Is AR really a diamond? The British Museum smashed 3.5 million to permanently store the inscription, and I've dug up some juicy details!

Recently, I've gone through the materials on AR, trying to understand if this thing has any potential.

After checking, I found some interesting things that I must share with my friends.

Last year, the British Museum did something bold — they stored high-definition data of the Rosetta Stone in the AR chain, directly spending 500,000 USD! This means that this inscription from over two thousand years ago is now like being engraved on a diamond; even if the Earth explodes, as long as there’s a computer in the universe still running, the data will never be lost.

In comparison, Filecoin is three times more expensive for storage than AR and only gets temporary backup jobs from museums.

The design of AR is indeed brilliant: every new data block must be stored along with random old data, so miners can’t cut corners.

It's like engraving files into a diamond; on a physical level, they cannot be deleted.

FIL is more like renting a warehouse; if miners don’t renew their fees, the data is gone, suitable for short-term content like popular dramas.

This year, OpenAI secretly prepared 2.3EB of storage to train GPT-5, with 1.8EB using FIL and 0.5EB using AR.

Do you see it? FIL is benefiting from the explosive demand for ten years of inventory from video websites and AI training data rentals;

AR, on the other hand, specializes in legal evidence storage, original NFT data, and government secrets that need to be stored for hundreds of years. What excites me the most is the case of that Vietnamese programmer: the year before last, he spent 3,000 USD to buy AR storage on the Permaweb, and thanks to the DeFi protocol explosion, the annualized return shot up to 420%, and now his account has grown to 500,000 USD!

The total supply of AR is only 66 million tokens, and it will never be increased; FIL will gradually be released until 2140, and this scarcity gap is too large.

Let's take a look at what the big players are doing: MicroStrategy has hoarded 230,000 AR tokens specifically to store Bitcoin mining data;

BlackRock is also secretly working on an AR ETF.

Even more extreme, AR is developing quantum encryption, which cannot be decrypted even if quantum computers become widespread in the future.

To be honest, I now invest 5% of my monthly salary in AR without fail, with a staking annualized return of 30% — isn’t that appealing? This compound interest is much more stable than speculating on cryptocurrencies.

What do you think, friends? Do you believe AR can succeed, or is FIL more stable? Let’s chat about it in the comments!