what's HyperBEAM?

HyperBEAM is a decentralized operating system and gateway infrastructure built atop AO, the hyper-parallel compute platform on Arweave's permaweb. It facilitates access, building, and leasing of hardware resources for applications at scale, enabling hyper-parallel processing through autonomous state management, asynchronous message passing, and distributed resilience. Nodes recompute states directly from Arweave's permanent Blockweave logs using hashpaths for verifiable, trust-minimized computation, replacing traditional gateways and CDNs. Key components include modular Devices for processing messages (e.g., meta, relay, wasm64), implemented in Erlang/BEAM for concurrency. Operators run Docker-based nodes connected to Arweave, supporting serverless WASM functions with upcoming TEE/GPU integrations. It powers the permaweb's infrastructure unification, ensuring deterministic, tamper-proof data serving for AO processes and beyond.

HyperBEAM launched staking alpha; node operators earn $AO for providing data to AO and Arweave gateways.