Firing up your own Lapee? Come share your build and chat with other Operators in the #Lapee channel in @discord! discord.gg/kkxffavfUb

We're used to thinking in terms of smart contracts, but these "processes" are just one feature powered by one device. Beyond ~process@1.0, HyperBEAM devices power gateways, routers, bundlers, indexers, payment systems, storage interfaces, and dozens of other network services. A device can be any service. AO is evolving into a decentralized service economy backed by 32 devices and counting. The most interesting applications on AO may not use processes at all. ao.arweave.net/#/blog/open-s…

It's a cat in a pool! Actually, it's an Arweave data discovery tool packaged as a HyperBEAM device. --> It helps @aoTheComputer nodes find newly posted Arweave data sooner. Being created by @xylophonezy, more about it below.

Using Permaweb Names and the ~reference@1.0 device to build a blog With how powerful devices have become, not everything needs an AO process hyperzine.xyz/using-referenc…

8 years of the Arweave! Celebrate by grabbing that old dusty laptop from storage and spinning up your own LapEE bundler, uploading data straight to Arweave! The Permaweb keeps growing. Happy birthday. 🎉 Start yours and share your build setups below! permawebos.arweave.net/run

8 years ago Arweave launched with a simple but radical idea: store data forever. Today the Permaweb hosts millions of pieces of data and applications, an unstoppable archive of human knowledge, and a full decentralized supercomputer running on top of it. What started as permanent storage has become permanent infrastructure. Here's to 8 years of building the foundation of The New Internet.

LapEE turns abundant consumer hardware into verifiable AO infrastructure. One of its first jobs: decentralized bundling. Now permaweb-deploy supports AO bundlers, allowing deployments to route through the emerging network of community-operated bundling nodes. Another piece of the Permaweb stack decentralized. Learn More: github.com/permaweb/permaweb…

Did you have a name on ArNS, ANS, or ArProfile? Your names are now manageable on the new Permaweb Names dashboard! ao.arweave.net/#/names/

The first phase of Permaweb Names is live: if you ever owned or rented ArNS, ANS, and ArProfile names you have now received control of an AO message which will allow you to change the data that name points to. There will be no lease or future registration fees for these names in the future -- they are permanent. 14,624 names from legacy services have now been made resolvable on arweave.net and other HyperBEAM-powered gateways. Transfers, registrations, and a market will go live in the coming days. Dashboard: ao.arweave.net/#/names x.com/aoTheComputer/status/2…

Fire up a LapEE node and put your spare electronics back to work! That old machine just became part of the decentralized compute swarm on the new internet- The Permaweb Stack.

Running permawebOS

Introducing LapEE - the first laptop-native PermawebOS image: boot from USB, run a bundler, and move Arweave uploads toward a decentralized model. The alpha goes live today. x.com/aoTheComputer/status/2…

boot from USB -> run a laptop with HyperBEAM as the OS This $100 laptop is a decentralized bundler, tamper-resistant and provable end-to end Setup guides (beware, alpha release): permawebos.arweave.net/#/run

Very excited about this launch. Introducing: ➡️ PermawebOS nodes: A bootable, multi-architecture HyperBEAM instance. ➡️ LapEEs: Pretty Good Security via swarms of widely available commodity hardware. ➡️ Decentralized bundlers: A first alpha deployment for LapEEs. Demanding the most recent high-end server chips or ~$100k as an entry ticket to contribute hardware just isn't a path to decentralized networks. To actually decentralize the web we are going to need to enable wide participation. The PermawebOS is how we think we get there. Big day 🙂. To be clear: This is a huge ship and it is definitively, categorically an alpha. We have been running and using LapEEs ourselves at @fwdresearch for weeks, but you shouldn't jump on this today unless you are ready for: A. Nothing to work as you expect. B. The very real possibility that you brick your machine. Stability and ease-of-use will improve over time, so unless you love self-guided firmware flashing adventures it is best to hang tight for now. Further down the track, it also looks like Android deployments of the PermawebOS may be possible, too, using kernel software isolation and some of their security hardware. Running a bundler on your phone that you genuinely do not know how to tamper with even if you wanted to is pretty remarkably. Brick by brick.