In this episode of the DePINed Podcast, Tom Trowbridge sits down with Sam Williams, co-founder & CEO of Arweave, to unpack the economics, technology, and vision behind decentralized permanent storage and compute.

Discover:

- How Arweave achieves near-perpetual storage using an endowment model that beats AWS costs over time

- The tokenomics that underpin Arweave’s long-term sustainability and value capture

- Why Arweave’s system is inherently trustless, ensuring data integrity without centralized control

- How Arweave’s unique model incentivizes miners to keep costs low while locking up tokens in long-term endowments

- The relationship between Arweave and AO, its decentralized compute platform, and why AI workloads are driving massive growth

- How Arweave competes with traditional cloud providers by delivering a more resilient and cost-effective solution

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