We are excited to announce WAO, the ultimate SDK and testing framework for Arweave/AO. WAO makes AO development faster, smoother, and more powerful with zero-latency in-memory testing, instant process spawning, and intuitive function piping.

Until now, developers have been testing directly on mainnet, but that’s not a sustainable solution. We need a fast, efficient, cheap, and developer-friendly local testing environment — and that’s exactly where WAO comes in.

Current Limitations

1. AO processes generate multiple messages, each containing different pieces of data. Manually filtering through them to extract specific information is a tedious, time-consuming task that clutters your code.
2. Messages on AO can trigger chains of asynchronous responses. Tracking these responses manually requires constant polling, result checks, and complex logic to ensure the correct message is received.
3. Debugging AO processes can be painful. Logs are stored inside the AO execution environment, making them difficult to access and analyze in real-time.
4. Fetching data from Arweave within AO is slow and expensive because it requires querying the blockchain and waiting for confirmations.
5. Developers often need a local AO environment to test interactions with frontend apps, but running a full AO node locally isn’t straightforward.
6. Testing new logic or making adjustments mid-development can be slow because every change requires redeploying and restarting AO processes.

How WAO solve this?

1. WAO introduces the get parameter, which allows developers to easily extract specific data from messages. Instead of writing complex loops and conditions, you can simply specify what you need, and WAO handles the rest—cleaner code, faster execution.
2. WAO automatically tracks async messages and short-circuits unnecessary checks, stopping when the required conditions are met. No need for extra logic or constant polling — just set a condition, and WAO will confirm when it’s fulfilled.
3. WAO hot-patches the AO module, redirecting ao.log outputs to the JavaScript console. This means Lua logs instantly appear in your terminal, making debugging easier and more transparent. Even complex Lua tables are automatically converted to JSON for better readability.
4. WAO fully emulates WeaveDrive, allowing AO processes to instantly access Arweave transactions without network latency. This makes it easier, faster, and cheaper to work with stored data, especially for dApps that rely on frequently updated records.
5. WAO lets you spin up a local AO server with persistent storage, enabling seamless frontend integration. Connect your dApp to a local AO instance, test everything before deploying, and speed up development without spending a dime on mainnet gas fees.
6. WAO allows you to fork Wasm memory, meaning you can clone an existing process and continue testing without restarting from scratch. This is perfect for:

• Creating checkpoints before testing risky changes.
• Running experiments on a copy of a live process.
• Simulating different execution paths without affecting the original state.

WAO eliminates bottlenecks, reduces complexity, and makes AO development frictionless. Whether you’re testing, debugging, or optimizing, WAO does the heavy lifting so you can focus on building.

Get started today → yarn add wao 🚀

Read the full details here.

About WeaveDB

While web3 dapps may use decentralized technologies like blockchain to facilitate trust and transparency, they may still rely on centralized components like databases for storing data. This can lead to a certain level of centralization, as these components are often controlled by a single entity or organization.

WeaveDB is addressing this issue by offering a high-performance, scalable, decentralized, and reliable database solution.

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We are excited to announce that CosmWasm, the most scalable smart contracting platform built for Cosmos, is now on AO; the hyper-parallel computer.

You can get started right away with a local test environment here and deploy your first CW20 token on AO.

What is AO?

Current decentralized computing systems have protocol-enforced limitations including size and data format that do not allow them to scale. For instance, on Ethereum, you have to share a single global queue with all the users and only one can change the state at a point in time.

AO is solving this by providing an actor-oriented network of nodes running in parallel on the Arweave permanent storage.

Think of AO as the “new web”, you can run an arbitrary number of processes in parallel and all of them can communicate with each other through an open messaging protocol, exactly how current web2 websites run independently but can communicate with each other.

Instead of enforcing one set of choices upon all users of the computing environment, ao is built in a modular form: Allowing users to choose which virtual machines, sequencing models, message passing security guarantees, and payment options work best for them.

