Arweave Ecosystem Weekly Report #4: A September to Remember

Arweave – the network and the ecosystem – maintained steady growth in the first week of September, benefiting from Arweave’s community of supercoders, Solana’s “NFT Summer”, and increased search engine visibility.

I. Arweave Network

New peaks for Arweave

Arweave network saw a new peak in transaction volume in the first week of September due to high network usage from NFT projects, especially Solana-based dApps.

August had yet another all time high transaction volume on the Arweave network! Up another 15.5% from prior peaks. pic.twitter.com/nnN8SwUnGk

— 🐘🔗 sam.arweave.dev (@samecwilliams) September 2, 2021

Arweave is trending in search

According to Google Trends, Arweave keywords were trending this week. New end-users and developers are discovering the innovative potential of the permaweb.

Cool to see so many people discovering the permaweb 🙂!

Definitely nothing. pic.twitter.com/tDYVrcz3EG

— 🐘🔗 sam.arweave.dev (@samecwilliams) September 3, 2021

Record highs for bundled transactions

The Arweave team recently released major improvements to a bundling feature which allows an extremely large amount of data (2^256-1 bytes) to be sent in a single transaction – far more safely and reliably than was previously possible. This week, Arweave processed almost as many bundled transactions as it did unbundled.

Arweave transactions since Saturday: 198,785.
Bundled Arweave transactions since Saturday: 148,411.

The bundle flippening is almost complete! 🚀🚀🚀

Why are bundles so important? They make Arweave's throughput virtually infinitely scalable. Details 👇https://t.co/bGTQyjHdFz

— 🐘🔗 sam.arweave.dev (@samecwilliams) September 7, 2021

100k Solana NFTs backed up on Arweave

According to Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO of Solana Labs, thousands of Solana NFTs are permanently stored on the Arweave’s Permaweb.

100k NFTs minted on chain, all art permanently backed on @ArweaveTeam forever. Probably nothing. https://t.co/uJ673cblbi

— toly 🇺🇸 (@aeyakovenko) September 4, 2021

ArGo integrates ENS with Arweave

All credit to the ArGo team for working on Arweave content hash support in the ENS protocol and enabling .eth domains to point at permaweb sites.

#ArGoApp successfully adds @ArweaveTeam support for @ensdomains as a way to resolve ENS domains to applications stored on the Permaweb🧑‍💻

Now users will be able to easily configure & attach ENS domains once the integration is complete 🤝$ARGO#ArGoApp #ArGoToken #ArGoV2
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— Spheron – Building Dev Tools For Web3 (@SpheronHQ) September 3, 2021

II. Arweave Ecosystem

arkb: new features implemented in the latest release

Today, Textury, as known as Arweave’ tools swiss knife, releases a new version of arkb (v1.1.23) featuring the support of two crucial features: Arweave fee multiplier and Arweave bundler. See documentation updates in GitHub here.

We've released arkb v1.1.23 🚀

✔️ Bundler option fully working now
✔️ You can now set a fee multiplier#Arweave #permaweb #NodeJS #NPM

➡️ https://t.co/QS7TeaLm2z pic.twitter.com/X9Wj3iKUqF

— Textury (@TexturyOrg) September 7, 2021

New pricing calculator from ArDrive

ArDrive released a handy new pricing calculator aimed at helping its users understand the cost in $ and AR of archiving a file.

We just launched a pricing calculator so you can see how much it'll cost to save your data to Permaweb forever with ArDrive using #fiat, #crypto, data size, and $AR!

Take it for a spin at 👉https://t.co/9lO14a1Brx👈 & know before you stow (your data)! pic.twitter.com/xwRkvdN2XN

— 🐘🔗ArDrive.arweave.dev (@ardriveapp) September 1, 2021

Protonmail or Wevemail

Protonmail just removed “We do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy. Unlike Wevemail, a secure Arweave email app. Wevemail has an immutable privacy policy, can never sell your data, read your mail or be taken down.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Permaweb apps simply never change after launch.

Just as there will never be more than 21m BTC, https://t.co/ITEjrIcx4T will simply never betray your trust.

The service is incorruptible.

We wrote about this in 2019 👇https://t.co/HTnEK54Oym https://t.co/63xJGxwafP

— 🐘🔗 sam.arweave.dev (@samecwilliams) September 7, 2021

Davatar, the avatar of your Web3 profiles

Davatar.xyz is a new project released under TBDAO. The project is built on top of ENS and Arweave to give users one unified avatar for all of Web3.

Introducing davatar: One avatar for everything Web3

It's basically decentralized gravatar for web3/crypto, built on top of ENS and @ArweaveTeam with gas-less avatar updates

More details 🧵 https://t.co/yGp484EFWe

— davatar (@davatar_xyz) September 2, 2021

ArGo migrate to new URL after GoDaddy takedown

After ArGo’s original domain was suspended, “due to a suspected phishing attack”, CEO Prashant Maurya announced migration to argoapp.net is underway, and that they will be doubling their pace towards truly permissionless and decentralized name services.

