Memoirs of DFINITY Foundation founder Dominic Williams: Recounting a painful early experience
The reason I have come to deeply understand the true importance of implementing fully decentralized computation is rooted in a rather special experience behind the scenes. This story is worth telling—so please, let me take you through it slowly. As early as 2015, I had already thrown myself into the early cryptocurrency space, but I also continued to run the “Fight My Monster” that I had founded previously—a venture-backed MMO (massively multiplayer online) game and social networking platform with 3 million users that is financially self-sustaining. Although I’ve found my long-term career home in the field of decentralized computing, I can’t let down the community of players who have continued to support this game.
Essay Customization Workshop · September 15, 2026 The crypto market has been lively again these past few days. Bitcoin back above 78,000; altcoins start acting up, memes begin pumping again, and people in the group start sharing screenshots. You know what’s in the screenshots: an upward-curving line paired with “I told you so.” But if you look closely, you’ll notice a pattern—the people posting screenshots never screenshot their total assets. First, let’s address the most unflattering thing about this latest rally. It’s not that “many people want to buy” drove it higher—it's that “some people have no choice but to buy.” What the on-chain post-analyses call it is short-squeeze: those who bet on the drop get forced to close their positions, and closing means buying back—so the price goes up.
Three years on, and I’m still that same community that gives you an 85% discount “smuggling in” to the top blockchain scene!
Hey handsome and beautiful Web3 people, the big-shot masters of “dual training” in AI and blockchain, and those wealthy folks who are still watching from the sidelines but are itching to get in—: Attention! Attention! This is not a drill! The - 2026 Shanghai International Week of Blockchain · The 12th Blockchain Global Summit, scheduled as reliably as your birthday (even more dependable than your idol’s concert), will make a glorious return this golden autumn September (specifically on the 23rd)! Why do I say “again”? Because, as your long-time “sweetheart” — the IC Chinese Community — this is already our third year in a row clinging onto the mighty support of the Wanxiang Blockchain Lab, becoming an officially partnered community partner!
ORIGYN has been preparing some projects, and now we’re ready to start talking about them. It’s called ORIGYN AgentChain, an SDK (software development kit, a set of tools developers can use to build things) designed to give AI agents persistent memory. The problem it tries to solve If you interact with an AI assistant every day, you’ll definitely relate: the assistant can remember all the information from one conversation or one tool, but once you switch interfaces, hit the context limit, or move to a new device, that information is instantly lost. All the decisions, files, and contextual information the assistant had accumulated before disappear without a trace.
UNDP and DFINITY Foundation Partner to Explore the Deployment of Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure and Decentralized AI for the Benefit of the Public
New York, Istanbul, Zurich, Aug. 25 — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the DFINITY Foundation today announced the establishment of a new partnership to explore the deployment of sovereign cloud infrastructure and decentralized AI to support public-purpose digital transformation initiatives by governments, civil society organizations, and UNDP. Initial activities will be carried out in collaboration with UNDP’s Alternative Finance Lab (AltFinLab), covering three complementary workstreams. AltFinLab is a global initiative that aims to connect finance, innovation, and emerging technologies, exploring, testing, and promoting sustainable new approaches.
Exclusive Report: UN Agencies Test a Plan to Replace Large Cloud Service Providers
Preface UNDP works in more than 170 countries and has helped 25 of them design digital public infrastructure. DFINITY and UNDP have signed an agreement to introduce sovereign cloud and agentic AI into the public services sector. Over the next 12 months, DFINITY will pilot this technology at UNDP offices in various countries and with civil society organizations, and will co-design pilot projects with governments worldwide. All applications are based on the Cloud Engines platform, with a built-in OpenSaaS software suite, and can freely use any AI tools—from Caffeine to Claude Code, Codex, and Perplexity—to build tailored applications.