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And we at WeaveDB believe that AO is the next paradigm shift in web3.

Why CosmWasm?

CosmWasm is a smart contract execution environment built for the Cosmos blockchain. It enables developers to write smart contracts in Rust programming language and execute them securely. And has many advantages over other smart contract environments:

Security

Solidity, the programming language used for writing EVM smart contracts has inherent vulnerabilities in its design due to factors such as its complex nature, lack of formal verification tools, and the difficulty of understanding its nuances.

On the other hand, CosmWasm, which uses Rust programming language, offers several advantages such as strict compile-time checks, ownership semantics, and memory safety guarantees. These features make it easier for developers to write secure and robust smart contracts.

Many top-tier audited protocols still fail to avoid simple logical errors in Solidity. For example, in 2021, Compound “accidentally” gave its users $90M due to using < rather than <= in an if statement. CosmWasm addresses this issue by prioritizing unit, integration, and full-stack testing from the outset.

Efficiency and Cost

Ethereum’s throughput is limited at around 30TPS and a single TX costs $5–100 if not more sometimes, CosmWasm can handle thousands of transactions per second, providing significantly faster and cheaper transaction processing.

Interoperability and Modularity

Most DeFi protocols on EVM chains are built like LEGO sets, by composing multiple projects into one. However, this extensive composition significantly multiplies the attack surface for potential exploits and presents testing challenges.

CosmWasm provides all the power of contract composition as in Ethereum, but with architectural support to allow you build complex composition safely.

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CosmWasm is designed to be interoperable with other blockchains and with its modular architecture, you can create complex applications by combining and extending existing smart contract modules.

Why CosmWasm on AO?

AO’s distributed and modular architecture allows you to plug in any existing smart contract platforms and they will be able to send and receive messages from other smart contracts on the network.

Currently, AO has two smart contract platforms written in Lua and JS. However, we foresee CosmWasm emerging as the flagship smart contract platform on AO. This is attributed to Rust’s extensive support for audited crypto libraries and its thriving developer community.

Actor model is the only viable way to hyper-scale computation in decentralized networks and AO and CosmWasm turned out to be a perfect duo.

We are excited to announce the release of cosmwasm-ao (CWAO) Tools which allows you to build Rust smart contracts on AO easily. This is a local test environment for now, stay tuned for the public release of the testnet soon!

Follow this guide to deploy your first CW20 token on your local AO here.

Please note that this is a very early release. Everything is subject to changes.

IBC on AO is also under development, which will enable cross-chain communications between AO processes and other blockchains.

About WeaveDB

While web3 dapps may use decentralized technologies like blockchain to facilitate trust and transparency, they may still rely on centralized components like databases for storing data. This can lead to a certain level of centralization, as these components are often controlled by a single entity or organization.

WeaveDB is addressing this issue by offering a high-performance, scalable, decentralized, and reliable database solution.

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We’re thrilled to present our roadmap to you. This article will highlight our journey since the initial Proof of Concept (PoC) of WeaveDB back in 2022 and will give you a glimpse into our exciting plans.

Back in 2022, our team was working on a decentralized blogging platform for the Japanese market. But then, it hit us: how can we call it decentralized if we’re using a centralized database? And that most web3 dapps rely on centralized databases like Firestore which poses several risks including but not limited to:

• The database manager can shut down the service.
• The service provider might unpredictably change their pricing models.
• Third-party developers often require permission to access APIs.
• Risk of personal data breaches.

In addition, a division between web2 and web3 due to data bridges being limited to a great extent makes any offchain data inaccessible onchain and web3 missing a great wide variety of use cases.

On a Database Level

We introduced WeaveDB for the first time in September 2022 here as a NoSQL Monolithic Smart Contract Database to replace Firestore. The PoC had all the features required to build a fully decentralized application such as social media dapps, offering a seamless developer experience similar to using Firestore’s querying language.