Here is their latest response. Their customer support is the dumbest I have ever witnessed. They don’t have clue about what they are doing. They are trying to stop the #Competition that is getting built in #web3 I would request all the leaders of the #dWeb to help us out in this pic.twitter.com/Jm8ftcUmqA

— Prashant Maurya 🇮🇳 (@prashant_xyz) September 5, 2021

Hence, have started migrating to our new domain https://t.co/MAFC41MtnQ ????

Here is the plan ????

???? Migrate our app first so that our users are able to easily access deployment
???? Migration of our landing page
???? Migrating the rest of the URLs

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— ArGo (@argoapplive) September 7, 2021

Archaeologist bounty program by Sarcophagus

Sarcophagus, a decentralized dead man’s switch application built on Ethereum and Arweave, is running new program rewarding $SARCO tokens for setting up and running nodes. Tap here to learn more!

On-Chain agreements by Ricardian Fabric

Ricardian Fabric is a new project (OWF applicant) built on Arweave that implements Ricardian Contracts and introduces on-chain agreements. This fresh project has released its MVP recently.

Ricardian Fabric, the MVPhttps://t.co/G6xoKigGV3

— Ricardian Fabric (@RicardianFabric) September 6, 2021

Valkyrie upgrade by fQR Weave

fQR Weave, an anti-counterfeiting solution built on Arweave, released new major project upgrades taking it from product to protocol, and improving decentralization.

fQR-Weave Valkyrie Update: From Product to Protocol

Sharing about: aNFTs implementation, workflow enhancements, use-cases, and more. Have a full read! 😄https://t.co/YWLf6Pk8DE

— fQR Weave (@Fqr_Weave) August 25, 2021

$VRT bounty for PSC creators

Verto‘s founder, Tate, announced a bounty for PSC creators that required doing a simple frontend edit. Tap here to check Marton’s guides.

Massive announcement coming soon… 👀

100 VRT to each profit-sharing community that adds an "X-Community-Contract" header with the PSC ID to their frontend(s).

Reply here once you've done it, and please pass the message on!

— t8.arweave.dev (@TateBerenbaum) September 6, 2021

RSS3 releases Web3 Pass

RSS3, the decentralized RSS protocol that is building an integration with Arweave, released Web3 Pass, a way to allow users to interact with their RSS3 files, show off cyber assets, and attach a persistent identity to their RSS3 content. This persistent identity uses RSS3 Name Service, or RNS, “a special type of ENS developed by us, granted to any address when registering for the Web3 Pass”. The announcement can be read here on their blog.

The KYVE Q&A

KYVE continue to answer user questions submitted with via #WeAreKyve hashtag campaign that puts developers better in touch with users.

1/2 Today we answer @CurrentTR question. If you want us to answer your question too, don't forget to use the hashtag #WeAreKYVE :

Would it be right for us to perceive KYVE as data mining in the future? pic.twitter.com/LxKiH9kR0X

— KYVE is hiring 💫 (@KYVENetwork) September 6, 2021

Traxa.io releases Explorer and MVP preview

An example of a Traxa NFT, with metadata and geolocation

Traxa.io, a decentralized tracking solution for shipping containers, has released an Android MVP and an example of an NFT created with it in the Explorer.

III. Save The Date

Arweavers Koii AMA: Sep 8th

Really pleased to be speaking with @al_koii about @KoiiNetwork in the https://t.co/vUMig2QsPu channel tomorrow!

1700 CEST

Voice chat, all welcome!@ArweaveNews @ArweaveTeam pic.twitter.com/KvgADTTR6r

— Arweavers Community (@Arweavers) September 7, 2021

The Arweavers community will have the founder of Koii, Al Morris, on September 8th at 1700 CEST on the voice chat in the Arweavers Telegram group.

Sanctor Turbo Demo Day: Sep 14th

Sanctor Capital organizes a demo day for “Alpha Class” projects to show their products on a virtual stage. The founders of Arweave and Koii, Sam Williams and Al Morris respectively are guests.

We are excited to invite you to Sanctor Turbo Demo Day. On September 14th between 1:30pm – 5:00pm EST projects of the Alpha Class will take the virtual stage to show their products. pic.twitter.com/J6UvlW5AtG

— Sanctor Capital (@SanctorCapital) September 3, 2021

ArDrive Community Call: Sep 15th

The ArDrive team is going to host a community call on September 15th at 12:30pm EST to go over the basics of what the ArDrive token is and how it is used.

37% of respondents to our poll last week didn't know what an ArDrive token (ↁ) was. Let's fix that!

We're going to host a #CommunityCall on September 15th at 12:30p EST to go over the basics of what the ↁ is & what the ↁ does.

Save the date, more info later this week! https://t.co/73l6MhbRN9

— 🐘🔗ArDrive.arweave.dev (@ardriveapp) September 7, 2021

IV. ICYMI

– Permablog V2 has been released!
– Weekly report of the end of August
– Beginner’s guide: how to upload data to Arweave
– Why NFTs on Arweave and Solana Took Of This Summer
– Not A Single Week Passed And Verto Team Is Killing It In September
– AMA With Koii Founder Al Morris