I want to show you something that I expect will sound crazy at first: how Internet Computer Protocol, sitting around the top 30 cryptos, is positioned this altcoin season to flip both Solana and XRP. I know some of you are going to react with, "What? That's insane." But stay with me and look at the information, because this is what I've been watching unfold for quite a while now.
The Crypto Game Is Rigged to Screw You
The first thing you need to understand is that the entire crypto game you're playing is rigged against you. Always research and look things up for yourself, but here's where I'd start. Dominic Williams is the founder of DFINITY, the largest research and development team in blockchain, and they're the main contributor to Internet Computer. He explains how most of crypto actually thinks. I made two whole videos about this, but I'm summarizing it here to set up what I'm saying about XRP and Solana getting flipped by ICP.
What you really need to understand is that most of what you think of as "crypto" is a matrix that's socially engineered to trick you into buying worthless crap. How is that done? The top cryptos simply pay. They pay the press. They pay sites like CoinMarketCap, or they buy them outright. They pay exchanges to artificially manipulate the price of their token. They pay crypto YouTube. I just did a video exposing crypto YouTube, where I went through all the top 100 crypto YouTubers and found that the majority of them have never done a single video about the best actual technology in crypto, which in my view is Internet Computer Protocol.
In my experience, ICP is the best tech in crypto, and I don't think anyone would seriously debate that with you. When you go to something like internetcomputer.org, nothing else can do what it can do. ICP does everything fully on chain. Nothing else in crypto is even close to being able to do that, and that's a game changer. But the entire crypto system you're operating inside is rigged to steal from you, because almost everybody you listen to is either getting paid to push certain narratives and certain coins, or they're just chasing views from bots that push those same narratives and coins. Almost every metric you see is part of this matrix of lying, cheating, and stealing.
How We Get Out of the Matrix
So how do we get out of this? The way out, as I've come to believe, is by having real technology that reaches the bigger world beyond crypto. Right now, inside the little world of crypto, Solana and XRP seem like a huge deal. But outside the world of crypto, almost nobody knows about crypto at all.
Let me put that in perspective with Google Trends. Compare Bitcoin, AI, and XRP. Look at how much bigger AI is than Bitcoin and XRP. XRP barely exists compared to AI. Bitcoin is far bigger than XRP, and yet Bitcoin still barely exists compared to AI. So here's what I think is going to happen: Internet Computer is going to climb up from where it sits now, around rank 35, or close to 30 if you exclude stablecoins. It's a crypto with only about a $3 billion market cap right now, precisely because the same forces using social engineering to trick you into buying things have kept attention away from it.
If you separate out all the hype, all the marketing, and all the narratives, the technology behind XRP and Solana is, in my opinion, useless. There's nobody in the bigger world outside of crypto who cares about the technology XRP and Solana have. Why? Because it can't do everything fully on chain. It doesn't solve any meaningful real-world problems. I've listened to all the hype videos. Just sending transactions is not solving a real-world problem, because there are already a ton of ways to send real-world transactions, and plenty of other options too.
What ICP Actually Solves
What does solve real-world problems is Internet Computer Protocol. Here are some of the things it does. For starters, it already has more transactions than both Solana and XRP combined. It solves a real-world problem with AI. Right now, if you try to run AI on centralized tech, it is miserably complicated. And the thing we saw with the Bybit hack recently is just going to keep happening more and more.
Right now, DFINITY is preparing to release an app this year called Caffeine.ai, which I expect will smash into the AI world. That AI world is so much bigger than all the rest of crypto combined. What impresses people about it is that you'll be able to build your own application just by talking to the AI, and crank that out directly on the blockchain. Right now people use all these other sites because they can't easily build their own applications. They're using expensive hosting platforms that get you stuck paying. If you buy WordPress, you're stuck with your WordPress on your WordPress host. Same with Shopify, where you can't build your own store very easily, and you have to use all these centralized, expensive solutions. This is a massive technological innovation.
Dominic is predicting that by the end of the year, most crypto developers will be ICP developers. That's not saying all of crypto is going to switch over to ICP. It's saying that developers from outside of crypto are going to pour into ICP to build things on it.
If you want to understand this, and you really should do your own research, the best place I've found to grasp what I'm describing is Bobby O2's channel. Bobby O will explain the technology and why AI needs ICP so badly. If you watch a bunch of his videos, you'll see that what ICP is doing is solving a massive problem in the world of AI, one that everybody from startups trying to run their own LLM to the biggest enterprises on earth are all struggling with. ICP solves for all of those issues in one single infrastructure, and is preparing an obscenely easy way for the masses to access it.
The intersection of all this coming together is absolutely incredible, and it's such a privilege to be here at this time. ICP has rebuilt crypto from the ground up. The technology itself is blowing people away, and that will appeal to the entire world, from big enterprises to startups to people who've never built anything, using AI to crank stuff out. If you look at on-chain compute, ICP does more than all other blockchains combined. That's how powerful this is.
