Odaily News In response to the Arweave founders previous remarks that Irys is considering forking Arweave in an unsafe way, Irys officially responded on the X platform that the behavior of Arweave founder Sam Williams has a tragic irony. The purpose of Arweave to become open source and license-free software, and Sam attempted to spin Irys out of Arweave. Irys has never and will never take away users choice about where their data is stored. Creating unrestricted access to persistent data for users is at the core of what Irys does. Irys remains committed to censorship-resistant, open source and permissionless technology. In addition, Irys said it is developing new provenance technologies.