Lucas Porter-Bakker
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Turbo

Fast finality payment rails, via crypto or fiat.

Role
Head of Product and Design
Team
1 PM // 3 DESIGN // 5 ENG // 1 QA
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Overview

Turbo is an open-source bundler for the Arweave ecosystem, enabling users and applications to get their data onto the permaweb faster, using crypto or fiat.

A bundler is a service responsible for accepting transactions or data items from users, packaging them together, and posting them to the Arweave network as a single larger transaction with a guarantee that they will be uploaded.

Most basically, Turbo has two components: an upload service (how bundled uploads to Arweave are done); and a payment service bridging fiat to crypto including AR, ETH, SOL, and POL.

As enterprise-grade software, Turbo has been used by the likes of Meta (among others) to store digital collectibles from Instagram. If you're curious, you can check out their bundler on Viewblock here.

Some high-level features include:

Access

  • Optimistic, instant data caching, using arweave.net
  • Optimistic, near instant GraphQL indexing cross-chain token address indexing, using arweave.net
  • Irys-compatible transaction status endpoint for checking transaction finality.

For development and Integration

  • Rich documentation for developer integrations, SDK and Turbo APIs
  • Deploy your own upload and payment services for bundling data and sending to Arweave.
  • Flexible typescript SDK for seamless web and NodeJS integration.
  • Development and testing environment.
  • Arweave ecosystem supported query packages.

Identity

  • Cryptographic sign in using Arweave, Ethereum, Solana or other Irys-compatible keys.
  • Arweave ecosystem supported web wallets and providers.

Growing rapidly, Turbo was responsible for 1.2 Billion data items in January 2025 alone.

You can check out some of the repos on GitHub here:

  • The Turbo SDK, which is the first SDK on Arweave to bring users programmable fiat top ups, Turbo-powered upload reliability, and fast data and indexing finality for TypeScript based Web and Node projects.
  • The ArDrive Turbo Payment Service that manages Turbo balances.
  • The Turbo Upload Service that facilitates robust delivery of clients' fiat- or crypto-funded ANS-104 data items to Arweave.