PANews reported on December 18 that Sam Williams, founder of Arweave, said on the X platform that Irys (formerly Bundlr Network), a Web3 storage solution in the Arweave ecosystem, is considering forking Arweave, and they intend to delete the dataset and reset the token supply, which ignores the established mechanism called "protocol evolution" in the Arweav network, which allows the network to be forked and upgraded in a secure way. ar.io network plans to remove Irys bundlers from the trusted settings of the Arweave main gateway, which will cause a significant delay before user data is available. Sam said that there will be discussions about the opening of X Space over the incident.
Sam argues that for a persistent storage network, forking needs to be done in the right way to save and build the state, rather than breaking the state, which only leads to the impossibility of information permanence and the periodic deletion of all data. Sam said that the reason for Irys' fork of the network could only be due to greed, Sam said that Irys could stop uploading user data to Arweave at any time, and suggested that users switch bundlers, "With the support of ar.io network, Forward Research is running a free Arweave bundler service, which will continue to be available after users migrate, and users who want to use free Arweave." bundler service, just replace the Irys node URL in the code with up.arweave.net".