Author: Adeola Translation: Jomosis
Abstract
This is the first in a series of articles that will review the major projects in the Arweave ecosystem in 2023 Activity. As a journalist who has been covering the Arweave ecosystem for two years, I know that some projects have done extremely well this year, and some have not done so well. This report contains a number of items that are particularly noteworthy from a journalist's perspective.
Infrastructure and tools are like the foundation of a building in the growth of the blockchain ecosystem. The powerful features and diversity of use cases of blockchain technology attract developers to create tools, which triggers the potential for application development. The same goes for the Arweave blockchain.
Arweave started 2023 and has grown from 25 projects in 2022 to 33 infrastructure and tooling protocols. Over the year, multiple partnerships were established between projects within and outside the ecosystem; projects addressed bugs and announced new features. Arweave’s composability and developer motivation to build work together to enable the growth of ecosystem infrastructure.
4EVERLAND
In the first quarter of this year, 4EVERLAND Reached cooperation with Livepeer, a video transcoding platform. 4EVERLAND is a project that provides data storage and hosting services on Arweave and other storage networks, providing a caching layer for the latter's video services on Arweave. It has also established collaborations with partners such as WeaveDB, showing that these two projects meet the needs of blog publishing. Although 4EVERLAND uses other storage services in addition to Arweave, in October this year it announced that 60 million files had been uploaded, proving that Arweave is its primary storage platform.
Ar.io
If you ask Ar.io What will be the biggest achievement for networking in 2023? The answer will be opening up the technology behind Arweave access points. In mid-2023, Ar.io open sourced the code that creates the Arweave gateway. Ar.io stated that their goal is to eliminate single points of failure and build a highly adaptable network. Within two months, the number of Arweave gateways grew to more than 200. Ar.io then built a tool called Wayfinder to find the gateway, which created a network management registry and demonstrated the functionality of GAR. Wayfinder is a Chrome extension that directs users to the best gateway.
Ar.io: https://ar.io
Irys
Looking at user and transaction data, you can definitely call Irys the most successful in the Arweave ecosystem s project. In 2023, Irys (formerly known as Bundlr) launched Provenance from a project extending Arweave, announcing that it could create permanent, unrestricted and accurate data. Well-known projects outside of the Arweave ecosystem, including Solana Mobile and Immutable, have partnered with Irys to monetize the functionality provided by Provenance. In terms of scalability, in January this year, Irys decided to demonstrate that it was living up to its reputation for scaling Arweave by testing it at 50,000 transactions per second, a challenge it ultimately successfully completed. This concrete explanation effectively convinced the Lens Protocol team to use Irys and Arweave to build Momoka’s data availability (DA) layer. Irys guarantees the successful upload of data to Arweave’s permanent and cost-effective storage network.
Dojima
Judging from Dojima Network’s activities this year , it is trying to promote its products and students from Indian universities are one of its main targets.
The company also launched a blockchain browser and a direct user-facing function service (Function as a Service), which provides users with some on-chain services , such as the functions of calculating transaction fees and signing transactions.
Dojima Network is a decentralized cross-chain L1 platform that connects all major blocks by acting as the middle layer between L1 and L2 blockchain applications chain to solve pressing problems in the ecosystem.
FirstBatch
FirstBatch is a collaborative and people-centered Tools to serve strong artificial intelligence projects. In early 2023, it released a statement on why it chose to participate in Arweave. It believes Arweave can solve the bottlenecks and weaknesses of its EVM. Throughout the year, FirstBatch has been concentrating on building tools. In Q1, it launched HollowDB. The tool is built on Arweave and controls data operations through zero-knowledge proofs, allowing complex objects to be stored as key-value pairs on the blockchain. Also in the first quarter, it developed Gravitate. The tool combines the summarization capabilities of GPT-4 with a hyper-personalization identity marketing format to disrupt the user reading experience on social media and content platforms. In Q2, FirstBatch leveraged Arweave and Warp contracts to build DANNY, a decentralized vector database for building data-transparent AI applications. We can see the effects of DANNY when used with Gravitate, says FirstBatch founder Ömer Kaya. The project also launched FirstBatch IDs, which allow users to get a personalized experience on the content platform. Finally, a tool for user embeddings was built to map the user’s thinking into personal AI memory. By empowering developers to build personalized LLM applications and continuing to increase the participation of generative AI users, FirstBatch will be a project to watch in the AI and Web3 fields in 2024.
Kwil
Many of Kwil’s activities this year are focused on Build a more powerful relational database structure.
Within a month, it launched its second version - Alpha. Alpha is an SDK that helps users build decentralized relational databases and a tool for interacting with the database - Kwil CLI. Even Darwin, CTO of Decent Land Labs, wrote that Kwil has “excellent documentation, tools, and a silky smooth experience.” Kwil has done some big things this year, including the launch of a tool called Kuneiform, which can deploy the backend of decentralized applications in 100 lines of code; and an SDK improved based on user feedback.
Kwil also extends its SQL syntax to help developers build complex applications. How can a database not have a resource browser? Kwil introduced Resource Browser in June to make its database infrastructure more robust.
Extension tools were subsequently launched through which developers can connect to the blockchain and execute logic. Kwil is decentralizing the web at the end of the year, allowing anyone to build and deploy a decentralized relational database.
KYVE
For KYVE Network, 2023 It’s certainly been a banner year: it was nominated for a Startup of the Year award and launched their mainnet. Launching the mainnet is an extremely difficult task. After two years of hard work, they finally achieved their goal in 2023.
