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This week we'll take a look into a new Discord-style app built on AO, Load Network's "alien compute" focus, and more.
Let's get into it.
Subspace, an intergalactic comms platform 🛰️
Ankush, founder of BetterIDEa, recently released Subspace, a brand new communications app on AO.
Subspace is a Discord-like platform where users can create servers, send direct messages to each other, and more. There are also features in the works such as markdown and gif support as well.
This is all completely onchain on AO, which is wild to think about. AO is built around the idea of scalability and parallel compute, and it’s a great opportunity to showcase how AO scales and supports social apps.
Discord has over 600M users registered on its platform, so creating an alternative would demand a massive amount of compute and scale - seeing something like this come to AO and Arweave would be awesome.
The app is also mobile responsive, and works without any additional installation. Check out the announcement here.
Load Network and alien compute 🛸
Load Network have been building out some interesting projects over the past few months, including cross-chain EVM storage on Arweave, AWS S3-type SDKs, and tools for long-term data storage.
The latest idea they've been sharing some details about is "alien compute", and the idea of using AO and HyperBEAM nodes to create a home for all kinds of different projects.
As AO and HyperBEAM are extremely modular, and don't work the same way as most blockchains do when it comes to consensus and execution, it allows for developers to create complete custom implementations which run onchain on AO, settled on Arweave.
Load Network have been exploring the use cases, including deploying an EVM implementation on HyperBEAM, as well as a GPU compute environment.
Thinking outside of the box is what led to the creation of AO in the first place, and rethinking how compute and consensus can occur. Load Network are bringing this creativity to Arweave and AO, while also being cross-chain friendly.
If you're interested, check out their updates on X.
ICYMI 👀
- Arweave Day India photo booth highlights
- Broadside launch custom KOs
- New update for The Eye of AO
- Unruggabulls game launches
This Week's Featured Community Piece 📝
@0xinternetchild shared a lesser known AO node workshop from Sam Williams, founder of Arweave and AO.
If you want to get into the details of AO's architecture, check it out here.
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The Longview Team
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