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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.
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