Articles — 2026

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

AI Agent 不只是需要一個錢包

支付是 AI Agent 與 Blockchain 最顯眼的交點，但更基礎的問題是：Agent 是誰、誰授權它、它能做什麼，以及出了問題後如何對帳。

ExplainerAug 2, 2026

ArcSphere 2.0: ARC's Mobile Application Surface

ArcSphere 2.0 is no longer only an AI browser. It gives the ARC Blocklet experiences that suit a phone a coherent, close-to-native user interface.

OpinionAug 2, 2026

從 Blocklet Server 到 ARC：為什麼擁有比生成更難

AI 可以把需求變成軟體，但不會自動讓軟體、資料和身分屬於使用者。ARC 是 ArcBlock 為此建立的新架構。

OpinionAug 2, 2026

The web as a system capability

The modern web gained real application power, and in the process it tied publishing, interaction and runtime into a single thing. This series proposes a different cut: treat public publishing, identity and basic interaction as capabilities of the computing environment, and let applications grow on top of that.

OpinionAug 1, 2026

Agents Need an Identity. DID May Be the Best Place to Start

An agent cannot exist only as a platform account and an API key. DID can provide a portable, long-lived identity anchor, but authorization, runtime proof, revocation, and audit still have to do their own jobs.

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.

EngineeringJul 29, 2026

Our Loop Engineering in Practice: From Two Terminals to a Pair of Open-Source Skills

We have open-sourced a pair of agent skills, design-review and build-phases. They are meant to be used together, and they solve one problem: when AI takes on a reasonably complex task, the plan drifts. Both grew out of using IDD.

NewsJul 21, 2026

ArcBlock CEO to Give a Keynote at Harness4GenUI, ASE 2026

ArcBlock founder and CEO Robert Mao will give a keynote at the 1st Harness4GenUI workshop, held during ASE 2026 in Munich, Germany.

ExplainerMar 10, 2026

How a Service Verifies an NFT-backed Request

Follow an NFT presentation from DID Wallet to a resource service, and see how identity, issuer trust, current ownership and permission scope become an authorization decision.

NewsMar 6, 2026

ArcBlock Is Sponsoring ICSA 2027

We are sponsoring the International Conference on Software Architecture 2027, held in Sydney, Australia and hosted by CSIRO.

ExplainerFeb 24, 2026

Managing Domains, Storage, and App Access from a Wallet

How DID Wallet lets people select storage, present domain rights, and prove app access, while each resource service retains responsibility for permissions and execution.

ExplainerFeb 10, 2026

How ArcBlock Uses NFTs to Represent Application Resources

Start with selecting a storage space in a wallet. See how ArcBlock connects NFTs, identity, and verifiable credentials to real services, with distinct rules for domains, software licenses, and application access.

OpinionJan 20, 2026

我們剛剛開源了一整套 AI 開發技能與方法論：IDD（Intent Driven Development）

我們開源了一套叫 IDD（Intent Driven Development）的方法論和工具鏈。核心理念一句話：告訴 AI “要什麼”，而不是 “做什麼”。在 AI 輔助程式設計成為日常之後，傳統的需求文件、user story、技術 spec 這些東西越來越顯得不合時宜。它們是為人類協作設計的，搬到人

OpinionJan 19, 2026

AI 開發的第一性原理：停止 CI，放棄 Code Review，擁抱 AI Pair Programming

過去幾個月，我帶團隊密集迭代了一個 AI 開發工具。踩了很多坑，也驗證了一些反直覺的發現。核心結論：大模型的開發效率、開發能力、開發質量已經徹底驗證過了，絕無問題。但要發揮最大價值，需要掌握正確的協作方法——有些和傳統工程實踐一致，有些則完全相反。我不打算給出一套完美方法論。AI 能力還在快速進化，

EngineeringJan 13, 2026

ALP (主動載入策略)：一種針對 AI 上下文圖管理的簡潔模式

在使用像 Claude Code 這樣的 AI 助理時，經過最初的磨合期後，一個根本的矛盾便會浮現。你會希望 AI 具備所有它需要的上下文資訊——你的偏好、你的程式碼慣例、你的產品知識，以及你的思維方式。然而，預先載入所有資訊會帶來自身的麻煩：token 成本飆升、回應速度變慢，而且矛盾的是，擁有過多的上下