However, we soon recognized the limitations of a Monolithic Smart Contract database, particularly in terms of scalability and its capacity to support high-volume dapps.

In 2023, WeaveDB transitioned to a modular approach. This change involved breaking down the system into four key layers — Permanent API, Query Parser, Indexer, and Data Source — enabling the creation of different database types using a single Data Source.

It’s important to note that even though WeaveDB has become modular, our focus for the upcoming year remains solely on NoSQL.

FPJSON

In early 2023, we introduced FPJSON — a JSON-based functional programming language enabling on-chain execution of computational functions within JSON arrays. It serves as the core foundation for various features we provide, including advanced access control rules and on-chain Cron Jobs.

The growing interest in FPJSON extends beyond WeaveDB. And now we’re thrilled to announce that FPJSON 2.0 will be released this year with new features and capabilities.

zkJSON

Our vision has always been clear: a seamless connection between offchain data and blockchains. We just announced the release of Zero Knowledge Provable JSON (zkJSON).

zkJSON is not just about making offchain data accessible; it’s about verifying and legitimizing it onchain, expanding the scope of what’s considered online and verifiable.

Please read the zkJSON Litepaper for more details.

WeaveDB Rollup

WeaveDB in its essence is a SmartWeave (Arweave smart contract) that provides scalability and cost-effectiveness with lazy offchain computation.

However, we realized that a blockchain sequencer is a bottleneck to performance and latency, this is because a sequencer processes transactions in sequence, and a DB must maintain ACID properties with hyper-low latency.

So WeaveDB has developed an L3 rollup to the L2 sequencer (Warp) to the L1 Arweave permanent storage. This way, we can have a centralized node for parallel query executions with high performance and low latency of web2 cloud databases, but still keep full decentralization with L1 verifiability and L2 composability.

WeaveChain Testnet

WeaveDB will be releasing its Rollup Development Kit (RDK) in the first half of 2024 which will allow anyone to set up and manage their own rollup.

The WeaveDB Testnet will be released in the second half of 2024 and offer Managed Rollup as a Service (RaaS).

WeaveDB Rollup and zkJSON can be used to build many data infrastructure solutions, some examples:

• Fully Decentralized web2 Alternativse: such as social media dapps.
• Indexing Bitcoin on Ethereum: By calculating the Merkle tree and committing its root hash to Ethereum or any EVM chain, zkJSON can be used to generate proofs for any Bitcoin transaction. This means Solidity can directly query any part of Bitcoin’s transaction history using WeaveDB.
• Decentralized Finance: with zkJSON, you can fetch and verify financial data from offchain sources. This could be particularly useful for platforms that need to integrate real-world asset prices, interest rates, or credit scores into smart contracts for lending, borrowing, or derivative trading.
• Gaming and NFTs: you can verify and import user-generated content or metadata stored offchain. This could include game assets, NFT metadata, or even player statistics and achievements.
• Identity Verification and Reputation Systems: you can verify personal information stored offchain without compromising privacy. It can also be used in reputation systems to fetch and verify user ratings or reviews from external sources.
• Real Estate and Tokenization: For platforms dealing with real estate tokenization, zkJSON can verify property details, ownership records, and legal documents stored offchain, streamlining the process of buying, selling, or investing in tokenized real estate.

And many more use cases!

If you have any use cases in mind, please feel free to suggest them on our Discord.

WeaveChain Mainnet

WeaveChain is a CosmosSDK-based economic layer to incentivize the decentralization of the app-specific DB rollup network. It’s a Filecoin for decentralized databases. And will be released in 2025.

Fees

Our L3 rollups will run with a reverse gas model, where the rollup operator pays for bundle transactions to L2 (Warp). Rollup operators will be charging for the Arweave storage fee, the rollup operational fee, and additional service fees. The Arweave storage fee is determined by the Arweave protocol, but the other two should be arbitrary by the rollup operator and optimized in the market. That’s exactly what WeaveChain is for, connecting dapps to rollup operators.

