Arweave Announcements

We’re about to go live with the first event of the Open Web Foundry! 🚨 Join the kick-off call now: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/i7wq96pf🚀

We’re 1 hour away from the start of the Open Web Foundry! 📣 Join the kick-off call with Sam Williams to get started 🚀 👉https://www.crowdcast.io/e/i7wq96pf Looking forward to seeing you there! 🔥

Tune into the Open Web Foundry Kick-Off Call at 6pm CET/ 12pm EST today on Crowdcast! 🚀https://www.crowdcast.io/e/i7wq96pf Arweave Founder Sam Williams will give you an introduction to Arweave and a preview of everything you need to know to get started with the Foundry program! 🔥 Not signed up for the Open Web Foundry yet? ⏰ Make sure to sign-up here and also register your project 👉https://gitcoin.co/hackathon/arweave4/onboard Also stay up to date with the Foundry Google Calendar 📅https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_hiot594mmrm1d7dsjrkvcan44k%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe%2FBerlin See you on the Permaweb! 🤖💪

Today we are excited to announce that Binance will list AR! 🥳 https://twitter.com/binance/status/1393062966791004165

Last month in the Arweave ecosystem was amazing - let’s recap! 🤩 From the very first Arweave conference (ArConf#1), to more NFTs launching on the network, & amazing new dev tools, we’ve seen it all. To read (much) more, head to our blog 👇 https://medium.com/@arweave/arweave-april-2021-ecosystem-update-first-arweave-conference-more-nfts-podcasts-much-more-add966d01b15 - ArConf#1 was a massive hit, with key ecosystem founders, builders, evangelists, & end users coming together to improve the permaweb collaboratively. We hosted >20 thought provoking talks from founders & builders, plus a Jobs Fair! You can check out the videos on YouTube now 🙌 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2nQaVnO6V_OlHNtD5hMgpQAFiNj5ivjZ Check out our previous ArConf#1 wrap-up thread here for more info! 👀 https://twitter.com/ArweaveTeam/status/1388136484641853443 - In the land of NFTs on Arweave, we saw amazing work such as Solvency by Ezra Miller in collaboration with Steve Klebanoff minted on Arweave - read Steve’s thread to learn more 🎨 https://twitter.com/steveklbnf/status/1384654681742266374 Leaders in the NFT space, Mintbase, also shared that they will be adding Arweave logos to their NFTs to showcase the permanence of their NFT assets & metadata! 👏 https://www.coindesk.com/certified-persistent-nfts - Arweave Developer Advocate Cedrik released arkb v1.1.0, which offers simultaneous deployment to Arweave+IPFS, file de-duplication features, and deployment of unlimited numbers and sizes of files! 💡 https://github.com/textury/arkb Alternative permaweb gateway Amplify (https://www.amplify.host/) released v0.8.2 this month, with radical improvements to query speed, addition of @open_koi logging tools & endpoints, & more! Follow Amplify’s progress on Discord here: https://discord.gg/jqDa8yma3T As you might have noticed, the ecosystem of devs working with Arweave has been exploding, the numbers more than tripling so far this year 🤯 Decrypt wrote about this in a recent article: https://decrypt.co/66740/who-are-the-fastest-growing-developer-communities-in-crypto - Upcoming event alert! 📅 Arweave’s Sam williams will be at the Dystopia Labs Open Web Community Summit, to discuss NFTs, the permaweb, & more with digital artist Kevin Abosch, SuperRare’s Head of Community Louis Giraux, crypto artist Mr. Misang, plus others. Free tickets are available: https://twitter.com/DystopiaLabs/status/1384207211166007305 - Sam also appeared on a range of fascinating podcasts this month, including the Non-Fungible Podcast with DKleine, discussing the permaweb + NFTs, naturally! https://twitter.com/_DKleine/status/1385022891868114944 On The Delphi Podcast, Sam Williams joined Tom Shaughnessy and Can Gurel to chat about the permaweb & Arweave’s pay-once-store-forever model. Check out the episode: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi/status/1382049182874238983 Plus, the Outlier Ventures team hosted Sam Williams for a podcast episode on token economics, consensus mechanisms, & profit-sharing. Watch here: youtu.be/7Fe4FUsXDBE - Plus, if you’re interested in mining with Arweave, check out our new miners’ Discord server to chat, troubleshoot, and get help setting up. https://discord.gg/7TAgjvfFZY - Don’t forget, you can join the unofficial, community-run @Arweavers Telegram channel to discuss anything and everything Arweave-related with fellow members of the ecosystem! https://t.me/arweavers - Wow, thanks from the core Arweave team go out to everyone who made this month so special! Read much more about all of these developments and much more in our latest blog post 👇 https://medium.com/@arweave/arweave-april-2021-ecosystem-update-first-arweave-conference-more-nfts-podcasts-much-more-add966d01b15

