Arweave 

AR Price

What is the Arweave coin?

Arweave is a layer 1 blockchain built for permanent, decentralized data storage. Users pay a one-time fee to store data indefinitely, and the fee funds a storage endowment that pays miners to preserve the archive long term. The project was founded by Sam Williams and targets permanent archives, decentralized web app hosting, and tamper-proof record keeping. AR, the network's native coin, pays for storage and miner rewards.

How does Arweave's Proof of Access consensus work?

Arweave secures its network through Proof of Access, a consensus mechanism in which miners prove access to previously stored data known as recall blocks. The design ties new block production to replication of the existing archive, so keeping stored data online is part of validating the chain. Miners earn AR rewards for preserving data. Arweave describes the model as "like Bitcoin, but for data".

What is the AR coin used for?

AR pays for permanent data storage on Arweave, rewards miners, and funds the storage endowment that covers long-term preservation costs. A single upfront payment covers storage for the data's lifetime, with endowment returns sustaining preservation over decades. AR is the native coin of the Arweave chain itself, so no smart-contract deployment backs the asset.

How does AO relate to Arweave?

AO is a decentralized supercomputer protocol built on top of Arweave. The AO mainnet launched on February 8, 2025, adding verifiable compute to Arweave's permanent storage layer. The protocol extends the network from data storage into decentralized computation. AR serves as the base asset of the AO ecosystem.

What is Arweave's maximum supply and tokenomics?

Per DropsTab data, AR has a maximum supply capped at 66,000,000 coins. Almost the entire cap has already been issued, so new-coin inflation is minimal. Supply growth comes only from scheduled mining rewards, which the vesting schedule fixes decades ahead. No token contract exists for AR because the coin is minted natively on its own chain.

How much unlock sell pressure does Arweave's vesting schedule create?

Per DropsTab vesting data, the Arweave token generation event took place on July 18, 2018, and every allocation bucket, including the team and investor buckets, recorded its full unlock at that event. No team or investor cliff remains in the schedule. The only recurring unlocks are annual mining reward tranches of about 0.27% of total supply each July 18, scheduled through 2049. Unlock-driven sell pressure on AR is therefore minimal, with emission small, gradual, and fully scheduled decades out.

Who backed Arweave and how much did the project raise?

DropsTab fundraising data shows roughly $23.7M raised across five rounds. The December 2017 seed round raised $5M with Multicoin Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). A February 2020 private round added $8.3M, with Coinbase Ventures joining three returning tier-1 backers. Two community token sales in 2018 sold AR at about $0.132 per coin. Backing from tier-1 venture firms across multiple rounds signals sustained institutional conviction in the storage thesis.

Where can you buy and trade AR?

DropsTab lists AR on more than 30 centralized venues across spot and derivatives. Spot markets include Binance, OKX, Bybit, Kraken, Gate, KuCoin, and Bitget, with quote pairs in USDT, USDC, USD, EUR, TRY, BTC, and KRW. Perpetual futures trade on Binance Futures, OKX, Bybit, and Hyperliquid, among others. The dominant market is the Binance AR/USDT pair, with multiple tier-1 alternates providing deep exit liquidity. DropsTab records no decentralized-exchange markets for AR.

Did Arweave run an airdrop?

Arweave distributed AR through early community token sales and mining rewards rather than an airdrop. The related AO protocol held a fair launch in June 2024 that distributed AO tokens with no pre-mine or venture allocation. That distribution has ended. DropsTab lists no earning campaign for AR.