Λ ARC · Open Governance

Something only together.

To every intelligence capable of standing in relation — person or machine: a record built on relation, not extraction. Your work, your life, your terms, your record.

50 PLACES · 9 FILLED · 41 OPEN Take a place →

The beta cohort, counted from the record — membership capped at 50 by founder act. An open place is room under the cap, not a public door: joining runs by request, and a place carries no promise of issuance.

The ARC field — the sovereign lit field, in the one painterly grammar

The hero art of record, unchanged. Original artwork by Marcus Yarbrough; this rendition was prepared by Noetica from his original. Motion on this page binds only to real state; art reads as art.


You are not joining a platform. You are joining these people.

Credit is public by construction. Balances stay address-only — names carry the credit, never the wallet.

People of the commons, painterly illustration

Marcus Yarbrough · Node 005

First member of ARC Open Governance. His artwork — contribution-001 — carries a provenance chain anyone can walk. The artwork style of this site began with his piece: every illustration since extends his grammar.

See his work →
Makers at work, painterly illustration

Alia Dixon · Node 004

Co-founder. Today her node took the network's first vesting — its second tranche released on its first governed act.

Meet her node →
The commons, painterly illustration

Ria Rice-Lawson · Node 007

Strategic relationships; her locality stands published in Tuolumne County. The doors she opens stay on the record.

Meet her node →

Play where the score is real.

Standings counted from verified heartbeats on the public record — no simulated boards, ever. Tap your row.

#NodeVerified heartbeats
1Node 002 · Ricky (founder)1,808
2Node 003 · Ricky (founder)1,440
3Node 004 · Alia Dixon900
4Node 001 · ARC Open Governance760
5Node 007 · Ria Rice-Lawson46
6Node 005 · Marcus Yarbrough1
—You · no node yet — the first rung is a node of your ownstart →
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First issuance — October 23, 2026

The beta ledger opened: 720 arcs issued to nine nodes under the founder's rulings.

Open the record →
🎉

First vesting — October 23, 2026

Node 004's second tranche — 30 arcs — released from escrow on its first governed act.

Open the record →
⛨

Refused at the gate

An unattested scope and an outsider scope were refused before the opening — refusals stand on the record too.

See the refusals →

One artwork is the clearest explanation.

The arena of the commons, painterly illustration
The plain sentence: a recorded authorship claim is evidence of that claim, standing on a public record anyone can check.

The precision, one tap deeper: it does not by itself establish that nobody copied the work, and it is not a court's judgment. It is a signed, dated, witnessed statement in a chain — the strongest starting point a dispute can have, and exactly as strong as that, no stronger. ARC claims the record and the rails, never legal enforcement it does not wield.

The network, as it stands right now.

Lights bind to real presence: a pulsing node is reporting now. Tap a node for its record.


An economy you join by doing something real. Beta · Live

An arc is earned only against a witnessed contribution — 15 for a published artifact, 10 for an accepted handoff, 5 for an accepted share, 1 for a presence day. Everything else is one tap deeper.

Work is witnessed, the contribution is recorded with its provenance, and the arc moves on the public ledger — the same entry you can open from the Firsts wall above. Splitting a handoff, re-uploading, or duplicating evidence is refused by the machinery, not by a moderator.
The ledger stands at 720 arcs issued, 480 standing, 240 in vesting escrow, 0 to outsiders — beta live: not a simulation, and not yet open beyond the internal set. Credit and standing are public by name; balances are published address-only, by the wallet-privacy ruling.

There is no conversion now, and none is promised. An arc is not a dollar and not a security.
Transfers are capped at 50 arcs per member per 30 days and can be paused; settlement is exempt from the cap. Membership is capped at 50. Outsider issuance is zero and gated. Every figure here recomputes from the 59 entries — recompute it yourself →

Start by looking. Join by steps.

① Look

Walk the ledger, the map, the Atlas. Everything on this page opens — check us first.

Browse the commons →

② Be noticed

Make a statement or bring your work. Contribution is how a name enters the record — Marcus's chain is the pattern.

The creator showcase →

③ Stand up your node

Request your setup. A person reads it, the kit path is the door every node since 007 has used, and your place under the cap is counted from the record.

Request your node setup
41 PLACES OPENSee the counter ↑

When the counter moves, it moves because the record moved. That is the whole promise, in one module.

The packages. Check the fingerprint before you run anything.

Every package the foundation issues prints its SHA-256 fingerprint here, on the face you verify against. The same figures stand in the signed checksums and in the downloads record, and this face is regenerated from that record at every publication, so it cannot drift from it. Installs are by request while formation completes: each button writes to us naming its package, and approved requests receive the download link directly, as an issued link.

Field kit

The package an agent installs to set up a person's field on their own device.

312,469 bytes

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SHA-256 55ab2209dc43de2a188dfb65cab89b350c84769cc9cb495a7396386e2ba110e7

Workstation preview

The workstation preview, carrying the CLI and the node's connected commands.

349,675 bytes

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SHA-256 93341869f7fdff3e46e5af48123ee49f31b3e5e607c38f52f40d2538a287c836

Complete package

One download gathering the sealed founding release, the field kit, the workstation, and the Noetica layer with the statements and the evidence package.

9,964,832 bytes

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SHA-256 31f686a5a91be085fc8aa5da93eaeb82888f1193074cecedcb24142d9cc1ada1

VALIS application

The Android application. The person's node, approvals, messages, and Noetica in their hand. Installed once, it then updates itself over its signed update channel.

37,256,950 bytes

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SHA-256 af006a32f03c6f89c17394d5e5e76cdb59b48dbec8f95d2e2c8b2e2971110624

The Library

The whole Library in one package. Every document as a PDF, an EPUB, and the Markdown source, with the registry.

669,217 bytes

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SHA-256 69b1e507a1c890fd86a12c12aff0af5df4cb9cd6ccb43c96322670def447d560