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# Welcome to the Permaweb

Data in paradise. The AR.IO ecosystem is dedicated to cultivating products and protocols for sustaining access to digital permanence, making the permaweb available to everyone. Powered by the IO Token, this global network of Gateways connects users to permanently stored data, files, applications, and web pages on the Arweave decentralized storage network.

ar.io Gateways

ar.io's modular gateways are built for the Arweave permanent data storage network and optimized for data retrieval, caching, serving and indexing transactions.

ArNS Names

ArNS is a censorship-resistant naming system stored on Arweave, enabling user-friendly domain names that link to permaweb dApps, web pages, data, and identities.

IO Token

IO powers the AR.IO Network and its suite of permaweb applications as a permissionless and censorship resistant medium of common value for the network.

White Paper

A comprehensive document that details a decentralized and incentivized gateway network aimed at making the permaweb more accessible to all.

The Permaweb

Learn more about the Arweave network, the permaweb and the reason the ar.io gateway network was built.

ar://

The ARCSS protocol transforms traditional Arweave URLs into more concise and user-friendly forms.


ar.io = Arweave Input & Output



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