Company
Dfinity Foundation
2 interviews on Crypto Coin Show
The DFINITY Foundation is a Swiss nonprofit, founded by Dominic Williams in October 2016 and based in Zurich, that is the main contributor to the Internet Computer.
The Internet Computer is a blockchain network designed to host full applications, data and web front ends on chain without traditional cloud servers, running on dedicated node machines operated by independent providers and governed by the Network Nervous System DAO. Its token, ICP, is used for governance and is converted into cycles that pay for computation. The network launched publicly in May 2021.
Since 2025 DFINITY has centered its strategy on AI and sovereign cloud: Caffeine, launched in November 2025, lets users create applications through natural language prompts that are then hosted on the Internet Computer. In January 2026 the foundation published Mission 70, a plan to cut ICP inflation by about 70 percent.
32:13Latest interview · Feb 21, 2023Lomesh Dutta on decentralized apps and airdrops on DfinityAshton Addison speaks with Lomesh Dutta, VP of Growth at the Dfinity Foundation on their infrastructure for a decentralized internet, Web3 dApps on ICP like social networks, decentralized Identities and DeFi, which dApps may conduct airdrops in the near future, and how to start using…Watch the episode →People we’ve interviewed
About Dfinity Foundation
- Chain TVL
- $7.69M DefiLlama
- Type
- Layer 1 blockchain, decentralized cloud
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
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Funding and backers
As stated in Crypto Coin Show interviews and coverage. This is not a complete funding history.
What Dfinity Foundation told us
2 moments · 2 interviewsIn their own words on Crypto Coin Show. Tap Watch to jump to that exact moment.
“Next month we are rolling out something we are calling as SNS, a service nervous system. It's a DAO platform where you can decentralize any application and give control to being governed by the community.”
LDLomesh DuttaVP of Growth · Feb 2023▶Watch at 27:40
DWDominic Williams · Dominic Williams on building a decentralized internet with Dfinity“Every chat message is a transaction, right? Like a Bitcoin transaction. That's the crazy thing. And it's stored on the blockchain.”
▶Watch at 19:48
Products
- Internet Computer Protocol
- Caffeine AI app builder
- Network Nervous System (NNS)
- Chain Fusion cross-chain integrations
Timeline
- Upbit lists ICP
- Memorandum of understanding signed with Pakistan's Digital Authority for a Pakistan subnet
- Mission 70 whitepaper proposes a 70 percent cut in ICP inflation
- Caffeine AI platform launches
- First interview on Crypto Coin Show Watch
- Internet Computer mainnet genesis and ICP token launch
- Raises 102 million dollars led by a16z crypto and Polychain, bringing total funding to 195 million
- Raised $102M (Venture round)
- Raised $61M (Venture round)
- DFINITY founded by Dominic Williams
- Dfinity Foundation founded
Market
Market data: CoinGecko. Full ICP price page →
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