# DFINITY

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dfinity/  
**Website:** https://dfinity.org  
**APIs profiled:** 1

The DFINITY Foundation is a Swiss-based not-for-profit research organization that created and stewards the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), a public, decentralized "frontier cloud" that hosts software and data entirely inside a mathematical network protocol. Applications run as canisters (WebAssembly smart contracts with persistent state, native HTTP, and a reverse gas model paid in Cycles) that are tamperproof, unstoppable, and free from vendor lock-in. ICP uses Chain Key cryptography and Chain Fusion to transact natively on Bitcoin and Ethereum without bridges, and is governed on-network by the Network Nervous System (NNS). DFINITY publishes first-party developer tooling — JavaScript/TypeScript agent libraries under the @dfinity npm scope, Rust agent and Canister Developer Kit crates, the icp/dfx CLIs, and an AI agent skills library — plus a public HTTP interface for reading from and calling canisters.

## Kin Score — 22.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 60.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 4.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **Internet Computer HTTP Interface** — The public HTTP interface (agent/gateway API) for reading state from and submitting calls to Internet Computer canisters, consumed by the @dfinity agent libraries, the Rust ic-a...

## Security (2)

- **Dfinity Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Dfinity Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Tags

Company, Blockchain, Internet Computer, ICP, Web3, Canisters, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Cloud, Cryptography, Developer Tools

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/dfinity/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.