Caffeine-Powered Demo Steals Show at 2025 World Computer Summit

Tech's biggest names got a jolt today as a live caffeine-fueled coding session closed out the World Computer Summit's most talked-about day yet.

-- The buzz? A no-nonsense demo cutting through the usual corporate fluff—just developers, keyboards, and enough espresso to power a small blockchain.

-- Behind the scenes: VCs were already calculating how to turn the spectacle into an 'energy-drink metaverse' IPO. Some things never change in finance.

Final takeaway? While others pitch Web5.0 vaporware, sometimes raw human horsepower—chemically enhanced—still delivers the goods.

Community engagement and developer activations

One of the most notable aspects of WCS25 was the strength and enthusiasm of the ICP builder and holder community, with an entire section of the event staged to platform, engage, and demonstrate ICP’s exceptional capabilities to builders of all levels of growth. From early-stage developers to established dapp teams and infrastructure providers, this part of the event highlighted the diversity and momentum of the ICP ecosystem.

Pitches and Panels in this section included notable ICP projects, such as KongSwap, Liquidium, PiggyCell, Omnity Network, and more.

Throughout the day, the Ecosystem Stage played host to an engaging array of demonstrations, project pitches, use cases and builder tools, spanning DeFi, Agentic AI, RWA, and more. DFINITY’s expert teams also delivered critical project milestone updates and capability demonstrations for OISY Wallet and Chain Fusion technologies, to name just a few.

A new era of Internet Computer 2.0

As the Summit drew to a close, it was clear that the movement for an open, decentralized Internet focusing on accessibility, data sovereignty and ownership is growing – and will be fueled by a combination of developer ambition and AI capabilities. The DFINITY Foundation remains steadfast in its commitment to pushing forward to make this vision a reality, pushing the boundaries of what is possible and contributing to the development of breakthrough, real-world, applications.

Speaking on the demonstration, Dominic Williams said, “We are proud to announce the advent of Internet Computer 2.0. The network now provides a unique cloud computing environment that enables AI to build solo. Today we demonstrated an incredible alpha version of the platform, which will be followed by a beta in about a month that will be released to the public. We are targeting a future where everyone in the world can create online functionality just by talking.”

Catch up on a recording of the live demonstration here. Check out more information about DFINITY and ICP’s vision here.