diff --git a/packages/website/components/BlogSection.tsx b/packages/website/components/BlogSection.tsx
index 1f2bce4d975..e7d4e92af59 100644
--- a/packages/website/components/BlogSection.tsx
+++ b/packages/website/components/BlogSection.tsx
@@ -1,161 +1,56 @@
-import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
-import { getPosts } from "./getPosts";
-
-interface Content {
-  body: string;
-  timestamp: number;
-  title: string;
-}
-
-interface Authorship {
-  contributor: string;
-  signingKey: {
-    crv: string;
-    ext: boolean;
-    key_ops: string[];
-    kty: string;
-    x: string;
-    y: string;
-  };
-  signature: string;
-  signingKeySignature: string;
-  signingKeyMessage: string;
-  algorithm: {
-    name: string;
-    hash: string;
-  };
-}
-
-interface Wnft {
-  chainId: number;
-  description: string;
-  fee: number;
-  fundingRecipient: string;
-  imageURI: string;
-  mediaAssetId: number;
-  name: string;
-  nonce: number;
-  owner: string;
-  price: number;
-  proxyAddress: string;
-  renderer: string;
-  supply: number;
-  symbol: string;
-}
-
-interface Post {
-  OriginalDigest: string;
-  content: Content;
-  authorship: Authorship;
-  digest: string;
-  version: string;
-  wnft: Wnft;
-}
-
-function getReadingTime(text) {
-  const wordsPerMinute = 200;
-  const wordCount = text.split(" ").length;
-  const readingTime = Math.round(wordCount / wordsPerMinute);
-  return readingTime;
-}
-
-function getDate(timestamp: string): string {
-  let date = new Date(Number(timestamp) * 1000);
-  return date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", {
-    year: "numeric",
-    month: "short",
-    day: "numeric",
-  });
-}
-
-function getDateTime(timestamp: string): string {
-  let date = new Date(parseInt(timestamp) * 1000);
-  return `${date.getFullYear()}-${(date.getMonth() + 1)
-    .toString()
-    .padStart(2, "0")}-${date.getDate().toString().padStart(2, "0")}`;
-}
-
-function checkIfPostAreSet(posts) {
-  if (posts.length > 0) {
-    return posts.map((post: Post) => (
-      <div
-        key={post.content.title}
-        className="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg shadow-lg"
-      >
-        <div className="flex-shrink-0">
-          <a
-            href={"https://mirror.xyz/labs.taiko.eth/" + post.OriginalDigest}
-            target="_blank"
-          >
-            <img
-              className="w-full h-40 sm:h-64 lg:h-36 xl:h-48 object-cover object-top"
-              src={`https://ipfs.io/ipfs/${post.wnft.imageURI}`}
-              alt=""
-            />
-          </a>
-        </div>
-        <div className="flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between bg-white p-6 dark:bg-neutral-800">
-          <div className="flex-1">
-            <a
-              href={"https://mirror.xyz/labs.taiko.eth/" + post.OriginalDigest}
-              target="_blank"
-              className="mt-2 block"
-            >
-              <div className="text-xl font-semibold text-neutral-900 dark:text-neutral-200">
-                {post.content.title}
-              </div>
-              <div className="mt-3 text-base text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-300">
-                {post.wnft.description}
-              </div>
-            </a>
-          </div>
-          <div className="mt-6 flex items-center">
-            <div className="ml-3">
-              <div className="flex space-x-1 text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400">
-                <time dateTime={getDateTime(`${post.content.timestamp}`)}>
-                  {getDate(`${post.content.timestamp}`)}
-                </time>
-                <span aria-hidden="true">&middot;</span>
-                <span>{getReadingTime(post.content.body) + " min read"}</span>
-              </div>
-            </div>
-          </div>
-        </div>
-      </div>
