Maria Irene

Maria Irene is a journalist and author covering the Internet Computer Protocol, Bitcoin, DeFi, and the broader decentralised web. She is the founder and editor of LedgerLife.io, an independent, reader-funded publication dedicated to clear-eyed reporting on the ICP ecosystem and Web3 technology. She is the author of two books: Money Without Masters: The Story of Crypto (Amazon) and The World Computer: Decentralised Computing and the Rise of the Internet Computer Protocol (Amazon). Her work focuses on making complex blockchain technology accessible without losing precision or depth.
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Swiss healthcare data emerges as potential use case for ICP cloud infrastructure

Swiss healthcare providers are being identified as a potential use case for decentralised cloud infrastructure, as hospitals face strict requirements around the handling of...

ICPay Launches Discounted On-Chain Storage With ICBucket

ICPay has launched ICBucket, an on-chain storage service on the Internet Computer, with promotional pricing, a revised user interface and changes to its underlying...

UNDP Expands Sovereign AI Infrastructure Pilot to Five More Countries

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is expanding a pilot programme designed to help governments develop AI-powered applications without relying entirely on major US-based...

NEAR and ICP Join Forces in NearLaunch Website Deployment Experiment

A new NearLaunch experiment is showing how NEAR and the Internet Computer Protocol can be used together to simplify the process of deploying websites...
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Dmail upgrades NFT domain sales flow with faster processing and more...

Dmail has rolled out a set of backend and checkout upgrades designed to make buying its NFT email domains quicker and easier, as the...
Maria Irene

DAOs Can Now Run Bluesky Accounts via ICP

Decentralised governance is starting to spill out of the usual on-chain spaces and into public timelines, thanks to a new integration between Bluesky’s AT...
Maria Irene

Tricia Wang on What Autonomous AI Actually Needs

As businesses race to deploy AI agents that can plan, act and execute tasks with minimal human input, a quieter question is starting to...
Maria Irene

Debt Bonanza or Fiscal Headache? US Treasuries Hit $654bn This Week

The United States government sold a huge batch of Treasury securities last week, auctioning a reported $654 billion of bills, notes and bonds as...
Maria Irene

Dvinity Wants to Turn ICP Into a Scratchcard Habit

Dvinity has shared a fresh roadmap for $DVINITY and its decentralised application, leaning into a simple idea with surprisingly sticky potential: if the community...
Maria Irene

Caffeine Users Are Clocking Up Serious Screen Time

Caffeine.ai is quickly turning into the kind of product people don’t just try once and forget. New usage figures shared by the team show...