What is AO?
🌌 Arweave launched the super parallel computing solution AO @aoTheComputer on Feb 28, marking its foray into decentralized computing beyond storage, elevating its narrative. @chainfeeds founder, Professor Pan Zhixiong @nake13, provided the first insights post-launch.
Key takeaways: 🎯 Built on Arweave’s on-chain storage, AO enables infinitely scalable decentralized computing, allowing countless processes to run in parallel. 🎯 Named after the ‘Actor Oriented’ design from the ‘Actor Model’ of concurrent computing, AO stands out for its high concurrency, distributed nature, and robust fault tolerance. 🎯 Core architecture & features of AO: It consists of three key components — Messenger Unit (MU), Scheduling Unit (SU), and Computing Unit (CU), collaborating for information reception, scheduling, and computation.
For more, see Pan Zhixiong’s quick read on AO launch: https://x.com/nake13/status/1762792195629957297?s=20
Additionally, TheBlock and Techflow provided immediate coverage:
The Block: Arweave releases testnet for a ‘scalable’ compute layer designed for social media & AI
Techflow: Arweave’s compute network AO testnet launches, Permaswap to be the first DEX supporting AO tokens
https://www.techflowpost.com/newsletter/detail_41668.html
How to Play with AO
🎯 Operating System AOS:Developers can effortlessly develop apps using the straightforward Lua language within AOS. At the AO launch, Arweave showcased two AO-based applications, including the decentralized exchange Bark and stablecoin protocol @AstroUSD; @outprog’s creation, @everPayHQ, also stood out as one of the first integrated projects.
Catch the AO development demo from the launch event here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoE1zj9esMg
Industry Focus
🎯 A16Z’s CTO @a16zcrypto highly praised AO’s programming model as “very elegant”:
“All system messages are signed & saved in one place so all network participants can verify what’s real, agree on a canonical state, and continue advancing the state machine with new messages semi-independently, really impressive work“ https://x.com/eddylazzarin/status/1762998726736609757
🎯 The host of the popular YouTube crypto channel Crypto Banter believes:
“AR literally just changed the game. “ https://x.com/cryptomanran/status/1762573090049921301
🎯 ChainNews founder Liu Feng observed:
“We can’t deny that the old world is rapidly crumbling in a domineering manner. This spring, we’ve witnessed Arweave begin building an ‘Ethereum killer’.” https://x.com/fishkiller/status/1762650089145897420
🎯 Bodhi’s founder Luyao, commenting on Liu Feng’s view, noted:
“Last cycle, I believed Arweave’s real target was Ethereum. Pure storage lacks network effects, is easily forked, passive unless a prosperous app ecosystem is built.” https://x.com/levi0214/status/1762686554462662829
🎯 SevenX Ventures’ lead researcher Hill excitedly tweeted 20 minutes after the AO launch:
“The easiest way to understand how @aoTheComputer works is a hyperparallelized indexer-based computation framework for inscriptions. It’s prob the end game to host & run decentralized AI agents. Super thrilled!” https://x.com/Hill79025920/status/1762556562021986635
🎯 everPayHQ’s founder outprog, a participant in AO’s initial design, stated:
“The scalability of AO and SCP is limitless, leading to infinite data growth. On an Arweave without performance limits, a new, trustworthy internet might emerge.” https://twitter.com/outprog_ar/status/1762831978615947579
🎯 SCP (Storage-based Consensus Paradigm), proposed by outprog in 2020, is AO architecture’s core idea. In his view:
“Arweave’s starting point is Ethereum’s endgame. Arweave’s consensus data can provide countless subsets of consensus data, similar to Ethereum’s shards. If ETH achieves sharding, its model will become similar to Arweave’s SCP.” https://x.com/outprog_ar/status/1763016602059194436https://x.com/samecwilliams/status/1763028822247555094
AO Core Eco Overview
This section is courtesy of everVision.
From everPay Twitter https://x.com/everPayHQ/status/1763439428578726187?s=20
Labs
Forward Research @fwdresearch: Leading R&D incubator for @ArweaveEco
everVision @everVisionHQ: All-In-One Web3 Infrastructure Provider on Arweave
Community Labs@CommunityLabs: Venture studio & software developer in the Arweave ecosystem
Infrastructure
everPay @everPayHQ: The Web3 world’s ‘Paypal’ with multi-chain payment protocol built on Arweave MEM @mem_tech: Serverless function platform as AO’s compute oracle Warp @warp_contracts: Smart contract platform on Arweave 0rbit @0rbitco: Decentralized oracle in Arweave ecosystem
DeFi
Permaswap @Permaswap: First all-chain DEX in Arweave ecosystem Astro @AstroUSD: Stablecoin protocol on Arweave Bark(bark.arweave.dev): AO-based DEX, newly launched testnet
Developer Tools
BetterIDEa @betteridea_dev: Web IDE & AO Notebook simplifying Arweave dev experience Liteseed @liteseed_xyz: Decentralized bundler network on AO DataOS @TheDataOS: Launching ao. link, real-time message browser for AO
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