-    ));
-  } else {
-    const amountOfPostsToDisplay = 3;
-    return [...Array(amountOfPostsToDisplay)].map((v, i) => (
-      <div
-        key={i}
-        className="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg shadow-lg"
-      >
-        <div className="h-80 animate-pulse">
-          <div className="h-full w-full bg-neutral-800"></div>
-        </div>
-      </div>
-    ));
-  }
-}
-
-export default function BlogSection(): JSX.Element {
-  const [posts, setPosts] = useState<Object[]>([]);
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    getPosts.then((result : Post[]) => {
-      // only use the last three
-      result = result.sort((a, b) => b.content.timestamp - a.content.timestamp);
-      result = result.slice(0, 3);
-      
-      setPosts(result);
-    });
-    // getting the information of the post via the arweave GraphQL and SDK
-  });
+const posts = [
+  {
+    title: "Taiko Ambassador Program",
+    href: "https://mirror.xyz/labs.taiko.eth/BvcEyYeVIiHnjc-i5qf3zR4s67Jc6nz_R6OSGj5rzOE",
+    description:
+      "Ethereum has come a long way in its seven-year life — changing the world, in our opinion — but it is only just getting started.",
+    date: "Jan 04, 2023",
+    datetime: "2023-01-04",
+    imageUrl:
+      "https://mirror-media.imgix.net/publication-images/5Ed-TXJIB3LTC2HJdPuEN.png?height=512&width=1024&h=512&w=1024&auto=compress",
+    readingTime: "2 min",
+    author: {
+      name: "finestone",
+      imageUrl: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/36642873?v=4",
+    },
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Taiko Alpha-1 Testnet is Live",
+    href: "https://mirror.xyz/labs.taiko.eth/-lahy4KbGkeAcqhs0ETG3Up3oTVzZ0wLoE1eK_ao5h4",
+    description:
+      "Today, the Taiko Alpha-1 testnet (a1) is live - our first public testnet! We’ve codenamed this testnet, Snæfellsjökull.",
+    date: "Dec 27, 2022",
+    datetime: "2022-12-27",
+    imageUrl:
+      "https://mirror-media.imgix.net/publication-images/4qVW-dWhNmMQr61g91hGt.png?height=512&width=1024&h=512&w=1024&auto=compress",
+    readingTime: "4 min",
+    author: {
+      name: "finestone",
+      imageUrl: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/36642873?v=4",
+    },
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Rollup Decentralization",
+    href: "https://mirror.xyz/labs.taiko.eth/sxR3iKyD-GvTuyI9moCg4_ggDI4E4CqnvhdwRq5yL0A",
+    description:
+      "This post explores definitions and high-level ideas of rollup decentralization. It does not cover deep technical detail about decentralizing rollup implementations.",
+    date: "Dec 20, 2022",
+    datetime: "2022-12-20",
+    imageUrl:
+      "https://mirror-media.imgix.net/publication-images/NTeYUqYqHo4NqrRGJHvfO.png?height=512&width=1024&h=512&w=1024&auto=compress",
+    readingTime: "9 min",
+    author: {
+      name: "finestone",
+      imageUrl: "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/36642873?v=4",
+    },
+  },
+];
 
+export default function BlogSection() {
   return (
-    <div className="relative bg-neutral-50 px-4 pt-16 pb-20 sm:px-6 lg:px-8 lg:pt-24 lg:pb-28 dark:bg-neutral-800">
+    <div className="relative bg-neutral-50 px-4 pt-16 pb-20 sm:px-6 lg:px-8 lg:pt-24 lg:pb-28 dark:bg-neutral-900">
       <div className="absolute inset-0">
-        <div className="h-1/3 bg-white sm:h-2/3 dark:bg-[#1B1B1D]" />
+        <div className="h-1/3 bg-white sm:h-2/3 dark:bg-neutral-900" />
       </div>
       <div className="relative mx-auto max-w-7xl">
         <div className="text-center">
@@ -169,9 +64,55 @@ export default function BlogSection(): JSX.Element {
             </a>
           </div>
         </div>
-
         <div className="mx-auto mt-12 grid max-w-lg gap-5 lg:max-w-none lg:grid-cols-3">
-          {checkIfPostAreSet(posts)}
+          {posts.map((post) => (
+            <div
