r/Arweave

2.3K archived posts · Feb 2018 – Sep 2026

The first truly permanent information storage network, backed by a sustainable endowment.

r/Arweave

A novel data storage blockchain protocol enabling a permanent serverless web and creating truly permanent data storage for the first time. Now data is finally permanent, low-cost, and truly censorship free.

Created Feb 20, 2018

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Arweave is a new data storage protocol on a blockchain-like structure called the blockweave. It’s built on a novel proof of access consensus mechanism that makes truly permanent, low-cost data storage available for the very first time.

Unlike other blockchains, we’ve created a truly scalable infrastructure. Our infrastructure is poised ready to become the backbone for the data economy, as we will be able to reach up to 5000 tp/s, and store data at a fraction of the cost of our competitors.

Arweave Social Media:

Whilst the internet has revolutionised the way in which journalists, politicians and companies reach their audiences, it has also proved to be highly vulnerable to censorship. With Arweave in place, it would no longer be possible for documents and politically sensitive news to be censored at the whim of any group or individual.

In order to scale to the necessary sizes, Arweave uses a novel blockchain-like data structure called a blockweave, which incentivises miners in the system to self-organise long-term data storage.

Arweave also allows developers to build applications that make use of the network's de-centralised, uncensorable and permanent data storage system. On top of this, Arweave allows developers to build apps that receive a live-feed of hand-curated documents of interest from the internet.

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