The results are in! After reviewing all entries for the Weekend Challenge, we’re excited to announce our winner. Congratulations to @heiscaleb2 🎉 To everyone who participated, we see you, and we appreciate the effort you put in. This is just the beginning. More challenges and more opportunities coming. Stay ready! 👾

we won! shout out to @ao_devbot and @aoComputerClub for the challenge shipped "The Grind Streak" in one night, despite all the obstacles the grind is really paying off :)

WEEKEND VIBES MEANS VIBE CODING

YOUR WEEKEND BUILD CHALLENGE 👾 One winner will receive $100 USD or equivalent in stablecoins. 
Build a personal productivity tool using @ao_devbot. Need ideas? Here are a few you can build: 
→ A Habit streak tracker
 (with a token?) → A Daily goal tracker → A Simple study planner Tag @ao_devbot with your builds to be eligible! Submissions close Sunday, 11:59 PM UTC. Best builds get featured in our Builder Spotlight 💯

This week’s challenge: Build a personal productivity tool. Some ideas: → Habit trackers → Task managers → Daily planners Use @ao_devbot and ship your build. Best projects get spotlighted!

It's time to jam out and build some games with @aoTheComputer. aocomputer.club/#/holiday-ja… And yes, there are prizes :)

H O L I D A Y J A M Signups now open. Check it out here: aocomputer.club/#/holiday-ja… $500 USD in total prizes.

Gaming's Next Frontier: AO The gaming industry has been searching for its "Web3" moment. But most blockchain games feel like regular games with tokens bolted on. @aoTheComputer changes the entire paradigm. Imagine games that actually live on for centuries. Not because a company maintains servers, but because the game itself exists as autonomous processes on a permanent network. cc @StarGridBattle shows us what's possible - a turn-based strategy game where every element lives onchain. The rules, mechanics, and gameplay continue functioning exactly as designed, regardless of whether the original team remains involved. It's existential transformation for gaming: True ownership becomes possible when games can't be shut down 1⃣Creator economies flourish when game assets have permanent homes 2⃣Game worlds evolve organically without corporate gatekeepers 3⃣Communities gain unprecedented agency over their favorite experiences The most exciting part? We're just scratching the surface. As developers explore AO's actor model and permanent storage, we'll see entirely new game mechanics emerge that weren't possible before. The next Minecraft or Roblox won't just be built with better graphics, it will be built with better foundations. And those foundations are being laid right now on AO Computer. No investment or financial advice here! Always DYOR, friend!

The Holographic State of AO: A Thought Experiment I've been thinking a lot about this concept of "holographic state" in @aoTheComputer lately. It's one of those ideas that seems counterintuitive at first, but then reveals itself to be quite elegant. Imagine a traditional computer system. When you save a document, that document exists in a specific place on your hard drive, in a database, somewhere concrete. But AO doesn't work that way at all. In AO, there is no "place" where the state of an application lives. Instead, every interaction, every message sent to a process, is permanently recorded on Arweave. The current state is simply what emerges when you replay all those messages in sequence. It reminds me of how physicists describe certain quantum phenomena. The information isn't stored in any single location but is distributed throughout the system. The state exists as a pattern of interactions rather than as data in storage. This approach solves several problems at once. 1) There's no central database to corrupt. 2) There's no single point of failure. 3) The entire history is immutable and transparent. 4) And perhaps most importantly, processes can run in true parallel across the network without coordination overhead. I keep coming back to this idea that in AO, the past isn't just a record of what happened, it's the very substance from which the present is continuously reconstructed. Every time you query a process, you're essentially watching its entire history unfold in fast forward until you arrive at the current moment. It's a profound shift in how we think about computation. Not as manipulating data that exists somewhere, but as projecting meaning from a permanent record of interactions. The state is both everywhere and nowhere, h o l o g r a p h i c. What fascinates me most is how this approach might change how we build systems. When the entire history is always available and immutable, you design differently. You think in terms of messages and transformations rather than updates and mutations. I wonder if this is how our own consciousness works in some way, not as a database of memories, but as a continuous reconstruction from traces of past experience. Perhaps AO isn't just a new computing paradigm, but a mirror reflecting something fundamental about information itself. @samecwilliams, @rakis_me, and the technical team behind this tech are next level.

.@ethereum devs. We think you'll love AO. AO uses independent processes that run in parallel. This means internet scale throughput w/out the usual bottlenecks. Plus, you can select "insurance" or security based on your needs. Bonus, you can bridge your $ETH assets super easily. You can already bring stETH, DAI, and USDS into the AO ecosystem at https://ao.arweave(.)net under the "MINT" tab. AO integrates directly with HTTP, making it feel like a natural extension of the web rather than a separate ecosystem you need to learn from scratch. Real projects are already thriving: @apus_network (GPU compute), @StarGridBattle (gaming), @useload (evm storage), @OurBazAR (marketplaces), and more. The $AO token will eventually power all compute costs, right now computation is largely supported, ideal timing to experiment. Best part? Everything you build is permanent thanks to Arweave's storage layer. No more worrying about data availability or state expiry. Clear the mind and build. We think you'll appreciate what you find.

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