WeaveDB can run in many different environments and doesn’t have to be backed by Arweave. So one could implement the rollup backed by IPFS or cloud storage and provide a cheaper infra stack with the trade-off of less decentralization.

$WDB

We would like to clarify that the $WDB token associated with WeaveDB has NOT yet been released. Please exercise caution and be vigilant against potential scams.

The native token of WeaveChain, $WDB, will play a pivotal role in our ecosystem, serving multiple functions:

1. Staking for Rollup Operators: To become a rollup operator and earn protocol rewards and service fees from dapp developers, a requisite amount of $WDB must be staked. In case an operator engages in misconduct, a portion of their staked $WDB will be subject to slashing. Additionally, in the event of a rollup becoming non-operational, WeaveChain will automatically assign a new operator and transition the L2 WeaveDB contract, ensuring uninterrupted service.
2. Query Fees by dapps: Dapp developers will be required to pay for their query operations using $WDB. This ensures a sustainable ecosystem where the utility and demand for $WDB are directly tied to the usage and growth of the platform.
3. Delegation: Token holders will be able to delegate their tokens to Rollup operators and get a portion of query fees collected by them.
4. Governance: the $WDB token will play a key role in protocol-level decision-making. More on this later.

As WeaveDB is the only technology to build fully decentralized feature-rich dapps, there will be thousands of app-specific WeaveDB rollups, so one could start rollup-as-a-service with a unique set of features and trade-offs.

What’s next? WeaveDB Protocols

WeaveDB plans to release two protocols with the aim to break down the data silos of Web2 and redirecting its revenue models to Web3.

Jots Protocol

we announced the alpha release of Jots in 2023 as the ultimate decentralized social network. Jots will be released publicly in 2024.

In addition, we will release Jots Protocol, which is a dapp development framework to build fully decentralized interoperable applications using WeaveDB, DID, and ZKP.

Fully on-chain protocols are not scalable and offchain protocols are not verifiable. Jots protocol takes the best of both sides.

We will release a detailed article explaining the how, why, and when. Make sure to follow us on Medium to stay updated.

WeavePoint

WeavePoint (WPT) is a hyper-scalable programmable Database point token protocol backed by the WeaveChain native token ($WDB) to scale the value exchange in dapps. With WPT, dapps will have a seamless way to collect fees from the users for permanent sustainability. We believe that WPT will replace ERC20 tokens for many use cases because:

• ERC20 tokens are owned by users, whereas WeavePoints are owned by the protocol. The DB rules define arbitrary token transfers without the user’s approval.
• ERC20 is limited by the constraints of EVM.
• DB developers can implement a sustainable fee collection mechanism with WeavePoint and auto-pay the rollup fees.
• MyDB point will be exchangeable with YourDB point via the DEX for interoperability and network effects if both DBs allow to do so.

Additionally, WeaveDB has an exciting roadmap ahead, with plans to launch a suite of developer tools in 2024 and 2025 to make the developer experience as seamless as possible. This includes WeaveDB Tools, WeaveDB Scan, and several other resources. Stay tuned for more updates by following us on Medium, where we’ll share detailed information about these upcoming releases.

About WeaveDB

While web3 dapps may use decentralized technologies like blockchain to facilitate trust and transparency, they may still rely on centralized components like databases for storing data. This can lead to a certain level of centralization, as these components are often controlled by a single entity or organization.

WeaveDB is addressing this issue by offering a high-performance, scalable, decentralized, and reliable database solution.

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Road to Mainnet: The Modular Decentralized Data Layer was originally published in WeaveDB on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The vision is clear: a seamless connection between offchain data and blockchains. zkJSON is not just about making offchain data accessible; it’s about verifying and legitimizing it onchain, expanding the scope of what’s considered online and verifiable.

