We are back with another Company of the Week feature! Every week, we share an awesome tech brand from our tech company database, making their evergreen mark on the internet. This unique HackerNoon database ranks S&P 500 companies and top startups of the year alike.
This week, we are proud to present Arweave, a decentralized data-storage network designed to preserve information permanently.
Often described as “Bitcoin for data,” it allows individuals, businesses, and developers to store files, applications, and digital records through a one-time payment, rather than ongoing subscription fees.
Arweave also powers the permaweb—a permanent, open web where content and applications remain accessible, verifiable, and resistant to censorship or control by any single organization. From safeguarding cultural records to hosting fully decentralized applications, Arweave provides the infrastructure for an internet built to remember.
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Web3 Backups: All HackerNoon Stories Republish on Arweave 😎
The moment a HackerNoon story is published, it also gets backed up on Arweave. What does that mean? It means, HackerNoon stories will live even if HackerNoon dies.
At the bottom of all published HackerNoon stories, in the section that shows you all the sites that feature a story, you’ll notice a “Permanent on Arweave” button.
These Arweave backups are an indelible proof that the story was submitted by @username and published on HackerNoon. We are unlike social media systems – where anyone can publish anything – which makes us perspicacious in determining what text deserves long-term readership.
And that’s how we do it!
HackerNoon’s dedicated to amplifying the publish button. We entrusted text backups to Google Cloud Platform (still do!), and now, they are also entrusted to Arweave. This diversification to our backup systems is a testament to where the internet is headed.
Arweave 🤝Decentralize AI Hackathon
Arweave is also the proud sponsor of the Decentralize AI Hackathon, a global competition organized to support developers and early-stage startups building the next generation of open AI infrastructure.
The hackathon is designed to advance alternatives to centralized AI systems by encouraging builders to create open infrastructure that supports decentralized compute, user-owned data, and greater transparency in AI development.
The hackathon will award participants and winners more than $50,000 in compute credits, storage credits, cash prizes and ecosystem rewards across two rounds.
Arweave will support builders working on permanent AI storage, model provenance, reproducible systems and immutable datasets. Arweave is contributing 1,000 AR in ecosystem and storage credits, valued at approximately $2,500, as well as an additional 1,000 AR in cash prizes, valued at approximately $2,500, to be distributed across 15 winners throughout the two hackathon rounds.
The first round of the contest is open until Oct. 31, 2026—enter now!
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That’s all this week, folks!
The HackerNoon Team