What Arweave coordinates
Arweave (AR) is an AI / DePIN infrastructure token, currently ranked 149th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Rather than a payments coin, Arweave is the settlement and incentive layer for a distributed infrastructure network. The token's job is to bootstrap supply of a useful resource and pay for its consumption.
Arweave (AR) is a decentralized storage network that enables users to store data permanently and immutably on a blockchain-like structure called the "blockweave." This allows for open access and archival of information in a way that prioritizes long-term data preservation.
How the network bootstraps supply and demand
Value accrues when the underlying resource is genuinely useful and paid for. The risk is a network that looks busy on emissions alone, with token rewards outrunning real consumption.
Background & fundamentals
The project publishes a whitepaper documenting its original design, which is worth reading before sizing any position in AR. In sector terms it is most often filed under Big Data & Data Storage, DePIN, and Layer 1 (L1).
Where Arweave sits in the market
At $2.00, Arweave carries a market capitalization of $130.86M. Around $9.10M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 6.95% of the float — a healthy level of activity for an asset this size.
About 99% of the hard cap of 66M AR has been minted, leaving only modest issuance ahead. AR remains -98% beneath its all-time high of $97.32, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close. Measured from its all-time low of $1.44, AR is up +39%.
What the price history shows
Recent moves read 24-hour +0.75%, 7-day +2.98%, 30-day +5.38%, 1-year -65.85%. AR is currently trading near the bottom of its 365-day range (around the 10th percentile of recent closes).
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Arweave in the Low-volatility band — it has been relatively stable, with moves typical of large-cap, mature assets. Over the last 30 days the move totals +5.38%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate an AI/DePIN token like Arweave
A grounded read on AR comes down to three questions:
- Real demand — paying usage of the network's resource, not just provider rewards funded by AR emissions.
- Supply growth — how much real-world or compute capacity the network has actually brought online.
- Token economics — whether AR demand can outgrow the incentives the protocol pays to bootstrap it.
This page pulls live market data, on-chain stats where available, exchange-by-exchange volume, and our forecast model into one view so you can work through those questions in a single place. None of it is investment advice — it is a structured starting point for your own research.
