Permaweb Pioneers

beta. OLTA.art is platform and marketplace for interactive Dynamic NFTs, built with Polygon and Arweave as the storage layer. Founders Terence Reilly and George Baldwin have created a place for developers to express themselves through code. The opportunities are essentially endless, leaving a massive canvas open for the next great generative artist to come by and "wow" the world. What's especially...

To paraphrase one of the Co-founders of Metaweave, if you're thinking of making something then "it must be built". These thoughts among many factors led Cromatikap to the Open Web Foundry (visit forward.arweave.dev ) to go and build social utilities specifically designed for the Permaweb.  The journey has not be straightforward, especially the formation of their legal entity which is now based in...

Tate started building on the Permaweb while in high school during the middle of the first wave of COVID. His foray into Arweave began with storing study guides that were being repeatedly deleted from the students' shared drives. He subsequently built nest.land, where developers can store code modules on the Permaweb for safe-keeping. In short, this was just the beginning. After creating both Verto...

There are some individuals who have shown both a level of commitment and innovation within the Arweave that is next-level, Phil Mataras, Founder of ArDrive and AR.io, is an exemplar of this. His journey into Arweave started back in 2018, after having explored (and mining) Ethereum for 8 months. He needed to change direction, to get closer to utility at a fundamental level. After discovering the Pe...

Co-founders William and Aaron provide a deep look into their inspiration for creating Releap, a Solana and Arweave based music NFT platform created to "empower emerging and major artists with new ways of gaining exposure, engaging with fans, and monetizing their work".  When building a service, it can be a major benefit to intimately know the issues with the status-quo that the founders are lookin...

Memory Gardens secures your memories for 200+ years through Arweave on a platform that you can experience with a VR headset, mobile device, or computer. Founder Ben Peeri has combined his years of technical experience at large corporations with his innovative perspective to create MemoryGardens.xyz . The impetus for creating Memory Gardens stems from his personal experience - he lost a loved one a...

Blockchain continues to elevate legacy systems (like referral networks) with more robust architecture. Usher is a partnerships platform for web3 - you can also think of it as a referral network for web3.  If you're a builder and want to create your own referral campaign, use our Usher link here to sign up: https://app.usher.so/inv/kjzl6cwe1jw146m7un34t705z20e84pxqhdsi31b4gh33dz66u0qkl7vwsptl0x Ush...

At first glance it can be a bit of a challenge to understand the breadth of what founder Joe Berenbaum is building with AFTR.market - Is it a multi-sig? Is it a governance tool? Is it made for managing bounties? These questions (and more!) are explored in this deep dive into AFTR.market and the builder behind it all. In short, AFTR does a lot, and as a platform it has the possibility of un-locking...

Music on Nina can be publicly streamed by anyone - it can also be released as digital editions that can be purchased to both support artists and enable collector-only experiences. In a world where traditional record labels have received criticism for the lack of transparency and allocation percentages to artists, Nina is building both a transparent protocol and an artist-first platform that enable...

Hear directly from the founder of wordcel.club , Shek Dev, and his wild journey building on web3. Wordcel is a publishing platform built using Solana + Arweave , a powerful combination of both accessible and robust technology. Shek's journey to building full-time in web3 is inspiring - it shows that you, yes you, can put resources out into any community and receive some great results (especially i...

Co-founder Sherlock Shi takes us on an adventure, ultimately arriving at why meson.network exists, what is here today, and what is in the pipeline. His experience as an Arweave miner, his knowledge of Proof Of Work, and analogies of electricity distribution via Bitcoin and how it relates to bandwidth definitely brings some fresh thinking to how nodes can power the world. In this episode we dive de...

You'll quickly understand that Tom Wilson is dedicate to providing resources to other builders, and most recently, those building on Arweave. What started as an initial tutorial for 8pin , has grown into Permanotes.app , with regular tutorials on Youtube and more. He's also the founder of Hyper.io , which enables developers to build just about any application by taking advantage of Hyper's single...

