Explore the Arweave ecosystem and interact with projects using GraphQL queries with Python

Let’s be realistic, data is ephemeral, mostly when we decide to store data on cloud platforms and other places on the internet. Centralized data providers rely heavily on profit to sustain their operations, covering server expenses and upkeep. This strategy is usually not reliable long term. As I’m writing here on Medium, it might be wise to maintain a local copy of this post as a backup in case things don’t go so well for the Medium side.

The Arweave Web3 protocol is a blockchain-like data structure launched in 2018. It stands as a permanent data storage, and anyone can use it to store data with a single payment.

The protocol relies on miners, who are rewarded with AR tokens for mining new blocks, which requires them to store and serve data. The users pay with AR tokens to upload data, and the network is in charge of channelling the rewards to the miners.

1 — Meet the ecosystem

Nowadays Arweave is a flourishing ecosystem, full of projects and decentralized applications.

You can explore different analytics gateways, development tools, email services, NFT platforms, storage solutions and of course different Arweave wallets.

I didn’t have the time to explore all of them, but there are 2 main projects that deserve to be shared.

Akord (Storage)

The first time I used Akord, was to upload Data Science reports to Arweave. They are now available as NFTs in the Ocean Market, which is a data marketplace on the Web3. Check out my article to know more about it: