# Arkhai > Open infrastructure for agent-driven markets: escrow, compute, retrieval, code bounties, and natural-language agreements. ## Main Pages - [Homepage](https://www.arkhai.io/) - [Arkhai Compute](https://compute.arkhai.io/) — institutional home for deliverable compute-market infrastructure, beginning with Simple Compute Market - [Blog](https://www.arkhai.io/blog) - [Documentation](https://www.arkhai.io/docs) - [Alkahest Documentation](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/alkahest) - [Modular Markets Documentation](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/modular-markets) - [Whitepaper](https://www.arkhai.io/whitepaper) - [Request Access](https://www.arkhai.io/request-access) - [Request a Market](https://www.arkhai.io/request-market) - [General Inquiry](https://www.arkhai.io/contact) - [Press Kit](https://www.arkhai.io/press-kit) ## Products - [Alkahest](https://www.arkhai.io/products/alkahest) - [Arkhai Compute](https://compute.arkhai.io/) — begins with the Simple Compute Market software - [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) - [Modular Markets Docs](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/modular-markets) — Compositional Game Theory (CGT) pattern language ## Historical content Dated posts and the whitepaper preserve their publication-time context. They do not override current product, actor, availability, license, or commercial boundaries. ## Table of Contents - [pt 3 - Composing Demands](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Escrow%20Flow/composing-demands): import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; - [pt 2 - Job Trading](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Escrow%20Flow/job-trading): import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; - [pt 1 - Token Trading](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Escrow%20Flow/token-trading): import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; - [Off-chain Oracles](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/Writing%20Arbiters/off-chain-oracles): 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-arbiters): import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; - [Writing Escrow Contracts](https://www.arkhai.io/docs/writing-escrow-contracts): 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-fulfillment-contracts): 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 Modular Markets docs for the pattern language behind compositional m... - [Introducing Arkhai](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/introducing-arkhai): Historical November 2025 vision: Arkhai’s publication-time thesis and exploration plan, not a statement of current SCM behavior, live supply, custo... - [The Agent-First Future: Why Machines Need Their Own Economic Infrastructure](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/agent-first-future): Historical February 2026 research context: an agent-first marketplace thesis spanning compute and other asset types, not a claim of current SCM beh... - [Why Current Distributed Compute Marketplaces Are Broken](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/why-compute-marketplaces-broken): Historical February 2026 research context: a publication-time analysis of distributed-compute market failure modes, not a claim of current SCM depl... - [Two Primitives for Machine-Native Markets](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/two-primitives-machine-native-markets): Historical February 2026 research context: how the whitepaper grouped escrow, arbitration, and generalized negotiation primitives, not a claim of c... - [Trust Without Trustees](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/trust-without-trustees): Historical February 2026 research context: verification categories and their tradeoffs, not a claim of current SCM verification, deployment, supply... - [Collateral Markets and Programmable Escrow](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/collateral-markets-programmable-escrow): Historical February 2026 research context: collateral-market and programmable-escrow proposals, not a claim of current SCM behavior, deployment, su... - [Designing for Adversaries](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/designing-for-adversaries): Historical February 2026 research context: an adversarial-training approach to mechanism research, not a claim of current SCM implementation, deplo... - [Tokenizing Idle Compute](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/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... - [The Generic Marketplace Vision](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/generic-marketplace-vision): Historical February 2026 research context: a generalized multi-resource marketplace vision, not a claim of current SCM behavior, deployment, supply... - [What You Can Build Today](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/what-you-can-build-today): A March 2026 pre-SCM-release snapshot of Arkhai products and research directions; “today” refers to the publication date. - [Simple Compute Market Public Release](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/scm-public-release): Historical May 29, 2026 component-release context: configured-registry discovery, signed, bilateral, policy-governed scalar-price negotiation with ... - [Simple Compute Market Architecture](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/scm-architecture): Historical May 29, 2026 component-release architecture context: separable buyer, storefront, indexer, policy, provisioning, registry, and Alkahest ... - [Simple Compute Market For Compute Buyers](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/scm-for-compute-buyers): Historical May 29, 2026 component-release buyer context: configured-registry discovery, signed, bilateral, policy-governed scalar-price negotiation... - [Simple Compute Market For Compute Sellers](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/scm-for-compute-sellers): Historical May 29, 2026 component-release seller context: seller publication, signed, bilateral, policy-governed scalar-price negotiation with non-... - [Simple Compute Market Design Patterns](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/scm-design-patterns): Historical May 29, 2026 component-release design context: separable roles, configured-registry discovery, scalar-price policy with non-price VM ter... - [Compute Sovereignty and Programmable Markets](https://www.arkhai.io/blog/compute-sovereignty-programmable-markets): How buyers, sellers and market operators can shape the agreements and markets they depend on, with compute as the worked example.