The product sentence above stays: a Blocklet is ARC's deployable unit. In this vocabulary it can also be an economic software unit — software that can have its own DID, owner, and settlement policy. That is the word. It is not a claim that every Blocklet already settles on a chain.
Definition
Blocklet
A Blocklet is ARC's deployable unit. It keeps an application's declared content, configuration, and runtime needs together, so the unit being run is easier to understand and manage.
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Articles
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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.
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After Software: Collaboration, Production, and How Value Gets Shared
Making software no longer requires making a company first. When productive capacity is scattered across people and AI, collaboration, ownership, and value need a new organization.
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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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Blocklet Store: New Theming Support and More!
The Blocklet Store has been updated with an improved user experience and some new functionality. The most notable change is the introduction of themin
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Discuss Kit: Now Includes Feed Support and Bookmark Improvements
Executive SummaryIn our latest update, we released several user experience updates and new functionality to the Discuss Kit. The new features focus o
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Payment Kit Updates: Streamlined Subscriptions and Better UX
Executive SummaryThis release of Payment Kit is focused on enhancing the user experience and streamlining subscription management to make it easier fo
Products
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ARC
active
The runtime for Blocklets. It gives a developer a place to run an application described as a Blocklet, together with the resources that Blocklet declares it needs.
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Blocklet Launcher
sunset
Launched a Blocklet onto a server without configuring it by hand first. ARC handles that differently, so the launcher is no longer needed.
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Blocklet Server
superseded
The server that hosted blocklets as subprocesses. ARC is where that work continues; the subprocess hosting model is not being carried forward.
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Blocklet Store
sunset
Where a Blocklet was published, found and installed. ARC handles that differently, so the store is no longer needed.
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Creator Studio
coming-soon
A new version of Creator Studio is coming soon. Explore the earlier open-source work and documentation while we prepare what comes next.
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DiscussKit
improving
An application for documentation, discussions and feeds. DiscussKit is being improved as a standalone product; some of its capabilities are also part of ARC.
Documentation
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Blocklet Platform
legacy
Guide to understand and build on our blocklet platform
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Blocklet Spec
legacy
@blocklet/meta library standardizes blocklet metadata, offering parsing & validation tools for devs
Terms
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ARC
ARC is the runtime for Blocklets. It gives a developer a place to run an application described as a Blocklet, instead of making the runtime, the application, and its resource connections one unexplained deployment.