Arweave is a community-driven ecosystem that provides permanent storage of information.The Arweave network is like Bitcoin, but it's for data: a permanent and decentralized network built into an open ledger. Permanent storage has many applications: from preserving humanity's most important data to hosting truly decentralized and provably neutral web applications.The Arweave protocol is stable, mature and widely adopted. As such, its ecosystem is completely decentralized.
Arweave is a blockchain-based file storage protocol that features a one-time payment to store files forever.Arweave was founded in 2017 and graduated in April 2018 from the Techstars Berlin startup accelerator program. It enables miners to store data for a long time through a simple set of economic incentive rules. Internet users can achieve permanent storage of digital files and data such as web pages, emails, social media postings, etc. on the blockchain via the Arweave browser plugin.
Over the past three years or so, we've seen Arweave making strides towards its goal. As the network effect of the developer ecosystem gradually emerges and more and more web applications, both sophisticated and crude, appear on the Arweave protocol, an ecological jigsaw puzzle that is gradually approaching completeness is beginning to emerge. So far, Arweave network-based applications have exceeded 200, involving social networking, infrastructure, content distribution, authentication tools and other categories.
In addition, the Arweave development team released version 2.4.0.0, which will introduce a new consensus mechanism, SPoRA, that can radically increase the number of data replicas stored in the network to an order of magnitude of 100-1,000 times, while moving more computation on the network to storage. This will be a major development milestone.
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