Welcome to another edition of the Permaweb Journal Changelog: a weekly newsletter covering the latest Journal content, ecosystem news, media recaps, and upcoming events.

This week’s changelog is stacked. Let’s get right into it.

New articles from the Journal:

• GameFi on AO - $SMONEY and $GAME Join the Permaweb Index: Explore how StarGrid Battle Tactics and ArcAO are bringing GameFi to AO through fair launches and provably fair games. Learn how to allocate AO yield to $SMONEY and $GAME via the Permaweb Index to support the growing decentralized gaming ecosystem.

Arweave and AO ecosystem updates:

• HyperBEAM gets a major performance boost: A recent update improved core list operations by 5,800x, resulting in faster message reads, writes, and Lua execution across the system. Check out the PR.

• Retrieve Locked AO in Ledger with New Beacon Solution: Beacon introduces a recovery method for users with AO stuck on Ledger devices.

• Mobile Uploads on Bazar with New Beacon Update: Creators can now upload content to the permaweb directly from mobile devices with Beacon Wallet.

• Odysee Launches New Payment System: Send AR payments to creators on Odysee using Wander Connect.

• Load Network Fair Launch Added to the Permaweb Index: The EVM compatible protocol joins the growing Permaweb Index. Read the full tokenomics blog post here.

• Vento DEX Aggregator Beta Launch: Vento finds the best prices across DEXs like Botega and Permaswap with minimal slippage.

• RandAO Introduces RNG Hardware V1.0: RandAO launches custom hardware, making node operation plug-and-play.

New partnerships expanding the permaweb’s reach:

iExec is building a secure and private way to interact on Telegram in collaboration with AR.IO. Web3Telegram enables decentralized, privacy-first messaging directly through Telegram without compromising user data.

This partnership leverages the censorship-resistant, permanent storage of Arweave and the decentralized domain infrastructure of AR.IO.

• Partnership Announcement

• iExec’s Web3Telegram Update

A collaboration focused on enabling private, persistent storage for decentralized AI. Read the articles from the teams below:

• Community Labs Partners with Secret to Combine Decentralized Storage and AI

• Secret Network Integrates Arweave SDK for On-Chain AI

Basejump brings high intensity 1v1 gaming to the permaweb. This partnership brings Basejump into the Immutable gaming ecosystem.

• Partnership Announcement

A new collaboration to further power on-demand model training and GPU compute in the AO ecosystem.

• Partnership Announcement

Media coverage of the permaweb this week:

• Sam Reflects on 7 Years of Arweave (X Video): Sam Williams revisits Arweave’s early challenges, slow adoption curve, and long-term goals.

• Winston Show Episode 7 (X Video): Latest discussion on decentralized AI and permaweb-native infrastructure.

• Arweave India Build & Tell Episode 2 (X Livestream): A bi-weekly community showcase of projects and dev tools from the Indian ecosystem.

• Wander Introduces In-App Agents (X Article): A new way to interact with onchain data and services via Wander’s interface.

• AR.IO x Bazar NYC Times Square Billboard (X Video): Celebrating the permaweb in one of the most iconic spots during NFT.NYC.

• “Art That Remembers” — Olta Keynote at Arweave Berlin (X Video): Terrence from Olta explores how permanence shapes creative expression.

• DUH Space with Forward Research CTO Tom Wilson (X Space): A technical breakdown of HyperBEAM upgrades, message-passing, and the modular future of AO.

• Contribute to the Journal: Submit a guest article, share your ideas, or help expand the documentation. All contributors welcome.

• ICYMI: Community contributor HorizonXBT was awarded a microgrant for their tutorial: How to Build a Permanent Website with AR.IO.

Upcoming events across the permaweb ecosystem:

• Bazar Office Hour — Mondays, 1 PM EST

• AO DUH Space — Thursdays, 12 PM EST: Next session: July 10

• Bazar Creator Lounge — Fridays, 9 AM EST: A weekly session for permaweb creators to share tools, ideas, and updates.

Thank you for reading. If you’re building with Arweave or AO and want to be featured, DM us on X. Let’s keep pushing the permaweb forward.

This newsletter is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research.