Permaweb Pioneers
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIntroducing the permanent web - a new frontier made possible by the Arweave protocol and the permaweb that lives on top of it. We speak with amazing founders, developers, artists and more that are creating on top of the permaweb.
Join us in exploring the profound implications of this permanent internet and the grand opportunities it presents.
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Decentralized unlockables with Chris Seline, Founder of Darkblock
February 10, 2022 15:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBDive deep into the world of NFT "unlockables" with Chris Seline, Founder of Darkblock.io. From pay-per-view, to thumbnails and hi-res formats, we discuss the current state and the possibilities going forward with this technology built on Arweave. Chris shares about his vast experience as a technology founder in the search engine space, branding and the importance of getting a great message out, and the (what seems to be) inevitable market for unlockable content for all types of media and a...
Panel: Arweave News, OLTA.art, and EthSign
February 03, 2022 16:06 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBIn this Permaweb Panel hosted live on @onlyarweave’s twitter account, we take a deep dive with the founders of OLTA.art and their emphasis on developers as artists. We also connect with Jack Xu of EthSign.xyz and their Ethereum-based document signing platform and more. Some topics covered: Arweave News -> 100 million transactions on Bundlr.Network (!) Launch of the Solana-based music NFT platform Releap.io The impetus for starting OLTA.art and the background of founders Terence Reilly a...
Decentralized dead man's switch with Zach Hamilton, builder at Sarcophagus
January 20, 2022 16:48 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBThe confluence of blockchain, Eteherum, and Arweave make the inner-workings of Sarcophagus possible. Learn about the fundamentals as builder Zach Hamilton walks us through how it all works and shares what is yet to come for this utility of data access and beyond. Sarcophagus is designed to be used for will and trusts, password recovery, credential pass down, and so much more. It's an in-depth conversation that not only explores the intersection of valuable technologies that have enabled Sar...
Panel: The pathway forward in 2022 for the Arweave ecosystem
January 13, 2022 21:52 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBIn this Permaweb Panel hosted live on @onlyarweave’s twitter account, we discuss what’s in store for Arweave in 2022 and what we’d like to see going forward. Hear from the founders of Kwil, Spheron, Sarcophagus, the bundlr.network, and KYVE). It’s an informative discussion and a great way to start 2022! Some topics covered: Decentralized UI's and more with Spheron. The importance of free speech and DAO tooling with Quil. Generational data integrity and more with Sarcophagus. Living in a...
Bundling transactions with Josh Benaron, Founder of Bundlr.Network
January 06, 2022 16:22 - 51 minutes - 47 MBThe Bundlr Network was born less than 6 months ago, led by Josh Benaron and Sam Williams. Today 60-95% of all Arweave’s TX pass through the Bundlr Network. When asked, “why Arweave?” Josh explained, “Arweave is the only solution out there for truly decentralized permanent storage…the more time I time I spend with Arweave, the more I appreciate the elegance of its design.” Well stated. In this discussion, we dive deep into the story of the Bundlr, the challenges, and the massive opportunity ...
Panel: Arweave News, Verto's design approach, and Dropverse
December 23, 2021 17:21 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBA panel featuring Tate Berebaum, Founder of Verto, along with Victor (design at Verto). We are also joined by the founder of Dropverse, a proximity-based NFT drop platform being built on Arweave. We learn more about liquidity mining on Uniswap V3, EIP-4444, Bundlr growth, and dive deep into the design philosophy at Verto and their transition to a SmartWeave-based infrastructure for trading PSTs and more. "[Verto is] focused on building out user experiences and interfaces which enable peopl...
Verifiable data streams with KYVE Co-founder John Letey
December 16, 2021 17:25 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MB"We are doing to data what the blockchain did to finance" - KYVE The amount of data being produced by all of the chains in a multi-chain world is sky-rocketing. It is also of practical (and philosophical) importance to store this data in a permanent and economical way on the Permaweb. In this discussion with John Letey, co-founder of KYVE, we explore how KYVE enables data providers to seamlessly store data and reliably verify their data streams. We learn about the process of becoming a val...
Panel: Hear from the Founder of Arweave, Sam Williams and more
December 09, 2021 22:06 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBA great panel discussion with Sam Williams, the Founder of Arweave. We learn more about the recent hard fork, details about mining upgrades, Shepherd content filtering, and the potential and progress being made for social networks being built on Arweave. It was a pleasure to have Sam join us in this panel - his enthusiasm and dedication to the protocol is inspiring. "If you want to say something in public, Arweave is the most powerful and effective way of doing that because it does not j...
Decentralized email with MyMail Protocol founder, DMac
December 02, 2021 15:38 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB"What if email was something you bought from a protocol which had no interest in your personal information?" MyMail founder, DMac, shares his inspiration in building decentralized email and how he sees this as an important step in data sovereignty and digital ownership. His journey led him to Arweave, where he realized there was a solution to the problem of centralized email services. The conversation goes deep into both the technical and philosophical interests of this amazing individual...
Panel: Indexing Arweave, Atomic NFTs, Metaplex, and massive growth!
November 25, 2021 16:13 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBThere's a lot happening in the Arweave ecosystem, and in this Permaweb Panel Co-hosts @onlyarweave, Rob of 4SV.io, Xylophone of Arweave.news discuss massive updates: The Graph indexing of Arweave, Atomic NFTs via KOII and Verto, Metaplex Candy Machine exponential usage increase, and so much more. The Arweave ecosystem itself is increasing becoming more decentralized with external services being connected, more nodes coming online, and there's a huge increase of integrations. From the lates...
The power of decentralized video with Sam Sends of Glass.xyz
November 18, 2021 16:54 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB"So many of us are interacting with these videos on glass - it's the human touchpoint. We are touching glass to have these human exchanges - this emotional, rich, video experience." Video has become the most important and popular medium for communication in the modern world: its content is rich and stimulating of all the senses; it is the easiest to digest; and half of the internet's bandwidth is used for the viewing of video. This discussion with Sam Sends of GLASS, who is building a de...
Panel: Bringing web2 experiences to the Permaweb
November 11, 2021 23:10 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBOne of the greatest challenges the permaweb faces is how to make it more welcoming and accessible to Web 2.0 users. In this episode Hlöðver Sigurðsson, Tate Berenbaum, Arweave.news, Rob of 4sv.io, Josh of the Bundlr, and others discuss with Arweave how Web2.0 experiences can be brought to Web3.0 and the Permaweb in a way that can onboard as many people as possible. This discussion includes some detail on how notable projects are building on Arweave to make their projects more accessible to ...
Enabling the "Social Vault Protocol" with Richard Caetano of Akord
October 28, 2021 19:06 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBAkord's social vaults ensure digital valuables and messages for generations to come with end-to-end encryption and permanent storage on Arweave. After building out their own crypto ledger, the Akord team found Arweave and it changed the game by providing all of the components necessary to create a digital time capsule and social vault on the Permaweb. The notion of a "social vault" is inspiring and utilitarian. This vault contains images, documents, and you-name-its in an encrypted, decentr...
Introducing Permaweb Pioneers
October 19, 2021 01:14 - 1 minute - 1.52 MBLearn about the permanent web from those that are building on top of it. The permaweb lives on top of the Arweave protocol - a new type of storage that backs data with sustainable and perpetual endowments, allowing individuals and developers to truly store data forever and do so much more!