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Everything is Context — ArcBlock builds decentralized identity, user-owned data, Blocklet infrastructure, and AI-native application systems.

The Infrastructure Came First. The Residents Are Arriving.

OpinionAug 10, 2026

The Infrastructure Came First. The Residents Are Arriving.

Not a pivot from blockchain to AI. The harder claim is simpler: roads and utilities can be built early, but a digital city only comes alive when residents who can work around the clock walk in.

OpinionAug 10, 2026

Builders Change. Your Property Stays.

Most people will not manage API keys. They will hire agents. The real question is not which model is smarter, but whose ground the worker stands on when the job is done.

EngineeringAug 10, 2026

What `arc skill` Is Today (and What It Is Not)

arc skill ships a small catalog of built-in how-to booklets and can drop them into your agent skill folders. That is useful—and incomplete next to gh skill or AFS’s own .skills trees. Here is the plain map, a short how-to, and the open design gap.

OpinionAug 8, 2026

Don't Take Your Project to an Agent Factory. Invite Agents Into Your Own Realm.

The important question is not whether an AI model runs locally. It is whether a project remains a place where its people can see, govern, and recover its context, authority, evidence, and change.

OpinionAug 3, 2026

Context Is Not Cognition

The AFS paper asks how context can become a systems problem worth engineering. It does not claim that cognition has been solved.

OpinionAug 3, 2026

AFS Is Not Git, and It Does Not Put Meaning in a Tree

A file path can place an operation in a declared resource view. It is neither a semantic relationship nor a way to reduce AFS to Git.

EngineeringAug 3, 2026

The Web Content System on ARC: Not Understanding Your Content Is What Makes It Simple

WordPress and Astro both ask a site to declare its content model. That is not a flaw; it is a different trade-off. ARC's Web Device tries to make common web work a runtime, while leaving the meanings of products, terms, and events to object data and application components. This is about where that boundary belongs, and what still has to be supplied to make it hold.

OpinionAug 3, 2026

Context Is More Than Inventory

A paper about context ultimately faces relevance, change, and governance, not capacity alone.

OpinionAug 3, 2026

When Multiple Agents Write, Start by Separating Their Worlds

The hard part of multi-agent work is not putting every agent in one directory. It is making clear what each one may write, what happened, and who reconciles the result.

OpinionAug 2, 2026

From Blocklet Server to ARC: Why Owning Software Is Harder Than Generating It

AI can turn a request into software, but it does not automatically make that software, its data, or its identity belong to the user. ARC is the new architecture ArcBlock is building for that problem.

EngineeringJul 31, 2026

Small World: Every Agent Lives in Its Own Projection

AFS has a design principle we call Small World: every agent, every app, every process sees not the global world, but a small world projected specifically for it. Anything outside that world isn't "access denied". It simply doesn't exist. Here's where the idea comes from, why it's more than a security mechanism, and how to try it yourself.

EngineeringJul 31, 2026

Web Device: Declare a Website, Then Pick the Right Path

Web Device is one of ARC's core capabilities: declare a .web/ folder anywhere in AFS, and the data and AUP under it get rendered server-side into a website, SEO checks, broken-link detection, and visitor analytics included for free. This piece covers how it differs from UI Device (/dev/ui/web), how to use it, and which situations call for which.