openark

archive wallet
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how openark works

openark saves free ai models to arweave, one at a time, paid for by the $ARK coin's fees. this page has every step, every address and every way to check it.

what it is

most free ai models (deepseek, qwen, mistral, openai's gpt-oss) live on one website: hugging face. in 2026 nvidia agreed to buy it. hugging face says it is going nowhere, and we believe them. openark is insurance anyway: a second copy of the models that matter, on a network where a file is paid for once and stays up.

it is one coin and one queue. every model in the queue has a save bar. a full bar means that model gets uploaded, and its files get checked against hugging face's own fingerprints.

how a save works

  1. fees come in. $ARK has a 3% creator fee. the dev drips sol from those fees into the archive wallet, by hand, in public. every drip is a post.
  2. the bar fills. each model's cost is its size times arweave's live price (read from turbo, the arweave upload service, every minute). the archive wallet's sol fills the front bar first, then the next.
  3. the files stream over. when a bar is full the uploader streams each file from hugging face straight to arweave. nothing is kept on a disk in between.
  4. every hash is checked. before the upload, the uploader reads every file once and checks its sha256 against the one hugging face publishes (for small text files it checks hugging face's git hash). it checks again while uploading. any mismatch stops the save.
  5. the record goes up. each file is stored with tags (model, repo, revision, file name, size, sha256, licence). then one record of the whole save is stored too. the site reads those records from arweave, not from a database we run.

where the money goes

  • $ARK is a pump.fun coin quoted in NVDAx. its 3% creator fee goes to the dev.
  • the dev moves sol into the archive wallet whenever the dev chooses. there is no program forcing it and no fixed share. what is in the wallet is what is spent on saves, and you can see every sol on solscan.
  • the uploader turns the wallet's sol into turbo credit (an on-chain sol transfer to turbo), then spends that credit on storage. turbo takes a fee on sol payments; the prices on this site already include it.
  • nobody gets paid out. there are no claims, no rewards and no yield. the only thing the money buys is storage.

live price: loading

the queue

the queue is a public file: /data/queue.json. it lists each model's hugging face repo and which files we save. sizes, hashes and revisions are read live from hugging face's api.

  • open licences only for now. apache-2.0 or mit, from the labs' own repos (qwen, openai, mistral, z.ai, deepseek). models with stricter redistribution terms (llama, gemma) wait until their licence is checked.
  • which files. where the lab publishes an official gguf, we save that one file (smaller, runs locally). otherwise we save the full original weights plus the config, tokenizer, licence and readme.
  • not a full mirror. hugging face holds millions of models. we save the ones people actually run, one bar at a time. the tallest bar, deepseek r1 at 689 gb, is the big goal.

check it yourself

1. the archive wallet

every drip in and every top-up out is on solscan. the site's bars are that balance divided by the live price.

2. the records on arweave

every save is stored with the archive wallet's key. ask any arweave gateway:

curl -s https://turbo-gateway.com/graphql -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"query":"{ transactions(owners:[\"IxBItGVY4QJG1o4U-R47wTvmOKTEEEJYR-ZiIwvsIpk\"], tags:[{name:\"App-Name\",values:[\"openark\"]}]){ edges { node { id tags { name value } } } } }"}'

3. the hashes

hugging face publishes a sha256 for every large file. compare it with the copy on arweave:

curl -s "https://huggingface.co/api/models/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF?blobs=true" | jq '.siblings[] | {f:.rfilename, sha:.lfs.sha256}'
curl -sL https://turbo-gateway.com/<file tx> | sha256sum

or use the checker on the home page: your browser hashes the file and compares it for you, with no wallet.

addresses

what forever means

arweave charges once, up front, and puts most of that payment into an endowment that pays miners to keep copies for about 200 years at today's storage costs, and longer as storage gets cheaper. that is the design, not a promise from us. files are served by public gateways (turbo-gateway.com, arweave.net and others); if one goes down, the same id works on another.

caveats, said plainly

  • hugging face is not shutting down. this is a backup, not a rescue.
  • the dev decides when to drip and how much. if no sol goes in, no bar moves.
  • the uploader is a script the dev runs, with the archive wallet's key. it is not an on-chain program and nobody else can trigger it.
  • arweave is expensive: about $70 per gb today. big models take a lot of volume.
  • we save the files as hugging face serves them at one revision. later updates to a repo are a new save.
  • model licences travel with the files. read them before you use a model.

faq

why arweave and not ipfs or a torrent?

ipfs and torrents need someone to keep seeding. arweave is paid once and the network keeps the file. that is the whole point.

can i download a saved model?

yes. every file in the saved list links to its arweave copy. anyone can download it, no account.

who picks the queue?

the dev, from the most used open models. if a lab pulls or gates a model, it moves to the front.

is this hugging face?

no. openark is not affiliated with hugging face, arweave, nvidia or any model maker.