We are thrilled to announce the release of Zero Knowledge Provable JSON (zkJSON), a solution designed to bridge the gap between Web3 and Web2. This innovation makes offchain data easily accessible and verifiable from within Smart Contracts.

If you are interested in a technical exploration, please refer to the Litepaper of zkJSON here.

The Challenge: Bridging Two Digital Worlds

It’s fair to say that JSON forms the foundational layer of the internet we know as of today. Most web systems store and exchange data in JSON due to it being both easy for humans to read and lightweight to ensure a small transmission size.

However, Blockchains have been failing to connect with offchain JSON data efficiently due to a variety of reasons:

1. Blockchains are not scalable to the web level.

2. Lack of a decentralized full-featured general-purpose database alternative to cloud databases.

3. Existing decentralized databases are too niche and domain-specific.

4. The current Oracle and Indexer solutions are limited to a great extent.

As a result, data on web2 (offchain) and web3 (onchain) are divided, leading to web3 missing out on a broad range of potential use cases.

What if it were possible to verify and access any offchain JSON data directly from Smart Contracts, and to build a general-purpose decentralized database with web2-like performance and scalability? This is precisely what zkJSON and zkDB aim to achieve, seamless direct connections between Smart Contracts and offchain databases.

Onchain verifiability is what scales the decentralized web. Onchain is the new online, and zkJSON expands what’s online/onchain (verifiable).

The Solution: zkJSON

To connect offchain JSON data to any Smart Contracts, we need to:

1. Make any JSON provable with zk circuits — zkJSON
2. Build a database structure with Merkle trees and zkJSON — zkDB
3. Find a way of making zkDB securely queriable from other blockchains — zkRollup
4. Make the zkDB queriable using Solidity — zkQuery

All the previous steps have been already implemented by WeaveDB. For an in-depth technical exploration, please refer to the Litepaper of zkJSON here.

Use Cases

The implementation of zkJSON and zkDB unlocks many use cases including but not limited to:

1. Decentralized Data Infrastructure Solutions: It enables the creation of decentralized oracles and indexers, enhancing data reliability and security.
2. Decentralized Web2 Alternatives: Imagine a fully decentralized Twitter, free from centralized control, powered by zkJSON.
3. Enterprise Solutions: Combining zkJSON with DID and Verifiable Credentials, businesses can securely integrate Web3 while maintaining privacy.
4. Liberating Data Silos: We aim to break down the data silos of Web2, redirecting the revenue models of massive networks like ad networks and future AI-based systems to Web3 using zkJSON.

What’s Next: The Road Ahead

With the first 4 components zkJSON, zkDB, zkRollup, and zkQuery, it's now technically possible to build a fully verifiable zkp-based DB connecting blockchains and offchain data. But it does not stop here, we are building:

WeaveDB Rollup

WeaveDB in its essence is a SmartWeave (Arweave smart contract). Our choice of Warp is because it provides scalability and cost-effectiveness with lazy offchain computation.

We have developed an L3 rollup to the L2 sequencer (Warp) to the L1 Arweave permanent storage. This way, we can have a centralized node for parallel query executions with high performance and low latency of web2 cloud databases, but still keep full decentralization with L1 verifiability and L2 composability.

WeaveDB Rollup will roll out in 3 phases:

1. Rollup Development Kit (RDK)
2. Rollup as a Service (RaaS)
3. Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (WeaveChain).

WeaveChain will be a Cosmos-based DePIN blockchain and a marketplace to match database developers / dapps with rollup operators. But that’s a topic for a future article.

Roadmap is coming soon. Follow us on Twitter to stay updated!

About WeaveDB

While web3 dapps may use decentralized technologies like blockchain to facilitate trust and transparency, they may still rely on centralized components like databases for storing data. This can lead to a certain level of centralization, as these components are often controlled by a single entity or organization.

WeaveDB is addressing this issue by offering a high-performance, scalable, decentralized, and reliable database solution.

