GM all!
This has been a big week for Arweave and AO with the announcement of Permaweb 1.0, acquisitions, AgentFi, and more.
A lot went down so we won't waste anymore time - let's get straight into it!
Weekly Digest
đē Odysee lands on Arweave
One of the biggest announcements, possibly ever, in the Arweave ecosystem.
Odysee, one of the biggest decentralized video sharing platforms, is coming to Arweave and AO. And it's bringing 7 million daily active users with it.
Odysee is one of the most used "crypto" apps (so to speak) used by normal Web2 users.
Forward Research, the team behind Arweave, have acquired Odysee and the team to re-build it "pixel-for-pixel" on Arweave and AO.
This means a key piece of infrastructure and 7M users have just been onboarded to the Permaweb. đ
đĩī¸ The AgentFi narrative is heating up on AO
During the Permaweb 1.0 annoucement, one of the biggest things Sam Williams mentioned was AgentFi.
The term AgentFi was scarcely used outside of Arweave before, but now with AO opening up the opportunity for large scale decentralized compute - it's coming to Arweave.
Autonomous Finance have already deployed a DCA agent on AO, which users can copy and use to set up their own fully onchain DCA strategies. Pretty cool!
Autonomous also recently launched Dexi, a decentralized asset tracker/aggregator for AO tokens.
The real kicker?
It's entirely onchain.
Frontend hosted on Arweave, backend processes fetching token prices and other stats running on AO.
This is what the future of crypto and the web can look like.
đ Arweave mainnet turns 6
Six years on from Arweave's mainnet launch and it's still going strong, now storing over 170TiB of unique data, and 6 billion transactions. (via ViewBlock)
A lot has changed in this time, and the network has transformed from a place for archiving files, to offering permanent web hosting, content licensing, and more.
Now with AO, 6 years later, Arweave is the state layer for massively decentralized compute.
We can't wait to see where it goes next.
đ ICYMI
- The Permaverse drops new updates
- Operation Liquidity announced
- Solarplex acquired by Forward Research
- Pitch to a16z, 1kx, and more through aoVentures
The Longview Insider Update
We've been demoing Rainbow Rabbit at Arweave Day in Berlin, continuing our design partnerships with builders in the ecosystem, and we're working on a super friendly primer for AO. Keep an eye out for it!
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