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Dear ARPA community,
Summer has been a season of technical exploration, new product development, and expanding the boundaries of where verifiable randomness and privacy-preserving technologies can create real-world value.
Over the past few months, ARPA Network has continued strengthening its position at the intersection of verifiable randomness and decentralized infrastructure. This season, our progress has included new research for the BLS-TSS Network, the initiation and early development of Archive of Fate, continued growth of the ARPA AVS ecosystem, and new partnerships spanning attention platforms and health-focused applications. Here is a recap of ARPA Network’s key progress and ecosystem developments during Summer 2026.
Tech Upgrades: Exploring New Frontiers in Verifiability
Technical research and product development remained important areas of focus throughout the summer. This season’s technical progress includes:
BLS-TSS Network: Research into Proof-of-History-based accountabilityOur team investigated a Proof-of-History (PoH)-based scheme for recording centralized server behavior on-chain. The research explores how centralized systems could produce a more transparent and verifiable history of their actions while maintaining efficiency as a core design priority. Centralized infrastructure continues to play an important role across the wider digital economy but users generally have limited visibility into how centralized servers behave internally. Exploring methods for recording server behavior on-chain opens up a different model. Rather than attempting to move every computation or application entirely on-chain, it may be possible to create systems where important behavior can be recorded and examined through transparent infrastructure.
Archive of Fate: From Product Planning to Internal Testing
Another important development this summer was the initiation of Archive of Fate, a new on-chain game project that progressed from early planning into initial development and internal testing during the season. The project reached several foundational milestones:
Project initiated: The team formally began development of Archive of Fate and completed the core product planning phase, establishing a clear foundation for the project’s development.
System design and PRD finalized: The general system design and Product Requirements Document were completed, defining key product flows, technical requirements, and the initial implementation scope.
Initial front-end and back-end development completed: Development progressed across both the user-facing and infrastructure components of the product, establishing the initial core architecture and essential functionality.
Internal testing began: The team started internal testing to validate product logic, identify edge cases, evaluate key flows, and prepare the product for continued refinement ahead of broader availability.
Archive of Fate represents a new direction within ARPA Network’s growing ecosystem of products and technical initiatives. Moving from concept and system design to working front-end and back-end architecture within the development cycle marks an important early milestone for the project.
ARPA AVS Growth Metrics
ARPA AVS continues to serve as an important component of ARPA Network’s decentralized infrastructure. As the broader restaking landscape continues to develop, the ARPA AVS ecosystem remains supported by a large base of stakers and a stable group of operators.
Our latest network snapshot shows:
Total Value Locked: $744 Million
Number of Stakers: 68.2K
Number of Operators: 15
These metrics reflect continued participation across the ARPA AVS ecosystem. While total value locked naturally changes alongside broader market conditions and the evolving restaking environment, the network continues to maintain a substantial staker base and stable operator participation. ARPA will continue working with ecosystem participants to strengthen the foundations required for secure, verifiable, and decentralized applications.
Ecosystem Integrations & Partnerships
This summer, ARPA Network continued exploring how Randcast and ARPA’s broader technology stack can support new applications beyond traditional blockchain use cases. This season’s partnerships reflect that expanding vision.
ARPA Network × Metopia: ARPA Network partnered with Metopia, an attention platform on Base powered by verifiable reputation. Together, the two teams are exploring the integration of Randcast, ARPA’s verifiable RNG, to support fair and transparent raffles across Metopia campaigns and community initiatives.
ARPA Network × NanoVita Labs: ARPA Network also partnered with NanoVita Labs, a crypto-native protocol combining nanotechnology, AI-driven biological intelligence, and real-world health data. Together, we are exploring how decentralized data ownership, privacy-preserving technologies, and verifiable randomness can support the next generation of health-focused on-chain applications.
Together, these partnerships demonstrate the growing relevance of ARPA’s technology across different types of digital systems. Whether the goal is to make community rewards more transparent or explore trustworthy infrastructure for health-focused applications, the fundamental need remains similar — reducing unnecessary trust while making important digital processes easier to verify.
Thought Leadership & Media
Alongside technical and ecosystem development, ARPA Network continued expanding the conversation around verifiable randomness and its relevance to increasingly important real-world applications.
Article Published on Healthcare Business Today: A recent feature explored how Randcast and verifiable randomness can support applications beyond gaming, including healthcare, AI, and other trust-critical environments where transparency and fairness are essential. The evolution from gaming-focused RNG applications to higher-stakes use cases illustrates how quickly the role of verifiability is expanding.
ARPA Network Spring 2026 Progress Highlights: We also published our previous seasonal ecosystem report, covering continued BLS-TSS infrastructure improvements, expanded Randcast Playground support, ARPA AVS growth, ecosystem collaborations, and ongoing research into privacy-preserving AI.
