The price of AR continues to fall, returning to the levels before the AO release in 2024. Currently, it's at 10.2 USD, with a total market cap of only 6,600 bitcoins, which is just over 600 million USD.
The projects launched in 2025 are mostly dispensable to the blockchain world; they just issued a token and harvested more retail investors.
AR is the only eternal storage in this world, a truly rare original project with immense value.
Possible key factors for AR's takeoff in 2025:
1. The release of Arweave 2.9 significantly reduces the cost of storing data on Arweave, leading to continued growth in on-chain data volume.
2. Previously, AR only supported the RSA encryption algorithm, which made hardware wallet support difficult; most wallets did not support AR, and mainstream compliant exchanges like Coinbase and Kraken did not support AR spot trading.
With Arweave 2.9 starting to support the ECDSA encryption algorithm, it means AR will easily be accepted by mainstream wallets (including major hardware wallets) and exchanges, while also supporting MPC, multi-signature, etc. This will bring a massive influx of users and traffic.
AO is set to launch on the mainnet on the 8th, which will greatly enrich AR's ecosystem.
Not investment advice, NFA, content is for discussion purposes only.