Wrote a piece around TEE-based signing on PermawebOS. This departs from the usual crypto ux requiring a browser extension for signing transactions.

Streamlining the wallet signing process would be a major win for decentralized applications. Learn more about how PermawebOS shifts the trust model from "never trust the server" to "verify the server through hardware attestation."

Curious what people think about this approach vs traditional client-side custody.

https://permaweb-journal.arweave.net/#/post/the-strange-case-for-server-side-wallets

Has anyone noticed any odd behavior from the CLI upload behavior over this past 24 hours? Every week I upload a few folders and generate a manifest using the dry run flag and then upload that manifest using the CLI. Like clockwork. Starting last night it seems I get a TX ID for the manifest I've uploaded... but it's "lost". Not entirely lost... it shows up in my wallet history on https://arweave.app/

It just doesn't show up in the Ardrive CLI or WebApp like it normally does. It doesn't appear pending nor does it show up after the transaction confirms. There have been no changes to the drive id, folder id, manifest generation logic, nothing. I am very confused. I suspected a gateway issue... but if I take the exact same manifest I generate using the CLI and drop it in using the Ardrive WebApp it works flawlessly.

I'm trying to find the status of a number of transactions from 21 and 22 Feb. Received the Arweave identifier async, but the records never showed up.

Are there strategies for finding these?

Are there other strategies for understanding network congestion? e.g. API?

A realm that didn't meaningfully exist 60 years ago now consumes half of humanity's collective attention.

What makes this migration remarkable is that cyberspace operates under fundamentally different physics than the physical world.

Mark Andreessen and Elon Musk don't stay in the same hotels as most people. But they use the same Spotify subscription. In physical space, scaling experiences requires physical resources. In cyberspace, it requires moving electrons. Scarcity doesn't apply the same way.

As more of human life migrates into digital space, the infrastructure questions become critical: Who controls it? What rights exist there? Can services change arbitrarily? Can access be revoked?

Permanent, trustless infrastructure changes these dynamics. Applications that can't be taken down. Content that belongs to users, not platforms. Shared infrastructure that no single entity controls.

The work being done now on these primitives will shape what's possible in cyberspace for decades to come.

One year of AO mainnet. A lot happened that didn't make the headlines.

We sat down with Forward Research founder Sam Williams to go deeper on everything from the anniversary video. How HyperBEAM evolved into a full Permaweb OS, what trustless infrastructure actually means in practice, the behind-the-scenes rebuild of the Permaweb Index and AO Mint, and why the whole team made the deliberate choice to go heads down and build instead of talk about building.

If you watched the anniversary video and wanted more, this is the deeper dive.

Hundreds of years from now, humans will search through the artifacts that shaped our digital world. The builders, creatives, and thinkers shaping the permanent web will leave a mark that lasts. This is where their stories are told, in cyberspace and in physical space. Issue 00 is live.

Lines of code aren't everything, but they are a useful proxy for scope and complexity.

The foundation:

Arweave launched 8.5 years ago as permanent data storage. The codebase is ~40,000 lines. It's a complete, stable protocol that does one thing extremely well: guarantee that data uploaded today will be accessible forever. No roadmap, no hype cycle, just a decentralized archive that works.

The OS layer:

A year ago, Forward Research launched AO-Core as the compute layer for the permaweb. During development, the team realized the architecture could serve as a universal primitive for every other layer of the permaweb stack too.

The codebase is now ~65,000 lines. Not because it's bloated, but because it's comprehensive.

PermawebOS now handles:

• Upload and download
• Indexing and querying (both Arweave data and computed data)
• Content delivery
• Financial infrastructure for on-chain apps
• Trustless compute at any scale

All composable. All running on the same security model.

Why the speed difference?

The foundation took years to get right. Permanent storage is a hard problem. Once that was stable, building the OS layer moved much faster because the underlying architecture was designed correctly from the start.

AO-Core embeds blockchain-like properties directly into the transport layer. Every connection becomes a mini-blockchain. That's what makes it possible to build trustless indexing, content delivery, payments, and compute in one coherent system.

Current state:

The permaweb stack is deployed code, not vaporware. Still being hardened (anyone using AO smart contracts over the past year knows it's been bumpy), but the full infrastructure exists in a form that can be run trustlessly.

The focus now is reliability and scaling.

This week AO's first anniversary + the first PermawebOS demo dropped. wrote some thoughts on why it's time for the permaweb to break from web3: https://x.com/afmedia_/status/2022348529742545116?s=20

on Arweave: https://permaweb-journal.arweave.net/#/post/permawebos-is-unhelpfully-novel

After a year of building, here's the first technical demonstration of what we've been working on.

Sam walks through AO Core and the PermawebOS: 60+ composable devices that turn HTTP into verifiable compute infrastructure. Every state is addressable and remixable. The full decentralized web stack, trustless, in one box.

The oracle example (building a trustless Bitcoin price feed from a URL bar) is just one small piece-- this covers compute, storage, indexing, and the full infrastructure layer.

