The Framework for Evolving Arweave.

The Arweave protocol is a permanent information storage system, built to implement its founding principles. Anyone, including you, has the right to evolve and innovate upon this system at any time. For your contribution, you may claim an appropriate reward.

Your new improvements adhere to this social protocol if:

1. Your new version of the system preserves all data from the prior version. You should additionally consider including all non-duplicated data from other well-utilized versions of the system in order to unify the communities and increase the value of your new iteration.
2. Your new version of the system preserves all account balances from the prior version.
3. You create new rewards proportionate to your contribution to the lineage. Market forces will ultimately guide the level of compensation you receive for your contribution.

Only systems abiding by the Arweave principles may validly claim a name derivative of Arweave, for example Arweave-X. Forks that do not abide by the principles are acceptable but must be labeled distinctly.

Innovators must only lead a single evolution of the protocol. Upon release, this iteration should be complete and fully functional, although minor, non-dilutionary patches are admissible. After their iteration is complete, innovators should only hold a ceremonial role in the ecosystem.

In order to safeguard and progress the project of permanent information storage, all should carefully assess new evolutions of the system and adopt them if they provide legitimate solutions to real problems at fair dilution. The community should favor new evolutions that work to unify divergent groups in the family of systems.