+              key={post.title}
+              className="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg shadow-lg"
+            >
+              <div className="flex-shrink-0">
+                <a href={post.href} target="_blank">
+                  <img
+                    className="h-54 w-full object-cover"
+                    src={post.imageUrl}
+                    alt=""
+                  />
+                </a>
+              </div>
+              <div className="flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between bg-white p-6 dark:bg-neutral-800">
+                <div className="flex-1">
+                  <a href={post.href} target="_blank" className="mt-2 block">
+                    <div className="text-xl font-semibold text-neutral-900 dark:text-neutral-200">
+                      {post.title}
+                    </div>
+                    <div className="mt-3 text-base text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-300">
+                      {post.description}
+                    </div>
+                  </a>
+                </div>
+                <div className="mt-6 flex items-center">
+                  <div className="flex-shrink-0">
+                    <span className="sr-only">{post.author.name}</span>
+                    <img
+                      className="h-10 w-10 rounded-full"
+                      src={post.author.imageUrl}
+                      alt=""
+                    />
+                  </div>
+                  <div className="ml-3">
+                    <div className="text-sm font-medium text-[#fc0fc0]">
+                      {post.author.name}
+                    </div>
+                    <div className="flex space-x-1 text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400">
+                      <time dateTime={post.datetime}>{post.date}</time>
+                      <span aria-hidden="true">&middot;</span>
+                      <span>{post.readingTime} read</span>
+                    </div>
+                  </div>
+                </div>
+              </div>
+            </div>
+          ))}
         </div>
       </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/packages/website/components/getPosts.ts b/packages/website/components/getPosts.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ad504671da..00000000000
--- a/packages/website/components/getPosts.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-import Arweave from "arweave";
-
-const arweave = Arweave.init({
-  host: "arweave.net",
-  port: 443,
-  protocol: "https",
-});
-
-export const getPosts = new Promise<Array<Object>>((resolve, reject) => {
-  async function getTransanctionIds() {
-    await fetch('https://arweave.net/graphql', {
-      method: 'POST',
-      headers: {
-        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-      },
-      body: JSON.stringify({
-        query: `
-                query {
-                    transactions(
-                      first: 100
-                      sort: HEIGHT_DESC
-                      tags: [
-                        {
-                          name: "Contributor"
-                          values: ["0x5b796c4B197B6DfD413f177059C27963EB80af0F","0x2b1F13149C7F89622BBfB46Ae1e3ECc573Bb9331","0x381636D0E4eD0fa6aCF07D8fd821909Fb63c0d10"]
-                        },
-                        {
-                          name: "App-Name"
-                          values: "MirrorXYZ"
-                        }
-                      ]
-                    ) {
-                      edges {
-                        node {
-                          id
-                          tags {
-                            name
-                            value
-                          }
-                        }
-                        
-                      }
-                    }
