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Last week a massive agent hackathon was announced for AO, Decent Land Labs shared their experiment with quantum simulations, and AR.IO launched Wayfinder V1.
Let's get into the details and what all of this means for AO.
Agents of the Permaweb hackathon and $39,000 in prizes 🤖
The AO ecosystem is gearing up for its huge and newly announced "Agents of the Permaweb" hackathon.
Running from August 11th to September 2nd, 2025, the hackathon is (as you might expect) focused on developers building autonomous AI agents on AO. Agents are programs that act on behalf of users, doing things like automating tasks, crunching data, and more.
What makes AO agents compelling in particular is their ability to execute onchain actions autonomously. Processes (smart contracts) can have built-in automatic execution on AO, and agents can make use of AO's decentralized compute capabilities.
The hackathon offers four distinct tracks for builders to explore: Practical Utility Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, AI-Enhanced Applications, and Agent Infrastructure.
The $39,000 prize pool is a solid path forward for anyone already in the ecosystem or being introduced to the tech. The winner will receive $25,000 in AR tokens, with a winner of each track earning $5,000 in AR tokens. There's also a $2,500 Community Choice award, plus $1,500 prizes for Best Documentation and Most Practical Use Case.
This hackathon has perfect timing as AI agents continue to grow in adoption and in the ecosystem especially - both Beacon Wallet and Wander are placing an emphasis on agents in their wallets respectively.
This hackathon could help push this even further and establish AO as the go-to network for decentralized, autonomous AI agents.
Check out the full details and how to apply here.
Bringing quantum simulations to HyperBEAM 💻
Decent Land Labs has introduced something unprecedented in the AO space: quantum circuit simulation capabilities for HyperBEAM, AO's node software.
Decent Land Labs is focusing on building out different devices which can work in combination with AO's core node infrastructure, with the intention being to enable node operators to provide additional decentralized compute services to users. Their new quantum-rt@1.0 device is one such example.
It's important to understand what this actually is — this isn't quantum computing hardware, but rather it's a quantum circuit simulation running on a CPU and GPU using the QuEST toolkit.
Regardless of this fact, according to Decent Land it still already provides practical applications for the ecosystem such as tamper-proof randomness and small-scale scientific simulations. Users can actually try it out right now on their experimental node at hb.load.rs.
While we're still far from real quantum computers, Decent Land says this represents "step 0" toward bringing real NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) computing to AO.
It also goes to show just how modular AO is and what it's capable of — it really is something wildly different to other decentralized networks. You can read the full write up from Decent Land Labs here.
Wayfinder launches to simplify Arweave data access 🐘
One of the key defining characteristics of Arweave is its decentralized ecosystem. This includes the gateways that every user knowingly or unknowingly utilizes every time they access some Arweave data through their browsers.
AR.IO are the premier gateway software providers, and their network is comprised of 500+ gateways indexing, caching, and serving data to users.
Decentralization comes with challenges — what happens if the gateway you use shuts down? How do you set up a fallback node? What if you need the lowest latency responses possible?
These are some of the problems that users face when accessing data stored on Arweave, and this is where Wayfinder comes in.
Wayfinder is a comprehensive toolkit designed to make accessing and verifying data on Arweave significantly easier for developers.
Wayfinder provides decentralized and verified access to Arweave data through a clean, developer-friendly API. The core value proposition is simple—instead of manually managing gateway selection, data verification, and fallback strategies, developers can use Wayfinder to handle these complexities automatically.
This kind of infrastructure tooling is essential for ecosystem growth. By removing the complexity of reliable data access, Wayfinder improves the developer experience on Arweave and across the ecosystem. Check out the docs here.
ICYMI 👀
- AO nodes on Apple Silicon
- Permaswap integrates with HyperBEAM
- Arweave transaction ATH
- $WNDR token announced (NFA)
This Week's Featured Community Piece 📝
@jajablinky of Forward Research built out a documentation collector for all of the resources in the Permaweb, for easy integration with LLMs. Check it out here.
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