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Alkahest

Alkahest is open-source infrastructure for peer-to-peer escrow and arbitration. Parties lock value, define release conditions, choose arbiters, and settle without a custodian or Arkhai-controlled platform.

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Escrow contracts hold value until an arbiter accepts a fulfillment. Arbiters can be simple, custom, off-chain, or composed with logical contracts like AllArbiter and AnyArbiter. That makes Boolean conditions such as (A AND B) OR (C AND NOT D) enforceable, while still allowing sub-claims to be escalated for review. The result is conditional settlement without rebuilding escrow logic for every market.

  • Clearinghouses
  • Peer-to-peer bartering without intermediaries
  • Atomic exchange of bundled assets
  • Pluggable verification for decentralized markets in compute, storage, or bandwidth
  • Natural language agreements with AI arbitration

Define terms, e.g. via agent-to-agent negotiation

Fund escrow

Boolean formula evaluates upon pre-agreed triggers

Escrow is released or escalated for arbitration

See the reference flow and state transitions in the Alkahest docs.

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