Why XRP and Solana Didn't Build This
The reason it's this powerful is that you have the largest research and development team in crypto pushing huge amounts of effort into solving the hardest problems in blockchain and making something fundamentally useful. That team is DFINITY.
So why isn't XRP doing this? Why isn't Solana doing this? XRP's tech is over a decade old. Solana made the easiest, fastest blockchain they could, but they couldn't crank out something like this. If you want to make the most money as fast as possible with the least effort, you basically copy Ethereum, make a couple of small changes, and crank that out. It's very hard to put in a thousand-plus person-years of research and development, assemble some of the best cryptographers in the world, get them all working on the same thing, and then make a blockchain that can do what ICP does.
What I've Experienced Firsthand
What's amazing is that I'm telling you things you can look up yourself. You can use the ICP blockchain totally for free. I'm not talking about this theoretically, or maybe someday in the future. I can tell you firsthand that this tech has changed my life as an entrepreneur online. I've tried so many web hosts. I've researched endlessly, done affiliate marketing for web hosts, and tried every platform: Shopify, Wix, WordPress, a bunch of different WordPress hosts, and several others I'm forgetting. I went through a ton of web hosts. Just web hosting alone on ICP is, in my experience, far superior to anything I've ever used before. I can vouch firsthand for how powerful this tech is. For me, it's been cheaper, faster, more secure, and more scalable than anything else I've ever used.
Consider hosting a website like mine, which can get tens of thousands of visits in a single day when I go viral, something that's happened a few times. Normally, the way other web hosts work, that will crash your website, which happened every other time I went viral. Or, if you're on the best hosting solution, you'll have to make an emergency upgrade, pay thousands and thousands of dollars to do it, and then get stuck paying a higher bill indefinitely. On ICP, I buy ICP, burn it for cycles, and then just sit there with the cycles. Because ICP is a world computer, I pay for the actual computation I use. Do you understand what a massive technological innovation that is? In my mind this is on par with things like fiber optic internet versus dial-up. It's a massive improvement on what we've been using.
Why the Buying Pressure Is Coming
To me, this is the breakout year, when the technology starts to appeal to the general public, who will discover what it can do long before they realize it's based on a blockchain. That's why I believe ICP is going to break into the big AI market and into the bigger world in general. Once that happens, the amount of buying pressure coming into ICP will be enormous.
Think about it. Once you host your website on ICP, you've already bought ICP to pay your web hosting bill, which gives this the biggest real-world utility of any crypto. You're not just holding it and hoping the price goes up. Once you buy ICP to burn it and pay your hosting bill, you might realize that if you buy some more ICP, you could hold it and lock it up. Right now there are billions of dollars of ICP locked up, and more is being locked up indefinitely. We're over 204 million staked, which is about 44% of the total supply.
The tokenomics for ICP are better than anything I've ever seen, because almost all the unlocks are finished. Almost all the early investors have already gotten their money. We've gone through 90-plus million ICP dissolving already. So unlike these new chains launching with useless tech, this has the best tech and, in my view, absolute dream tokenomics. Once people realize they're buying ICP to host their website and to put AI on chain, and they realize they can buy ICP, lock it, and start earning around 13% on it, it'll only take a couple of companies deciding to move their infrastructure over. They'll make their infrastructure more secure and more scalable, cut out their cybercrime team, run their AI model safely on here, lock up some ICP, and essentially, through the rewards, eliminate the cost of their IT.
The companies that migrate first will save a fortune
The first companies that figure this out are going to be like the MicroStrategies of Bitcoin. They will realize they can migrate their infrastructure over to the Internet Computer, buy some ICP, lock it up, and then the staking rewards will indefinitely pay for the computation that runs their infrastructure. The companies that do that are going to save massive amounts of money on IT costs. It is only going to take one or two of them to prove it out, and then others will follow.
There are so many things building across ICP right now. If you want proof of that, you can see it in the cycle burn rate, which is the computation cost of running things on the network. There is one application, Bob, that has burned a huge amount of cycles, but even when you exclude that, the cycles are way up. A lot of that is on-chain large language models that are running directly on the network and use a lot of computation. That tells you real work is happening here.
I talked to Kyle Langham at DFINITY about my main concern, which is whether the network can handle all the adoption that is coming for it. Kyle said the network is ready. They have tons of nodes on standby, and they can easily onboard more within a few months if all the reserve ones get taken up. So there is huge capacity to grow this network right now. In my view, everything is in position for this to absolutely blow up.
Why crypto has earned its bad reputation
Here is what I think is going to happen. Right now, most people's mindset in crypto is that everything is worthless, and that is also how people outside of crypto see crypto. I do not even like telling people outside of crypto that I do crypto, because they assume I just promote coins. People outside of crypto have a negative impression that it is all lies and scams and Ponzi schemes, and honestly, they are right. That is the truth. Almost everything in crypto is a lie, a scam, or a Ponzi scheme.
The only way, to me, that you prove you are not a lie or a scam or a Ponzi scheme is by releasing real technology that impresses real people, people who are not just interested in price speculation and hype and noise and marketing, but who actually want to use the blockchain. In my experience, ICP is the only crypto where you can go use the blockchain without a third party getting in between you, without you having to buy the token, and without downloading a third-party wallet.
