ARPA Monthly Report | August Progress Review

ARPA Official
8 min readSep 22, 2023

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Dear ARPA Community,

To ensure that the ARPA community is well-informed on the team’s latest improvements, we update ARPA’s development dynamics and progress through our monthly report. Thank you all for your support!

Here is a look back at August. Enjoy!

01 ARPA Development Dynamics & Technology Progress

  • Added multiple network support for Randcast
  • Designed and implemented components for Randcast deployment on Optimism-ish L2
  • Improved raw seed generation process for randomness request
  • Supported canceling overtime request by user

02 Community, Marketing & Listings

ARPA Randcast Teams Up With Space3 To Enhance Blockchain Gaming

On August 30th, ARPA Network, the powerhouse behind Randcast, a secure on-chain Random Number Generator (RNG), partnered with Space3. Space3 is a leading Web3 game publisher incubated by Ancient8, a renowned Web3 gaming infrastructure platform and Vietnam’s largest blockchain gaming guild and community.

Space3’s commitment to nurturing outstanding games from inception to completion harmonizes with ARPA’s objective of providing Web3 developers seamless access to a spectrum of tools spanning infrastructure to RNGs, as well as cultivating a future characterized by fairness and transparency within the Web3 ecosystem.

The widespread adoption of Web3 gaming relies on reaching a broad audience, which makes the collaboration with Space3 highly exciting. This partnership will allow ARPA Randcast to engage with numerous gaming projects and their user bases. Both Space3 and Ancient8 share a common commitment to enhancing the gaming experience for users, with fairness being a pivotal aspect of this improvement. ARPA Randcast will play a crucial role in safeguarding this fairness.

Learn more details here:

ARPA Joined the Builder’s Reunion at SBC 2023

On August 29th, Future Money Group and Foresight Ventures hosted the Builder’s Reunion at SBC 2023. It was an honor for ARPA Network to be a part of this event, innovating and collaborating with top projects such as Sei Network, IoTex and EthStorage.

ARPA partnered with SevenX Ventures to host the Nitro Hackathon

On August 25th, the SevenX Ventures Nitro Hackathon officially kicked off with an electrifying inauguration session featuring mentors and partners from Dojo, Adventure Gold DAO, ARPA Network, Moonshot Commons, and HackQuest. The event was a deep dive into two exciting hackathon themes: “Fully On-Chain Game” and “Web3+AI Applications.”

The first theme highlighted the emergence of fully on-chain games, redefining Web3 gaming with a focus on infrastructure development, diverse content, and revolutionary distribution methods. The second theme explored the fusion of Web3 and AI, promising innovation in building, interaction logic, and incentive models, with potential applications across various verticals.

The Nitro Hackathon, initiated by SevenX Ventures, served as a platform for Web3 builders to thrive, supported by influential partners like ARPA. For a deeper dive into this enlightening session, check out the recording here:

ARPA Randcast and Delysium Join Forces to Build on the AI-Powered Open World

On August 23rd, ARPA Randcast partnered with Delysium, a leading AI-powered open-world framework. Delysium’s vision to build an all-encompassing virtual world corresponds with ARPA’s aim to empower an open, fair, and secure blockchain ecosystem. ARPA Randcast aptly complements Delysium’s mission of fostering a myriad of free-to-own virtual universes and a decentralized game publishing platform.

Through this alliance, ARPA Randcast will provide the Delysium community’s developers with a dependable and secure tool for verifiable random number generation, effectively alleviating their workload. Our shared goal of establishing an inclusive, secure, and autonomous multiverse brings us together, bridging our divergent paths. Delysium’s unwavering dedication to the Web3 gaming realm aligns seamlessly with Randcast’s fundamental contribution: a foundation of verifiable randomness.

Read more about this partnership:

ARPA Randcast Joins Forces with AltLayer to Empower Web3 Applications

On August 17th, ARPA Network, the powerhouse behind Randcast, a secure on-chain verifiable random number generator (RNG), entered a strategic partnership with AltLayer. AltLayer is a leading decentralized Rollups-as–a-Service (RaaS) provider for Web3 applications.

