Arweave/AO Weekly Highlights Week 8 | AR.IO Mainnet Launch, $FFP Airdrop, AO Node Onboarding Workshop
Author: Kyle
Translator: Kyle
Reviewer: Marshal Orange
Source: Content Guild Translation
Originally published at: PermaDAO
Arweave Network Data:
In the past week, Arweave completed 302,089,562 transactions, reaching a storage volume of 4.87 TiB.
Storage fee for this week stands at 1.14 $AR/GB, block reward at 2,915 $AR, and endowment increased by 4,806 $AR.
AO Network Data (as of February 23, 2025):
AO has sent a total of 180 Million messages; 3,307,345 $AO have been minted.
Bridged assets include 67,424 $stETH and 389,138,277 $DAI.
PermaDAO Incentive Distribution:
PermaDAO distributed a total of 209.54 $AR and 1,0313.23 $BP as contribution incentives last week.
Weekly News Summary
🔥 ar.io network mainnet launches, $ARIO distribution completed, driving the launch of the permanent cloud network.
🔥 FusionFi Protocol launches $FFP airdrop, attracting users to join the AgentFi ecosystem.
🔥 ar.io network releases $ARIO whitepaper V2.1, enhancing community support and reward mechanisms.
🔥 AO Node Onboarding Workshop will be held online on February 25th from 7:00-8:00 (GMT+8), with a chance to win an AMD CPU for participants.
🔥 FusionFi Protocol launches $FFP initial trading pool, supporting seamless trading and profit sharing.
🔥 Permaswap reaches 24-hour trading volume of $20 million, demonstrating strong market performance.
🔥 Permaswap launches $Sw4EVER, supporting AO bridging and seamless trading.
🔥 Permaswap adds $ARIO to whitelist, enabling trading support for ar.io network ecosystem expansion.
🔥 Aolotto launches the Wander platform, mobile version in development, offering a convenient lottery experience.
🔥 Rimbox starts second whitelist batch, with limited-time access to on-chain Minecraft game, prioritizing exclusive whitelist users.
🔥 ao PermaBrawl announces latest rankings, AR.IO leads, competition continues until March 6th.
🔥 Primus completes $6.5 million Pre-seed + Seed funding round.
🔥 WeaveVM launches Swarm data permanent backup tool, ensuring high availability and persistent storage.
🧵 Aolotto releases 5th round compensation plan, distributing 22,489.91 $ALT to compensate user losses and optimize the system.
🧵 StarGridBattle upgrades to Lunar Battlefield One, adding PowerUps and drone 3D models.
🧵 Multiple projects join ar.io network GOIP, advancing Arweave decentralized storage development.
🧵 ANS uses AOX to enable cross-chain $ANS token transfer to AO network, enhancing cross-chain compatibility.
🧵 Basejump teams up with Korus to launch game music remix event, rewarding $KOR and $ACTION.
🧵 RedStone collaborates with Initia to provide modular oracle services, improving L2 ecosystem efficiency.
🧵 4Everland partners with ChainAware to AI-optimize Web3 personalized marketing, enhancing user experience.
🧵 Protocol.Land introduces Organization feature, optimizing team collaboration and warehouse management.
🧵 Weavers share insights from Arweave/AO founders, encouraging innovation through hackathons and collaboration.
🧵 DecentraMind teams up with MasaDegen to provide blockchain tools for healthy meme community growth.
🧵 Apus Network launches Zealy Quests, complete tasks to win 20 USDT, with 5 lucky winners announced next Monday.
🧵 BetterIDea launches arnode.asia node, allowing users to stake tokens to participate in network construction and earn rewards.
Network & Project Updates
FusionFi Protocol officially launches $FFP airdrop.
Airdrop targets users who traded or provided liquidity on Permaswap between May 16, 2024, and January 16, 2025.
Airdrop deadline is 12:00 UTC on February 24, 2025. Users must claim rewards via the specified link.
WeaveVM launches Swarm data permanent backup tool.
Through the Rust library and REST API, users can easily migrate Swarm data to WeaveVM by calling the swarm-importer method.
Data is stored on WeaveVM, ensuring high availability and supporting smart contract computation.
AO Node Onboarding Workshop will be held online on February 25th from 7:00-8:00 (GMT+8).
The AO team will guide how to set up hardware in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), how to run the AO-Core node, covering configuration tips and hardware setup.
The event also offers a chance to win an AMD CPU, sign up here: https://lu.ma/zmursaai.
StarGridBattle upgrades to Lunar Battlefield One, adding new elements.
PowerUps and drone 3D models have been integrated into the game to enhance the visual experience.
The 3D model of Space Emperor Tromp makes its debut, expected to launch on the aoTheComputer platform in Q2 this year.
Permaswap hits 24-hour trading volume of $20 million.
The platform continues to maintain the highest daily trading volume and TVL on AO, demonstrating strong market performance.
FusionFi Protocol officially launches $FFP initial pool, supporting seamless trading and profit sharing.
$10,000 is extracted from the FFP treasury and exchanged for $AO, which forms 1% of the total supply in the trading pool.
Future plans include launching profit-sharing mechanisms to further attract user participation.
ao PermaBrawl announces rankings, with AR.IO leading.
AR.IO leads with 1,756 participants, showing its overwhelming dominance in the event.
The competition will end on March 6, with Apus, Basejump, and Bazar still having time to catch up in the rankings.
ar.io network releases $ARIO whitepaper V2.1, enhancing community support.
The initial protocol reward balance has increased to 6.50%, recognizing the community's critical contributions to the mainnet launch.
