#AR Arweave and the Web3 Storage Paradox: Eternal Cold Storage vs. Real-Time Utility
📌 Introduction
A few years ago, Arweave emerged with a bold promise: to provide a “permaweb” — a decentralized, permanent data storage layer for Web3. It marketed itself as a groundbreaking alternative to traditional cloud services, claiming to be the decentralized AWS of the future. The concept was compelling: what if you could store data forever on a blockchain-like system with no ongoing costs?
But today, nearly five years later, as Web3 evolves from ideation to application, Arweave finds itself in a stra