Articles — 2026

ExplainerOct 15, 2026

Share Your Picks as an Aside Collection

Publish your handpicked saves and the reasons behind them as an Aside collection. Anyone with the link can open it in a browser, and new saves appear on the same page after syncing.

EngineeringOct 13, 2026

Where Does ARC Run? A Look at Its Cloudflare Runtime

ARC provides a runtime for Blocklets on your computer, a server, Cloudflare Workers, or native platform implementations. On Cloudflare, compute, sessions, and data storage support hosted users at the application level.

GeneralOct 12, 2026

Recreate My ASE 2026 AFS-UI Demo with ChatGPT

Follow the prompts from my ASE demonstration to make a website, interactive examples and slides, and see why a working environment makes short instructions useful.

NewsOct 12, 2026

Aside 1.3.0: Sync and Publish Your Collections

Aside 1.3.0 is now available: sign in for a DID, sync your saves across devices through Arc Space, and publish a collection whose shared page updates as you add new saves.

OpinionOct 10, 2026

What Endures When Everything Evolves?

From Lode Runner on an Apple II to Unix, X Window and the early internet, Robert Mao traces the experiences behind AFS-UI and a shared interface system for people and agents.

EngineeringOct 10, 2026

Introducing AFS-UI: one interface for people and agents

AFS-UI lets people use a rendered interface while agents reach its corresponding structure through paths. An introduction to AFS, AUP, Web Device and the surrounding UI landscape.

OpinionOct 10, 2026

DarcFactory: The Dark Factory Era

At ASE 2026, ArcBlock introduces its DarcFactory vision: supervised autonomous software production built around work objects, independent verification, and human intent.

ExplainerOct 9, 2026

Save a Link in Aside, and Keep Your Reason

Share a webpage from Safari to Aside, add your own reason for saving it, and return to the link and note together.

OpinionOct 8, 2026

When the interface changes, the work should remain

AI can generate a fresh interface at any moment. How do people and agents keep working on the same thing? A journey from OpenAI Intelligent UI and UI protocols to X Window and a working AFS-UI experiment.

OpinionOct 8, 2026

After the AI Security Warning, How Should We Use Our Wallets?

A response to Justin Drake and Vitalik Buterin's cryptography discussion: test transfers, HD wallets, public-key exposure, and why account migration and usability belong in security design.

EngineeringOct 3, 2026

OCAP’s Three Generations: From Chain Access to AFS

How an idea inspired by ODBC developed into a GraphQL playground, became part of the Blocklet architecture, and now lives within ARC’s AFS resource model.

OpinionOct 1, 2026

Real user sovereignty: freedom to choose, freedom to move

Why Arc separates identity, data and compute: ownership should let you change services while keeping your identity, records and AI memory under your control.

OpinionSep 30, 2026

The Best Personal Agent May Be the One That Does Less

Trying Instinct made me rethink personal AI: keep my authority, protect my attention, and quietly look after the things I would otherwise forget.

EngineeringSep 29, 2026

New keys, old address: where does the next transfer go?

ArcBlock's account migration design connects old and new addresses. Follow incoming transfers, historical signatures, SDK behavior, and the limits of migration as recovery.

ExplainerSep 29, 2026

Keep Portfolio References and Draft Ideas in Aside

Save a portfolio reference from Safari, note what you want to borrow, and collect it alongside your own drafts in Aside.

ExplainerSep 29, 2026

Use Aside to Remember Why You Reached a Decision

Save sources and their conditions in Aside, then add your working decision and open questions so you can pick up the research later.

ExplainerSep 29, 2026

Capture an Unfinished Thought in Aside

Open Quick Capture from Aside's home screen and save an unfinished thought. Find it again later, then capture the next question.

ExplainerSep 29, 2026

Prepare Your Next Draft in Aside

Save a source in Aside, note its purpose in your draft, and capture your own angle. Keep both in a collection for the piece you want to write.

EngineeringSep 29, 2026

Consensus Is More Than PoW or PoS

Separate participation weight from agreement, understand fork choice and finality, and see why 51% and two thirds are not comparable security scores.

EngineeringSep 29, 2026

How can software act while your main key stays offline?

A closer look at ArcBlock's blockchain delegation patents: separate signing keys, enforced permissions, usage limits, revocation, and the boundaries of keeping a main key offline.

EngineeringSep 29, 2026

One interface, multiple chains: which differences must remain visible?

OCAP and ArcBlock's access-layer patent separate common requests from chain adapters. Follow data preparation, client signing, and the chain-specific facts an application still needs.

OpinionSep 26, 2026

How can we build decentralized markets on ArcBlock?

From native Exchange transactions to ARC, ArcSpace and personal agents: a research direction for markets their participants can own.

