Store files, websites, and applications permanently with a single payment and a permanently accessible URL.
What People Store
Arweave stores over 4 billion transactions across every category. Photos, websites, documents, news archives, scientific data, and more. All permanent, all accessible through any gateway.
Photos and Media
130+ million NFTs, art collections, photo galleries. Permanent media that never breaks a link.
Websites and Apps
Deploy once and it runs forever. No hosting bills, no server maintenance, no takedowns.
News and Archives
Apple Daily, Ukraine war documentation, Internet Archive backups. Records that cannot be censored.
Documents and Research
Scientific data, legal records, provenance certificates. Timestamped and tamper-proof.
How It Works
When you upload, you pay a single fee. About $5 per gigabyte at current rates. That's it. No monthly bills, no renewals, no credit card on file.
How the endowment funds storage foreverHundreds of independent miners worldwide store your data because the protocol pays them to. The more data they store, the more they earn. Your file gets replicated 20+ times across the globe.
How Proof of Random Access worksOver 500 gateways make your data accessible through normal web browsers. Anyone, anywhere, can view your content at a permanent URL. If one gateway goes down, hundreds of others keep serving it.
How gateways and the permaweb workNext Steps
Set Up a Wallet
Install Wander or use arweave.app. Your identity on the permaweb.
Start Building
Guides, SDKs, and tools for developers building on Arweave.
Explore the Ecosystem
Applications, use cases, and deep dives into how Arweave works.
Why Arweave Exists
The origin story. What problem it solves and why it matters.
Built by the Arweave community
Permanently hosted on Arweave