Arweave’s AO Computer Is Ready for Lift-off
Part 2 of 2: Deposit rewards, referral programs, hackathons — it’s all happening now on the AO Testnet.
AO Computer is inherently linked to Arweave’s permanent storage layer. If you’ve just landed on this article and you’re unfamiliar with Arweave, I suggest reading part 1 first to get a basic understanding: Arweave, the Permaweb, and a Breakthrough Equation.
When it comes to AO Computer, there’s a lot to get through, so let’s start with this simplified high-level overview: AO is a decentralised supercomputer that uses Arweave as its hard drive.
This superposition of computation above permanent storage enables an ecosystem of decentralised applications to be built out at a mind boggling scale. AO allows for both large-scale compute and verifiable compute.
There’s relentless developer activity afoot, transaction counts are surging, and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crypto assets have been deposited to the network in anticipation of the mainnet launch.
AO is different to what most crypto projects are building and certainly warrants a closer look, especially with the fair launch token reward program that’s currently underway (more on that below).
