You may not have noticed that a public chain is quietly changing the underlying logic of the internet - it is not just patching the existing architecture, but completely reconstructing the "lifecycle" of data from storage, access to computation.

Let's talk about storage first. Traditional internet throws data into centralized servers, and if the platform goes down, the data is gone, with many precious memories disappearing just like that. Arweave plays a tough game with its Blockweave architecture: miners who want to mine? They need to securely store the complete historical dataset first. Together with the SPoRA consensus mechanism, it has designed a "one-time payment, permanent storage" model—most of the fees go directly into a storage donation fund pool, providing long-term incentives for miners not to delete data. This way, NFT creators no longer have to worry about their works becoming "blank squares"; they can directly write the complete files onto the chain.

How to access the stored data? AR.IO acts as a "ferry operator" here. It has created a distributed gateway system composed of over 230 nodes, which not only speeds up data retrieval across regions but also assigns an ArNS domain name to each data packet—turning those incomprehensible hash values into human-readable terms. This not only solves the old problem of centralized gateways going down but also allows ordinary users to utilize permanent storage without having to digest technical documentation.

Finally, there is computing power. It's not enough to just store data; it needs to "do work" as well. The AO computing layer set to launch in 2025 directly addresses this shortcoming: thousands of processes can run simultaneously, and processes can awaken themselves to execute tasks, with all operation records permanently stored on Arweave. Imagine an automated financial system calculating risks in real-time, with AI models training while simultaneously saving learning logs on-chain—this truly transforms "decentralization" from a slogan into productivity.

This set of combination punches may really change the internet.