AOAO (AO) Price

1. Project introduction

The ao computer is the actor oriented machine that emerges from the network of nodes that adhere to its core data protocol, running on the Arweave network. This document gives a brief introduction to the protocol and its functionality, as well as its technical details, so that builders can create new implementations and services that integrate with it.

The ao computer is a single, unified computing environment (a Single System Image), hosted on a heterogeneous set of nodes in a distributed network. ao is designed to offer an environment in which an arbitrary number of parallel processes can be resident, coordinating through an open message passing layer. This message passing standard connects the machine's independently operating processes together into a 'web' -- in the same way that websites operate on independent servers but are conjoined into a cohesive, unified experience via hyperlinks.

Unlike existing decentralized compute systems, ao is capable of supporting the operation of computation without protocol-enforced limitations on size and form, while also maintaining the verifiability (and thus, trust minimization) of the network itself. Further, ao's distributed and modular architecture allows existing smart contract platforms to easily 'plug in' to the network, acting as a single process that can send and receive messages from any other process.

Instead of enforcing one set of choices upon all users of the computing environment, ao is built in a modular form: Allowing users to choose which virtual machines, sequencing models, message passing security guarantees, and payment options work best for them. This modular environment is then unified by the eventual settlement of all messages -- each sharing the same format -- onto Arweave's decentralized data layer. This modularity creates a unified computing environment suiting an extremely wide set of workloads, in which every process can easily transfer messages and cooperate.

The ao's core objective is to enable trustless and cooperating compute services without any practical bounds on scale. This allows for a radically new design space of applications that were not previously possible: Blending the benefits of smart contract applications (services without requiring trust in anything but code), and traditional compute environments (Amazon EC2, etc).

2. Team introduction

Co-Founder & CEO - Sam Williams

Sam Williams is the founder of Arweave and the CEO of Forward Research. He graduated from the University of Nottingham.

COO - Sebastian Campos Groth

Sebastian Campos Groth is the COO of Arweave and previously worked at Techstars. He graduated from Georgetown University in the United States.

3. Token application and distribution

Token distribution:

AO will be 100% fair launch. Zero pre-mine, pre-sales, preferential access, etc. Every single token will be minted by bridging to AO, holding $AR, or building. Total supply is 21m, 4 year halving.