More than a trillion dollars of global wealth is going to move into the Internet Computer Protocol, and I want to walk you through the reasons why I believe that. If you've followed any of my other videos, you know I'm incredibly toxic toward the majority of altcoins. I've researched thousands of them, and I don't see any real value in most of them. I see hype, I see speculation, I see lies, I see cheating, and I see technology that is fundamentally useless. But there's one single crypto that has done the hard work to build technology that blows me away, and I use it every single day. That's why I'm convinced so much money is going to flow into ICP. Right now, people are starved for the truth in crypto, and I want to show you the details.
Here's the setup as I see it: people are starved for the truth. People think crypto is all marketing and hype and paying influencers and lies. And there's one thing in crypto that, to me, is the truth, and that's ICP. Because of that, ICP has more to gain than anything else when the price starts pumping. As soon as the price gets up there, and I believe it inevitably will, retail and bigger investors are going to start asking the obvious question: why would I park my money in Bitcoin, sitting idle while I wait for the price to go up, when I could earn a meaningful return staking ICP and contribute to what I consider the best tech in the world? When you can park your money in ICP and earn more than 10% APR on it, when you can actually use the blockchain every day by hosting a website, when ICP is solving genuinely hard problems like running AI on chain or letting you build your own social media application, things are going to change.
Why Bitcoin Feels Like Dial-Up
I put together a little outline that I worked on with ChatGPT so I could give you some written points, and then we'll go into more detail. What I see is that the more people start thinking about Bitcoin, the more they're going to want something better than Bitcoin. In my view, Bitcoin is kind of like dial-up internet. It was awesome compared to no internet at all. It gave you an idea of what was possible. But Bitcoin in actual usage is fantastically disappointing. You sit there and hope the price goes up, and you can't do almost anything else with it.
The more that governments, corporations, politicians, and retail investors see that Bitcoin exists and see the value of crypto, the more people will ultimately move toward real utility. And real utility, I believe, will only keep getting more important. As things keep collapsing, as blockchains built on hype and lies collapse when they run out of their flywheel marketing, as cybercrime continues to grow and wreck bridges and wreck the infrastructure that isn't on a blockchain like ICP, people will look for something solid. Bitcoin and Ethereum, in my opinion, are not solutions at all for the future of crypto, because you need something where you can build everything on chain in the same place as the coin. A layer two on Ethereum doesn't solve this. And Bitcoin, where you just hope the price goes up, is a bad investing strategy in my experience. ICP is the only thing where you can put everything on chain.
When you've got people like Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, saying that the new online is on chain, that tells you something. Now you've got all these cryptos trying to act like they can put things on chain beyond tokens, when really they just point to stuff held off chain. But this is obviously the future to me. If you could put your website fully on chain versus not on chain, the only thing stopping you is knowing that it's even possible.
The Numbers Behind ICP
ICP has the highest transactions per second, and you can verify this on Chainspect. Many blockchains cheat and try to artificially inflate their transaction numbers with bots. With ICP, if you screen that kind of thing out, and even if you don't, ICP has the highest transactions per second out of anything. The blockchain does more real computation than anything else out there. I believe Dominic said that in a single hour, the ICP blockchain does as much actual computation as all the rest of the blockchains do in a year. That's how powerful this is. When you look at ICP, it's above Solana in terms of what the blockchain is actually doing.
And ICP's governance is on chain. I've used Solana. Have you actually participated in governance on Solana? Because I have, and here's how it works: you delegate your voting power to somebody else and they do it for you. On ICP, when you lock up your own neuron like I have, you can actually vote, and that's how you earn these rewards. There are people all over the world who would kill to have 10% or higher rewards in an appreciating asset. That is yield that, in my experience, is so far better than anything else I've ever seen in DeFi. When you combine that with real utility, you're not just parking it and hoping the price goes up. You get the ability to vote. For example, I'm going to vote on blessing a new SNS deployment, and that vote moves the voting power and controls what actually happens on chain. You don't have to fork the network. To me, this is a higher level of decentralization than anything else in crypto has.
The more people get ripped off on centralized cryptos and want a world that isn't just a place where a few people tell everybody what to do, the more ICP stands out. It's the only technology I currently see that can facilitate that. It's set up for the masses, too. The masses are not going to buy ETH and SOL just to send transactions or buy meme coins. It's mostly a small slice of obsessive people doing things like that. The masses just want to jump in and use something. On ICP, you don't have to pay to use the blockchain. When you're on my website, you're on the blockchain. When you join my OpenChat, you are on the actual blockchain, and you don't have to pay anything. That's what's set up for true mass adoption.
The Centralized Middleman Problem
Right now, with almost everything else in crypto, it's irrelevant how "decentralized" the blockchain itself claims to be, because all the websites you're using, everything that interacts with the blockchain, almost all of it comes right back to being hosted on centralized cloud. That means there's a middleman between you and the blockchain, which ruins any decentralization the blockchain might have, because that's where you get scraped, that's where your wallet gets drained, and that's where websites censor transactions. For example, if they don't like your meme coin, they can just hide it off their website. Even if it's on the blockchain, you can't see it on the website.
Institutions and governments are very excited about this as well, because they're having the same problem everybody else is with current centralized tech. The data is very vulnerable to AI and to cyber attacks. It's expensive. It's complicated. ICP provides an all-in-one, simple, secure, tamper-proof environment, which is really needed across the planet. And the more we get people looking at crypto, the more we're in a position where trillions of dollars will come into ICP.
An Accumulation Opportunity
Right now, the rest of crypto is playing a short-term game of trying to hype and talk and make as much noise as possible while ignoring ICP as much as they can. Because once you find ICP, all these other blockchains look like garbage by comparison. To me, this price is an accumulation opportunity, because what ICP has on its side that nothing else has is the truth. All the rest of this stuff, I believe, is worthless. Bitcoin Cash is a copy of Bitcoin, a fork of Bitcoin. Do you think a copy is valuable? These other blockchains can hardly do any computation. Almost all of them are very similar to either Bitcoin or Ethereum, and when you come down to the actual technology, it's almost useless to me.
This is why hardly anybody talks about ICP. They're not getting paid by all these blockchains to talk about it, and these blockchains work together to push each other. But ICP, the more it gets up there, the more people look at it, the more it's in position to take everything in crypto. And if you look at the numbers, ICP is fantastically bullish to me. Developer adoption on ICP, with the smart contracts being deployed, the cycles burned, and the things people are putting on chain like AI, is incredible. People are running their own AI models fully on chain.
You can build your own crypto play-to-earn game like CryptoCMHunt.xyz, which sponsored a video with me the other day. This is easier than anywhere else because you can build all of it on chain: the website, the wallet, the token, and one person can build the whole thing. Nine out of ten of the top DAOs today are on ICP because it's easier to build everything on chain and then have a DAO run it. To me, this almost looks rigged in ICP's favor. On ICP, you've got a guy who built a social media application fully on chain by himself. Caffeine.ai is coming out. You've got the largest research and development team in blockchain. It really does look rigged. If you want to go deeper on all of this, I've put together my ICP Crypto playlist with everything I've learned.
If you appreciate me, I'm out here giving you what I see as the absolute best information you need to know about crypto. If you don't know about ICP, you basically don't know anything in crypto at this point.