Welcome to another edition of the Permaweb Journal Changelog: a weekly newsletter covering the latest Journal content, ecosystem news, media recaps, and upcoming events.
Another busy week for the permaweb. Let's get into it.
New articles from the Journal:
The Economics of Storing Large Datasets on Arweave: Explore the economics behind Arweave’s storage model. Learn how its pay-once structure, storage endowment, and miner incentives make it cost-effective compared to AWS, Filecoin, and others.
Arweave and AO ecosystem updates:
USDS deposits are live on AO: Combined with DAI, USDS delivers a battle-tested, over-collateralized dollar asset to deepen liquidity for AO’s hyper-parallel compute layer.
Decoding HyperBEAM Docs: A new tutorial series by @0xtomo dives into HyperBEAM internals, from core concepts to advanced implementations.
Wayfinder Chrome Extension Launches: Browse Arweave and AO content directly in your browser, with intelligent routing across 600+ Arweave gateways.
Lumens Generative Art Lives on Arweave: Lumens explores the behavior of light through code. Each piece is stored entirely onchain — even the custom AI model is archived on Arweave.
Ouro Wallet Integrates with LiquidOps: Seamless asset management and 1-click access to lending pools now available directly from Ouro Wallet.
Meka ID Minting Goes Live: Meka Humans — one of the first atomic asset collections on Bazar — launches a new identity drop. Claim your ID here
Looking for daily updates between Changelogs? We recommend:
Taylor from Forward Research, sharing near-daily vlogs on the latest ecosystem activity.
Midnight Network is pioneering data protection with shielded smart contracts.
The partnership leverages Arweave’s censorship-resistant permanent storage and AR.IO’s decentralized domain routing to store shielded & unshielded transactions both securely and forever.
Media coverage of the permaweb this week:
Arweave: The Web’s Forever Storage Layer by Phil Mataras: Why Arweave is the best solution for fighting link rot, and did you know every Hackernoon article is backed up on Arweave?: Learn more
Fair Launches Fix Broken Fundraising by Decent Land Labs: Benjamin Brandall breaks down why the crypto industry needs better mechanisms, and how AO’s fair launch system is delivering.
The Storage Endowment Model: How Arweave’s economics scale with AO compute and why most people get the cost model wrong.
The Onchain Data Center by Load Network: Why Load is building a decentralized alternative to AWS, and how it all runs on Arweave.
Contribute to the Journal: Submit a guest article, share your ideas, or help expand the documentation. All contributors welcome.
The Journal is moving to a new publishing protocol on Arweave. Stay tuned for updates. Follow Portal on X and sign up to test the beta.
Upcoming events across the permaweb ecosystem:
Bazar Office Hour - Mondays, 1 PM EST: Next guest: William from Vela Ventures
AO DUH Space - Thursdays, 12 PM EST: Bi-weekly community call. Next session: July 24
Bazar Creator Lounge - Fridays, 9 AM EST: Weekly space for creators to share updates and tools
Agents of the Permaweb Hackathon
Registration closes: August 7
Hackathon runs: August 11 – September 2025
Demo Day: September 5 (virtual)
$39,000 in AR prizes
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.
Permaweb Journal Team
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