According to Odaily Planet Daily, Sam Williams, founder of Arweave and AO, said that $260 million of stETH has been pre-bridged to the Arweave-based AI application computing protocol AO, making it the 28th largest DeFi protocol in the past four days. Williams pointed out that AO's total locked value (TVL) is now comparable to Cardano ($209.43 million), surpassing major blockchain projects such as zkSync, Fantom, Scroll, Algorand, Filecoin, and ICP. AO is a new protocol built on Arweave's permanent data storage layer that enables parallel application operation through a decentralized computing model, while also allowing artificial intelligence applications to run on the chain, allowing large language models to run within smart contracts.