Dominic Williams, Founder and Chief Scientist of DFINITY Foundation expressed:  DFINITY is the leading contributor currently to the technology of the “Internet Computer Blockchain Network”.

DFINITY Foundation expressed:  “Congratulations to ICPunks on selling out 10,000 NFTs in under 30 minutes on launch day. Just as CryptoKitties stress-tested the Ethereum network in 2017, demand for clown punks successfully tested the Internet Computer.

10,000 NFTs were swooped up in a matter of minutes. Completely on-chain. This signals massive demand for the Dapps and services being built on the Internet Computer blockchain.

The punks launch gave the community and DFINITY engineers new data, especially on boundary nodes. Head to the developer forum to discuss how the community plans to update the Internet Computer roadmap to continuously improve the stability of the IC.”

Community response:  Depends on which side of the fence you are. If you got a punk it was a successful launch. If you didn’t it was trash.

The website was down for solid 1 hours. How is it even possible to be finished in under 30 mins? Only bots and maybe 1 or 2 people were able to get it. Watch the twitter to get real.

Failed launch. You can’t keep 1 website stable and. ICP talks about replacing the Internet. I wonder how.

Alright let’s keep it the launch didn’t go well. I was in the discord and also trying to claim an icpunk and so many people did not even stand a chance due to ICP not being stable. We tested ICP but it was not successful IMO. Dominic Williams, can ICP NOT scale when demand is high?

If a token drop with this many hiccups is called a success you are a liar or your bar is extremely low. Epic Failure, but you guys sound like epic success.

Surely the famous internet computer can handle 80k people. I tried to mint one and IC network crashed. Very disappointed as I had high hopes for this project.

Hope there are more ICP projects in my experiences.  Those projects, which fooled people by setting to let projects themselves mint only their projects will never go far.

Tried as hard as I could to get me one but I couldn’t. Severe pains.  Tried 10000 times and nothing. Your projects made false promises to people just to get them to stress test your technology. You announced it that way. It wasted everyone’s time and nothing worked.