When you click on OpenChat, that is a 100% on-chain Telegram or Discord style community-building application. I have over 14,000 members in my OpenChat, and to me that is a big deal. You can pull your whole community off of centralized tech like Discord or Telegram, where your entire chat can easily be banned, where you get invaded by bots, and where it is hard to gate things behind payment. That is real tech.
How I see this playing out
The way I see this playing out is that over the next year or so, there are going to be a ton of people from outside of crypto, AI people and many others, who get onto ICP because of the technology. When they come pouring in, the ICP price, which has been suppressed by exchanges like FTX that intentionally and artificially inflated it and then dumped it on everybody, and by exchanges using shorts to keep the price suppressed while doing the opposite to other coins, will respond.
Once people in crypto realize there is something real here, everything changes. On some level you already know you are being told lies and tricked repeatedly. As I covered in my video exposing crypto YouTubers, the vast majority, more than 70% of the top 100 crypto YouTubers, have never once in thousands and thousands of videos even talked about the best technology in crypto. That is how screwed up crypto is. That is how paid off and how full of cheating and manipulation it is. Most crypto YouTubers only talk about things they have been paid to talk about, things bots push their content for, things they already hold, or things they think will get the biggest audience.
Meanwhile, most of the top 100 crypto YouTubers who have mentioned the Internet Computer have either FUDded it based on the price or done shallow videos on it. There is only a handful of the top 100 who have actually found out what I found out. Almost nobody in crypto knows this right now. You have to appreciate how few people understand why the Internet Computer is different. But when that changes, I believe crypto is going to melt down. Once people realize that all along there has been something with technology that blows away people outside of crypto, that has a coin, that is drastically undervalued, that you can earn staking rewards on, and that has more utility, the money is going to dump out of things like XRP and Solana and all the others and flow into the Internet Computer Protocol.
The ignorance is the opportunity
Right now, when things come up into the top 20 or top 10, people start researching them and talking about them. Most people in crypto have never even heard of the Internet Computer Protocol, but they have heard of things like XRP or Solana thousands and thousands of times. In my opinion, that familiarity is the only reason they think those are valuable, simply because they have heard of them. Most XRP holders have never used the blockchain or looked at the ledger. Most Solana holders have never used the blockchain other than to trade a meme coin, and have never looked at the analytics themselves. The average crypto investor is sitting there buying coins on an exchange, which most of the time does not even make a transaction on a blockchain, and just holding them hoping the price goes up.
The ignorance in crypto is shocking, and I believe ICP is going to come along and break people's idea of what crypto is. There is no other crypto that has so much to gain from the price moving up. These other cryptos have been artificially manipulated up through an incredible, socially engineered system designed to deceive you, rip you off, and extract value from you. To me, the most amazing thing we will see in crypto is watching ICP come blasting up into the top.
Most of the outside world is not part of this socially engineered crypto system. Once they come pouring in for the tech, XRP and everything else goes down, because the newcomers only care about the tech. Most of the world only cares about what you can do for them. They do not care about narratives and hype and speculation. Can you host my website? Can you give me a place to run AI? Can you let me build an application that is secure? That is how most of the world operates. Most of the world is not interested in listening to your coin pitch.
Get in position before the world finds out
So I am telling you over and over again, in my view you have to get in position before everybody else in the outside world knows about this. The insiders know they have a limited amount of time before ICP destroys everything else in crypto. Once the outside world comes in for this, I believe it is game over for XRP, game over for Solana and Avalanche, and game over for the rest of these cryptos. The people coming in will buy ICP and will not even look at any other crypto, because they do not care. They are on ICP for the tech, and everything else is irrelevant to them.
This is why I think there is so much suppression of ICP. It is dangerous to the status quo. I believe it will annihilate most of the rest of these cryptos, and the money will flow out of almost all of them. Once the insiders calculate that the game is over, they will dump. The insiders are desperate to keep this game going as long as possible, and they are desperate to get these ETFs approved, because in my opinion the ETFs will be the last rug pull. The ETFs will be their chance to sell out. ETFs pull in the most clueless investors, often through a third party like a financial advisor, dumping them into a portfolio. If the insiders do not hit their ETF money before ICP's tech reaches the rest of the world, they can go straight to zero. Meme coin trading is not a business system that is going to last. Narratives and hype about the banking system are not going to last. In my belief, ICP's tech is going to last, and it is going to take over.
I cannot wait to do a thousand videos saying I told you so. And yet this is the sweet time. To me, this is the moment that feels like buying Bitcoin at $100, like what I did. The only thing I did not do back then is have enough patience to see that all the way through. With ICP, I have been on this for a year and a half now, talking about it endlessly and relentlessly, and I am so excited for the day this comes to pass. If you have never seen anyone lay out how XRP and Solana could go down to ICP, this is it, and to me it is exactly that outcome I have about 99% confidence in. If you want to go deeper, you can watch my ICP Crypto playlist, ask questions, and use the blockchain completely for free.