IC Pack Blockchain Package Manager Whitepaper

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IC Pack is a package manager (PM) for ICP (Internet Computer Project) apps. It allows to install apps on the Web in user-sovereign way (that is nobody can modify the code of an installed app without the user allowing it, like as if the app were running on your own computer, so that a stranger can’t upgrade it, and protected by advanced security measures such as 2FA). Apps are installed in a special “user’s subnet” to increase their speed of interoperation.

The package manager’s UI will have features similar to features of a typical Linux package manager, such as installing, upgrading, automatic handling of dependencies of a package, etc. Unlike a Linux PM, it will allow such things as installing multiple copies of an app. It will also have Android-like permissions and also events.

The IC Pack project will profit from “taxing” on the amount spent by its users for IC cycles (gas). The initial plan for users taxation is:

• 1% from gas spendings of end users;
• 10% from gas spendings of app providers.

This can reach quite big amounts of money if (and it seems likely) we succeed to attract 1B users, each paying for 100 installed apps or multiple corporate clients, each paying $10000 for, for example, an AI app.

IC Pack will establish a profit sharing token (PST), proportional to holding of thereof the blockchain revenues will spread.

WARNING: Non-blockchain revenue, such as from possible running Google Ads on the WordPress site of the project, will not be distributed to PST holders. Anyway, it is expected that most revenue will be through the above blockchain-based “taxation”.

The PST will be created on the ICP network and its 16.5% will be allocated to launchpad investors (proportionally too their investment). Transferring from sold token to the ICP-based PST will be accomplished using either CK (chain-key) or other chain-fusion features of ICP blockchain.

PST holders will be able to swap (1:1) their launchpad token to PST and to withdraw profits through an ICP-based UI (note that this does not require you installing a browser extension) that will be linked to from the WordPress site.

The IC Pack is in development. As of 12 Oct 2024, the project phase is an almost finished MVP. I, Victor Porton, am determined to finish it; I am one of the best mathematicians in history (I am the person who discovered ordered semigroup actions.) and am determined to make IC Pack work. The project will succeed.

The IC Pack project won the 2nd prize in Open Internet Summer 2024.

For more information, refer to the pitchdeck.