We're wrapping up the 2025 chapter, proud of what we shipped, the problems we faced and tackled, the obstacles we encountered, and the euphoria of surviving another year as a startup.

In this letter, we will touch briefly on the major events of DLL during 2025. But before starting, we’re going to play Merriam-Webster and crown “HyperBEAM” the 2025 word of the year.

The research arm

Starting off the letter in chronological order, 2025’s first major milestone was the new decent.land identity for the launch of our research arm under blog.decent.land, with a focus on research into HyperBEAM and solving the problem of decentralized compute over onchain data.

The research arm has focused on three major domains: the EVM, AO’s HyperBEAM, and Load’s temporary storage layer. Some highlights include:

hb/acc

On June 12th 2025, we published the hb/acc manifesto on HyperBEAM Accelerationism, but the manifesto’s first mention was during Arweave Day Berlin 2025 (June 7th).

(DLL’s cofounder & ceo announcing the hb/acc manifesto during Arweave Day)

On the day of the talk, Ben announced the principles of the manifesto, the rationale, motives, and next steps. During the talk he demo’d Ultraviolet, the first EVM appchain on top of HyperBEAM (M2) built on top of the ~evm@1.0 device, and the first general purpose arbitrary GPU compute device, leveraging ~kem@1.0 and interoperable with ao atomic NFTs via Bazar.

HyperBEAM brings exotic compute onchain for the first time in history. Building on HyperBEAM is like discovering Arweave before SmartWeave’s inception: from this point, there’s only exponential growth.

This is the HyperBEAM Accelerationism manifesto (hb/acc) – kicking off the initiative through meta-VM and alien compute development led by the Load Network team (Decent Land Labs).

Arweave Day Berlin

While you can read more about the hb/acc manifesto here, 2025 was Ben’s first ever Arweave Day Berlin attendance – from the genesis block in 2018 to the first ever in-person meetup with the wider Arweave ecosystem:

This transaction in block 0 has Ben’s name in it.

Photographed by Ben, here’s Sam pushing the last commit for HyperBEAM M3, on a sofa in the lobby of the Rome Hotel.

Armed with the hb/acc manifesto, we started experimenting and shipping open source HyperBEAM devices in different domains, all written in Rust, such as: ~evm@1.0, ~kem@1.0, ~risc-em@1.0, ~helios@1.0, ~quantum-rt@1.0, ~x402@1.0, and ~s3@1.0.

mission π

Besides the technical side of HyperBEAM Accelerationism, we adopted the economic side of it – Mission π:

Through the $LOAD fair launch, Decent Land Labs has joined the Permaweb Index ecosystem. Sixty percent of the total supply is allocated to the community with no vesting period, ensuring broad distribution and inclusive governance from the moment the token goes live.

The $LOAD token fairlaunch project was launched on June 24th 2025, with 60% of the total supply allocated for the fair launch delegators, $LOAD got traction pretty quickly with the FLP being ranked 2nd in the top cumulative AO earners:

(screenshot taken on December 16th 2025)

bundles-rs

Back in software land, we continued shipping Arweave public goods, such as the bundles-rs SDK, a Rust-based ANS-104 and bundlers SDK, replacing the old non-maintained Rust SDKs built by teams that left the Arweave ecosystem. Check out the SDK here.

share.ao

But not everything was backend-focused – this year we touched the app layer as well, we shipped share.ao, a WeTransfer alternative for fast temporary file sharing, built on top of the Load S3 storage layer.

Olta

At the intersection of HyperBEAM’s infra & app layer, we helped the Olta team to migrate to ao’s HyperBEAM, bringing the original Arweave-based interactive art team to ao from Warp (the deprecated Arweave smart contract layer). With Olta we achieved really interesting results, with an average latency as low as ~400 micro seconds and ~2600 FPS; learn more about Olta x DLL here.

Ultramarine

On the Load L1 side, we have shipped Ultramarine – the consensus client powering Load L1’s shift toward deterministic-finality data infrastructure.

Malachite’s Tendermint-style BFT delivers deterministic finality with no probabilistic window. For Load’s large data payloads and DA use cases, it’s crucial to make settlement predictable.

Through Malachite’s design, Ultramarine delivers instant, deterministic finality with sub-second settlement latency and ~10k TPS throughput, while keeping the execution layer lean and predictable. Plus, Ultramarine’s modular design allowed us to package its components as HyperBEAM devices and build native AO compute into the Load EVM L1. Learn more about Ultramarine.

Ultramarine’s blobs sidecar running on HyperBEAM’s Load S3

Anyway, if you are reading this letter while not being a close follower of DLL, you might be wondering what Load S3 (LS3) is and why we aren't covering it in detail here. We are leaving it for the Load Network 2025 annual report, because it needs a whole other letter :D – the report will be published on blog.load.network before EoY.

Atlas

And the last major milestone, concluding our 2025 chapter is the Atlas API and dashboard UI. Atlas is an explorer and data analytics framework for the AO fair launch, showing detailed breakdowns of bridge deposits, delegations, earnings, and the relationships between wallets and projects.

We built Atlas because we found it hard to track metrics around our Load Network fair launch. Therefore we shipped a first-of-its-kind data analysis framework for the fairlaunch bridge and its surrounding FLPs

(check out the Atlas workspace source code: https://github.com/loadnetwork/atlas)

Towards a new chapter

2025 was quite an interesting year for us at Decent Land Labs, with January 2026 marking our 5th year of operation. We are more than prepared for next chapter in 2026, looking forward to building more, doubling down on ao, HyperBEAM, and Load’s EVM L1.

DLL is honored to take part in the year of HyperBEAM!. LFG 2026!