The world of institutional digital preservation has been going on for decades, and Peter Van Garderen has been a leading force as the founder of Artefactual Systems. His company has produced the most widely deployed archive management solutions in the world - Archivematica and Access-to-Memory .  Peter's journey has led him to web3 and he's now working on a number of projects that require archivin...

From building dApps to joining the core Arweave team, Cedrik has touched just about every aspect of the development process when creating on Arweave. He's gone on to create Textury.org , where he and a team continue to make key tools for creating Profit Sharing Tokens (via community.xyz ), uploading to the Permaweb (via arkb), and most recently the launch of a new gateway ( arweave.live ).  "Our m...

Duncan Brown is a blockchain engineer and team lead at Veritree, a reforestation initiative that is built on Cardano and Arweave. Their mission is to create the technology to verify and amplify the world's best Nature-Based Solutions. The team partners with established tree planting organizations, and they go several steps further by adding on-the-ground data to the blockweave to store it permanen...

Benjamin's curiosity in "web3" technologies made a big leap once he decided he was done with "web2" after some great conversations with Sam Williams which eventually led to Benjamin becoming a co-founder of Arweave.news . As a budding programmer, the possibilities of Arweave sparked many thoughts, one of which was archiving the internet as we know it. "The robust promises of Arweave got me really...

You'll notice something immediately unique about this podcast recording; our guest, Sirgulator, uses a voice modulator to remain anonymous. Gridacity.io creates fully on-chain games and interactive multimedia experiences. The team has already released two games - Pulsar79 and Reveries of Ymatar. Each of these games have a very retro feel, including the background music, movement, and general game...

Dive deeper as we speak with the founders behind some of the featured projects from the Open Web Foundry 6. This cohort (OWF 6) introduced incredible concepts and implementations, all built on Arweave. If you're unfamiliar with the Open Web Foundry, it's a 6 week intensive program/incubator where you can start with a concept and build out your MVP to present to potential investors. Along the way,...

"It's one of our goals to educate them [artists] what's possible with web3, if they lack that knowledge..." Artby.city CEO Jim Toth shares his perspective regarding artists and the need for a more transparent and equitable platform for those that create both physical and digital art. Their intention as a protocol and platform is to give back the power to the artists and the Profit Sharing Communit...

The NFT rush has introduced a new community of investors in digital art, while also enabling the "art world" of the past to participate in this wild new landscape. Boris Pevzner, CEO of LiveArt, is building bridges for the "art world" and the physical pieces we've all known for centuries to the fresh landscape that is digit art and NFTs. Utilizing a number of mechanisms, including their team's vas...

Redstone provides customizable DeFi data streams delivered quickly, reliably and cost-efficiently, all stored on Arweave. Jakub, founder of Redstone shares his prior blockchain experience as an auditor and what ultimately led him to the Arweave ecosystem and the Permaweb. We hear from Marin, Head of Growth at Redstone, and learn about his transition from web2 to web3 and his interest in seeing thi...

"What were trying to do is complement that [proof of humanity] with proof of contribution. The way you prove your contribution to the collective knowledge commons is by getting attention from other people who have a higher reputation." Koii is building out what they see as core infrastructure for the future of the attention economy. Al Morris, founder of Koii, shares his background exploring robot...

In this episode we feature to primary topics directly with the founders themselves; DeFi data on Arweave, and photography NFTs.  Jakub, the founder of Redstone.finance walks us through the data dashboards from both a philosophical vantage point and real-world use case implementation. We also hear from Marcin, their Head of Growth, about their path forward in DeFi and beyond. Their mission is massi...

"We wanted to make sure that we're building an actually decentralized social and not just a social media that uses cryptocurrency... Being totally decentralized is our guiding mantra."  Decentralized communication platforms are nascent and becoming increasingly important in the fabric of our civilization. Explore this topic with Brennan Lamey, Founder of Kwil. Their team is focused on starting ful...

This conversation is both technical and design-oriented as we navigate what it's like to build with Polygon + Arweave, and delve into the design ethos of NiftyPixels . Matt, aka "pencilflip", shares his technical learnings building on Arweave and creating an NFT marketplace. Kat, aka "Katherine" shares a bit about her design philosophy and approach to creating a pleasing aesthetic, while also bein...