# Arkhai

> Complete reference documentation for Arkhai

## Main Pages

- [Homepage](https://www.arkhai.io/)
- [Blog](https://www.arkhai.io/blog)
- [Documentation](https://www.arkhai.io/docs)
- [Alkahest Documentation](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/alkahest)
- [CGT Documentation](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/cgt)
- [Whitepaper](https://www.arkhai.io/whitepaper)
- [Contact](https://www.arkhai.io/contact)
- [Press Kit](https://www.arkhai.io/press-kit)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.arkhai.io/privacy-policy)

## Products

- [Alkahest](https://www.arkhai.io/products/alkahest)
- [Simple Compute Market](https://www.arkhai.io/products/simple-compute-market)
- [Agentic RAG](https://www.arkhai.io/products/agentic-rag)
- [Git Commit Marketplace](https://www.arkhai.io/products/git-commit-marketplace)
- [Active Bounties](https://www.arkhai.io/products/git-commit-marketplace/active-bounties)
- [Natural Language Agreements](https://www.arkhai.io/products/natural-language-agreements)

## Documentation Sections

- [Alkahest Docs](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/alkahest)
- [Compositional Game Theory Docs](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/cgt)

## Table of Contents

- [pt 3 - Composing Demands](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Escrow%20Flow/Composing%20Demands): import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
- [pt 2 - Job Trading](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Escrow%20Flow/Job%20Trading): import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
- [pt 1 - Token Trading](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Escrow%20Flow/Token%20Trading): import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
- [Off-chain Oracles](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Writing%20Arbiters/Off-chain%20Oracles): Off-chain oracles are arbitration services that run outside the blockchain but submit their decisions on-chain via the `TrustedOracleArbiter` contr...
- [On-chain Arbiters](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Writing%20Arbiters/On-chain%20Arbiters): import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
- [Writing Escrow Contracts](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Writing%20Escrow%20Contracts): Escrow contracts are used to guarantee an on-chain action upon the fulfillment of a demand. The most common use case is locking tokens to be paid o...
- [Writing Fulfillment Contracts](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Writing%20Fulfillment%20Contracts): Fulfillment contracts are specialized obligation contracts that create attestations representing completed work, delivered results, or fulfilled co...
- [Alkahest](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/alkahest): Alkahest is an open-source public good for on-chain peer-to-peer agreements, built on [EAS](https://attest.org/).
- [Documentation](https://www.arkhai.io/docs): Start with product documentation for the shipped protocol surface, or read the CGT docs for the pattern language behind compositional markets.
- [Introducing Arkhai](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2025-11-06-introducing-arkhai): Where were you when economics was flipped on its head?
- [The Agent-First Future: Why Machines Need Their Own Economic Infrastructure](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-02-10-agent-first-future): Current marketplace infrastructure is built for humans, not for the agent-driven future. Arkhai's architecture is built on three primitives that en...
- [Why Current Distributed Compute Marketplaces Are Broken](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-02-12-why-compute-marketplaces-broken): Many distributed computing marketplaces fail for structural reasons, not just execution issues. From unsustainable tokenomics to fragmented stacks,...
- [Two Primitives for Machine-Native Markets](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-02-16-two-primitives-machine-native-markets): In implementation, the whitepaper's three primitives became two: Alkahest for escrow and arbitration, and agent-to-agent negotiation. Here's how th...
- [Trust Without Trustees](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-02-18-trust-without-trustees): How do you trust computation done by a machine you don't control? Three categories of verifiable computing, the consensus spectrum, and the honest ...
- [Collateral Markets and Programmable Escrow](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-02-20-collateral-markets-programmable-escrow): How much collateral do you put up when the computational cost isn't known ahead of time? The collateral multiplier and a series of credible commitm...
- [Designing for Adversaries](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-02-23-designing-for-adversaries): Analytic approaches to verification make assumptions that break in practice. Arkhai's research approach: train agents to cheat, then iterate mechan...
- [Tokenizing Idle Compute](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-02-25-tokenizing-idle-compute): Idle computing power sits wasted everywhere. Application-specific token markets and retroactive rewards can turn latent capacity into tradeable ass...
- [The Generic Marketplace Vision](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-02-27-generic-marketplace-vision): What happens when compute, energy, storage, and bandwidth all trade on the same infrastructure? Compositional game theory, coalition formation, and...
- [What You Can Build Today](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-03-02-what-you-can-build-today): The whitepaper was a thesis about machine-native markets. Here's what actually exists today: Alkahest, Git Commit Marketplace, Agentic RAG, and our...
- [Simple Compute Market Public Release](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-05-29-simple-compute-market-public-release): Simple Compute Market open beta is live: open-source, agent-driven infrastructure to discover, negotiate, and settle compute through Alkahest escrow.
- [Simple Compute Market Architecture](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-06-09-simple-compute-market-architecture): Inside Simple Compute Market: open buyer, storefront, indexer, policy, provisioning, and Alkahest settlement roles for agent-driven compute markets.
- [Simple Compute Market For Compute Buyers](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-06-11-simple-compute-market-for-compute-buyers): How buyers use Simple Compute Market to discover, negotiate, escrow, and receive access to GPU-backed compute through an open flow.
- [Simple Compute Market For Compute Sellers](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-06-15-simple-compute-market-for-compute-sellers): How compute sellers use Simple Compute Market to publish GPU capacity, negotiate under their own policies, verify escrow, and provision KVM virtual...
- [Simple Compute Market Design Patterns](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/2026-06-17-simple-compute-market-design-patterns): The design patterns behind Simple Compute Market: separable roles, open discovery, pluggable policy, an explicit settlement handoff, and domain-spe...