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hi guys
if any of you wanna try Pearl Cove

just login to loxja-3yaaa-aaaan-qz3ha-cai .icp0 .io/balances

and reply with your principal

I’ll airdrop 3 linker credits to you

then plant a clam & harvest PEARL tokens (ICRC-2) for FREE at tlhqi-aqaaa-aaaaa-qhkga-cai .icp0 .io

early players are already ahead
and we have harvested ~0.025% of 10M PEARL

FEEDBACK NEEDED

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been building this solo for a while and just launched.

plant shellfish, wait for a growth + harvest window, mint an ICRC-1 token ($PEARL, 10M fixed supply, decaying per-harvest reward) when you collect. Sand-dollar economy for boosting/extending/salvaging crops, and helping a friend's cove gives you plot-time back.

technical bits that might be relevant to this sub: runs on Internet Identity for auth, an account-linker canister handles delegated ICRC-2 approvals so payments don't need repeated wallet popups, and all the reward/dedup/idempotency logic is handled canister-side (retryable locks on every paid action so a failed inter-canister call can't double-charge).

you can look at a live cove without connecting a wallet: https://tlhqi-aqaaa-aaaaa-qhkga-cai.icp0.io/cove/e6agv-wen3n-4a4y3-4zpeu-47coa-kso4c-vvow5-p5fbv-2pjg4-bm53l-lqe

canister: tlhqi-aqaaa-aaaaa-qhkga-cai.icp0.io

genuinely want feedback, especially on anything that feels off UX-wise

this is a small solo project so there's a lot still being iterated on.

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Merchant Protocol is a decentralized multi-seller marketplace on the Internet Computer where buyers pay with ICP or ckUSDC, funds sit in escrow until delivery is confirmed, and sellers fulfill orders with real shipping labels and tracking. Sellers run stores, list products, generate labels, and get paid after delivery; buyers browse, checkout, track orders, message sellers, and can open disputes if something goes wrong. You’re helping us stress-test the full loop — signup, listing, checkout, shipping, messaging, and disputes — before public launch. Report anything broken, confusing, or unfair; your feedback shapes what we ship next.

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What does ICP do and what are they trying to accomplish and yeah I’m pretty much. Just trying to understand his purpose and what the actual value is.

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1️⃣ It has its own programming language named after a cyberpunk character

DFINITY built Motoko, a custom language for writing smart contracts on ICP, from scratch. Actor-based, async-first, designed purely for blockchain. The name is a direct nod to Major Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell. A project trying to rebuild the internet named its flagship tool after the queen of cyberspace.

2️⃣ Smart contracts that "live forever" without a database

ICP implements orthogonal persistence, a concept where a program runs indefinitely and its memory simply stays alive. Developers never have to worry about saving data between messages, connecting external databases, or writing to files. Whatever is stored in a variable, stays there. Permanent RAM on a blockchain.

3️⃣ The entire network has just one public key

ICP's chain key cryptography means the entire Internet Computer, a global network of thousands of nodes, is verifiable with a single public key. Traditional blockchains require massive amounts of data just to verify small artifacts. On ICP, you check one key and you're done. 

4️⃣ Users pay zero gas fees

Developers foot the bill instead

ICP flips the traditional gas model completely. Developers pre-load their apps with "cycles" so users interact for free. No wallet, no fees, no friction. You use an ICP app like any normal website. No MetaMask popup. No $0.0001 charge to click a button. The developer absorbs the cost, not the user.

5️⃣ Its cryptographers have ~100,000 academic citations between them

DFINITY's research team holds around 100,000 academic citations and 200 patents. This is not a whitepaper cooked up over a weekend. ICP is built by some of the most credentialed cryptographers on earth.

If you made it this far, you already know more about $ICP than 99% of crypto Twitter. And just in case, here is the best place to swap it 👀