AR.IO Network Gateway Portal

The operator-first dashboard for the AR.IO gateway network. One surface for staking, indexing, manifests, and ArNS — designed to scale from a Raspberry Pi to a multi-region cluster.

What it is

A single dashboard for the people who actually run the permaweb: staking and rewards, write/proxy health, retrieval performance, indexing controls, manifests, ArNS resolution, observability, and team roles. Behind it, a modular architecture that lets community builders specialize gateways for content domains, pricing, or geography.

Design principles

• Permanent-first. Permanence, integrity, and verifiability are surfaced as first-class UI.
• Sovereignty with safety. Expert controls one click deeper than sensible defaults.
• Operational clarity. Pricing, indexing, and rewards always legible.
• Low-friction scale. Same product, laptop or cluster.

What's inside

• Staking & rewards — stake to operate, monitor balances, rates, and payouts.
• Write/proxy — efficient proxying of transaction headers and data chunks.
• Retrieval & caching — fast reads with configurable caches and usage analytics.
• Indexing controls — visibility on progress, plus targeted indexing for specialized datasets.
• Manifests — serve full dApps directly from Arweave.
• ArNS resolution — map human-readable names to content.
• Observability — health checks, latency/error dashboards, alerts.
• Roles & policies — operator and contributor roles for team-run gateways.

Outcome

Part of the broader AR.IO 0→1M user journey. The gateway portal made specialization possible — home labs and enterprise operators on the same primitives, contributing to a more resilient, faster-than-centralized permaweb.

Read the full network-level write-up: Designing for simplicity at scale, from 0 to 1M users.