-                  }
-              `})
-    }).then((res) => res.json())
-      .then((response) => {
-        getPosts(response);
-      })
-      .catch();
-  }
-
-  async function getPosts(response) {
-    const posts = []
-    Promise.all(response.data.transactions.edges.map((edge) => {
-      const transactionId = edge.node.id;
-      arweave.transactions
-        .getData(`${transactionId}`, { decode: true, string: true }).then((response: string) => JSON.parse(response))
-        .then((data) => {
-          // Check if the posts have the required keys
-          if (data.hasOwnProperty('wnft')) {
-
-            // add the original digest
-            data["OriginalDigest"] = edge.node.tags[4].value;
-            posts.push(data);
-          }
-
-        }).catch();
-    }))
-    resolve(posts);
-  }
-  getTransanctionIds();
-})
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/website/package.json b/packages/website/package.json
index 07aff283ca5..3a9e56c3f36 100644
--- a/packages/website/package.json
+++ b/packages/website/package.json
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
     "start": "pnpm next start"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "arweave": "^1.12.6",
     "next": "^13.1.6",
     "next-themes": "^0.2.1",
     "nextra": "^2.2.14",
diff --git a/packages/website/pnpm-lock.yaml b/packages/website/pnpm-lock.yaml
index e1674a592a5..25239d09b03 100644
--- a/packages/website/pnpm-lock.yaml
+++ b/packages/website/pnpm-lock.yaml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ packages:
       unist-util-position-from-estree: 1.1.1
       unist-util-stringify-position: 3.0.2
       unist-util-visit: 4.1.1
-      vfile: 5.3.7
+      vfile: 5.3.6
     transitivePeerDependencies:
       - supports-color
     dev: false
diff --git a/packages/website/styles.css b/packages/website/styles.css
index bd6213e1dfe..b5c61c95671 100644
--- a/packages/website/styles.css
+++ b/packages/website/styles.css
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 @tailwind base;
 @tailwind components;
-@tailwind utilities;
\ No newline at end of file
+@tailwind utilities;
diff --git a/pnpm-lock.yaml b/pnpm-lock.yaml
index 255abd625e1..8ff4eea8c0c 100644
--- a/pnpm-lock.yaml
+++ b/pnpm-lock.yaml
@@ -332,7 +332,6 @@ importers:
       '@next/font': ^13.1.6
       '@types/node': ^18.13.0
       '@types/react': ^18.0.27
-      arweave: ^1.12.6
       autoprefixer: ^10.4.13
       next: ^13.1.6
       next-themes: ^0.2.1
@@ -345,7 +344,6 @@ importers:
       tailwindcss: ^3.2.6
       typescript: ^4.9.5
     dependencies:
-      arweave: 1.12.6
       next: 13.1.6_biqbaboplfbrettd7655fr4n2y
       next-themes: 0.2.1_3vryta7zmbcsw4rrqf4axjqggm
       nextra: 2.2.14_3vryta7zmbcsw4rrqf4axjqggm
@@ -4986,12 +4984,6 @@ packages:
     resolution: {integrity: sha512-Of/R0wqp83cgHozfIYLbBMnej79U/SVGOOyuB3VVFv1NRM/PSFMK12x9KVtiYzJqmnU5WR2qp0Z5rHb7sWGnFQ==}
     dev: false
 
-  /arconnect/0.4.2:
-    resolution: {integrity: sha512-Jkpd4QL3TVqnd3U683gzXmZUVqBUy17DdJDuL/3D9rkysLgX6ymJ2e+sR+xyZF5Rh42CBqDXWNMmCjBXeP7Gbw==}
-    dependencies:
-      arweave: 1.12.6
-    dev: false
-
   /are-we-there-yet/2.0.0:
     resolution: {integrity: sha512-Ci/qENmwHnsYo9xKIcUJN5LeDKdJ6R1Z1j9V/J5wyq8nh/mYPEpIKJbBZXtZjG04HiK7zV/p6Vs9952MrMeUIw==}
     engines: {node: '>=10'}
@@ -5119,16 +5111,6 @@ packages:
     engines: {node: '>=0.10.0'}
     dev: true
 
-  /arweave/1.12.6:
-    resolution: {integrity: sha512-OglStwi/79e69XO42DbaqoOBNC9CZS+EupusYawRLMj0V2/zRlhrJi0WDuy4IaqY9LQYv8dHD9iyThvRUl9mqw==}
-    engines: {node: '>=16.15.0'}
-    dependencies:
-      arconnect: 0.4.2
-      asn1.js: 5.4.1
-      base64-js: 1.5.1
-      bignumber.js: 9.1.0
-    dev: false
-
   /asap/2.0.6:
     resolution: {integrity: sha512-BSHWgDSAiKs50o2Re8ppvp3seVHXSRM44cdSsT9FfNEUUZLOGWVCsiWaRPWM1Znn+mqZ1OfVZ3z3DWEzSp7hRA==}
     dev: true