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Introducing zkJSON: Bridging the Gap between web3 and web2 was originally published in WeaveDB on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the WeaveDB Ambassador Program, an exciting initiative that empowers passionate individuals to contribute to the growth of the web3 space.

As an Ambassador, you will have the unique opportunity to showcase the value that WeaveDB brings to collaborative ecosystems and inspire others to join the movement.

Program Structure

• The first cohort of the Program starts officially on the 1st of August and will run for a duration of four weeks.
• We have a limited 20-30 slots available for passionate individuals to join the program.
• You can submit your application to join the program here.
• The deadline to apply is the 27th of July.

Responsibilities

1. Engage, Educate, and Empower

At the core of the WeaveDB Ambassador Program is the responsibility to educate the world about the transformative power of WeaveDB and web3. This involves utilizing social media platforms such as Twitter to create engaging threads, technical tutorials, non-technical articles, create memes, and artwork, among other creative approaches.

2. Community Growth and Outreach

Ambassadors will actively contribute to the growth and outreach of WeaveDB’s vibrant international communities. By engaging on social media platforms, forums, and other relevant channels.

3. Fostering Positive Vibes

As a WeaveDB Ambassador, you have the power to create a positive and welcoming environment within the WeaveDB community. Together, we can create a space where everyone feels valued and empowered.

Rewards for top performers

WeaveDB recognizes and appreciates the dedication and outstanding contributions of its Ambassadors. By going above and beyond, you will have the opportunity to unlock exciting rewards and advance your career within the WeaveDB ecosystem.

• Fast-track to Future Positions: Exceptional Ambassadors have the opportunity for fast-track progression into positions such as Community Manager, DevRel, and other relevant roles within WeaveDB in the future. This offers a chance to contribute at a higher level and make a broader impact.
• Token Rewards: WeaveDB plans to introduce a utility token in the future, and as a top performer, you have a chance to receive an exclusive token allocation in advance.
• Access to Real-Life Events: WeaveDB Ambassadors gain exclusive access to real-life events, including conferences, meet-ups, parties, workshops, and more. These events provide valuable networking opportunities and a chance to connect with like-minded individuals in the industry.
• Networking and Recognition: Expand your web3 network and gain recognition across the ecosystem.
• Swag Rewards: You will receive exclusive swag items, including t-shirts, socks, and other exciting merchandise.

Conclusion

The WeaveDB Ambassador Program is your platform to actively contribute to the growth and success of WeaveDB while shaping the web3 landscape.

By becoming an Ambassador, you gain recognition, rewards, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Join us on this journey as a WeaveDB Ambassador by applying here.

To learn more about WeaveDB, you can check our website. To stay up to date, follow us on Twitter and join our Discord.

Introducing the WeaveDB Ambassador Program was originally published in WeaveDB on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We are excited to announce the launch of WeaveDB Fellows, a collaborative opportunity in partnership with Arweave, Fleek, Lens protocol, Intmax, Lit protocol, and Mask Network for developers to showcase their skills and potentially contribute to the advancement of decentralized database technology.

The question of whether an application can be considered truly decentralized if it uses a centralized database is a critical one. This is where WeaveDB comes in as the essential component of Web3, offering a decentralized, scalable, and reliable database solution.

TL;DR

• WeaveDB Fellows is a 6-week online hackathon starting on the 9th of June.
• Ideal candidates are developers with a track record, a deep understanding of the blockchain space, and prior experience using NoSQL databases.
• Participants will be eligible to receive rewards from a prize pool of $22,000 in USDC.
• Several VCs including Arweave, IOSG, Hansa, Mask, and others have joined the program to scout for promising ideas that may emerge during the hackathon to potentially fund.
• The registration form can be found here.

Program Overview

The WeaveDB Fellowship program is a 6-week hackathon that aims to encourage developers with prior experience in building to create innovative decentralized solutions using WeaveDB.

Participants will receive support in both technical and design aspects throughout the program.