This year, KYVE launched a foundation to support the development, adoption, and growth of the project and its ecosystem. In March, the mainnet was launched. In July, 1 million transactions have been recorded, for a total of 10 million transactions. KYVE said the community response to the project has been extremely positive, with the 100 block verification slots reportedly being filled within hours. The mainnet software has undergone four updates in 2023.
KYVE Academy has also been established, which will help users expand their knowledge of Web3. The academy had more than 3,300 users in two months. This year, new official data pools such as Cosmos Hub, Osmosis Zone, Archway, and Axelar were added. At the same time, KYVE also re-adjusted its operations after receiving governance approval to open the funds in the pool to more people, taking steps towards achieving complete A step towards decentralizing the web.
If KYVE is your favorite project and want to know how the team is built, you can listen to KYVE founder Fabian Riewe recording 10 million in November What he told me during a transaction: KYVE built effective solutions because it understood the pain points of cooperative public chains.
Livepeer
Livepeer uses Arweave infrastructure for video One of the pioneers in service. It is stored on the Arweave storage protocol using Irys (formerly Bundlr). The project released an API and SDK at the beginning of the year, adding support for more file formats and larger file sizes. It enhanced its video infrastructure software to enable developers to build short-form videos for social platforms (imagine a Web3 version of TikTok) and also allowed for setting thresholds for video uploads via tokens. In August alone, it offered over 11 million minutes of exclusive video streams. In October, it upgraded its software with governance approval for some changes to the funding aspects of the protocol. At the end of the year, Livepeer launched Studio CLI, announcing that it can help developers obtain Livepeer Studio API keys and launch ultra low latency video applications in seconds. The Livepeer Delta protocol is rooted in the concept of a public goods treasury and is placed in the hope of decentralized growth of the Livepeer ecosystem in the future. There are some rumors that Livepeer users can expect the project to build artificial intelligence-related products.
Streamr
Streamr is a platform for real-time publishing and Peer-to-peer network project for subscription data. To solidify its position in the Arweave ecosystem, it announced the launch of LogStore Network in partnership with Usher Labs, KYVE and Arweave Protocol. LogStore combines the convenience of data transfer on the Streamr Network, the consensus-driven data validity on KYVE, and the permanence and immutability of data provided by Arweave. Expect to see deeper integration of LogStore Network with other projects in the Arweave ecosystem in 2024.
Meson Network
In the roadmap released at the beginning of the year , Meson Network plans to focus on building GaganNode. GaganNode is a next-generation decentralized residential IP + bandwidth marketplace dedicated to easing the global IPv4 address shortage through Web3 technology. In terms of innovation, decentralized bandwidth marketplace Meson Network launched GatewayX in early 2023. GatewayX is designed to address origin unavailability issues for storage and media websites. It launched a GagaNode Pro version in May, followed by Ipcola as a solution to connectivity hurdles. Meson introduced the Vector program this year. Meson plans to dive into a Nasdaq-like bandwidth market, which could happen in 2024.
Molecular Execution Machine
Molecular Execution Engine (MEM) It is a project by Decent Land Labs to enter the field of Arweave ecosystem tools after changing its positioning. Officials say its mission is to break down barriers between chains and protocols. Launched in mid-2023, MEM is the infrastructure for other protocols built by Decent Land such as NameSpace, Ark Protocol, Arweave Name Service. In addition to Decent Land, its technology also powers everPay and Kwil. The reason it is an important building tool is that developers can use MEM to write smart contracts in different languages. As part of its decentralization plans, MEM said it is moving some core parts of its infrastructure to Akash.
RedStone
Throughout this year, the Web3 ecosystem Many projects work with RedStone using its custom Oracle solutions: RedStone Core, RedStone Classic and RedStoneX. RedStone has no software upgrades this year, and its activity indicates that this is an already running project with mature technology, and the focus is now on the promotion of Oracle's data provision. But it’s different for RedStone’s sister company Warp Contracts, which is the most popular method of implementing smart contracts in the Arweave ecosystem, used by dozens of the most important projects. The project kicked off the year with the release of Warp Contracts CLI, Warp Templates, and Warp D.R.E. They provide different functionality to developers. SonAR, Warp Key Value Storage and Warp Nested Bundle were released in February. In March, it launched a Contract Constructor. When it released an SDK upgrade, the software reached a new level. Warp Contracts will release an average of one feature or infrastructure per month in 2023. The impact a project like Warp Contracts has on the ecosystem is huge. In February it announced that it had deployed one million smart contracts, and between February and May, that number had grown to five million deployed contracts.
Spheron
For Spheron, its co-founder Prashant Maurya claimed at the beginning of the year that the project was the first to bring Arweave outside of the ecosystem. In April, Spheron, a project that provides deployment and scaling services for applications, launched NftyNFT to simplify the process of storing NFTs. Then came the Compute SDK.
The Graph Protocol
In March 2023, The Graph Protocol and The Graph Network alone received 37 billion queries, while ChatGPT, by comparison, only had 300 million queries per month, according to information provided by Tegan Kline, one of the founders of The Graph Protocol. The Graph Protocol has released a three-phase plan, namely Sunray, Sunbeam and Sunrise. The project says it will further support decentralized data and enable smooth upgrades to all supported chains, including Arweave and 42 other chains on The Graph Network.
WeaveDB
Received $900,000 in funding The distributed NoSQL database WeaveDB also has a new CEO and has carried out many activities in 2023. Mainly involved in promotional activities, it launched the "Hosted Node Service", which is only available to Developer DAO members and solves the problem of owning a node to interact with WeaveDB. The project also optimized its system to achieve write query speeds of 30 to 50 milliseconds. It also launched a decentralized social network called Jots. At the end of the year, WeaveDB announced that it would modularize its structure, which officials said can support different types of databases from the same data source in Arweave, such as relational databases.
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