1. Whitepaper foundation
Design and all code details are ready after 3 years of experiment. Result is whitepaper.
Creative workspace 💻
on collective wisdom 🌐
Ara has multiple goals. Find a use case for blockchain. Set a new UI metaphor beyond Windows. Make open-source sustainable by turning it into a craft. One goal beneath all of them: users as gods of their own technology.
Recent essays
What it means for You?
01
Your device is your creative workspace
Your computer is the center. Apps & UI are Lego bricks.
Ara sets the semantic rules for the open-source apps, that OS (for desktop apps) or Browser (for web apps) fetches locally to turn them malleable system to you. You can create, and combine visual interfaces. Pipe apps, and compose them beyond what developers provided. In short it provides
02
Your data local. Apps & UI are Lego bricks
Your data always stays on your local computer.
Meanwhile, you can create, move, and combine visual interfaces and
pipe apps in whatever way you want.
Ara is complementary with existing OS and Web. Turning existing apps into
malleable, personalizable building blocks for you.
The apps are required to be open-source.
03
Blockchain is collective wisdom
The blockchain stores app semantics: what app is composed of, relationships to other apps, and to the user.
Additionally, this blockchain is a p2p recommendation engine, that
lets you share and discover apps built with lego bricks.
Blockchain means discoveribility by user intent, instead of attention
grabbing.
Use cases
Computers communicate each other via blockchain. How you personalize your apps is helped by people who have same apps and similar situation.
Foundation for empowering AI
Ara is a foundation for local-first AI & public training data.
Your data stays on your device. Your computer uses open-source apps
with semantics.
Then any AI keeps data locally & knows all app functionality: no need
for MCP, no need for complicated screenshot analyzing.
The blockchain keeps the public semantics and intent-tracking data available
for verifiable training. Ara blockchains becomes the first public training data for AI.
For whom and why
Technology is not the point. People are.
Ara from Turkmen language translated as a "space in between", or medium as abstract. That's goal of Ara to be abstract and invisible without pointing out to any technology or protocol. Instead, it's pointing on alignment of four groups of people who build, run, and semantically align the Web for the benefit of all.
Users
You are king of computer
Your device adapts to you and work on your terms
user sama – thats how you are called by AI minions
Designers
Experiment and go viral
Build interfaces as an Art. Get funds and go viral by users who appreciate your work and use it as lego brick.
Open Source Developers
Build the backbone, set the protocols
No worry about sophisticated UI. Make your source code as a craft.
Design data models to connect with other apps and set protocol
standard without consortiums.
Get funds and go viral by users who appreciate your work and use it as
lego brick.
Node Operators
Find the best path between all three
You are the connective tissue. Your work routes meaning through the network, keeping users, designers, and developers in alignment.
Now
Pilot version
Join us.
Before making computers communicate for malleable software, we need
to solve another problem: open-source is not sustainable. Our
current phase is solving that.
Visit CascadeFund
CascadeFund is for those who care about open-source.
2. Pilot version: cascadefund current
Pre-blockchain, pre-holographic. Onboard open-source developers and users to make the open-source ecosystem sustainable and user-centric.
3. Local data project management
Local data version for project management made from open-source with local AI. Onboarding the node operators on your browser.
4. Recommendation engine and desktop shell
Recommendation engine and desktop shell, onboarding designers.
More information on the roadmap page.