Arweave Japan is a decentralized organization dedicated to building a Japanese-language builder ecosystem for Arweave/AO.
Mission
- Train numerous hackers who can leverage Arweave/AO for diverse development projects
- Launch multiple global top-tier projects from the Japanese ecosystem
- Attract global top-tier projects to the Japanese ecosystem
- Promote adoption of Arweave/AO products among general users, enterprises, and government agencies
Roadmap
Through the following rough schedule, we aim to launch at least 10 top AO projects from Japan that achieve global recognition.
- Hyper Parallel Tokyo Event | Arweave Japan Kickoff (July 27, 2024)
- AO Bootcamp (August 2024)
- AO Hackathon (September 2024)
- Official Arweave Japan Conference (Spring 2025)
Ecosystem Projects
WeaveDB A hyperscalable decentralized NoSQL database utilizing AO and zero-knowledge proofs. https://github.com/weavedb/weavedb
zkJSON Enables universal proof generation for JSON using zero-knowledge proofs, allowing data retrieval from AO databases by other blockchains. https://github.com/weavedb/zkjson
CosmWasm AO A smart contract platform on AO that supports development with CosmWasm/Rust. https://github.com/weavedb/cosmwasm-ao
ArNext A NextJS-based web framework enabling parallel deployment to Vercel and Arweave. https://github.com/weavedb/arnext
Atomic Notes Editable notes leveraging atomic assets and universal data licensing. https://github.com/weavedb/atomic-notes
MostAO A social protocol that optimizes Nostr to run on AO and enables message encryption. https://github.com/Ungigdu/MostAO
Project Development Process
- AO/Arweave Development Learning: Learn AO/Arweave development through tutorials, workshops, and bootcamps.
- Idea Exploration: Curate challenges and tools that AO can solve using idea pools, ChatGPT, etc.
- MVP Development: Select technologies and design to implement a minimal viable product that can be demonstrated publicly.
- Demo Release: Share the developed MVP along with the vision through demo days, blog posts, X, etc.
- Team Formation: Form a founding team with the skill set to handle global development, fundraising, and ecosystem building.
- Fundraising: Bootstrap using AO protocol mechanisms, register a corporation, and raise pre-seed funding.
- Token Design: Design tokens for long-term sustainability.
- Momentum: Launch the product and design momentum strategy.
- Growth: Expand user base, TVL, and market cap.
Seeking Ecosystem Partners
Arweave Japan is seeking ecosystem partners interested in Arweave/AO development. We offer:
- Development idea validation
- Technical support
- Fundraising support
- Global expansion support
- Preferential access to ecosystem events
What are Arweave/AO?
Arweave is an infinitely scalable decentralized storage system, and AO is an infinitely scalable decentralized supercomputer built on Arweave. Using Arweave and AO, you can develop practical products that were impossible with existing blockchains. Security is ensured through Ethereum L1 restaking, and TVL has reached nearly 100 billion yen within months of launch, with expectations of a multi-trillion yen market. Through AO's fair launch token design, this liquidity can be utilized by projects on AO, and AO tokens, which are minted on the same halving schedule as Bitcoin, can be received by developers and projects. Developing on AO, a unique decentralized protocol capable of building practical projects that could replace Web2, presents a significant opportunity to excel on the global stage.
What is Arweave?
A decentralized storage protocol that enables semi-permanent data storage through advanced algorithmic game theory. The $AR token design ensures data storage for at least 200 years with a one-time, affordable fee paid at storage time. The design achieves unlimited storage scalability through efficient PoW and SPoRA (Succinct Proof of Random Access), which incorporates data sampling mechanisms.
What is AO?
A decentralized computation protocol utilizing Arweave storage. It solves existing blockchain scalability issues through asynchronous messaging with the actor model and programmable security with PoS, creating an infinitely scalable decentralized supercomputer. Security is ensured through Ethereum L1 restaking and the fair launch token $AO, which follows Bitcoin's halving schedule. Concepts like SCP (Storage-based Consensus Paradigm) and holographic state enable affordable, infinitely scalable smart contracts and decentralized VMs.
What can be developed?
Existing blockchain bottlenecks involve high storage and computation costs that prevent scaling. Arweave/AO has solved these two challenges, realizing infinitely scalable decentralized permanent storage and parallel computing. This enables development of practical applications that can scale to Web levels (previously impossible in Web3), integration of AI with DeFi and decentralized infrastructure, and groundbreaking protocols utilizing zero-knowledge proofs and FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption).