AO devices are like DePIN lego bricks. Arweave is their decentralized ledger.

The conventional view of TEEs as a binary category is a meme. If you look closely, secure enough hardware that could contribute to decentralized networks is all around us. In essentially every pocket. For DePIN, more hardware ➡️ more efficient markets. Yet amazingly, the opportunity to onboard these billions of under-utilized devices sits almost entirely unexplored. The PermawebOS is being built to remedy this, and ensure that the new web is truly decentralized. The details are a paper not a tweet, but @aoTheComputer starts to lay out the groundwork below 👇

Very excited about this launch. Introducing: ➡️ PermawebOS nodes: A bootable, multi-architecture HyperBEAM instance. ➡️ LapEEs: Pretty Good Security via swarms of widely available commodity hardware. ➡️ Decentralized bundlers: A first alpha deployment for LapEEs. Demanding the most recent high-end server chips or ~$100k as an entry ticket to contribute hardware just isn't a path to decentralized networks. To actually decentralize the web we are going to need to enable wide participation. The PermawebOS is how we think we get there. Big day 🙂. To be clear: This is a huge ship and it is definitively, categorically an alpha. We have been running and using LapEEs ourselves at @fwdresearch for weeks, but you shouldn't jump on this today unless you are ready for: A. Nothing to work as you expect. B. The very real possibility that you brick your machine. Stability and ease-of-use will improve over time, so unless you love self-guided firmware flashing adventures it is best to hang tight for now. Further down the track, it also looks like Android deployments of the PermawebOS may be possible, too, using kernel software isolation and some of their security hardware. Running a bundler on your phone that you genuinely do not know how to tamper with even if you wanted to is pretty remarkably. Brick by brick.