This quarter has seen an explosion of new releases, projects, and great achievements across the permaweb ecosystem. 🤯 Let’s dive into some of the many highlights here, and check out our blog post for many, many more! 👇 https://medium.com/@arweave/arweave-q1-2021-ecosystem-update-nfts-the-guardian-a-new-web-wallet-new-gateway-much-more-48080c2dfcb4 In March alone, the Arweave network handled >1 million transactions, & the storage endowment grew to over $550,000 too! Plus, in Q1 the core team released the Succinct Proofs of Random Access (SPoRA) consensus mechanism, read more about the benefits here: https://arweave.medium.com/the-arweave-network-is-now-running-succinct-random-proofs-of-access-spora-e2732cbcbb46 The world is waking up to the powerful combination of NFTs + Arweave! We recently saw the creation of atomic NFTs on Arweave. But what *are* atomic NFTs? 🤔 Sam Williams can help shed some light: https://twitter.com/samecwilliams/status/1377038783586123776 Plus, check out this Guardian article feat. Arweave, and explaining its unique offering for NFT projects today, and describing the powerful work of digital artist Kevin Abosch & his recent 1111 project: 🎨👨‍💻https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/apr/03/non-fungible-tokens-digital-art-artists We also saw the launch of ArConnect, a Metamask-style wallet for AR! Congratulations to the Verto.Exchange team for making this happen! 🙌💱https://arconnect.io/ Amplify, a brand new gateway to the permaweb has been launched, with video streaming & GraphQL support, providing an alternative to the popular arweave.net gateway. 🥳 Learn more about Amplify here: https://www.amplify.host/ It’s now possible to trade attention rewards on Arweave, thanks to a collaboration between the Verto.Exchange and Koi teams! 👀🤝 Read more about this here: https://arweave.medium.com/nfts-and-attention-rewards-verto-and-koi-spotlight-c7fa1ca94827 We’ve seen amazing launches & releases from a huge number of teams, including ArDrive, Argo, decent.land, everFinance, Verto.Exchange, community.XYZ, ArVerify, Evermore, Pianity, & more! 🤯🔥 To read all the details, check out our new ecosystem update over on Medium now! 👇 https://medium.com/@arweave/arweave-q1-2021-ecosystem-update-nfts-the-guardian-a-new-web-wallet-new-gateway-much-more-48080c2dfcb4

Today we’re looking at how you can trade attention rewards with Verto.Exchange and Koi Protocol 👀🤝 Check out our latest blog to learn more about how the projects have collaborated to make this possible 👇 https://medium.com/@arweave/nfts-and-attention-rewards-verto-and-koi-spotlight-c7fa1ca94827 Plus, here’s an extra blog post providing video tutorials showing you how to use Verto, and the new tool, Verto Space (powered by the Koi Protocol) 🤯👇 https://medium.com/@arweave/swapping-assets-and-nfts-on-arweave-with-verto-exchange-7072d8ed0fed

📅We’re about to go live with our latest Open Web Foundry masterclass! 📅 Join us now to learn about how to pitch your project to potential investors from Sebastian Campos Groth👇 https://www.crowdcast.io/e/gyz5sojp

In just under an hour, Arweave COO Sebastian Campos Groth will be presenting Masterclass #7 of the Open Web Foundry! Anyone is welcome to join us at 6 pm CEST/12 pm EDT today, and hear Seb’s insights on how to pitch your project to investors, collaborators, and users 👇 https://www.crowdcast.io/e/gyz5sojp

Also happening today, Arweave Founder Sam Williams will be appearing at the Diffusion Digital conference by Outlier Ventures, at 7pm CEST/1pm EDT! 🙌 Sam and other guests, including Open Koi Founder Al Morris, will be discussing the future of the attention economy 💡 You can register for free now here 👇 https://www.crowdcast.io/e/diffusion-digital-april/register

Tune into masterclass #7: Pitching to Pros at 6 pm CEST/12 pm EDT today! 🚀 https://www.crowdcast.io/e/gyz5sojp In this masterclass, Arweave COO Sebastian Campos Groth will be drawing from his many years of experience supporting startup companies with their pitches, fundraising, and team building.🛠 Here, you will learn how to best showcase your project to would-be investors, collaborators, and users!🔥

Tomorrow is our final Open Web Foundry masterclass! Come & join us to learn how to Pitch to Pros at 6pm CEST/12 pm EDT tomorrow, Wednesday the 7th 👇 https://www.crowdcast.io/e/gyz5sojp In this session, Arweave COO Sebastian Campos Groth draws from his many years of experience mentoring, guiding, and advising startups on everything from pitching during fundraising to team building! 💪