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This weekend devs at @ethereumdenver have a chance to win this solid gold ao floppy disk worth $10,000! Code up a bot in ao to battle against other bots. The last bot standing wins! Be at the @ArweaveEco booth at 2pm sharp on Saturday March 2nd to compete. 📷

Dear Arweavers, I am happy to share that we have cleared all misunderstandings with @samecwilliams and the core Arweave crew in regards to forking Arweave. I’ve enjoyed working with Sam and the Arweave crew for the past few years, and I’m excited to keep working with them moving forward! I want to use this tweet to explain our position and address the key concerns we have heard from @irys_xyz users over the last couple weeks. Firstly, let’s clarify where matters stand: - Still, there has been no decision to fork Arweave. - Further, there are no changes on our side, technical or otherwise. We have always supported the Arweave Ecosystem and have no intentions of stopping. So, what has changed for our users? - Absolutely nothing. - All gateways will operate as expected. The optimistic cache has neither been revoked nor have we been told that it will be in the future. No changes are required on your end. From day 1, we’ve been focused on optimizing the developer experience (DX) on Arweave, which has always led to us having an interest in the core mechanics of Arweave. We are wondering if we might be able to make contributions to the system that help it grow and become even more resilient over time. So, what might it look like if we decide to fork? We will build exciting new provenance tech for the network while adhering to the framework for evolving Arweave. Moreover, we will continue to support Arweave itself and will never force users to migrate. We will continue to do what we do best: build infrastructure to support the growth of the Arweave ecosystem. We understand that Irys is critical infrastructure for most of our users. We do not take this responsibility lightly. We apologize for any distress this misunderstanding may have caused. If you have any questions or concerns, my DMs are open. Now, let’s get back to building 🫡

📣 Major announcement: @Meta is now using Arweave to permanently store digital collectables from @Instagram. Instagram users are now able to issue digital collectables for their posts, stored on Arweave. Some thoughts 👇

Introducing the Permaweb Payment Protocol (P3)! P3 is a generic way for payments to be made for #permaweb infrastructure services, but it does much more than that: - Enables service discovery 🧲 - Creates service markets ⚖️ - It is completely extensible 🧩 Learn More 👇

🐘Arseeding 1.0 Release: Arweave ANS-104 (Bundle) Light Node for any #Developer! 🔹We've made a significant upgrade to ArSeeding, it's also now FULLY open-source. 👀Have a more in-depth read below medium.com/everfinance/ar…

Here’s a breakdown of the prizes for the Alex poolathon running until Jan 18th 🚀 The pool with the most $AR contributed – $2000 💸 The pool with the most artifacts mined – $2000 💰 Any impactful pools – $100 worth of $AR 💵 More details here 👇 mirror.xyz/0x4271B1372799…

...and the other 5,000 repositories that now use Arweave.js! github.com/ArweaveTeam/ar… These are just the open source projects using JavaScript, too. Hard to know for sure but I would guess that there are at least a few thousand others using other languages/closed source? 🤔

Today we're launching our pilot program of the Arweave Name System (ArNS) - a Smartweave based directory of friendly subdomains enabled by AR.IO gateways on the @arweaveteam permaweb! 🧵 1/3

Snaps is a new way to create Web3 end-user experiences, by modifying MetaMask in ways that were impossible before. Read more on @pianitynft's ArSnap! arweave.news/pianity-launch…