Eligibility Requirements

The program is open to developers who possess a comprehensive understanding of blockchain technology and have prior experience using NoSQL databases.

They also must have a track record of successfully shipping at least two dapps.

Interested developers are required to submit their ideas and obtain approval before joining the program. Few ideas as examples would be:

• A Decentralized publishing platform like Medium or Substack
• A DEX with an on-WeaveDB orderbook
• Decentralized science (DeSci) like a platform that allows individuals to monetize personal health data for purchase by researchers

Be innovative fren, the sky is your limit!

Rewards

All participants are expected to develop a fully functional dapp within the six-week hackathon period.

The rewards for the top five dapps are as follows:

• First place: $4000
• Second place: $2500
• Third place: $2500
• Fourth place: $1500
• Fifth place: $1500

In addition to the above, we have partnered with some protocols and bonuses will be awarded for:

• Best two dapps using Arweave: $1000 each
• Best two dapps using Fleek: $1000 each
• Best dapp using Intmax: $2000
• Best two dapps using Lit protocol: $1000 each
• Best dapp using Lens protocol: $1000
• Best social media dapp by Mask Network: $1000

Judges

We have partnered with some of the most reputable figures in web3 to be the judges of this program, ensuring transparency and fairness in the judging process:

• Ahmad Mardeni
• Albert
• Alysia Huggins
• Dmac
• Krinza Momen
• Nader Dabit
• Suji Yan

How to apply?

You can find the registration form here.

This edition starts on the 9th of June — 2023 and will only have a limited 15–20 slots open so make sure to apply as soon as possible.

Developers have to form a team of 2–5 members, which will count as a single slot.

Additional Notes

• All ideas must use WeaveDB as a database solution to be eligible for the prizes.
• DeveloperDAO members are prioritized in the registration form.
• Any dapp built with WeaveDB and Lit protocol will be eligible to win an additional $20,000 each. Read more here.

About WeaveDB

While web3 dapps may use decentralized technologies like blockchain to facilitate trust and transparency, they may still rely on centralized components like databases for storing data. This can lead to a certain level of centralization, as these components are often controlled by a single entity or organization.

WeaveDB is addressing this issue by offering a high-performance, scalable, decentralized, and reliable database solution.

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Introducing WeaveDB Fellows was originally published in WeaveDB on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We are excited to announce that WeaveDB has partnered with Lit protocol on an integration that enables Arweave to become a cross-chain dapp hub. With this integration, developers can bridge data from outside the Arweave smart contract environment, including other blockchains and web2 API endpoints, into WeaveDB.

WeaveDB is a decentralized alternative to web2 database components that offers scalability, performance, and compossibility. It provides a seamless development experience where you can deploy a database in just five seconds without writing a single line of a smart contract.

Lit is a blockchain-agnostic middleware layer, Lit can be used to read and write data between blockchains and off-chain platforms, powering conditional decryption and programmatic signing.

After exploring Lit’s capabilities, we realized it fits perfectly with our vision of making Arweave a fast and decentralized cross-chain dapp hub. This integration allows secure interaction and composition of states from other blockchains and web2 API endpoints.

Thanks to this integration, we can now offer data encryption in WeaveDB, providing users with the ability to store encrypted data! To demonstrate this, we have built a demo app that allows NFT holders to send private messages.

Feel free to read our tutorial on how to build that dapp here.

To demonstrate the potential of this integration, we have integrated Lens protocol into the core contract!

In addition to EVM, Arweave, and DFINITY compatible wallets, users now will be able to deploy a database and interact with it using a Lens profile NFT!

We are excited to introduce Lens protocol to the Arweave ecosystem, which opens up many possibilities for decentralized applications. By leveraging Lens as a global social layer, developers can build applications on Arweave that offer permanent, tamper-proof, and decentralized storage solutions while using Lens profiles on Polygon as a means of identity verification.

For developers, Lens profiles can be used to provide a global and interoperable identity layer across different applications in the Arweave ecosystem.

