The team at Textury creates fundamental tools and services for developers building on Arweave. Founder Cedrik Boudreau shares his dedication to Arweave and the path forward for gateways, Profit Sharing Tokens, and the developer environment.
From building dApps to joining the core Arweave team, Cedrik has touched just about every aspect of the development process when creating on Arweave. He's gone on to create Textury.org, where he and a team continue to make key tools for creating Profit Sharing Tokens (via community.xyz), uploading to the Permaweb (via arkb), and most recently the launch of a new gateway (arweave.live).
"Our main priority right now is Arg8, the new gateway that we have released...we want to help as much as possible for the managing the Arweave ecosystem load... the only gateway that everyone was using is arweave.net. The current version of the gateway is not easy to get started... so with Argate with want to bring more possibilities and hopefully anyone will be able to start their own gateway with Arg8 (arweave.live)" [paraphrased].
Gateways are an important ingredient in accessing the Permaweb, they are basically the "doors" to the Permaweb. Historically, one gateway has been managing a massive amount of traffic and at times there have been challenges due to the load. Arg8 is looking to make it easy to spin up a gateway which in turn will likely increase the accessibility of the Permaweb and continue to expand the decentralized nature of Arweave and the Permaweb.
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