Arweave Ecosystem Weekly Report #27: Arweave, the Witness in the Trial of Mankind
What at first seemed like a bad dream become a shocking reality. Lessons from the past that we arrogantly thought we had learned, turned out to be forgotten, or interpreted completely differently. We have never been closer to total annihilation than right now. If in the end humanity will prevail, this time we should never, like never-ever forget what happened. In this context, the need and the mission of Arweave has become more than obvious.
I. Arweave Network
Files from the Russian invasion of Ukraine continued to be stored
Last week the counter was around 5 million files. At the moment of writing this article, there are over 12.5 million files stored. Arweavers will never stop recording everything. There will be no clean slate for those involved, no retractions, no unwanted files deleted, just raw data waiting to be scrutinized by the court of Hague.
Urgent need to preserve evidence of war crimes. The #web3 community, especially @samecwilliams & @ArweaveTeam, have built tools to permanently safeguard distributed digital libraries of information. Arweave will be a game changer for Hague prosecutors… https://t.co/Ql3G88lHOA
— Tomicah Tillemann 🇺🇦🇺🇲 (@TomicahTD) March 3, 2022
The entire effort made by the Arweave team didn’t remain unseen. Sam Williams, Arweave’s founder, was asked by Bloomberg TV to explain the initiative:
Honored to represent the Arweave community's archiving efforts on @bloomberg TV today 👇https://t.co/hEww75rPqs
Thanks to this community's work, >6.5 million artifacts from Ukraine have been permanently stored so far.
This horrific moment in history will not be forgotten.
— 🐘🔗 sam.arweave.dev (@samecwilliams) February 26, 2022
Likewise, another member of our community, Andres Pirela, a developer at Verto, explained how Arweave works in the context of data preservation in an article for Forbes.
I recently collaborated on a #Forbes article on how #Arweave is helping historians have full access of information regarding the #Russia #Ukraine situation. Give it a read https://t.co/18wpjFxSN5 . Article by @Steven_Ehrlich
— Andres Pirela (@andreestech) February 27, 2022
The community rallied to further expand the sources from where the information about the war are extracted
Decent.land, the Web3 social layer, an Arweave native project, participated in the joint effort by offering a proof of concept meant to achieve data from Reddit.
(1/4) In order to contribute to the efforts done by the Arweave community to archive public data about the #UkraineRussiaWar permanently, we developed a PoC to archive data from another social network, Reddit:
👉 https://t.co/rXo2xHUFT1— decent.land (@decentdotland) February 27, 2022
II. Arweave Ecosystem
ArDrive announced the launch of AR.I/O Network and raised 17 million $ to operationalize it
This project represents a grand milestone through decentralization for the entire Arweave ecosystem. The importance of AR.I/O Network could be understood by the magnitude of the funds raised and by the backers that led the round: Arweave Team, Blockchain Capital, and Sino Global Capital. We had an exclusive on these news so you can read the whole story here.
Today we’re excited to announce the launch of @ar_io_network, bringing decentralized & incentivized gateways to @ArweaveTeam.@ArweaveNews with the exclusive: https://t.co/q3dBs6ARtk
We’re sure there are some questions so let’s get to them! A 🧵:
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— 🐘🔗ArDrive.arweave.dev (@ardriveapp) February 28, 2022
Pianity raised $6.5 million in seed round
Pianity, one of the players from the incipient music NFT industry announced the end of their seed round,
led byDigital Renaissance Foundation, Big Brain Holdings, and Longhash Ventures, with participation from IOSG; LD Capital; Sebastien Borget, co-founder and COO at TheSandBox; ViaBTC; ArkStream Capital; Arweave; and Ronny Shibley, CTO and co-founder at Gorillas.
We’re proud to announce that we raised $6.5 million in seed to build the next generation of music platform leveraging #NFTs!🚀
⭐Thank you to all the artists, collectors, advisors, and investors for being part of this journey!
👉Read the announcement: https://t.co/IqCho8WNAc pic.twitter.com/hxyUWPKI4w
— Pianity (@pianitynft) March 2, 2022
Let’s hope that the world will settle and will let the future sound good again. At least we know that Pianity will have the means to provide the beats!
KYVE Network released its third protocol update
This update focuses on the KYVE DAO and further decentralization of the governance and delegation process. They also worked on improving the nodes’ infrastructure by diminishing the amount of data stored in memory. For further explanations you can check their Medium article.
“With this latest release, we have taken yet another step towards fully decentralizing the KYVE protocol — as well as bringing us closer to mainnet stability,” said KYVE co-founder John Letey.
Attention, KYVE-ers! We just rolled out our third protocol update, which aims to improve delegation security and node infrastructure in the KYVE Network.
Some of the biggest updates ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/arRwXUTvI9
— KYVE is hiring 💫 (@KYVENetwork) February 28, 2022
Ownbase announces a new feature
Ownbase, a solution that uses Arweave to empower creators all over the world to certify the proof of authenticity of their works, released last week a feature that extends further the services they offer: QR codes for easy verification of the proof of integrity and authenticity.
It's online!
It is now possible to simply verify a proof deposit. >> https://t.co/aH9xR9XOqZThe next step: the proof deposit application (https://t.co/otvk2fTWs9) will be completely redesigned.#arweave #proof #deposit pic.twitter.com/dDYUO5Gf0b
— Ownbase 🐘 (@OwnbaseOrg) March 1, 2022
Bybit listed RSS3
Bybit, a crypto exchange with almost 9 billion $ daily traded volume, that defines itself as one of the fastest-growing cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges, listed RSS3, RSS3 represents the counterpart of RSS built for the web3.
🚀 Learn more about $RSS3, one of Bybit's newest listings!
🔥 Join our Global Telegram AMA with Joshua Meteora, Founder of @rss3_ on March 2 at 7PM UTC.
🤑 Participate & stand to win from a prize pool of $2,000 worth of $RSS3!
📲 Join here: https://t.co/JZb09CGeoF pic.twitter.com/Jj9ARgMGhU
— Bybit (@Bybit_Official) March 2, 2022
RSS3 Protocol defines the format of information presence and communication, and through the protocol, users store signed information to decentralised RSS3 Network, including profile, link, note and asset, where note and asset include not only signed content published by users themselves, but also content automatically indexed from other networks. Details of the RSS3 Protocol can be found here.
EverFinance now supports PSTs too
EverFinance, the cross-chain DeFi protocol that uses the power of Arweave to deliver feeless and instant transactions showcased again the use of SCP (storage-based consensus protocol, a protocol created by them) in enabling support for profit-sharing tokens too through EverPay dApp. In order to better understand the underlying tech, we recommend checking this article.
🐘Sooo… we did a thing.
We now support #Arweave #Smartweave PSTs now. Just letting everyone know, especially @ardrive and @vertoexchange.$VRT #ArDrive pic.twitter.com/L0Y9gPOrgQ
— everVision🐘 (@everVisionHQ) March 2, 2022
III. ICYMI
- Grammy-nominated producer BT releases living NFTs on Arweave
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ArDrive Raises $17.2m to Supercharge Arweave Gateway Decentralization
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