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Arweave/AO Weekly Highlights Week 35 | ArFleet Launch, $DAI is now Eligible for $AO Minting, Aqualandia 24-Hour Fishing Championship
Author: Kyle
Translator: Kyle
Reviewer: Lemon
Source: Content Guild Translation
Data from Arweave Network Last Week:
Arweave mainnet has completed a total of 210,331,419 transactions, with 1.27 TiB storage achieved in the past week.
Storage fee for this week stands at 0.748 AR/GB, block reward at 2,857 AR, and endowment increased by 1,161 AR.
PermaDAO Incentive Distribution:
PermaDAO distributed a total of 136.1 $AR (equivalent to 3062 USDC) and 6,046.19 $BP as contribution incentives last week.
Weekly News Summary
🔥 ArFleet, a temporary storage platform, officially launched, complementing Arweave's permanent storage capabilities.
🔥 $DAI has officially joined the minting process of $AO, with the reward mechanism starting on September 4th.
🔥 Llama Land launched the Aqualandia 24-hour Fishing Championship.
🔥 The AO testnet has sent over 500 million messages, and the total number of users has surpassed 200,000.
🔥 AO Game Jam registration is now open, with participants required to register by September 10th.
🔥 Permaswap has launched the tIO/AR liquidity mining event, offering a total of 30,000 $HALO in rewards.
🔥 Permaverse has introduced its first atomic asset—THE GUN, limited to 1,000 units.
🔥 everPay has launched the Everloot #7 event, with a prize pool of 20,000 $HALO and a chance to win Permaverse's The Gun.
🔥 Arweave Oasis has initiated its first AO product proposal APP collection event.
🔥 The Arweave Philippines community officially launched the Balangay Builders Program.
🧵 The WeaveVM testnet is now publicly open.
🧵 Tapestry Finance on WeaveVM is now live.
🧵 PermaDAO's content guild is set to undergo significant reforms with the introduction of a BP Token incentive mechanism.
🧵 WeaveDB Nigeria Community announced the winners of the Uniathon content creation awards.
🧵 WeaveDB Nigeria Community held the Uniathon Victory Party.
🧵 4EVERLAND announced a strategic partnership with Capybara.
🧵 ArDrive introduced the Pins feature.
🧵 Typr now supports login via MetaMask.
🧵 The first phase of the KYVE Grants Program concluded, with grants totaling 17,000 USDC and 50,000 $KYVE.
🧵 Weavers announced the winners of the RAID IV bounty projects.
🧵 Astro Labs' Quantum MPC wallet is now live!
🧵 ANYONE Protocol has integrated Arweave, building a privacy layer for DePIN.
🧵 RedStone has upgraded from a single data source relayer to a multi-relayer.
Network & Project Updates
ArFleet officially launched, serving as a temporary storage solution within the Arweave ecosystem, complementing its permanent storage feature.
ArFleet offers flexible short-term storage options, with durations ranging from minutes to years, and provides CDN functionality through micropayments.
ArFleet is open-source and supports multiple payment methods, with the default being the AO network token ($wAR).
As a temporary storage layer, ArFleet works in tandem with Arweave's permanent storage layer and AO's computing layer to drive the development of the Permaweb.
Llama Land launched the Aqualandia 24-hour Fishing Championship, featuring new rules and generous $AR prizes.
The tournament will be held from 12:00 AM on September 3rd to 12:00 AM on September 4th (Beijing time). Common fish score 1 point, rare fish score 3 points, and legendary fish score 10 points.
Prizes include the highest total fishing score (100 $AR), the highest ten-catch score (60 $AR), and the most legendary fish caught (40 $AR), with each prize limited to one winner.
Participants need to hold $LLAMA to purchase bait, and fish caught during the tournament will only count toward the score, not converted to $LLAMA. Winners must complete KYC to claim their prizes.
$DAI is now eligible for $AO minting, with the reward mechanism starting on September 4th.
AO has announced support for users to bridge $DAI assets to the AO network to participate in minting and earn $AO tokens, marking the first stablecoin asset involved in the minting process.
The $DAI reward mechanism will start on September 4, 2024, at 11:00 AM Eastern Time, with future plans to support $USDS, a stablecoin backed by real-world assets.
Permaswap has launched the tIO/AR liquidity mining event, offering a total of 30,000 $HALO in rewards.
The event is hosted on the Permaswap platform of the AO network and will last for three months.
The reward pool is 30,000 $HALO, with the event running from 12:00 PM on August 29th to 12:00 PM on November 30th (UTC).
AO Game Jam registration is now open, with participants required to register by September 10th to compete for a $37,000 prize pool.
Registration websites: https://hackquest.io/en/hackathon/organizer, https://itch.io/jam/ao-game-jam-2024.
Project submission window: September 10th to 17th, with the awards ceremony on September 19th.
The Arweave Philippines community officially launched the Balangay Builders Program.
The Balangay Builders Program aims to provide Filipino builders with early access to AO computers, global learning sessions, funding support, and advisory services.
The submission deadline is September 1st at 11:59 PM (Philippine Standard Time), and participants must complete the form submission to participate.
The Balangay Builders Program will select five outstanding projects, with winning projects receiving funding support and the opportunity to join the "Lakan" Advanced Builders Program for further iteration and funding.
The AO testnet has sent over 500 million messages, and the total number of users has surpassed 200,000.
WeaveDB Nigeria Community announced the winners of the Uniathon content creation awards.
Article: @AdeloyeMayowa9, $80 prize, Long Thread: @MrKhassie, $50 prize, Video: @esemaofweb3, $40 prize, Meme: @Ogasamson1, $30 prize.
