent necessity to keep this secret because if people in crypto realize when they think everything in crypto is junk and useless and even the people in the know like Vitalik are pretending that we're just, we just need people to make some solutions.

We just, we need crypto. It's like Vitalik. Uncover your eyes and you will see. Like this is, this is what's happening on ICP and like everything else in crypto is basically useless and his narrative's in hype. So when you're talking, let me wrap up what I was saying about Dom's post. Like today, most companies are buying, spending all kinds of money on all kinds of software as a service or as a software as a service. In the future, you can have AI just build the services for them. Now that saves a huge amount of money in licensing. There's so much money that companies and people like me are just dumping into these software as a service.

Like I just dump money into QuickBooks every month. And even ChatGPT is a, is S A S S, asset ass I think, but software as a service platform. I have so many things, even as a solopreneur, I just dump money into QuickBooks. I just dump money into all the time because I use them. But imagine if I could just build out my own suite of software with AI in a fully controlled environment where I have control of the data, where I have all my stuff. Like as I said earlier, imagine if I could build out something where I could cut Canva, where I could have AI that already is functioning in there.

So I could, I could maybe use ChatGPT or I could do a ChatGPT plugin directly to my data. Imagine if I'm able to cut out using QuickBooks, and Microsoft Word, and Canva, and a couple other things, and just put all the data into one single platform, then have AI agents be able to access all my data for me, then I could do really cool things with it. And for me, that's not as big of a deal because it's not that complicated. But the more employees you add, because if it's just me with a Word document and Canva and OBS, I can just do all that stuff myself.

But if, let's say, I have 10 people working for me, and then they're using my Word documents to try and do my video ideas, then it starts to, you start to multiply the level of complexity. So what Dominic's talking about is tomorrow companies, you can just have AI build your software as a service. Right now, employees spend a ton of time operating software, just moving things manually between things that don't talk to each other. But instead, imagine if employees are acting directly with AI agents, and the AI agents operate and create the software. Like that is, is so much more effective in terms of time, in terms of money, and in terms of data security and integrity and verifiability.

Meanwhile, all the data companies have is often trapped in apps or silos. But if you put all the data together with the software directly and have the AI agents interface and create all of it, like that is so much better than what we're using today. And look at the speed element of this, where you have an AI agent that has all your data in one place. The bigger the company, the more data, the more they have, this is so much more efficient. Even for a solopreneur though, this could save a lot of money building all this stuff in one place instead of paying for all these different things. If you want help thinking through where AI and ICP actually fit into your own work, that is exactly the kind of thing we can dig into together when you book a one-on-one call with me.

So what Dom's Post is saying is, like this is what's possible and where we're headed in the future. I'm obsessed with looking like where are we going in the future to get in position? And this is why, this is such a valuable, like this to me is a narrative that's so far ahead of anything else in crypto that you've got to, to keep this on the down low. Because when I just reviewed cryptos on, my crypto reviews channel, they're talking about finance and payments. Like this is talking about real infrastructure that solves a massive problem. So if we dig deeper into Dominic's post, he's talking about how the outer layers, employees that orchestrate the AI and the AI builds all this stuff from scratch, caffeine, clogged code and perplexity, and then caffeine snorkel.

Look, this is, you're like, why are people gonna adopt this? Well, when you can auto migrate legacy systems and see what's different when Dominic talks versus most of these other people talk, DFINITY keeps delivering stuff. They talk about VET keys, they delivered it. They talk about Chainkey Bitcoin, Chainkey Ethereum, they delivered it. They talk about caffeine AI, they delivered it. When Dom's talking about this, I have confidence it's going to get delivered. And when you have things where you can migrate legacy systems and make something way more efficient and secure and verifiable, it's just, it starts to look crazy that you wouldn't use it. And yes, it may take some time, but the more you start having governments using this, people talking about it, all of a sudden you may see some serious adoption spikes.

Too many people must be listening to James Allen. Well, James Allen, I just watched his recent video today and he seems to be missing the bigger picture and still hurt that he didn't get a grant from DFINITY, which I get, they didn't, they gave me $25 000. Beginning of 2024, or was that 2024? And they haven't given me any more since then. And they gave me $25 000 at $12 ICP. So I didn't get that. I sold, I didn't sell hardly any of it. I put, I locked a bunch of it up. So, if I had to do over again, I'd sell it and buy for lower prices and then just accumulate on my own.

That's the thing though. A lot of people are not seeing the bigger picture and the real problems that need to be solved. Lasering in on a problem, a price chart is like a rat that's like stuck in a corner of a house and is completely unaware that there's any other house. And the rat's just in the corner of the house being like, well, there's no food right here. It's like, well, go explore the rest of the house. Realize that there's a kitchen. There's a whole bunch of food in the kitchen. With, also with Motoko and the orthogonal persistence, ICP has a unique language where you are able to have the data be persistent over time.

Most, like I have a friend, oh, Angela, that we did the, we did the roast together. If you guys haven't watched this, this is one of the funniest piece of content I've created in a while. Jerry Banfield gets roasted by Angela Hutchinson. That is, def, watch that. And she has her website on lovable. And I'm like, move your website on the ICP. Like if you actually go viral, your website will get hacked. Somebody will just take your website down because it's built insecurely. And what Dominic's talking about is that it's built insecurely. There's a future where AI does, is able to really reach its potential.