Through continued education and media outreach, ARPA aims to make these technologies understandable not only to cryptography researchers, but also to developers, businesses, and institutions as well.
Looking Ahead
Summer 2026 has shown how ARPA Network’s technology can increasingly connect with applications beyond traditional Web3 categories. From exploring Randcast integration for fair and transparent community campaigns with Metopia to investigating privacy-preserving and verifiable infrastructure for health-focused applications with NanoVita Labs, ARPA continues to expand the scope of what its technology can support.
Looking ahead, we will continue working to broaden Randcast adoption, deepen ecosystem collaboration, and strengthen decentralized infrastructure. Thank you to our community, developers, partners, operators, and supporters for continuing this journey with us.
About ARPA
ARPA Network (ARPA) is a decentralized, secure computation network built to improve the fairness, security, and privacy of blockchains. The ARPA threshold BLS signature network serves as the infrastructure for a verifiable Random Number Generator (RNG), secure wallet, cross-chain bridge, and decentralized custody across multiple blockchains.
ARPA was previously known as ARPA Chain, a privacy-preserving Multi-party Computation (MPC) network founded in 2018. ARPA Mainnet has completed over 224,000 computation tasks in the past years. Our experience in MPC and other cryptography laid the foundation for our innovative threshold BLS signature schemes (TSS-BLS) system design and led us to today’s ARPA Network.
Randcast, a verifiable Random Number Generator (RNG), is the first application that leverages ARPA as infrastructure. Randcast offers a cryptographically generated random source with superior security and low cost compared to other solutions. Metaverse, game, lottery, NFT minting and whitelisting, key generation, and blockchain validator task distribution can benefit from Randcast’s tamper-proof randomness.
For more information about ARPA, please contact us at contact@arpanetwork.io.
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A fate simulation game about memory, randomness, AI storytelling, and the strange lives players choose to preserve.
There is a small, familiar moment in many games when a run ends and you realize you somehow cared more than you expected.
Sometimes the most memorable life is the flawed one: the character with the wrong talents, the unlucky start, the strange rise, the avoidable disaster, the ending that feels funny because it also feels true. These moments are small, but players remember them. They turn into screenshots, inside jokes, Discord messages, or stories told to friends who were not there.
Most games ask you to move on from that moment quickly.
Start again. Try a better build. Chase a better ending. See what happens next.
We love that loop. But we kept thinking about the lives that get left behind. Archive of Fate started from that feeling.
At its simplest, Archive of Fate is an AI-powered fate simulation game. Each player begins a new life, enters one of several parallel worlds, chooses talents, assigns attributes, and watches that life unfold through narrated events. A run might take place in a modern city, a cultivation world, or a western fantasy realm. The player might become brilliant, ordinary, powerful, unlucky, admired, forgotten, or something much stranger than expected.
At the end of the run, the game gives that life a title and a summary. It tells you, in a compact form, who this person became. Then the player makes a choice: let the life disappear, or inscribe it into the Archive. That choice is the heart of the game.
We did not want to create another experience where AI simply produces endless story text. That can be impressive, but after a while it can also feel weightless. A model can generate a city, a prophecy, a tragic ending, or a beautiful scene. But if the world does not remember anything, and if the player’s story never touches anyone else, the experience can still feel strangely private: you talk to the machine, the machine answers, and the session ends.
Archive of Fate is built around a different idea: a story becomes more meaningful when it can leave a mark.
When a player inscribes a completed life, that fate enters a shared Archive. It can later appear in another player’s run as a myth, a rumor, a historical reference, a prophecy, a warning, a relic, or a half-remembered name from a world that existed before them. A player’s ending can become part of someone else’s beginning.
That is the emotional loop we are most interested in.
Not every life needs to become legendary. Most should probably fade. But sometimes a run produces something too specific to throw away: a ridiculous title, a strange failure, a lucky rise, a death that feels unfair, or an ending that somehow makes the entire life feel complete. Those are the lives the Archive is built to hold.
We sometimes describe this as “world pollution.” The phrase is intentionally a little strange. It suggests that the world is no longer clean, empty, or untouched. It has been marked by what came before. Every inscription adds another layer of memory to the game. Over time, the worlds inside Archive of Fate become less like isolated simulations and more like places with history.
This is also why the game is not designed as a pure AI storytelling tool.
AI is very good at giving language to experience. It can make a moment feel funny, lonely, sacred, uncomfortable, or mythic. It can turn a simple mechanical outcome into something a player wants to read. But if AI is allowed to decide everything freely, the game starts to lose structure. The player may wonder whether their talents mattered, whether their attributes mattered, or whether the ending simply appeared because the model felt like writing it.
For Archive of Fate, we wanted the story to feel alive without making fate feel arbitrary.
