Mission π

With the Load Network fair launch underway, it’s time to look into the future. Load is our flagship – where the research we publish here flows into, and our inspiration for adopting HyperBEAM as a way to push the limits of onchain compute. In this post we’ll look at the broader Labs mission towards HyperBEAM alignment – areas of focus for research, untouched infra angles, how we plan to onboard more data to the blockweave, and expose layers of compute that were impossible in the recent past.

The hb/acc manifesto released on June 12th can be taken as an intro and general overview of the wider Decent Land Labs vision: mission π

A brief history, from appspace to labs

Decent Land Labs has been several different things over the years, but always with the same core mission: expose the power of Arweave to the verticals and developers that need it most. We started life in appspace before quickly pivoting to infrastructure in the earliest days of SmartWeave. We evolved from SmartWeave to MEM serverless functions before spawning Load Network out of demand for EVM compatibility. Despite its broad dApp adoption and robust standards, storage in the EVM space was expensive and impractical, pushing devs offchain.

The evolution of the work done by Decent Land over the years led to the natural inception of the labs – the core team behind Load Network, and a research arm dedicated to furthering the interoperability of Arweave storage, the power of HyperBEAM, and alien compute which pushes the boundaries of what’s possible onchain.

Decent Land Labs ultimate goal

Decent Land Labs is anchored around:

Innovating on the intersection of Arweave, Hyperbeam and the EVM.
meta-VMs and additional revenue streams for hyperbeam node operators: more devices. – building on top of AO compute and $AO security.
Arweave data onboarding: more data pipelines, interfaces, integrations and interoperability with web2 solutions.
Cracking new markets: Arweave-backed high throughput DA (altDA), HyperBEAM hot cache data solution, and decentralized data bundlers.
A research arm and developers onboarding technical content focused on Arweave, ao, HyperBEAM and Load Network.

TL;DR: The labs is laser-focused on the adoption of Arweave, HyperBEAM, and the ao network.

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.

Mission π will extend our reach by collaborating with Permaweb Index projects to build shared tools, developer-relations content, frameworks, UX enhancements, and other open-source resources that serve the entire index community.

At the same time, Load Network is creating the first EVM-compatible chain that stores data natively on Arweave. Its HyperBEAM-based “marketplace of EVM bits” lets Load nodes request computation from other HyperBEAM devices instead of running every EVM component themselves.

This modular, Lego-like design – secured by staked $AO and powered by AO hyper-parallel compute – places Load at the intersection of EVM programmability, permanent Arweave storage, and scalable ao compute. The result is a high-throughput, data-centric EVM environment optimized for data availability and, most importantly, storage.

By designing Load as a component-based system, we create incentives to run parts of the EVM stack that are otherwise difficult to incentivize. Specifically, archive nodes and light clients. Nodes in this EVM subnet join together to form the full EVM stack, buying services in realtime depending on market economics.

Why is ao the best fit for this mission?

AO is a substrate to organize disorganized systems. Network participants inherit standard ways to pass messages and prove compute. Solid standards provide an intuitive developer experience and out-of-the-box interoperability without being too heavy-handed and suffocating the chance to innovate on truly strange ideas.

Standards are enforced at the top level of the network; deeper in the stack, anything goes.

The mission condensed

Decent Land Labs is building Load Network as the connective tissue between three powerful primitives: Arweave’s permanent storage, HyperBEAM’s modular compute, and AO’s security and message-passing layer. Mission π defines that vision: by committing 60% of $LOAD to the community and dedicating engineering resources to Permaweb Index projects, we are aligning technical progress with open-governance incentives.

The condensed mission is:

Data onramps: Accelerate on-ramps that bring web-scale datasets onto Arweave while unlocking new revenue streams for HyperBEAM node operators though ao processes sidecars.

Expand compute composability: Treat every part of the EVM stack as a plug-and-play micro-service - requestable on demand, priced by the market, and secured by staked $AO.

Public goods tooling: Provide SDKs, dev-rel content, and UX primitives so builders can integrate permanent storage and on-chain compute without reinventing the wheel.

Open research: Publish experiments at the edge of meta-VM design, altDA, and data-centric EVM architectures.

By executing on these pillars, Decent Land Labs will not only advance the state of onchain computation but also widen access to provably permanent data for every developer in the EVM universe and beyond.

The future of decentralized applications will be written where storage is permanent, compute is modular, and incentives are aligned.