BlockBeats News, April 16 – According to official sources, AO, a scalable blockchain network based on Arweave, has announced the launch of the “Network Availability Staking Alpha (NASA)” testing program. This marks a crucial step in the AO ecosystem, aimed at enhancing the availability and reliability of decentralized data networks through a staking mechanism. Currently in the Alpha phase, users can participate in network availability verification and earn rewards by providing data services for Arweave gateways and staking AO tokens.
In the initial pilot, AO introduced an “availability staking” mechanism, requiring node operators to stake 25 AO tokens to join the network and compete on the speed and stability of responding to user requests. The system will allocate rewards from a monthly pool of 1,000 AO tokens based on node performance in data services. This mechanism leverages the new-generation HyperBEAM architecture, enabling gateways and routing services to achieve higher verifiability and trustlessness while significantly reducing operational costs.
The project team stated that NASA aims to establish a stronger decentralized economic model for the entire permanent network infrastructure, paving the way for future expansion into areas such as computational scheduling, data indexing, and network services. Although the current reward scale is modest and still in the testing phase, this program is seen as a significant starting point for the AO-Core economic system and will gradually expand to more network infrastructure services in the future.
