GM fellow Arweaver!
The AO team recently released 10 new PermawebOS components. The update covers a lot of ground, and this week we're exploring what it means for Arweave specifically.
Let's dive straight in.
Fully verifiable from upload to download 🔍
Content on Arweave is permanent, and reaching it happens through gateways. In a short walkthrough video, Sam Williams explains how gateways have long been a point where an individual had to take someone's word for it, a pattern shared by many decentralized networks.
For a third of the traffic on arweave.net, the largest permaweb gateway, that has changed. Now gateways can prove they’re running the program you asked for. Sam lays out the whole journey as a loop.
Someone opens a web page and creates content. A bundler packs it with other people's data and settles everything on Arweave together. Indexers read it from the weave and serve it back through queries. Every stage of that loop can now be verified, forming an unbroken chain of cryptographic trust from upload to download.
This ties back to the onchain catalog we covered in October. Over a terabyte of Arweave's transaction index now sits on the weave itself, packed at about 9.5 bytes a row. A browser can read through it a few chunks at a time, so the historical part of a query runs right in the tab, straight from the source. Every result from arweave.net's GraphQL also carries a hashpath and an attestation from the node, giving each answer a trail to follow.
The padlock proof
Browsers have traditionally checked the connection to a server, a different matter from checking the actual data and the application it delivers. With the ~tls@1.0 device, a HyperBEAM node uses its Arweave wallet key as its TLS key, so the padlock in your address bar points back to a specific Arweave wallet. A neat security feature here is that it will refuse to load a certificate whose public key does not match the wallet key.
Sam demonstrates this by matching what Chrome shows against the node's Arweave address. Hardware attestation backs that address, and nodes on everyday hardware can serve content too, with attested nodes verifying it before it reaches you.
Speaking of everyday hardware…
Phones join the bundler pool
Behind up.arweave.net sits a pool of bundler nodes that anyone with an Android phone can join. Because indexing reads straight from miner mempools, an upload through a single phone is discoverable just as quickly as one through a large provider.
You can volunteer by sharing your node’s address in the AO Discord. The team will be happy to help you get set up.
The permaweb is here
Work on Arweave, the first PermawebOS component, began almost 10 years ago. Today, Arweave sits alongside a set of reusable building blocks that share the same infrastructure, data, and protocols, and some of the emerging use cases look promising. Bugcraft, for example, is an early alpha app that sends a swarm through a codebase to hunt bugs and puts every line in front of a human before anything merges. Individuals can also chat with a personal agent through the extension’s chat tab.
Watch Sam’s full walkthrough and read the announcement to explore each of the 10 releases, which also bring LLM inference, full Linux execution, and private messages encrypted to the recipient’s own key through WeaveMail.
ICYMI 👀
Here’s a quick snapshot of what’s been unfolding across Arweave and AO.
- HyperBEAM v0.11 is the final model
- Permanent website analytics on Arweave
- Anyone Protocol October development summary
This week's community feature 🧑💻
The Paralith team has been making steady progress on their onchain orderbook. Paralith is also working on a bridge for moving assets from Base, Solana, and Sui to the permaweb. Stay updated on their progress at @paralith_market on X.
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