arweave

Arweave introduces a fundamentally new model for data storage: instead of subscription-based payments, users pay once to store data permanently. This is enabled by the blockweave, an innovative blockchain-like structure in which miners must store and access random historical blocks to participate, ensuring long-term data availability.

This design powers the Permaweb, a permanent, decentralized layer of the web where websites, applications, and files can live forever without reliance on centralized providers. Arweave’s economic model allocates a significant portion of storage fees to an endowment-like system that sustainably incentivizes miners over time.

With its combination of permanence, decentralization, and economic sustainability, Arweave is ideal for archiving important data, hosting censorship-resistant applications, and building next-generation Web3 platforms.