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Caffeine: ICP’s Self-Writing Apps Platform Sets General Availability Timeline

ICPSquad Team
ICPSquad Team

Caffeine, the Internet Computer’s AI-powered, self-writing app platform, is getting ready to open its doors wider, with a phased rollout starting August 19. Here's what we can expect:

Phase I – Aug 19

The public master chat opens, letting anyone join and explore how Caffeine creates apps through conversation.

You’ll still need an access code to build, but distribution will ramp up quickly (tens of thousands are already on the waitlist). Behind the scenes, the team has rebuilt Caffeine’s scaling framework and migrated the master chat for better performance.

Phase II – Sept 16

Free draft app creation for all users. Everyone still in line for codes will get them before general release.

Phase III – Oct 7

The big unlock: paid live apps + ultra-cheap ICP blob storage.

Live apps run 24/7 and consume real cycles, but until now, storing files on ICP cost ~$5/GB/year — making large media projects expensive. With blob storage, immutable files (like photos, docs, and videos) will cost only $0.025/GB/year — that’s $25 for 1TB instead of $5,000.

This opens the door to decentralized “Google Drive” equivalents, personal photo galleries, and more — all owned by the user, with no middleman.

Future Phases (Dates TBD)

  • App Market — share or sell Caffeine-built apps globally

  • Web3 multi-chain integration — trustless blockchain features across networks

  • ASIC acceleration — massive speed boosts for AI inference

  • Enterprise tools — team-based app deployment and migration

 

Why it matters for ICP users: Caffeine goes beyond an AI tool, it’s a live demonstration of the Internet Computer’s unique capabilities: autonomous code generation, native Bitcoin/Ethereum/Web3 integration, and permanently hosted apps and files at a fraction of Web2 costs.

This is AI + blockchain without the bridges, middle layers, or cloud hosting fees.

The Internet Computer has always been about making the internet more open and user-owned. Caffeine is about to make building on it as easy as having a conversation.

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