So the core life path is computed by the game engine. Each run begins with a random seed powered by ARPA Randcast. That seed, together with the player’s selected talents and allocated attributes, determines the underlying structure of the life through rules. The AI then narrates what the system has already decided: names, events, summaries, titles, and mythic references.
In other words, AI gives the fate a voice. It does not secretly replace the fate. This distinction matters to us because a game needs consequence. Players can accept bad luck. They can accept strange outcomes. They can even enjoy failure when it feels earned, or at least understandable. But they need to feel that the world has rules. They need to feel that their build was not just decorative.
That is where verifiable randomness becomes meaningful. We are not interested in using on-chain randomness as a technical ornament. It is not there to make the game sound more complicated than it is. It is there because fate becomes more interesting when its origin can be traced. Inside the story, the player experiences destiny. Outside the story, the run has a seed, inputs, and a reproducible structure.
A mysterious fate is more satisfying when it is not meaningless. This is the balance Archive of Fate tries to create: a game that feels unpredictable, but not careless; personal, but not isolated; AI-narrated, but not AI-arbitrary.
Archive of Fate begins with three worlds because we wanted the same fate system to express itself through very different kinds of lives.
The modern world is closest to our own, which makes it perhaps the most uncomfortable. Its events are not always dramatic. A life can be shaped by money, health, family, beauty, intelligence, timing, social pressure, work, relationships, and the slow accumulation of small decisions. Sometimes the modern world does not need dragons or gods to feel cruel. It has enough quiet ways to change a person.
The cultivation world is built around scale, obsession, and the desire to exceed human limits. Spiritual roots, sects, breakthroughs, forbidden techniques, heavenly tribulations, and long years of training all create a different kind of life. A player might rise quickly, fail early, betray others, be betrayed, chase enlightenment, or discover that the pursuit of immortality can consume the person who began it.
The western fantasy world is shaped by legend. Bloodlines, kingdoms, monsters, old wars, gods, curses, relics, and ruined histories give each life the possibility of grandeur, but not necessarily goodness. A player might become a hero, a tyrant, a forgotten mage, a fallen heir, or the reason future generations are told not to open certain doors.
Each world has its own tone, but they all return to the same question: what kind of person do you become when you are born somewhere else?
Future versions of the Archive may expand into other worldlines: cyberpunk cities, post-apocalyptic wastelands, interstellar colonies, and stranger settings with their own rules of survival. But adding more worlds only matters if the foundation works. The player has to care about the life they just lived.
That is also how we think about monetization. Archive of Fate is designed so the core life simulation can be played for free. A player can start a run, choose talents, allocate attributes, experience a complete life, receive an ending, and share a fate card without paying. The paid moment comes later, after the player has already seen who they became.
We think that timing matters. The question should not be, “Do you want to buy an item before you understand the game?” The better question is, “Does this life deserve to remain?”
Inscription is not meant to be a gate in front of the experience. It is meant to be a decision after the experience. It is a way for a player to say: this one should not disappear.
Some players will inscribe a powerful life. Some will inscribe a tragic one. Some will inscribe a life because the title made them laugh. Some will inscribe a failure because it felt more honest than a perfect ending. That variety is part of the point. The Archive should not only remember winners. It should remember interesting lives.
Over time, the inscriptions become the texture of the world. They are not just collectibles sitting outside the game. They are records that can return through future stories. They give players a reason to wonder whether someone else might one day encounter the life they chose to preserve.
That feeling of being encountered matters.
Many online games are social because players compete, trade, chat, or fight. Archive of Fate is interested in a quieter form of social presence: the feeling that someone was here before you, and that you may leave something behind for someone after you.
You may never meet the player whose inscription appears in your story. They may never know the exact moment you saw their name. But their fate has crossed yours. For a narrative game, that small connection can be powerful.
It turns a single-player life into part of a shared mythology.
That is why Archive of Fate exists.
Not because AI can generate more text. Not because blockchain can store another record. Not because randomness alone makes a game interesting.
Archive of Fate exists because simulated lives can feel surprisingly memorable, and games rarely give those lives a place to go.
It is our attempt to create that place: a place for flawed lives, strange lives, failed lives, lucky lives, ridiculous lives, and lives that somehow feel worth remembering.
The game begins when you are born into a world you did not choose, but it does not have to end when you die.
The Archive can remember that you were there.

ARPA Network is proud to announce a strategic partnership with SVP Chain, an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain featuring a native on-chain order book and an AI-agent–ready execution layer. Built to support next-generation on-chain applications, SVP Chain provides infrastructure for secure execution, transparent market coordination, and emerging AI agent use cases.
As part of this collaboration, SVP Chain and ARPA Network are working together to explore bringing Randcast, ARPA’s decentralized and verifiable Random Number Generator, to the SVP Chain ecosystem. This potential integration aims to provide a tamper-proof, highly secure source of randomness to support growing ecosystem demand across games, AI applications, and other on-chain use cases.
