Unlocking the Permanent Cloud: Naming, Gateways & Scale on Arweave | Phil Mataras, AR.IO (#61)

The demand for faster, cheaper content delivery is exploding — can decentralized CDN scale to meet it? 🌐

In this episode of the DePINed Podcast, Tom Trowbridge talks to Phil Mataras, founder & CEO of ⁠AR.IO⁠ — the first permanent cloud network built on Arweave.

We explore how ⁠AR.IO⁠ is creating seamless, reliable access to permanent data and applications by adding essential services to the Arweave ecosystem: gateways, indexing, decentralized naming and hosting infrastructure.

Topics we cover:

– Why ⁠AR.IO⁠ built a decentralized layer of access and services on top of Arweave

– The architecture behind gateway nodes, from Raspberry Pi to enterprise scale

– Tokenomics and staking incentives for running a gateway

– Use cases: censorship-resistant journalism, NFTs, social apps, and more– The vision for scaling to hundreds of terabytes and millions of permanent identities

🎙️ Don’t miss this deep dive into one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in the DePIN ecosystem