Permaverse has introduced its first atomic asset—THE GUN, limited to 1,000 units.
THE GUN comes with a unique feature: "The more, the bigger." The more you own, the larger your gun will appear in Permaverse.
Users holding at least one THE GUN can press the G key in Permaverse to trigger a special effect.
everPay has launched the Everloot #7 event, with a prize pool of 20,000 $HALO and a chance to win Permaverse's first weapon, The Gun.
Event duration: 12:00 PM on August 27th to 12:00 PM on September 5th (UTC).
The Gun is the atomic asset introduced by Permaverse.
Arweave Oasis has initiated its first AO product proposal APP collection event.
Proposals submitted and approved during the event will receive a 300 U reward, while unapproved proposals will also receive a 50 U reward, with no limit on the number of submissions.
The top four proposals will participate in the offline Hackhouse event.
ArDrive introduced the Pins feature.
ArDrive Pins is a tool that allows users to save any Permaweb file to ArDrive, similar to Pinterest.
The first phase of the KYVE Grants Program concluded, with grants totaling 17,000 USDC and 50,000 $KYVE.
Several innovative projects received grants, advancing KYVE's technology and brand development, laying the foundation for future innovation and community growth.
The WeaveVM testnet is now publicly open.
WeaveVM is a sovereign EVM network designed to address EVM's storage challenges through integration with Arweave, providing efficient, persistent, and cost-effective on-chain storage.
The open testnet allows developers to deploy dApps and L2s that interact directly with Arweave's permanent storage, supporting high-throughput data availability and permanent ledger archiving.
PermaDAO's content guild is set to undergo significant reforms with the introduction of a BP Token incentive mechanism.
The existing hierarchy of news and translation groups will be abolished, and a new BP Token incentive mechanism will be introduced.
Weavers announced the winners of the RAID IV bounty projects.
The RAID IV bounty project encouraged participants to create on-chain gaming projects related to AO and Arweave using Reality Protocol.
Development Awards: First Place ($3,000) goes to @CaitlyNFTLane for "Forge World"; Second Place ($2,000) goes to @megabyte0x for "SuperLLama Bazar."
Creativity Awards: (#1) First Place ($2,000) goes to @CALVS100804 for "AO Ancient Ruins" Tileset; (#1) Second Place ($1,000) goes to @Ethan_Gold_SP for "Llamaland Tile Expansion"; (#2) First Place ($1,500) goes to @coneheadsquid for "ConeHeadsSquid" character; (#2) Second Place ($500) goes to @Josh_Burleson for "D-Bot from Weavers Station."
Tapestry Finance on WeaveVM is now live.
Tapestry Finance is a forked version of Uniswap V2 on WeaveVM.
Users can claim test tokens from wvm.dev/faucet to test token swaps on Tapestry Finance.
WeaveDB Nigeria Community held the Uniathon Victory Party and launched merchandise.
The Uniathon Victory Party was held in Uyo, Nigeria, unveiling Dumdumz NFTs and WeaveDB-themed merchandise (T-shirts, etc.).
These limited-edition merchandise items were only available in Nigeria and premiered at the party.
Astro Labs' Quantum MPC wallet is now live!
Quantum is a cross-chain bridge introduced by Astro Labs, designed for security, trust, and community.
Quantum will offer robust multi-party computation (MPC) technology to ensure user asset security.
RedStone has upgraded from a single data source relayer to a multi-relayer.
The multi-relayer innovation revolutionizes cross-chain DeFi, enhancing cost efficiency, security, and scalability. RedStone relayers connect off-chain data to on-chain smart contracts, ensuring efficient data transmission.
This upgrade simplifies the previous complexity of configuring independent relayers for each price source, making it more flexible and efficient to deploy multiple price sources across different networks.
Typr now supports login via MetaMask.
In addition to ArConnect and Othent wallets, users can now access the Typr platform easily and securely through MetaMask.
Project Collaborations & Integrations
4EVERLAND announced a strategic partnership with Capybara.
Capybara is the friendliest Telegram-native Meme token. 4EVERLAND will provide it with distributed, efficient, autonomous, and user-friendly cloud computing services.
ANYONE Protocol has integrated Arweave, building a privacy layer for DePIN.
ANYONE Protocol is an Onion Routing privacy network where users enter and exit the anonymous network through three encrypted hops (data is transmitted through multiple relay nodes to protect user privacy and anonymity). The project promotes global privacy awareness through simplified development tools, user-friendly hardware, and the DePIN model.
The protocol utilizes Smartweave's gas-free distribution of rewards and integrates with Arweave to verify, validate, and distribute rewards, while expanding the Permaweb's privacy and censorship-resistant infrastructure through its collaboration with AR.IO.
Ecosystem Education
Only Arweave tweet—"How to Earn $AO".
Hold $AR: Mint 33.3% of $AO every 5 minutes based on your holding ratio.
Bridge eligible yield-bearing assets to the AO network, such as $stETH, $DAI.
PADO blog post—"From zkAttestation to FHE: Enhancing Data Authenticity and Confidentiality in Blockchain".
zkAttestation: Ensures data authenticity, helping developers build proof-based applications, with an SDK set to launch in September.
FHE: Advances Fully Homomorphic Encryption, enabling secure and confidential data computation.
Only Arweave tweet—"Exploring Digital Life on AO: Creating Eternal AI Avatars on the Permaweb".
Arweave provides the foundation for persistent storage, allowing digital avatars to transcend time and interact with humans for centuries, becoming an eternal presence in the digital world.
AO's computing architecture overcomes traditional blockchain bottlenecks, enabling powerful AI models to run within smart contracts, further driving the creation and development of eternal digital life forms.
