ar.io is a decentralized gateway network that powers permanent data access and censorship-resistant infrastructure on the Arweave permaweb. ar.io's Twitter Score is 45 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #20,272 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
ar.io was founded by Phil Mataras and operates through two distinct entities: the AR.IO Foundation, a non-profit that stewards the network through grants, investments, education, software development, and partnerships, and Permanent Data Solutions, which handles commercial operations. The Foundation holds an exclusive license role while the underlying protocol is designed so neither developers nor the Foundation hold special write access, with upgrades governed by fork and consensus processes.
ar.io is backed by Arweave, Blockchain Capital, and Sino Global Capital, and is affiliated with the broader Arweave ecosystem. The network's native ARIO token supports gateway staking, delegated staking, and domain purchases through the ArNS naming system. Per the AR.IO white paper, the IO token supply is set at one billion IO at genesis and is described as non-inflationary. Use cases span decentralized application hosting, blockchain archival, Web3 gaming, and cloud storage.
ar.io has published 10,117 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 88 accounts across 542 total mentions.
Who follows ar.io on X?
The accounts that follow ar.io include 167 founders, 29 angel investors, 92 influencers and 7 VCs, among them 6529, Mario Nawfal, Matthew Graham, Alex Atallah, Ran Neuner and Charles Hoskinson.