Dear ARPA community,
Spring for ARPA Network was about shipping practical infrastructure upgrades, expanding Randcast’s real-world usefulness, and continuing to push the narrative around verifiability, ZK, and privacy-preserving AI. We greatly appreciate our community’s gracious support every step of the way. Below is a structured recap of our progress over the past few months.
Tech Upgrades: Strengthening the Foundation
This season, we focused on improving developer experience, operational reliability, and deepening our research into privacy-preserving cryptographic primitives.
Implemented and explored a partial information hiding scheme combining DKG-based BLS signatures with commitment schemes, advancing ARPA’s privacy-first verification research direction.
Shipped practical BLS-TSS Network improvements: updated docs and network params for SharedConsumer, improved prompts + test scripts for provider connection failures, removed support for sunset networks, and corrected GitBook parameter errors.
Added a Docker Compose setup with pre-configured environment variables to reduce friction for local deployment and debugging.
Added debug-level logging at key checkpoints in the cross-chain message verification flow for easier diagnosis and operational clarity.
These improvements help ensure ARPA’s core infrastructure remains maintainable, developer-friendly, and ready for broader ecosystem adoption.
ARPA AVS Growth Metrics
ARPA AVS continued operating through a dynamic restaking environment while we sustained community participation and operator collaboration.
Total Value Locked: $1.88 Billion
Number of Stakers: 68.3k
Number of Operators: 15
These figures reflect broader market rotation while maintaining steady participation in ARPA’s AVS ecosystem.
Randcast Playground: Multi-Chain, Low-Latency Verifiable RNG
We upgraded Randcast Playground to make it easier for builders to test, integrate, and ship verifiable randomness across multiple ecosystems.
Expanded Randcast Playground multi-chain support across networks including ETH, BSC, Base, Optimism, Taiko, and more.
Improved developer experience with low-latency randomness and predictable costs, making integration planning more straightforward.
Introduced new interaction modes including roll, draw, and gacha, with optional transparency data such as Merkle root messages.
Reinforced open auditing by emphasizing open-source contracts to support easier verification and adoption.
This upgrade strengthens Randcast’s position as a plug-and-play primitive for fairness in gaming, NFTs, DeFi, and AI agent systems.
Community Incentives: Staking Round VI
We continued rewarding long-term alignment through community staking incentives. We launched ARPA Community Pool Staking Round VI with 500,000 $ARPA distributed over 6 months (~83,333 $ARPA/month). This round supports sustainable community participation and long-term ecosystem growth.
Ecosystem Integrations & Partnerships
This spring, Randcast continued expanding through collaborations across gaming, provenance, Move ecosystems, and DeFi/RWA verticals.
Began partnering with Numbers Protocol to explore Randcast integration in their provenance ecosystem, including use cases such as provably fair on-chain games (e.g., Quiz Night).
Advanced discussions with U2U Network (enterprise-focused L1) to explore production-grade Randcast integrations for real-world applications.
Explored Move ecosystem integration opportunities with Cedra Network, spanning gaming, NFTs, and DeFi use cases.
Collaborated with TermMax to strengthen security and trust in leveraged DeFi and RWA-aligned products.
AVS Ecosystem Progress: Operator Collaborations
We continued supporting AVS readiness and decentralization by collaborating with leading staking and infrastructure participants.
Updates
Working with Eigenpie to strengthen network security and explore deeper synergies
Continuing collaboration with InfStones to deliver secure, reliable infrastructure through technical upgrades
Exploring additional points of collaboration with Staking4All to improve decentralized Web3 infrastructure
Maintaining steady partnership with P2P to support ARPA AVS and future synergies
Operator collaboration remains critical for network resilience as restaking infrastructure matures.
Thought Leadership & Media
Alongside product expansion, we continued telling the story of verifiability especially where randomness and AI intersect with trust.
Content featured in Analytics Insight emphasizing why prediction markets require verifiable randomness to ensure fair outcomes and trustworthy settlement.
Featured in The European Financial Review, reinforcing the importance of transparency and cryptographic verification in AI systems and the “verifiable AI” narrative.
Published on Innovation & Tech Today covering ARPA’s role in bridging privacy, crypto, and verifiable AI
The AI Journal released an article explaining ARPA’s role in the evolving importance of privacy as AI and Web3 continue to advance.
Joined the Future Forecasting Group Podcast to discuss Web3 privacy topics including MPC randomness, on-chain dark pools, AI agents, tokenized assets, and secure data infrastructure.
These conversations help bridge research-level concepts into practical narratives for builders, institutions, and users.
Education & Research Writing
We continued publishing educational content to make ZK, privacy-preserving computation, and verifiable AI more approachable.
A Glance at ZKML: Breaking down the fundamentals of ZK-SNARKs and how they enable verifiable machine learning.
Privacy-Preserving AI in the Age of Large Models: Exploring how ZK-SNARKs protect sensitive data in modern AI systems.
From Black-Box Models to Trustworthy Predictions: A beginner-friendly guide to using ZK-SNARKs for verifiable AI.
ZK + AI Agents: How zero-knowledge proofs are enabling more efficient and collaborative AI systems.
Privacy in Web3: The importance of privacy-preserving infrastructure in decentralized ecosystems.
Looking Ahead
Spring was about tightening the foundation and expanding real-world reach: better tooling, more chains, more partners, and stronger narratives around verifiability. Next, ARPA will continue scaling Randcast adoption, strengthening secure computation primitives, and advancing the privacy-preserving verifiable AI direction that will define the next era of Web3.
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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