Mentorship for the Web3 startup incubator of the City of Lugano and the DFINITY Foundation.
Executive Summary
MyLugano Hub is a Web3 startup incubator run by the City of Lugano and the DFINITY Foundation, with SUPSI and ICP.Hub Italia, for teams building on the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP). Gianluca Perletti contributes technical mentorship and architectural guidance to founders in the program.
Many Web3 applications run their smart contracts on-chain but host frontends, databases and storage on centralized cloud providers, which reintroduces single points of failure.
The Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), developed by the DFINITY Foundation, lets canister smart contracts run general-purpose compute, keep state and serve web content directly to browsers, with compute paid in cycles by the canister.
Building on ICP requires understanding new concepts: asynchronous inter-canister messaging, reentrancy risks across await points, stable memory across upgrades and chain-key cryptography. Early-stage teams benefit from architectural guidance to avoid security and reliability issues.
Gianluca Perletti contributes as a technical mentor to MyLugano Hub, supporting founders and engineering teams building on ICP.
He reviews canister architectures with teams, covering multi-canister design, stable memory management and asynchronous message flows.
He helps projects connect ICP with EVM networks and Bitcoin using ICP's chain-key (threshold) signatures.
He reviews security aspects such as canister upgrade procedures, inter-canister access control and state serialization.
WebAssembly modules that bundle code and state and can serve both web frontends and backend logic from the Internet Computer.
canisters pay for their compute with cycles, obtained by converting ICP, so end users can use applications from a standard browser without a wallet extension or gas token.
threshold ECDSA and threshold Schnorr (BIP340 and Ed25519) let canisters hold keys and sign transactions for Bitcoin and EVM networks without centralized bridge intermediaries.
canisters communicate through asynchronous calls. Because other messages can interleave between await points, reentrancy is mitigated with locking (caller-guard) patterns and idempotent design.
memory layouts that preserve state across canister upgrades.
access-control checks, input validation and protection against cycle-draining abuse of public update endpoints.
Provided technical mentorship to teams building on ICP within MyLugano Hub.
Supported teams in designing canister architectures and integrations with Bitcoin and EVM networks.
Shared knowledge across EVM, Bitcoin and Internet Computer ecosystems with early-stage founders.
MyLugano Hub is a Web3 startup incubator run by the City of Lugano and the DFINITY Foundation, with SUPSI and ICP.Hub Italia, for teams building on the Internet Computer Protocol. Selected projects can receive up to the equivalent of USD 85,000 in ICP, with a mentor assigned to each project during a 6-month program.
Gianluca contributes technical mentorship, canister architecture reviews and security guidance to founders and developers in the incubator.
Canisters combine code, state and web serving in WebAssembly modules and pay for their own compute with cycles, so users can access applications from a normal browser without needing a wallet or gas token.