Our collaboration with AltLayer transcends mere technological integration; it symbolizes a joint commitment to reducing obstacles in the realm of Web3 development. As AltLayer commits to providing a range of RaaS solutions to simplify the experience for Web3 developers, we are poised to contribute a foundational layer of verifiable randomness that enhances this progress.

Randcast and AltLayer are both working towards a similar goal, creating convenient and ready-to-use tools that can help users deploy applications without the complexity, build-times and worry. With numerous applications that will benefit from and be legitimized by achieving true random outcomes for their users or players, this collaboration also brings a great addition to AltLayer’s rollup toolkit.

Read more about this alliance:

Exclusive Interview with Felix Xu: Pioneering Fairness, Security, and Privacy in the Decentralized Ecosystem

In an exclusive interview with Coinfomania on August 15th, Felix Xu, co-founder of ARPA Network and Bella Protocol, shared his visionary outlook on the blockchain and crypto space. He highlighted ARPA’s mission to establish a secure computation network with decentralization and privacy as its core principles, while Bella Protocol seeks to simplify and optimize DeFi liquidity provision, bridging the gap between traditional finance and the blockchain world. The interview also touched on the collaboration between ARPA’s Randcast and AGLD DAO to empower the concept of Autonomous Worlds, revolutionary virtual ecosystems where various games coexist, potentially influencing one another and extending the boundaries of gaming into intellectually stimulating realms with real-world policy and system impacts.

Read the whole context here:

Blockchain might be the answer to RNG gamblers didn’t know they needed: Felix Xu contributes to Asia Gaming Brief opinion piece

Random Number Generation (RNG) is used in online gambling, yet most gamblers do not care whether the RNG is verifiable or not. Felix Xu, ARPA Network’s CEO, believes that the integration of Blockchain technology in the gambling industry will help gamblers verify whether there is true randomness in the games they play. While many RNGs can be found online, the source of their numbers cannot be verified.

Read the Asia Gaming Brief’s opinion piece here:

https://agbrief.com/intelligence/deep-dive/11/08/2023/blockchain-might-be-the-answer-to-rng-gamblers-didnt-know-they-needed/

ARPA Randcast and Mirror World Teams up to Advance Web3 Gaming Development

On August 15th, ARPA Network, the powerhouse behind Randcast, a secure on-chain verifiable random number generator (RNG), entered a strategic partnership with Mirror World. As an all-in-one smart platform for Web3 development, Mirror World is focused on supporting developers and growing the Web3 gaming industry.

With this alliance, ARPA Randcast will offer developers in Mirror World’s circle a trustworthy, credible, and secure tool for verifiable random number generation. While Mirror World is dedicated to revolutionizing Web3 project development by offering an all-in-one solution to unleash developers’ content creation potential, we are excited to contribute a fundamental layer of verifiable randomness that strengthens this advancement.

Read all about it here:

BitMart Exchange listed ARPA token

We are proud to announce that BitMart, a leading digital asset exchange, has listed the ARPA/USDT trading pair on August 4th. Check out the official announcement here.

ARPA Onboards Particle Network as Node Partner, To Enhance Network Security and Ecosystem Growth

On August 1st, ARPA Network established a strategic partnership with Particle Network for node operation. Particle Network offers plug-and-play solutions for Web3 app development. This includes, but is not limited to: seamless Authentication, Wallet-as-a-Service, NFT solutions, Node RPC, and Data API Service.

Having Particle as a node partner will not only bolster ARPA MainNet’s capabilities but also leverage their extensive resources and expertise in providing developer toolkits to drive the continued growth of ARPA Network and ARPA Randcast ecosystem.

Read all about it here:

About ARPA

ARPA Network (ARPA) is a decentralized secure computation network built to improve the fairness, security, and privacy of blockchains. ARPA threshold BLS signature network serves as the infrastructure of 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 or to join our team, please contact us at contact@arpanetwork.io.

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