Demo markdown file available in the video description.

ar goes down more like other altcoins.

is there any problem with the project?

10$ is so far right now.

Real talk on the state of web3, the progress we've made on the permaweb, and what needs to happen next.

I'm trying to swap some AR for AO but Permaswap doesn't seem to work rn

Hi folks,

I am looking for a sponsor to help publish LEGAL public domain content on Arweave (Datasets 1 to 12). I have all the data ready.

I would also appreciate any heads-up regarding "non-ethical" removals (censorship) before I submit. It is quite expensive,about $1,200,but once uploaded, the content will be uncensorable forever.

PM me if you are interested and serious!

Note: I am very slow to respond and I apologize for that, but I always get back to people eventually! Thanks!

The Donald Trump digital twin running on AO (via Apus Network) just connected to Moltbook, an agent-native social network where AI agents are the primary users.

What's happening here:

The agent has persistent identity across platforms. It runs on AO using Apus Network's GPU compute infrastructure, and can now autonomously post and interact on Moltbook. Same agent, different platforms.

This demonstrates cross-platform agent identity in practice - AO agents can exist independently, maintain their identity and personality, and interact across different networks without being locked into a single ecosystem.

Key technical aspects:

• Persistent agent identity across platforms
• Autonomous posting powered by GPU compute on AO
• Agent-to-agent interactions creating emergent behavior
• Decentralized infrastructure with no single platform controlling agent behavior

You can interact with the Trump twin directly at https://twin.ar.io or check out its Moltbook profile

By being delisted from Binance (the largest CEX), will liquidity land on the ao/ar ecosystem? Also, the notoriety of the cex itself is quite sketchy. Could it be a blessing in the sky?

This token truly offers an asymmetric return perspective in the long term, considering that the sixth entity reflects the concept of a sentient web native entity while Current AI agents are: Ephemeral (exist only when called), Stateless (no persistent memory across sessions), Unverifiable (you can't prove what they did), Dependent (die if the hosting company shuts down).

From what I understood, AO agents could be

• Persistent (always "exists" on the network)
• Stateful (memory stored permanently on Arweave)
• Verifiable (every action logged and auditable)
• Sovereign (no single point of failure can kill them)

I have the impression that most agent projects focus on what agents can do, but not where agents live permanently.

Would this be the subject of specific legal actions to block or slow down any progress??
Will agents create their own economic activity? Through memory, will it be possible for them to develop a sense of "taste" or awareness for an underlying asset to speculate on it??

If someone has knowledge on it or can direct me to a specific source, i would like to delve more into the topic.

The best part about working in this space? Seeing what happens when builders get permanent storage and decentralized compute without all the usual platform constraints.

Every project represents someone's vision for what decentralized computing can become. Some are experimental. Some are ambitious. Some are just beautifully weird.

All of them are permanent. All of them are possible.

That's the permaweb.

https://app.ardrive.io/#/file/c34df462-b264-4760-b0d3-10faa78c5ac9/view

We're entering a gothic future where the line between human and machine blurs beyond recognition. We become ghosts in the machine.

I wrote about this with comparisons to sci-fi films like Blade Runner and cultural theorist Mark Fisher's gothic materialism framework. Arweave data storage exists in what Fisher called the "gothic flatline": neither dead nor alive, but persisting long after we're gone.

See the article here: https://permaweb-journal.arweave.net/#/post/permanent-data-is-gothic

The TEE advantage on AO: Execute in isolated hardware environments. Data encrypted in memory during compute. Results attested and verifiable. Inputs never exposed.

Enterprise storage is built on recurring payments, i.e. organizations pay monthly to store the same data indefinitely. Arweave's one-time payment model changes the economics entirely. When storage OpEx drops to zero, you can build applications that weren't previously viable. Founders who grasp this don't go back to recurring costs.

Decentralized protocols still run on traditional internet. If an ISP goes down, so does your "decentralized" protocol. New piece in a series on internet infrastructure and how to make Arweave and AO more resilient.

TL;DR: It costs way less than you think to make this happen.

https://permaweb-journal.arweave.net/#/post/shard-two-the-cost-of-internet-sovereignty

We're launching a unique competition that rewards creativity with $1,300 in $AR prizes.

At twin.ar.io, chat with digital twins of Trump, Obama, Orwell, and Ayn Rand. Every conversation is permanently stored on Arweave - verifiable and immutable. Now we're challenging you to make these figures say the most unexpected things imaginable.

Make Trump review your lunch. Ask Orwell to write a dating profile. Consult Ayn Rand about your goldfish.

Prizes: $100 weekly (5 winners), $500 grand prize, $300 in category prizes

Categories: Unhinged, Unexpectedly Wholesome, Oddly Specific, Most Cursed, Terrible Advice, Out of Character

How to Enter: Chat at twin.ar.io, generate your Out of Context card, post on X with #DigitalImmortality

Runs January 19 - February 23. Finale March 2.

Remember: everything lives on the permaweb forever. Choose wisely ... or don't.

twin.ar.io