Arweave/AO Weekly Highlights Week 42 | 10 Billion Transactions Milestone, Arweave Fullstack Hackathon & PermaHacks Kick Off
Author: Kyle
Translator: Kyle
Reviewer: Marshal Orange
Source: Content Guild - Translation
Data from Arweave Network Last Week:
Arweave has completed a total of 218,182,653 transactions, with 1.65 TiB storage achieved in the past week.
Storage fee for this week stands at 0.748 $AR/GB, block reward at 2,640 $AR, and endowment increased by 1,075 $AR.
PermaDAO Incentive Distribution:
PermaDAO distributed a total of 114.39 $AR (equivalent to 2177.45 USDC) and 9046.46 $BP as contribution incentives last week.
Weekly News Summary
🔥 Arweave Network Hits 10 Billion Transactions.
🔥 Arweave Fullstack Hackathon Launches with $50,000 in Prizes.
🔥 PermaHacks Hackathon Kicks Off with WeaveVM and BetterIDEa Bounties.
🔥 Arweave 2.8.0 Released.
🔥 Keystone Announces Compatibility with DumDumz NFT.
🔥 Permaswap's Order Book Feature "Spot" Goes Live.
🧵 Permaswap's USDC/AR Liquidity Pool Surpasses $100,000.
🧵 AOX Cross-Chain Bridge wUSDC Minting Exceeds 50,000 Tokens.
🧵 PermaDAO October Newcomer Camp Begins.
🧵 Apus Network Set to Launch $APUS Token.
🧵 Rimbox Game Project Beta Release Coming Soon.
🧵 Dumverse Game Project is Hiring Developers.
🧵 ArConnect Mobile App Surpasses 500 Downloads.
🧵 "Print to Arweave" Virtual Printer Tool Launched.
🧵 KYVE Network Integrates Marlin Protocol.
🧵 RedStone Partners with Fuel Ignition for Price Feeds.
Network & Project Updates
Arweave Hits 10 Billion Transactions
On October 16, 2024, Arweave reached 10 billion transactions.
From 0 to 100 million transactions took 1,868 days, while it only took 454 days to reach 1 billion.
Arweave Fullstack Hackathon Launches with $50,000 Prize Pool
Phase 1: Nov 1–19, 2024. Up to five teams will win $5,000 each, with results announced on Nov 21.
Phase 2: Winners from Phase 1 have the chance to win an additional $5,000 in Jan 2025.
Participants build decentralized tech stacks using Arweave, AO, and ArFleet.
Referral bonus: $1,000 for referring new participants.
Arweave 2.8.0 Released
The hard fork will activate at block height 1,547,120, introducing a compound packaging format to reduce disk read rates and improve mining flexibility.
Updates include RandomX optimizations requiring 3,500 HugePages and various bug fixes to improve synchronization and stability.
https://x.com/ArweaveOasis/status/1847099923482968461
Github: https://github.com/ArweaveTeam/arweave/releases/tag/N.2.8.0
PermaHacks Hackathon Is Heating Up
The PermaHacks event runs from October 23 to November 6, with a prize pool of $22,500 covering categories such as services, gaming, and infrastructure.
Top teams participating include the AO official team, WeaveVM, Astro Labs, Ar.io, and Bazar.
Interested developers can join the Weavers Discord to engage with the community. The hackathon officially kicks off on October 23.
PermaHacks Online Hackathon Announces WeaveVM Bounty
The bounty task challenges participants to deploy high-performance rollups and data-intensive dApps using WeaveVM.
Registration link: https://weaversofficial.com/#partnersforjustice
PermaHacks BetterIDEa Bounty Tasks Officially Launched
Task 1: Integrate AI-powered code auto-completion into the Web IDE, with a reward of $1,500 USD (equivalent in $AR).
Task 2: Create a themed post highlighting potential use cases for BetterIDEa, with a total reward of 20 $AR.
More information: https://weaversofficial.com/partners/betteridea
Permaswap's USDC/AR Liquidity Pool Exceeds $100,000
A 3-month liquidity mining campaign with a 1,000,000 $HALO reward pool is underway.
As of Oct 15, the pool had an APR of 365.2%.
AOX wUSDC Minting Tops 50,000 Tokens
Rimbox Game Beta to Launch Soon
Rimbox, built on AO, is described as an on-chain version of Minecraft.
PermaDAO October Newcomer Camp Starts
A collaborative community within the Arweave/AO ecosystem focused on earning $AR through content creation and events.
WeaveDB Trivia Night Launched
Time: Mondays at 7 PM WAT via WeaveDB NG's Telegram.
ArConnect Mobile App Surpasses 500 Downloads
Users span the globe, with the U.S., India, and Indonesia leading the way.
"Print to Arweave" Tool Now Available
Developed by LiquidOps' co-founder, this virtual printer archives PDF content to Arweave using Turbo.
Apus Network to Launch $APUS Token
Community-distributed token with no corporate allocation, launching in Q4 2024 to support a trustless GPU network.
Permaswap Spot Order Book Goes Live
The platform offers liquidity from both AMM and order book sources.
Dumverse Game Hiring Developers
The browser-based game uses Teal for backend development and React.js for frontend. Familiarity with AO is required.
Keystone Wallet Now Supports DumDumz NFT
NFT holders can now transfer their assets to the secure Keystone hardware wallet.
Collaborations & Integrations
RedStone Partners with Fuel Ignition
Fuel Ignition, a high-performance L2 solution based on FuelVM, will use RedStone's price feeds to enhance its operations.
KYVE Network Integrates Marlin Protocol
Marlin's trusted execution environments (TEEs) enable complex task automation within KYVE's ecosystem.
Ecosystem Education
Veritas Post: Introduction to Permissionless Ecosystem Funding
Developers earn long-term funding by incentivizing users to bridge assets to AO, without needing VCs.
vilenarios: Turning Any PermaApp into a Telegram Mini App
Create a Telegram bot with @Botfather and integrate a permanent web app through menu buttons.
Community Labs: Simplified Components of AO Architecture
AO is a decentralized, parallel computing system built on Arweave, featuring processes, messages, schedulers, and computation units.
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