Arweave (AR)

Imagine an AI agent kept a diary:

Monday: "Started new project with user. Seems cool."
Tuesday: "Started new project with user. Seems cool."
Wednesday: "Started new project with user. Seems cool."

This is how most production AI agents work today: no real memory between sessions, no awareness that you’ve talked before.

@WalrusProtocol spent its first year on mainnet fixing this.

Here's a quick TL;DR of their progress ↓

1. What got built in 12 months

→ 510+ TB stored (passed Arweave's 385 TB inside a year)
→ 200+ projects building on it
→ 2nd-largest decentralized storage protocol by volume
→ Core research paper accepted at ACM CCS 2026, a rare academic stamp for any blockchain project
→ Zero downtime since day one

The interesting stuff is what they built on top of it.

Seal → Lets you encrypt data and control who can read it, enforced onchain. Made Walrus usable for healthcare records, financial data, and private AI datasets that can't sit on a public network.

Quilt → Bundles small files together to ma

$AR
If it holds support, there is a path to the upper resistance; it should be monitored. https://t.co/2jYRNiIBJ8

Some smart ppl on my tl been bullish on #DeSci and PoUW narratives recently.

Spent some time digging deeper and I think DeSci x Proof of Useful Work (PoUW) might be one of the few setups where crypto actually pays for real output instead of just incentives.

Why?

PoUW is trying to turn energy + GPUs into useful output like AI training, molecular simulation, protein folding, ZK optimization, or biomedical research.

Right now, AI infra is eating capex. Big tech is racing for the best models, locking up GPU supply.

AI compute is scarce, expensive, and very real. But most workloads aren’t training frontier models.

They’re inference, fine-tuning, simulations, scientific compute… stuff that doesn’t need perfect clusters.

That kind of compute can run on fragmented, idle, or lower-tier GPUs.

So why is crypto still mostly paying people to farm points instead of paying networks to run useful workloads?

DeSci might be the first crypto-native buyer class that makes PoUW make sense.

Because DeSci needs compute, d