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Last week we ran a giveaway in partnership with Bazar. We've also seen another week of Arweave and AO usage growing, as well as some information from the community on how AO can handle scaling as adoption increases.
Let's get into it.
Bazar Giveaway wraps up 🛒
Last week we partnered with Bazar to give away four different Atomic Assets. The rules were to engage with our Arweave Today posts over last week, with instructions on each day.
The winners have been announced - you can check the details of it here.
AO usage grows, teams build scaling strategies 💻
AO (and by extension, Arweave) usage has been growing rapidly over the last few weeks. Over 2B messages have now been sent on AO, and over 470,000 processes (or smart contracts) have been deployed to the network.
A number that's also been creeping up is the DAU (Daily Active Users), which has reached an average of 9,000 users per day (stats via @usewander). To put it in perspective, just a few weeks ago the average DAU was estimated to be at ~6,700.
As adoption continues to grow on AO, the network has encountered some growing pains due to all of the new activity. What's awesome, though, is that you can already see how teams can utilize the horizontal scaling aspects of AO to cope with increased demand, rather than needing rollups or other solutions.
Bazar, for example, shared their new architecture to scale effectively. As Sam Williams, founder of Arweave, mentioned, if a project can't handle demand through a single process, it can simply spin up another process to divert requests to. This is compared to other blockchains where deployed smart contracts can exist and interact with each other, but cannot truly execute in parallel due to sequential transaction processing.
As AO allows for true parallel execution on a singular compute network, any applications can scale this way. It brings it much closer to the traditional web in terms of scalability.
Dexi also surpassed over 1TB in bandwidth and 170M+ requests in a day, which is a crazy stat to think about.
The AO team have also been working hard on node upgrades, too, to help with scaling and efficiency. Sam even dropped a new update on Saturday.
ICYMI 👀
- Protocol Pioneers campaign ends
- AR.IO Gateway Node 28 release
- Visual AO released
- AO gets CoinGecko listing
- RuneRealm MMO launches
This Week's Featured Community Piece 📝
Nansen dropped a thread covering AO which acts as a perfect entry point to how AO works, and why you should care about it. Check it out here.
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