Decentralization in ICP: Infrastructure Governance

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Background

The infrastructure layer of ICP is best summarized as:

  • ICP is composed of subnets
  • Each subnet is composed of nodes (owned and controlled by node providers), which are remunerated in ICP by the network minting ICP
  • Each node lives in an independent data center (not cloud providers), which the node provider pays to upkeep and maintain. An example of data centers include Equinix in Spain.