In a recent exclusive MSB Intel interview in the UAE: DFINITY founder, Dominic Williams, said Pakistan is creating a national chat app on ICP infrastructure that will have +100M users. @dominic_w @dfinity

Update - OISY 2.6.3 OISY now lets you top up any canister with your TCYCLES and adds LI.⁠FI to your swap providers. Compute, from your wallet to any canister: Since 2.6 you can turn ICP into TCYCLES and hold compute in your wallet. Now you can use it to keep a canister running. On the TCYCLES page, press Top up, paste the canister ID and choose an amount. OISY checks the canister exists first, and the canister gets the cycles. You don't need a command line, and you don't need to be the canister's controller. LI.⁠FI - more ways to swap: LI.⁠FI's offers now show up next to Velora and NEAR Intents, with routes across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon and Robinhood Chain, and on to Solana. OISY reads every LI.⁠FI swap before you approve it and only offers it if it pays you the token you asked for, at least the minimum shown. And when there's no direct swap it can check, OISY can suggest two, through one token in between. Closer checks before you approve: OISY now reviews WalletConnect requests more closely on Solana, Bitcoin and EVM networks. Signing out also clears the permissions you gave connected apps. And as always, many more quality of life improvements Double-click your balance to hide it, and swaps in progress now follow you across devices. Try it now on oisy.⁠com

Great to be back in Dubai after a while, today meeting with Dr. Sohail, Chairman of the Pakistan Digital Authority re next phases of ICP cloud engine, Open SaaS + Open AI factories tech rollout, did some podcasts, and tomorrow will present a keynote at the Dubai AI Festival 🔥

Great meeting Dr Sohail and the PDA today again in person 🤝 We discussed the next phase for Pakistan's Cloud Engines, a pilot of OpenSaaS and bringing DFINITY's AI Factory for developing production-grade government software to the PDA Cloud engine. The future is bright!

Dr. @sohailmunir , Chairperson of the Pakistan Digital Authority (PDA), met with Dominic Williams (@dominic_w ), Founder and Chief Scientist of @dfinity , and @PierreSamaties , Chief Business Officer, for strategic discussions on establishing an AI Factory in Pakistan for developing production-grade software for the public sector, deployed on the PDA Cloud Engine. The meeting involved detailed deliberations on developing a sovereign AI Factory focused on GovTech, government applications, and public-sector innovation, with the aim of strengthening Pakistan’s digital infrastructure and AI capabilities. This marks the second high-level engagement between PDA and DFINITY this year, building on their earlier meeting, which culminated in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The initial collaboration also laid the groundwork for a significant international milestone: UNDP’s adoption of Pakistan’s sovereign Cloud Engines model, reinforcing Pakistan’s emerging role in sovereign digital infrastructure and government-led technological innovation.

Tomorrow, Dominic Williams (@dominic_w) will present “Sovereign cloud for the AI era” at @DubaiAIFest on 27 October 2026, 3:10 pm GST (12:10 pm CET) on the Innovation Stage. With Open Cloud, you create a cloud engine from nodes you choose by operator, country, datacenter, and hardware class. The Internet Computer combines them into one platform that keeps running when some nodes fail. Choose where your cloud runs: opencloud dot org

Some of the core capabilities Pakistan's master plan needed were already built into the Internet Computer's architecture, guardrails around data and protection included. Which is why Dr. Sohail Munir says the infrastructure and the reference architecture were the easy part. The thinking went into governance, and that is what he wants to pass on to the governments that follow. @sohailmunir @digitalauthpk

Looking forward to two great days at the Dubai AI Festival, meeting with friends and partners! 🇦🇪 Watch out for the State of AI 2026 report that is going to be released on Tuesday. If you are around, don't miss @dominic_w's keynote on "Sovereign Cloud for the AI era" on Tue, 3:10 UAE time. @DubaiAIFest @DIFC @Ignyte_AE @dfinity

Calling all Discord & Telegram users 📢 You can now bridge your chats so that all messages are relayed to/from OpenChat! Install the Discord/TelegramBot then use the /bridge command. Link your Discord/Telegram account and your messages display in OpenChat as sent by you.

NEW: Borrow and Lend directly from Telegram 👀 That's right: no wallet connect, no website. Choose the currency you want, supply your collateral, and open your loan. It's that Simple 😎

icp-cli 1.7.0 is out, with a new command: icp cycles buy Pay by card right from your terminal: scan the QR, pay on Stripe, and the cycles land in your Cycles Ledger account seconds later. internet-computer:native Watch it below, or try it yourself: icp cycles buy --amount 1 -n ic

OpenChat is now ready for millions of users 🚀 Previously, each user had their own canister, costing ~$0.70 to create + ~$0.50/year. Too expensive at scale. So we’ve migrated all ~230k users into 100 shared canisters, meaning new users now cost almost nothing. Time to grow!

"Prompt to production is now a reality. We have seen that on Caffeine and ICP." Dr. Sohail Munir has watched it happen on a live national system. Pakistan's national complaint management platform was built with support from Caffeine. @sohailmunir @digitalauthpk

The Internet Computer now speaks Solana. ICP apps can read from and write to @solana directly. And with ckSOL, backed 1:1 by SOL, DeFi apps like @LiquidiumFi, MULTI/DEX and @ICPSwap can integrate SOL natively, next to BTC, ETH and ICP. No bridge required.

Nobody holds your whole key, not even OISY. It's split into pieces across a network. When you approve a transaction, the pieces sign together, so there's no single place to take it from.