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Author: Denzii @ Contributor of PermaDAO

Translator: Marshal Orange @ Contributor of PermaDAO

Reviewer: Saiee @ Contributor of PermaDAO

Arweave Ecosystem

Arweave is a decentralized storage network designed to provide global users with decentralized, scalable, and permanent data storage services. Unlike traditional cloud storage, Arweave utilizes the SPoRA consensus mechanism to implement a one-time payment permanent storage model, making Arweave a digital archive and historical museum for the Web3 era, reliably preserving a vast amount of valuable data for individual users and humanity as a whole. Within the Arweave ecosystem, a variety of tools are available to assist users in managing and sharing their data.

Unlike Web2, data availability is a crucial feature of Web3, which means that Web3 applications need to store their data permanently.

As the Web3 ecosystem continues to evolve, an increasing number of Web3 applications are emerging, and the data generated by these applications continues to accumulate, resulting in a growing demand for permanent storage. This data includes not only on-chain transaction data but also various non-transaction data, such as data from storage platforms, social and content creation data. Additionally, there is a substantial amount of data in Web2 applications related to Web3 content, such as posts and articles about Web3 on platforms like Twitter. All of this data needs to be stored in the Web3 world and, more importantly, needs to be accessed and utilized.

So far, Arweave alone has stored a massive amount of data and continues to expand, not to mention the data from various Web2 application platforms. The scale of data is beyond imagination.

However, it is meaningless if data cannot be retrieved and used. With the continuous expansion of data volume, there must be an effective way to aggregate all on-chain data and perform retrieval and queries to unlock the full potential of the data.

Why Adot was Created?

Currently, within the Arweave ecosystem, users can track on-chain transaction progress using the ViewBlock blockchain explorer, and developers can use Arweave GraphQL to retrieve various data types, including text, images, videos, and more. In addition, other data search tools such as SonAR, GeniiData, Permaweb Index, and others are available within the Arweave ecosystem, providing excellent options for Arweave users. However, as the Arweave ecosystem continues to grow, data becomes increasingly vast, and user demands for data retrieval become more flexible and personalized, which raises higher expectations for various applications' user experiences.

Source：Wei  (Adot Founder)

As a result, Adot was born. The Adot team has built a Web3 search engine within the Arweave ecosystem, providing open-source and composable services for data organization, aggregation, and retrieval for both developers and users.

What is Adot AI?

Adot is a decentralized intelligent search engine for the Web3. By data coverage, collection, aggregation and indexing from both on-chain and off-chain sources, it makes this data accessible to users and developers, allowing users to interact with Web3 content and data through Adot in a manner similar to how they use the Internet in Web2, such as using Google. Adot provides real-time, intelligent, and professional Web3 decision support through this data.

Adot offers features like tag-based search, full-text search, structured parsing, custom search criteria, and API data access. It also supports AI-powered search, content summarization, and sharing capabilities.

Source：Wei (Adot Founder)

In its architectural design, Adot incorporates artificial intelligence technologies for modeling. It collects data from various platforms within mixed data sources. This data is then subjected to cleaning and processing through structural parsing, AI modeling, and structured indexing layers. The results are presented at the application layer through a combination of search algorithms, allowing for high-quality content output, including full-chain data search, AI summarization, and AI sharing.

Source：Wei (Adot Founder)

Adot's core innovation lies in its integration of AI technology to enhance the retrieval and organization of massive on-chain data. It provides a rich set of AI application components and leverages AI's powerful logic reasoning and knowledge integration capabilities to offer users real-time, intelligent, and professional decision support. This represents a significant advancement compared to traditional search technologies. The initial experience with the overall search results is quite impressive, and Adot is striving to create a product that surpasses traditional search engines.

Currently, Adot is funded by PermaDAO and has partnered with the decentralized cloud storage platform WeWeave. The beta version of Adot AI has been officially released for testing and experience.

How to Participate in Adot AI Activities?

Source：https://taskon.xyz/

Adot AI has officially launched its beta testing phase and has introduced an exciting activity on the TaskOn platform called the Adot AI Beta Launch 50 USDT Giveaway! By completing a few simple actions, you can apply to become a tester for the Adot AI beta phase and have the chance to share a $50 prize with others. This activity is currently active and will run for two weeks (Dates: October 12th - 27th, UTC+8). Join in actively and experience the unique search sensations brought about by the combination of Web3 and AI frontier technologies!  

Participation Instructions:

1. Log In: Open the activity webpage, connect your wallet, and log in.

https://rewards.taskon.xyz/campaign/detail/12898

2. Complete Tasks: Follow @Adot_web3 on Twitter and join the Telegram community. Once you've done this, refresh the page to confirm your successful participation!  

3. Other: Although the rewards for the "Adot AI Beta Launch 50 USDT Giveaway" activity may not be substantial, participation is simple and can be completed in just a few minutes. The activity offers a total of 10 lucky slots, and the list of winners will be automatically announced after the activity ends. A prize of 5U will be sent to each winner's Polygon network-connected wallet. As of now, 230 people have participated in the activity.

Finally, Adot is the search engine for the Arweave ecosystem, considered one of the five major application projects in the Arweave ecosystem. It is worth keeping an eye on and experiencing. For those who want to get more involved in application testing, you can request an invitation code in the Telegram community. Participate in the Adot AI Beta test and provide feedback and suggestions to the project team!

Specific instructions and explanations for the Adot AI Beta test will be gradually revealed in the future.

References:

1. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/SRQPfPZ3iSWQRfjxKOpeZg

2. https://www.notion.so/08992797fca94cf3b152a58e49c158f1?pvs=21

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