Ecosystem and strategic partner allocations have increased to 28.63%, promoting the growth of innovative tools and collaboration opportunities.
Protocol.Land introduces the Organization feature to optimize collaboration efficiency.
Users can assign repositories to an organization, ensuring data synchronization and enhancing team collaboration.
Aolotto announces R5 compensation plan to protect user rights.
Due to high concurrency at the start of round 5 causing reward calculation errors, the foundation will compensate users with a 2.5x difference, totaling approximately 22,489.91 $ALT.
After system optimization, the betting interface will enter protection mode during round transitions to prevent similar issues.
Aolotto launches the Wander wallet, with a mobile version coming soon.
Users can explore Aolotto via the Wander discovery page and experience decentralized lottery games.
The Aolotto mobile version is under development, stay tuned for more innovative features.
Weavers share growth secrets from Arweave/AO founders, inspiring bold actions.
Encourages developers, creators, and founders to start projects now, overcome perfectionism and hesitation by testing ideas, focusing on key values, and iterating quickly.
Suggests participating in hackathons, seeking community support, and collaborating with potential partners to fully leverage Arweave ecosystem resources and opportunities.
Stresses the importance of staying flexible, adjusting direction based on market feedback and conditions to ensure project sustainability and success.
Rimbox opens second whitelist batch for limited-time game access.
Second batch whitelist users can access rimbox.vercel.app to experience the game from 14:00 GMT on February 21 to 14:00 GMT on February 27.
Multiple projects join ar.io network's Gateway Operator Incentive Program (GOIP).
Users can simplify AR.IO node deployment and management, improving gateway operation efficiency through the Gateway Operator Incentive Program (GOIP).
ar.io network offers real-time monitoring and analytics to ensure fast, scalable access to Arweave data, helping developers and enterprises drive innovation.
Permaswap officially launches $w4EVER for seamless trading.
Users can easily bridge $4EVER to $Sw4EVER through AOX and start trading on Permaswap.
ar.io network mainnet officially launches, with $ARIO driving the permanent cloud network.
The mainnet launch marks the completion of the $ARIO token generation event (TGE), with tokens allocated according to the established tokenomics and airdrop registration. Users can add $ARIO to their wallets via Wander.
AR.IO SDK 4.0 and node version 27 have been released, both supporting the mainnet. Development teams and gateway operators must update to the latest versions to ensure compatibility.
Primus completes $6.5 million Pre-seed + Seed funding round.
The funding round was co-led by Dispersion Capital, Symbolic Capital, and VanEck, with support from top investors like Samsung Next and Alchemy.
The capital will drive Primus' innovation in blockchain, helping expand its technology and ecosystem.
Permaswap adds $ARIO to whitelist, opening trading immediately.
Apus Network launches Zealy quests with a 20 USDT grand prize.
Participants must complete simple tasks on Zealy to climb the leaderboard and increase their chances of winning. 5 lucky winners will be randomly selected.
ANS' $ANS token bridges to AO network via AOX.
The $ANS token has now migrated from Ethereum to the AO network, with seamless bridging available via aox.xyz.
The bridged $wANS token (wANS) supports both EVM and AR addresses, enhancing cross-chain compatibility and flexibility.
BetterIDea launches arnode.asia node, inviting users to participate in staking.
Users can stake tokens through gateways.ar.io to participate in arnode.asia node management, with higher staking amounts earning greater rewards.
Project Partnerships & Integrations
Basejump teams up with Korus to create a game music mixtape event.
Participants can create music via the Korus platform, post it on X, and tag Basejump and Korus accounts to join the event.
Winners will receive $KOR and $ACTION rewards and have a chance to provide music for the Basejump game’s battle mode.
RedStone collaborates with Initia to provide pricing feed services.
The modular design of RedStone seamlessly integrates with Initia’s architecture, combining mature oracle technology to provide efficient and reliable data support for dApps.
4everland partners with ChainAware to enhance Web3 personalized marketing.
ChainAware offers on-chain behavioral data analysis and AI-driven agents to foster innovation in Web3 marketing.
The integration of 4everland AI RPC and Deepseek AI will jointly drive marketing upgrades on blockchains like BNB Chain.
DecentraMind collaborates with MasaDegen to support meme community growth.
DecentraMind provides tools to help the MasaDegen community grow in a healthy and organized manner.
Ecosystem Education
RandAO tweet — "RandAO Solves the Blockchain Random Number Problem".
RandAO uses the Commit-Reveal Scheme to prevent data manipulation, ensuring fairness in randomness.
Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) are used to generate unpredictable random numbers, enhancing the system's credibility.
FusionFi Protocol tweet — "Sovereign Finance: The Future of Personal Freedom".
Blockchain technology empowers individuals through decentralized finance (DeFi), freeing them from traditional banking and government control, giving real control over data and wealth, and laying the foundation for a free economy.
FusionFi Protocol introduces Sovereign Finance, combining AgentFi technology to allow users to become active creators and decision-makers in the financial system, overcoming traditional DeFi limitations and customizing financial services.
Aolotto blog post — "Why Choose AO to Build Web3 Las Vegas".
AO technology eliminates gas fees, handles high concurrency, and offers Cron messaging features, making $1 on-chain lottery betting feasible and solving performance bottlenecks and high costs of traditional public chains.
Aolotto implements a full-stack decentralized system, with smart contracts running on AO, data permanently stored on Arweave, and the frontend accessible via ar://, ensuring censorship resistance and over 200 years of data durability.
In the future, the LottoFi ecosystem will build a decentralized entertainment complex, with the $ALT token and AolottoLuckyClover NFT driving value cycles, empowering users to become owners of the entertainment value network.
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