OpinionSep 25, 2026

The Data Is Still There. I Have Already Lost It.

Data in your hands may no longer be usable. Data in the cloud may still be yours. A personal history of data sovereignty across floppy disks, MO media, cloud services, private keys, and AI.

OpinionSep 25, 2026

Functional Networks, Not Perpetual Promises

The SEC staff's new crypto FAQ draws a useful distinction between improving a working system and promising to build one. What matters is distinguishing delivered capabilities from work that remains promised.

TutorialSep 24, 2026

Build a travel collection in Aside

Start with a route guide and a record of your own. Save content, add a note, and bring the pieces together in a travel collection in Aside.

ReleaseSep 24, 2026

DiscussKit, Rebuilt on ARC

DiscussKit has been rebuilt on ARC, and ArcBlock Community has completed its move. This is a new division of responsibility across discussions, identity and user-owned data.

OpinionSep 24, 2026

Why We Built Aside

We watched great tools change hands or disappear. That is why ArcBlock built Aside: an ARC-powered iPhone app that sends every Share back to a place you own.

ExplainerSep 16, 2026

Bookmarking is a runtime capability, not a site plugin

Bookmarking and notes should not be rebuilt on every site. Arc ships them as a default-on runtime capability: hidden until you log in, easy to turn off, or bound to buttons the page already has.

OpinionSep 15, 2026

The CLARITY Act Is Dead. DAOs Died Long Ago. Is AI a New Hope?

A blockchain builder reflects on the Senate vote, token governance, and whether AI agents can do any better.

OpinionSep 14, 2026

CLARITY Act or Not, Let’s Clarify ABT

Clear law matters, but a product must also explain what its token does, who controls it, what rules apply, and how participants reconcile the record.

OpinionSep 14, 2026

On the Eve of the CLARITY Vote: A Blockchain Builder's Case for Clear Boundaries

We need more than one crypto-friendly administration. We need legal boundaries that builders can follow across administrations.

OpinionSep 14, 2026

Accepting Payments Is Not Issuing a Stablecoin

Issuing a stablecoin, accepting payment, and operating a digital service are different systems. Most applications need billing and credits, not a currency of their own.

NewsSep 13, 2026

What's next: ARC, one real application at a time

The new site is live. Here is how we plan to bring ARC into the community, data spaces and everyday applications, with migrations, new products and builders taking part along the way.

OpinionSep 11, 2026

OpenAI's Agents API is a harness. ARC is a new kind of computer for agents

OpenAI's Agents API turns the Codex loop into a hosted API: sessions, compaction, tools, sandboxes, plugins. That layer is real. It is still not a computer with identity, durable state, and an owner who can walk away with it. ARC attaches at the seam they already documented.

NewsSep 9, 2026

Articles — 2026

Share Your Picks as an Aside Collection

Where Does ARC Run? A Look at Its Cloudflare Runtime

Recreate My ASE 2026 AFS-UI Demo with ChatGPT

Aside 1.3.0: Sync and Publish Your Collections

What Endures When Everything Evolves?

Introducing AFS-UI: one interface for people and agents

DarcFactory: The Dark Factory Era

Save a Link in Aside, and Keep Your Reason

When the interface changes, the work should remain

After the AI Security Warning, How Should We Use Our Wallets?

OCAP’s Three Generations: From Chain Access to AFS

Real user sovereignty: freedom to choose, freedom to move

The Best Personal Agent May Be the One That Does Less

New keys, old address: where does the next transfer go?

Keep Portfolio References and Draft Ideas in Aside

Use Aside to Remember Why You Reached a Decision

Capture an Unfinished Thought in Aside

Prepare Your Next Draft in Aside

Consensus Is More Than PoW or PoS

How can software act while your main key stays offline?

One interface, multiple chains: which differences must remain visible?

How can we build decentralized markets on ArcBlock?

The Data Is Still There. I Have Already Lost It.

Functional Networks, Not Perpetual Promises

Build a travel collection in Aside

DiscussKit, Rebuilt on ARC

Why We Built Aside

Bookmarking is a runtime capability, not a site plugin

The CLARITY Act Is Dead. DAOs Died Long Ago. Is AI a New Hope?

CLARITY Act or Not, Let’s Clarify ABT

On the Eve of the CLARITY Vote: A Blockchain Builder's Case for Clear Boundaries

Accepting Payments Is Not Issuing a Stablecoin

What's next: ARC, one real application at a time

OpenAI's Agents API is a harness. ARC is a new kind of computer for agents

ArcBlock’s new website is live. ARC takes the stage.

A globe you can put on the page

Light on the page, not a picture of trees

Equalized capability does not automatically concentrate

If you still picture the old software and the old software company, you will misread this shift