Use cases for Arweave
Arweave works. Millions of files, entire blockchain histories, and censorship-resistant archives are stored permanently on the network today.
Here is what that looks like in practice.
Free Speech
Censorship-Resistant Archives
How Arweave preserves free speech: from Hong Kong's Apple Daily to Ukraine war documentation.
U.S. Senator Pat Toomey cited this during a Senate Banking Committee hearing, noting that Arweave "makes it impossible for the Chinese government to destroy Apple Daily's work, no matter how hard it tries." Separately, over 6 million pieces of data documenting the Russia-Ukraine conflict have been archived on Arweave, creating a tamper-proof historical record covered by Bloomberg.
Blockchain Data
Solving Chain Bloat for Every Blockchain
How KYVE Network archives blockchain history onto Arweave, making every supported chain more efficient.
Mainnet chains currently archived include Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, Archway, Axelar, Cronos, Noble, and Celestia, with Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Optimism in testing. Over 5 TB of validated historical data has been archived. Backed by Arweave, Ava Labs, Solana Foundation, Interchain Foundation, and others.
NFT Storage
Over 130 Million NFTs Live on Arweave
Sotheby's, Jay-Z, Meta, Metaplex: how Arweave became the default storage layer for NFTs.
Over 130 million NFTs have been minted through Metaplex, with 78% of all Solana NFTs created via Candy Machine. Meta chose Arweave as the storage layer for Instagram digital collectibles in November 2022. The Internet Archive partnered with Arweave to store website metadata from the Wayback Machine, archiving over 700,000 torrent files of historical web data.
Resilient Frontends
DeFi Frontends That Cannot Be Taken Down
When Uniswap blocked wallets and tokens, the permaweb offered a permanent alternative.
The fix: deploy frontends permanently on Arweave. DeFi frontends including Uniswap, SushiSwap, Compound, and 1inch have been mirrored to the permaweb. Mirror.xyz, the Web3 publishing platform, stores all posts permanently on Arweave. No server to shut down, no DNS to seize, no hosting provider to pressure.
100% Uptime
When Centralization Fails, Arweave Doesn't
CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, AWS: the case for distributed permanent storage.
In November 2024, a Cloudflare failure took down X (Twitter), ChatGPT, Spotify, and Uber simultaneously. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud hold roughly two-thirds of the global cloud market. Arweave's data is replicated across a decentralized network of independent miners worldwide. No single point of failure. No vendor lock-in. No outage page.
Mobile App Store
Solana's dApp Store Runs on Arweave
How the Solana Saga phone uses Arweave for censorship-resistant app distribution.
Unlike Apple's App Store or Google Play, there's no 30% fee and no single authority that can remove an app. The Seeker phone (Saga's successor) continues this model. App distribution that cannot be censored, delisted, or taken offline.
AI Verification
Proving What's Real in the Age of AI
Numbers Protocol, provenance records, and immutable timestamping for AI-generated content.
Numbers Protocol uses Arweave to store cryptographically signed media provenance records, handling 6 billion monthly gateway requests across 190 countries. Their Capture App acts as a "blockchain camera" that signs content at the moment of creation. Once a provenance record is on Arweave, it cannot be altered or deleted.
Creator Rights
The Composable Data Layer: Rights That Travel With Your Work
How UDL, atomic assets, and BazAR give creators true ownership with embedded rights that travel with their work.
Atomic assets on Arweave combine the media file, metadata, ownership record, and license terms in a single transaction. BazAR marketplace lets creators trade these assets with royalties that actually get enforced. UDL v0.2 added an "AI" tag specifically for controlling whether AI models can train on your work. In a world where AI is consuming everything, creators finally have provable, permanent control.
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