Randomness plays a critical role in everything from GameFi and raffles to AI-powered applications and autonomous coordination. By collaborating with SVP Chain, ARPA aims to extend the reach of Randcast into an ecosystem designed for the future of AI agents and on-chain execution.
Empowering SVP Chain Applications With ARPA Randcast’s Verifiable Randomness
SVP Chain is built as an EVM-compatible Layer 1 with a native on-chain order book and an AI-agent–ready execution layer. This combination creates a strong foundation for developers building trading applications, autonomous agents, gaming experiences, and other smart contract systems that require secure and transparent execution.
Through this partnership, ARPA Network will explore bringing Randcast to SVP Chain, offering developers access to decentralized and verifiable randomness powered by ARPA’s threshold BLS signature network. Randcast is designed to generate randomness that can be verified on-chain, resist tampering, and support smart contract applications that require fair and unpredictable outcomes.
With Randcast, builders in the SVP Chain ecosystem can potentially power use cases such as:
Fair and secure GameFi mechanics, including random drops, winner selection, and loot boxes
Transparent raffles, lotteries, and reward distribution campaigns
NFT minting and metadata randomization
AI applications that require unpredictable and verifiable outputs
On-chain coordination mechanisms for autonomous agents
Other smart contract use cases that depend on tamper-proof randomness
For developers, access to verifiable randomness removes one of the most common challenges in building trustworthy applications. Instead of relying on centralized RNG sources or opaque off-chain processes, applications can use cryptographic infrastructure designed to make random outputs transparent, auditable, and secure.
ARPA Randcast Supporting the Next Generation of AI-Ready Blockchain Infrastructure
Both SVP Chain and ARPA Network are focused on building infrastructure for a more intelligent, verifiable, and application-ready Web3 ecosystem. While SVP Chain provides an EVM-compatible Layer 1 environment with a native on-chain order book and AI-agent-ready execution capabilities, ARPA contributes decentralized cryptographic infrastructure that strengthens fairness, trust, and security for on-chain applications. As AI agents become more active across blockchain ecosystems, randomness can play an increasingly important role in coordination, decision-making, task assignment, gaming logic, simulations, and reward systems. For these use cases to be credible, randomness must not only be unpredictable but also be verifiable.
ARPA Randcast is designed to meet this need by providing a cryptographically generated random source that applications can consume in a secure and transparent way. For SVP Chain, this creates opportunities to support more robust applications across gaming, AI, trading, and ecosystem engagement. By working together, ARPA Network and SVP Chain aim to help developers build more secure and reliable applications while supporting a broader vision for the AI economy. As on-chain systems become more autonomous and execution environments become more advanced, infrastructure such as verifiable RNG will be essential to ensuring that outcomes remain fair, transparent, and resistant to manipulation.
Stay tuned for future updates as ARPA Network and SVP Chain continue exploring how Randcast can support the next generation of games, AI applications, and on-chain use cases within the SVP Chain ecosystem.
About SVP Chain
SVP Chain is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain with a native on-chain order book and an AI-agent–ready execution layer. Designed for next-generation blockchain applications, SVP Chain provides infrastructure for secure on-chain coordination, transparent market activity, and emerging AI economy use cases.
Website: https://www.svpchain.org/Docs: https://svpchain.gitbook.io/svpchain-docs
About ARPA Network
ARPA Network (ARPA) is a decentralized, secure computation network built to improve the fairness, security, and privacy of blockchains. The ARPA threshold BLS signature network serves as the infrastructure for a verifiable Random Number Generator (RNG), secure wallet, cross-chain bridge, and decentralized custody across multiple blockchains.
ARPA was previously known as ARPA Chain, a privacy-preserving Multi-party Computation (MPC) network founded in 2018. ARPA Mainnet has completed over 224,000 computation tasks in the past years. Our experience in MPC and other cryptography laid the foundation for our innovative threshold BLS signature schemes (TSS-BLS) system design and led us to today’s ARPA Network.
Randcast, a verifiable Random Number Generator (RNG), is the first application that leverages ARPA as infrastructure. Randcast offers a cryptographically generated random source with superior security and low cost compared to other solutions. Metaverse, game, lottery, NFT minting and whitelisting, key generation, and blockchain validator task distribution can benefit from Randcast’s tamper-proof randomness.
For more information about ARPA, please contact us at contact@arpanetwork.io.
Learn about ARPA’s recent official news:
Twitter: @arpaofficial
Medium: https://medium.com/@arpa
Discord: https://dsc.gg/arpa-network
Telegram (English): https://t.me/arpa_community
Telegram (Turkish): https://t.me/Arpa_Turkey
Telegram (Korean): https://t.me/ARPA_Korea
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/arpachain/