Compute Sovereignty and Programmable Markets
How buyers, sellers and market operators can shape the agreements and markets they depend on, with compute as the worked example.
September 29, 2026 · Arkhai Team
The Machine Market
The Machine Market
We publish field notes on building agent-driven markets: escrow and arbitration, Simple Compute Market, scientific RAG, mechanism design, and the infrastructure agents need to transact directly.
What to expect.
Mechanisms, pipelines, and results: settlement design with examples, Simple Compute Market updates, scientific RAG at scale, and evaluation methods that stand up to scrutiny - plus code and artifacts you can reuse.
Who should read.
Data‑center operators and other compute providers, developers building agents, and scientists aiming at automated research. Reach out here.
Simple Compute Market Design Patterns
Historical May 29, 2026 component-release design context: separable roles, configured-registry discovery, scalar-price policy with non-price VM terms fixed or validated, explicit settlement, and domain-specific delivery.
June 17, 2026 · Arkhai Team
Simple Compute Market For Compute Sellers
Historical May 29, 2026 component-release seller context: seller publication, signed, bilateral, policy-governed scalar-price negotiation with non-price VM terms fixed or validated, escrow verification, and seller-operated KVM delivery; optional GPU passthrough proves no inventory or availability.
June 15, 2026 · Arkhai Team
Simple Compute Market For Compute Buyers
Historical May 29, 2026 component-release buyer context: configured-registry discovery, signed, bilateral, policy-governed scalar-price negotiation with non-price VM terms fixed or validated, escrow, and seller-operated KVM access.
June 11, 2026 · Arkhai Team
Simple Compute Market Architecture
Historical May 29, 2026 component-release architecture context: separable buyer, storefront, indexer, policy, provisioning, registry, and Alkahest settlement roles.
June 9, 2026 · Arkhai Team
Simple Compute Market Public Release
Historical May 29, 2026 component-release context: configured-registry discovery, signed, bilateral, policy-governed scalar-price negotiation with non-price VM terms fixed or validated, Alkahest settlement, and seller-operated VM delivery.
May 29, 2026 · Arkhai Team
What You Can Build Today
A March 2026 pre-SCM-release snapshot of Arkhai products and research directions; “today” refers to the publication date.
March 2, 2026 · Levi Rybalov
The Generic Marketplace Vision
Historical February 2026 research context: a generalized multi-resource marketplace vision, not a claim of current SCM behavior, deployment, supply, or production readiness.
February 27, 2026 · Levi Rybalov
Tokenizing Idle Compute
Historical February 2026 research context: token and retroactive-reward proposals for idle compute, not a claim of current SCM behavior, supply, or production readiness.
February 25, 2026 · Levi Rybalov
Designing for Adversaries
Historical February 2026 research context: an adversarial-training approach to mechanism research, not a claim of current SCM implementation, deployment, or production readiness.
February 23, 2026 · Levi Rybalov
Collateral Markets and Programmable Escrow
Historical February 2026 research context: collateral-market and programmable-escrow proposals, not a claim of current SCM behavior, deployment, supply, or production readiness.
February 20, 2026 · Levi Rybalov
Trust Without Trustees
Historical February 2026 research context: verification categories and their tradeoffs, not a claim of current SCM verification, deployment, supply, or production readiness.
February 18, 2026 · Levi Rybalov
Two Primitives for Machine-Native Markets
Historical February 2026 research context: how the whitepaper grouped escrow, arbitration, and generalized negotiation primitives, not a claim of current SCM behavior or production readiness.
February 16, 2026 · Levi Rybalov
Why Current Distributed Compute Marketplaces Are Broken
Historical February 2026 research context: a publication-time analysis of distributed-compute market failure modes, not a claim of current SCM deployment, supply, or production readiness.
February 12, 2026 · Levi Rybalov
The Agent-First Future: Why Machines Need Their Own Economic Infrastructure
Historical February 2026 research context: an agent-first marketplace thesis spanning compute and other asset types, not a claim of current SCM behavior, deployment, supply, or production readiness.
February 10, 2026 · Levi Rybalov
Introducing Arkhai
Historical November 2025 vision: Arkhai’s publication-time thesis and exploration plan, not a statement of current SCM behavior, live supply, customer adoption, or an active funnel.
November 6, 2025