ar.io

Zero worry.

Providing permanent access to data that matters is our mission. We exist to ensure that the data society relies on remains accessible, trustworthy, and usable over time — even as everything around it changes.

  • Pay once, store forever
  • Right to access above all
  • Open and verifiable

What we do

Ar.io is a data infrastructure solution for long-term access. We help enterprises, institutions, and platforms ensure that critical information remains accessible, verifiable, and intact over time — even as systems, providers, technologies, or attacks disrupt the environments around them.

Our infrastructure is designed for data that must outlast outages, migrations, vendor changes, and product cycles, without relying on recurring subscriptions or centralized points of failure.

The Challenge

Modern digital systems are powerful, yet increasingly fragile over time. Traditional cloud storage and backup solutions are optimized for availability today, not certainty over time.

Most data loss does not occur because data is destroyed. It happens because access to otherwise intact data is lost — due to outages, ransomware, infrastructure changes, contract terms, or service shutdowns. As systems grow more complex and interdependent, access risk quietly accumulates.

The Solution

Ar.io is designed to separate data access from infrastructure dependency.
By storing data in a decentralized and permanent way, we reduce reliance on individual vendors, contracts, and systems — while maintaining enterprise-grade access and usability. This allows organizations to plan for change without putting long-term access at risk.
Our focus is not on replacing existing systems, but on providing a durable foundation beneath them.

Why It Matters

Digital data underpins how society functions.

Information now drives financial systems, healthcare, public services, individual safety, personal identity and automated decision-making. At the same time, advances in AI, analytics, and automation amplify the consequences of data failure — whether through loss of access, loss of integrity, or loss of trust.

Ensuring that essential data remains accessible and trustworthy over time is no longer just a technical concern. It is an operational and societal responsibility.

Stewardship

Long-term infrastructure requires long-term thinking.
We approach data storage as a form of stewardship, designing systems that remain dependable across technological change, organizational transitions, and evolving requirements. Our work emphasizes durability, transparency, and accountability above all.

Ar.io exists to help ensure that the data society relies on remains accessible, trustworthy, and usable — not just today, but over time.

ar.io Foundation

ar.io Foundation

Non-profit organization

The ar.io Foundation is a Netherlands-based non-profit organization that supports the long-term health and growth of the ar.io Network and its token ecosystem. It focuses on stewardship rather than control, working to ensure the network remains secure, resilient, and accessible.

The Foundation supports the ecosystem through grants, investments, core software development, education, outreach, and partnerships. It helps fund research and community-led projects, guides core development in line with the community's direction, and encourages collaboration across the network.

Its guiding approach emphasizes transparency, inclusion, and progress, with the goal of enabling sustainable adoption while preserving the network's open and decentralized nature.

Permanent Data Solutions

Permanent Data Solutions is a U.S.-based software and infrastructure company focused on building and operating core tooling for the permanent web. It develops and maintains production-grade software used across the Arweave and ar.io ecosystems, with a focus on reliability, performance, and long-term operation.

PDS designs and runs critical infrastructure, including gateway software, developer tooling, and network services that support indexing, retrieval, and high-availability access to permanent data. Alongside software development, it provides infrastructure hosting that helps applications and users interact with permanent storage at scale.

Headquarters:
377 Valley Rd, Unit #2538
Clifton, NJ 07013
United States

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