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Cycles Management

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The essential guide for going to mainnet. Cover ICP-to-cycles conversion via the Cycles Minting Canister (CMC), topping up canisters, setting freezing thresholds, monitoring cycle balance, and multi-environment deployment (local/staging/production). Include a production deployment checklist linking to settings, reproducible builds, and security pages. Answer the key question: “how much will this cost me?”

  • Portal: building-apps/canister-management/topping-up.mdx, getting-started/tokens-and-cycles.mdx
  • icp-cli: guides/deploying-to-mainnet.md, guides/tokens-and-cycles.md, guides/managing-environments.md
  • icskills: cycles-management
  • Examples: hello_cycles (Motoko)
  • Template: proxy (cycle forwarding)
  • Learn Hub: Cycles Ledger
  • concepts/reverse-gas-model — why canisters pay cycles
  • guides/canister-management/settings — freezing threshold, allocation
  • reference/cycles-costs — exact cost tables
  • guides/canister-management/lifecycle — deploy workflow
  • icp-cli docs: https://dfinity.github.io/icp-cli/0.2/