The current system does not allow AI to really reach its potential. But Dominic has just laid out a path for the first time that this world model where AI can perform brilliant analyses for employees. Right now, it's so complex and you have to, it's a pain to get all the data together and then to analyze it and have people take action on it. This will get adopted because it's much, much more efficient. It saves money. It saves time and increases security, increases verifiability. And that's what Dominic's talking about. Agentic organizations will be vastly smarter, faster, more efficient, despite burning large numbers of AI tokens. Organizations that transform themselves will easily out compete rivals.

Like this is why it'll get adopted. And that's what, like for me as a content creator, I'm able to out compete my rivals now using AI. I've got six YouTube channels that I can use to out compete my rivals. I can create content on most days because my workflow is fast. Most YouTubers cannot, the sheer volume of content I crank out, I use AI to make things like the thumbnail. I used to pay graphic designers like 20 bucks per thumbnail. I used to have to make my video ideas days ahead of time and pay graphic designers 20 plus dollars per thumbnail. And AI now generates that for $20 a month almost instantaneously.

That's the same kind of efficiency boost that Dominic is talking about here. The largest business transformation in history has already begun. ICP is the only tech that I see that can support this right now. And yes, we are ahead of time. And this is still very early. But you have governments that are looking at this. Governments stating their intentions. Like the UAE. They're saying that they're going to, to run on agentic AI. And ICP is the only setup that you can run all that securely and have it hack proof, always on, sovereignty from data lock in. This, see, put the two of these together. And Dominic knows which governments they're talking to that are not public yet.

And you already have Pakistan and Switzerland that are public. And then you have the UAE saying within two years. So like, this is a time, this is a timeline we should be thinking. The president of the UAE is talking within two years. Like he's not talking in maybe a decade or two. He's saying within two years. Because a country like the UAE has a lot to gain by moving their infrastructure onto the new way of doing things.

Governments Are Already Moving on This

Dom says, we believe that states will be using the new agentic organization functionality and trials are already underway. So you don't have to think that this is going to take forever. There are states, governments that are moving on this because they have a lot to gain. James Allen invested a thousand ICP. And I think James Allen bought at like 10 or so dollars also. J Babe says the girls were hot. They were. That was a lot of fun. When is the wake up coming? J Babe says. If you look at these timelines, within two years to me is a reasonable time that the wake up is coming.

That is where, now there, this is what, what most people are immediately, looking for answers though. Like you're looking at the wrong data points. The price is going to handle itself. And DFINITY does spend money in here, but the price action is completely illogical and upsetting. But the price action actually makes perfect sense. The price action is designed to keep people from finding ICP. It makes perfect sense what's happening with the price actions. And Dominic is talking about how the details, he's out here answering questions, how cloud engines will provide you, with how many cycles everything consumed. This is set up to win. Hey, what's up?

This is why I keep saying Crypto Market Caps Are a Distraction. Only ICP Is Real when everyone is staring at the chart instead of the technology.

Support us. Nice to see you. Any other questions to wrap up? Vote Jerry Banfield for Senator. Nate says, how long do you think it's going to take Pakistan to build their network? I don't know, but I looked up the, the Pakistan digital authority. And if, if I'm them, I want to move things. This, this is going to be as fast as possible, but still governments can move slow. If you want this timetable from the UAE to be an indication, they're talking within two years, 50%. So this, this could happen. You're looking at years though. But I imagine that for Switzerland and Pakistan being public, there's probably several more governments that are privately talking about this.

Probably some companies that are looking at this too. These and and Lichtenstein also. Thank you. Only in crypto to me, this is, it's, this is why everyone's like, well, isn't there anything better than ICP? No, because nothing else is doing this. Everybody's talking AI agents. But when you look into the details, how are they going to deliver that on centralized tech? That's insecure with having to pay for a security team with having all these things that don't interconnect with each other, that you're going to then try and build stuff in an environment where the data is not verifiable, where it doesn't all work together. Like this is the only solution here.

So you, so now NAF, NAF says, I agree, but you need exposure to the financial revolution.

Why ICP Is the Real Financial Revolution

See, this ICP is the financial revolution because once you get your infrastructure built on ICP, then it also sends payments. Once you've got this model built up, once you're using them, this is where the financial system changes because right now the narratives about like XLP and XLM and the financial, infrastructure are ridiculous because all the rest of everything is still saying the same in order. Once you've got your infrastructure built on ICP, then it makes sense that you've got all your finance directly on ICP as well. So to me, these other coins have nothing on the possible financial infrastructure impact compared to ICP because on ICP, once you get this whole world built up on ICP, then you're going to also, also have built in crypto payments, ICP and any of the stable coins and any of the other like CKBTC, CKE, you can make your own company payment coin if you wanted to, your own meme coins, your own coin.

So the financial future, like there's, XRP and XLM to me have no utility. It is purely like pay to play, pay to talk, pay to look like we're doing something. But especially when you have, if you have ICP that actually you get infrastructure built on ICP, then taking crypto payments is natural. You're already in position. Whereas when you're talking about having, all this stuff built around it, like trying to integrate AI agents on web two, and then trying to plug a blockchain into that is a nightmare. There's so many things that can go wrong and the complexity of it. You need to pay all these people to try and figure everything out. If you're trying to figure out where your own project or business fits into all of this, you can schedule a private call with me and we'll map it out for your situation.

You build it, you update one thing, you got to change the other stuff. That's the financial system will change once the internet gets built on ICP. And I think it's ridiculous to expect that anything significant is going to change in the financial system until the infrastructure it's all built on changes. And I don't see why would invest in that the web two financial model that is assisted by sending transactions on a blockchain when I could invest in this instead. So I'm going to keep these live streams under 30 minutes so I don't ramble. But because I can do that and that way we kind of get one concise point each day and you show up, it's still watchable.

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