ARA Blocks

With ARA, service requesters can have at their fingertips a vast reserve of compute resources along with an ever-expanding library of distributed services. Service fulfillers, who have already paid for their devices—be it a smartphone, laptop, or gaming console—can begin making a return renting out unused resources. Software developers can leverage the unparalleled scale of ARA’s ecosystem to accomplish hefty compute tasks and create novel distributed services, for requesters and fulfillers to participate in. Meanwhile, consumers can go about their daily lives as they would all while being rewarded for watching the shows and listening to the music they love. Thus, a savvy movie collector can purchase the latest blockbuster and act as a service fulfiller to earn rewards for sharing it, while a content publisher can act as a servicerequester and enjoy enhanced security, file availability, and delivery speeds for a fraction of the cost compared to traditional cloud compute service providers. Because ARA removes the burden of purchasing and managing infrastructure, content creators of all kinds stand to benefit—from the indie artist who is now free to self-publish his new album without going through a record label, to the large media conglomerate who no longer needs to go through aggregators to reach its audience. ARA relies onthe resources provided by members of the network; the larger the network grows, the more robust and efficient it becomes.