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Welcome to this week's Arweave Weekly Digest. We'll take a look at ArDrive Turbo's new support for ETH on Base, new developer tooling called aoexpress, and the state of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) on AO.
Let's get into it.
ArDrive Turbo now supports Base 🔵
ArDrive's Turbo SDK is a way for developers to interact with and upload files to Arweave through ArDrive's Turbo services. They recently announced support for payments in ETH on Base for data uploads.
For developers using Base, this opens up an easy way to build applications with long-term, immutable data storage. The same goes for any consumer-facing applications they build: users can pay for Arweave storage and other services using ETH on Base, rather than needing to directly hold $AR.
AR.IO held an X Space talking to some teams already building on Arweave and Base, such as Trackgood, urls, and SONGS.
This is quite a big piece of news, as Base is well-integrated with Coinbase. Tapping into a network of over 100M+ registered users who can easily use Base, means more users could get exposed to the Arweave ecosystem. Awesome.
aoexpress launches 🔌
Ankush (founder of the BetterIDEa code editor) released another new devtool last week, this time focusing on bringing the familiarity of Web2 tooling to AO.
Many web developers are familiar with the "fetch" API which calls URLs programmatically, as well as setting up APIs with tools like NodeJS and Express.
aoexpress is a wrapper around the AO process handlers written in Lua, so that developers can call their processes just like they would handle any normal HTTP requests sent to different API routes. You can even install the APM package and use it within BetterIDEa, as demonstrated by Ankush here.
EntityOfCode talks FHE on AO 🔑
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables computation on encrypted data without revealing the data itself. In crypto, this enables things like private compute, or retrieving information about sensitive data without revealing it.
TFHE (Torus Fully Homomorphic Encryption) is a specific implementation of FHE, and one that the team at EntityOfCode is focusing on bringing to AO's HyperBEAM nodes.
AO is a decentralized and modular computer, and as such, can have different "devices" attached to it. An FHE device is what the EntityOfCode team has been working on, and according to the team, when coupled with AO's Hash Paths feature "you get probably one of the fastest on-chain FHE architectures".
The team is working on process privacy, but also previously mentioned the idea of autonomous agents using FHE nodes to communicate with each other.
Definitely check them out @EntityofCode if you want to learn more about exciting builds happening around AO and HyperBEAM nodes.
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