Blockchain
A distributed ledger that links records cryptographically and uses shared validation and consensus rules to establish an accepted transaction history.
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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.
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A Useful Token Must First Stand for Something of Real Value
AI services already use credits to meter storage, compute, and API calls. As Agents begin to act across systems, the important work is not giving those units a fashionable name. It is making the rights, authority, and usage they represent possible to verify and reconcile.
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AI Agents Need More Than a Wallet
Payment is the most visible connection between AI Agents and blockchains, but the more fundamental questions are: who is the Agent, who authorized it, what can it do, and how do we reconcile what happened when something goes wrong?
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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.
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The Future of Blockchain is Gas-Free Transactions, Decentralized AI and Interoperability
The rapid evolution of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) is already reshaping our view about infrastructure, applications, and data ownershi
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Understanding ArcBridge Node Slashing
The ArcBridge Node plays a crucial role in our decentralized ecosystem, facilitating seamless asset transfers between the ArcBlock Main Chain and Et
Products
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ArcBlock Chain
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The application-focused Layer 1 for identity, assets and agreements. ArcBlock Chain brings these operations into the protocol, with ABT as the public network’s native token.
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ArcBridge
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Moves assets between the ArcBlock chain and other networks, operated by nodes that stand behind the transfers they relay.
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Forge
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An SDK and toolchain for building chain applications without assembling the node, the data layer and the client separately. ArcBlock Chain is what that became.
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OCAP
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A protocol for querying chain data through one interface rather than one client per chain. ArcBlock holds patents covering it.
Documentation
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Blockchain Guide
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ArcBlock Blockchain User Guide: Functions and Help Instructions.
Terms
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DID
A DID is a digital identifier. It helps its holder and a verifier establish who controls an identity and who a claim relates to. It is not a wallet, and it does not replace application accounts, sign-in methods, or permission rules.
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Token
On a ledger, a unit that a transaction can move and a rule can be written about. What one stands for is decided by the protocol that issues it, not by the word itself.
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Verifiable Credential
A verifiable credential is a signed statement from an issuer about a subject. It gives a verifier something more specific to inspect than a screenshot or an assertion passed along without its source.