With EIP-4444, Solana’s collosal ledger size, and the coming age of high-throughput megarollups, storage is more important than ever. Blockchain data lives on unincentivized archival nodes and centralized servers - easily lost and censored, and hard to effectively decentralize.
Historically, EVM dApps have been limited in feature scope because storage is expensive. To go beyond DeFi and recreate web2-like, content-heavy experiences, chains need to be able to tap into a powerful, affordable data layer that works out of the box with their network.
WeaveVM was built towards this vision, offering plug-and-play storage and data availability that works with your existing L1s and rollups. With affordable, EVM-compatible, permanent storage, WeaveVM empowers projects to scale and build interesting ideas without storage bottlenecks or passing high costs onto the end user.
Affordable storage, built for scale
Onchain storage is prohibitively expensive. So much so that it makes storing small chunks of data on Ethereum - or large files even on cheap EVM networks - unfeasible for users and developers. WeaveVM, powered by Arweave, offers permanent storage for just $0.05/MB. This means social platforms, gaming dApps, and rollups can offload large datasets affordably while maintaining speed and decentralization.
We’ve built a price calculator to compare against other networks here.
Drop-in DA with no complex setup
Many DA solutions demand complicated rewrites, but WeaveVM’s Execution Extensions integrate directly into Reth-based Ethereum clients with just 80 lines of code. Whether you’re working with Optimism, Arbitrum, or custom blockchains, WeaveVM makes permanent storage easy to adopt — no forks or heavy lifting.
Plug in your existing Ethereum toolkit
WeaveVM works with existing Ethereum dev tools and smart contract standards, so your current development pipeline stays intact while you benefit from scalable, permanent storage under the hood.
WeaveVM is compatible with Forge and Remix for smart contract development, and integrated with SDKs like ethers.js, web3.js and thirdweb to make WeaveVM dApps easily usable inside UI frameworks.
Solving permanency and transparency for Metis, EigenDA, and more
Partners like Metis, EigenLayer, GOAT and RISE use WeaveVM to make temporary data permanent and remove black boxes from their architecture.
We’ll happily set up an archiver service for your chain and ensure your ledger is settled to WeaveVM and stored permanently — just reach out and we’ll try to help.
The future is plug-and-play
By integrating WeaveVM, storage goes from being a bottleneck to being a strength. It opens doors to web3 innovations like decentralized social apps and onchain archives, helping networks scale while keeping data permanent, affordable, and always accessible.
Here’s how to get started: