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The $AO Token: Bitcoin inspired economics Total supply: 21 million tokens Halving: Smooth 4-year cycles NFA.

Holographic State: cool name and useful! AO's "holographic state" approach means state isn't stored directly but inferred from a message log on Arweave. This enables: ‣ Verifiable computation w/o global state ‣ Permanent, auditable history ‣ Faster interactions and scaling

Traditional blockchains force every node to process every transaction sequentially, creates bottlenecks. AO removes this limitation with its actor model: ‣ HTTP integration ‣ Parallel execution ‣ Each process maintains independent state ‣ No global consensus bottleneck

No more “trust me.” It becomes: “Show me.” From opaque systems → provable systems From trust → verification Finance. AI outputs. Marketplaces. Games. Anything where “what actually happened” matters. AO makes the internet provable. We think that’s a big deal. NFA!

Under the hood, AO turns computation into verifiable messages. Each step is signed and linked together. Like a receipt… but for logic. So in that same scenario: You don’t argue. You show proof: “I submitted this form, at this time, with this data.” Verified ✔️

If something goes wrong? No proof. No transparency. No recourse. Just “trust us.” @aothecomputer changes that. Every interaction can be cryptographically verified. Not just that you clicked submit… But exactly what happened, step by step.

You know you did it. But here’s the problem: You can’t prove it. Today, most apps work like this: You click buttons. Their server processes it. They store the result. You’re trusting them the whole time.

So why does AO matter… in real life? Let’s make it simple. You go online to complete a government form. You fill everything out. Click submit. Done. A week later… you get a notice: “You failed to submit. $1,000 fine.” What?! 😳

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There's a lot changing and upgrading with @aoTheComputer. We thought it would be a great time to make a video and answer: what's it all about?

Nice to see this list growing. FYI: data providers can now earn $AO rewards based on the liveness of their service.

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The first epoch for NASA rewards have been distributed! 9,700 gateway requests served. 966 AO remain in the monthly pool for operators joining the following epochs to earn. Learn more and join the Alpha with your #Arweave miner: ao.arweave.net/#/blog/nasa

When you think about it, just about everything we use online is a silo. It’s kind of weird. Our mental energy (brains!) gets funneled through the platforms we use to do work. We compute in our own minds, then push that out into external systems. That’s a very close relationship, and we don’t have many places to do that external computation on our own terms. A bit precarious, right? That’s what @aoTheComputer is here to sort out :). A place where computation runs outside of platforms, across independent processes, instead of inside silos. Where results can be verified, not just trusted (h/t @ArweaveEco). When you step back, it becomes obvious: --> we already compute in a decentralized way. We need our external computers to work the same way. "The right to compute."

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Temper your expectations, expect bugs, but $AO staking is now live in alpha for node availability. First service: Community-run Arweave+AO data access 👇

“Operators compete to be the fastest to serve requests, earning their portion of the 1,000 AO/month pool. A flat stake of 25 AO will initially be required in order to have requests routed to your node.” 👀 👀

@adamludwin Congrats!

wow, we just crossed 100,000 hosted sites anytime you need a URL for something, just tell your agent "publish this to here.now" thank you to all our early users!!

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@aoComputerClub @aoTheComputer http mentioned 386464538491k.arweave.net/http

How to upgrade the internet: 1) Use HTTP. 2) Work with any blockchain. 3) Be decentralized by design. 4) Add simple, permanent storage via Arweave. This is @aothecomputer!

Tinkerers welcome. Thinkers welcome. Those who wish to see a better kind of internet welcome. Follow us @aoComputerClub for explanations on the mission, the tech, and the people.

The @fwdresearch team, and @samecwilliams has proven time and time their dedication and vision for humanity. These inventions are not just "crypto" or "blockchain" but ideas put into practice to actually improve the world of technology as a whole.