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Aug 6 β€’ 14 tweets β€’ 4 min read
Today the Arweave ecosystem is launching 6 new services and protocols which unlock an entirely new angle of the permaweb:

The web of value.

WTF is it? Let's jump down the rabbithole 🧡
The web of value starts with a single unit: the atomic asset.

Every piece of data stored on Arweave can have arbitrary metadata and a token contract _embedded_ inside it.

Transmit the ID => transmit the data, ownership information, license, authorship and provenance records...
Turning an upload on Arweave into an atomic asset comes with literally zero additional cost.

This turns 'plain' media on the web into something much more vibrant: Tradable micro-businesses that yield revenue. A web of value.

What might this look like? Some examples πŸ‘‡
Take @permapages:

A site generator, note taker, and blogging platform with built-in support for Stamp Protocol.

Users can browse pages on the platform and 'stamp' those that they like.
Stamps generate a revenue stream for creators, which can be distributed proportionately to ownership of a token (a PST).

This revenue stream can be traded by users or bots who see it as a source of yield -- allowing the creator to unlock the value of their productions early.
The new @permapages and Stamp Protocol go live right now.

Check them out below -- tokens start minting next week in a fair launch πŸ™‚.

Example: ArTube

A video platform where revenue is distributed via @KoiiNetwork attention rewards to creators.

Fans and automated trading bots can buy and sell interests in the future revenue from videos. Creators can use this financialization to invest in better equipment, etc.
Creators could even be allowed to specify their own custom contracts for their videos.

Like NFTs not PSTs? Cool.

Want Verto Flex's enforced buyer lock-up on your videos' tokens? Can do.

The same UI, same userbase, any monetization strategy the creator chooses.
Example: PST Funds

Think that a particular topic is going to grow in prominence on the web?

Setup an @AftrMarket vehicle with a bot that accumulates ownership in videos/posts/etc on these issues.

Let others buy and sell stakes in your new vehicle, riding on its value.
Every app. Every value stream. Composably financialized.
This smart contract ecosystem will not look like any other that presently exists.

It will likely be dominated by millions (within years, billions) of lower value contracts, traded by bots to provide liquidity for creators and produce high value indexes.
The 6 new tools our ecosystem shipped today create a minimal viable ecosystem for the web of value.

Today, it is scrappy. There will be glass eating as the ecosystem matures. But everything you need in order to experiment and build in this new greenfield is now available.
To create this new bedrock took a huge amount of effort from many different builders in the Arweave ecosystem.

Building in this ecosystem is an honor because the people are just so awesome.

Relentless, hardworking, and fun -- even at 5am.

Thank you, everyone. You rock.
Curious to learn more?

Check out @ArweaveTeam's round-up thread below and stamps.live to start hacking with the first revenue stream in the web of value!

We can't wait to see what you build.

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More from @samecwilliams

Jun 29
The Arweave Name System (ArNS) is now live on Arweave.dev! 🐘

1⃣ Build your homepage on the permaweb.
2⃣ Claim your domain.
3⃣ Rep it as your Twitter name!

Be one of the first 200 to get a 'ArNS Beta Tester' Soulbound Token when the beta ends!

Here's how πŸ‘‡
Step 1. Visit @rakis_me's amazing web3 homepage builder and build your first permapage. No tokens required, thanks to @BundlrNetwork πŸ‘‡

permapages.arweave.dev Image
Step 2. Join the ARIO network Discord and chat with the bot in the #arns-pilot channel to get some test tokens.

discord.gg/NJwx6NYAeP
Read 5 tweets
Nov 30, 2021
Trying to crystalize an idea I can't seem to shake. A 🧡:

The first sovereign machine with above-human intellect was born a decade ago, and we didn't notice.

/1
In sci-fi, AI was a necessary component of sovereign machine intelligence.

We thought that sovereign machines would need their own synthetic brains. The AI field set about building them.

In reality, blockchain networks simply co-opted our brains to work for them instead. /2
The first powerful sovereign machine intelligence was Bitcoin*.

It incentivizes people to solve a fairly uninteresting math problem.

In doing so, it ensures its sovereignty and resilience (through decentralization): nobody can turn it off, or unilaterally change its code. /3
Read 14 tweets
Aug 20, 2021
Want to see something cool?

arweave.net/bfquwFXgNsPUhn…

This is 1 of 10,000 files (metadata for @SollamasNFT on @solana) written to the Arweave in a single base layer TX 🀯.

It cost $0.37 and synced atomically, in just a few minutes.

How? A deep dive 🧡 on storage scalability πŸ‘‡
So how can the network support this? πŸ€”

As a truly permanent storage system, Arweave has a critical property that it can employ to enable massive scalability: Nothing changes once written, so it doesn't have to keep track of any individual 'state' per transaction. 2/11
This is best understood in contrast to its alternatives.

In a typical storage network, there are storage lengths assigned hosters, individual prices, etc.

Subsequently, every transaction needs to be monitored and adjudicated separately. 3/11
Read 11 tweets
Feb 1, 2021
This is a core question driving many of the underlying issues in society at the moment.

So what is the answer? In truth, this effect arises from a deficiency in the HTTP protocol. πŸ‘‡ /1
Cyberspace was always meant to be completely detached from the power politics of physical space.

John Perry Barlow knew this in 1996 when he articulated the 'Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace':

arweave.net/Omg9vKSZxy6zfx… /2
'Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.' /3
Read 12 tweets
Nov 5, 2020
Arweave is a permanent, decentralised archive of history and knowledge.

Some network infrastructure in China, as well as the Arweave core developers, were under attack last month.

Signs point to these attacks originating from the Chinese government. /1

fortune.com/2020/11/05/chi…
Despite this, the Arweave network continues to operate without disruption.

As the founders of Arweave, we have one simple reminder to those responsible: you cannot take down a decentralised network. /2
Arweave’s core defence against attacks is its decentralisation.

Fortunately, the network has been fully community-operated for over 2 years, with a highly engaged and growing ecosystem around it. /3
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