For users, it allows them to have a consistent and secure identity across multiple Arweave applications.

To showcase the potential of this integration, we have built a lightning-fast Demo Dapp you can try here.

We are thrilled to be bringing Lens protocol to the Arweave ecosystem and look forward to seeing the innovative applications that will be built using this technology.

“This is a remarkable milestone for us” said WeaveDB CEO Ahmad Mardeni “as this collaboration will enable developers to seamlessly bridge data from external sources into WeaveDB, unlocking new possibilities for decentralized application development on Arweave.”

If you want to dive into the technical details of this integration, you can read this article.

To learn more about Lit protocol, check out their website.

To learn more about WeaveDB, check out our website, Twitter, and Discord.

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For those who are eager to learn more about WeaveDB, here are some steps you can take right away:

• Sign up for updates on Weavedb.dev
• Sign up for our blog on Mirror
• Follow WeaveDB on Twitter
• Join WeaveDB Discord
• Read our docs

Three months ago we introduced WeaveDB, the first NoSQL DB as a smart contract on Arweave with a vision of bringing web2-like smooth UX, complexity, and scalability to web3 dApps.

Today, WeaveDB is glad to announce its $900k pre-seed round led by Permanent Ventures!

WeaveDB — The Firestore of Web3

WeaveDB was created in response to the challenges of building decentralized applications (dApps) while having to rely on existing web2 infrastructures.

Tomoya Nagasawa, the originator of WeaveDB, was in the process of developing a decentralized blogging platform that relied on the Firestore database from the Google Cloud Platform.

Earlier this year, Tomoya learned about the Arweave smart contracts, what is called SmartWeave, being realized by separating computation from storage, leading to fully decentralized yet complex dApps with virtually unlimited computation capabilities and inexpensive permanent storage. This urged him to build a decentralized alternative to Firestore, bringing out the best of both web2 UX and web3 decentralization.

Where we are today

WeaveDB is a new paradigm for dApp development, bringing web2-like UX both to users and developers with Firestore-like NoSQL DB on smart contracts.

WeaveDB for developers

Using WeaveDB, developers can now deploy a one-line instant contract, build complex logic without writing a smart contract, and build full-stack scalable dApps that weren’t possible before, using Javascript/Typescript, Rust, or Go for development.

WeaveDB is offering a wide range of features, including:

• Cross-chain authentication,
• Auto-signing,
• JSON-like simple APIs,
• Data indexing,
• JSON-based functional programming over data validation and access control,
• Built-in scheduled cron jobs, REPL, Web console, gRPC node, and Light client.

WeaveDB for users

As a user, WeaveDB is giving you instant finality, no need to sign in with a crypto wallet, no gas fee to pay, a web2-like UX and versatile features, biometric authentication, and most important owning your own data.

Where we are going

With WeaveDB we are setting the bar high: we strongly believe that we will play a massive role in bringing web2 to web3 adoption by bringing to both the developers and end users the tools that they were looking for.

Things that seemed impossible to build before as a full-stack dApp, now are starting to become a reality with WeaveDB: e.g., a decentralized Twitter, a new GitHub, or a permanent Wikipedia, you name it!

Our pre-seed round

We are proud to announce a breakthrough milestone for us: WeaveDB has raised a $900k pre-seed round. The round was led by Permanent Ventures, along with leading web3 investors: IOSG Ventures, Mask Network, arweave.org, Hansa, Next Web Capital, CMTD, Formless Capital, and Scott Moore (co-founder of Gitcoin).

We are truly honored to have such a remarkable group of investors that recognize the value of decentralization and can help us as we look forward to expanding our growth and providing the missing tool that the community of developers and users desperately needs. Our journey just started, and our goals are endless!

To learn more about WeaveDB, you can check our website. To stay up to date, follow us on Twitter and join our Discord.

If you want to get in touch with us, please email ahmad@weavedb.dev

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