 What's up? It's Rachel here. And today I'm doing a live AMA with ArcIO. Today, we've got the co-founder of ArcIO, Travis Walker with us. And we've also got Justin Rincon. He's the senior brand manager of ArcIO. Hey, guys, how are you? How are you? Good, good to see you. So, yeah, definitely. I'm excited for this AMA. Let's just get started with the first question. What is ArcIO? And how is it different from other blockchain ecosystems? Justin, do you want to take that? I will definitely take that. Yeah, I've been taking this question for years. Yeah, well, Arc is the simplest way to blockchain. I mean, what we're doing at Arc.io is we're building a platform of cohesive products that allows both users and developers to harness blockchain technology in the simplest and easiest way possible and the fastest, really. We're working on products like the Deployer, which allows any developer to deploy a blockchain in just one click, where all the background processes happen in the background automatically and you have your own blockchain fully customized to your specs while you're sipping a coffee. And that's just one example. But we also have desktop and mobile wallets, really easy to use for everyday people. We have platform SDK for developers to interact with many different blockchains, popular chains, and get data out in a very efficient way. And as well, we're launching a new platform called MarketSquareSoon, which is a social platform designed to bring users and developers together with blockchain-powered projects and businesses so that they can build community together. Very cool. I mean, it sounds like the Arc ecosystem is pretty vast. Travis, do you mind kind of explaining maybe the different elements and systems that you guys tend to focus on within the ecosystem? Yeah, well, we're focused on our core. This is the coding behind the blockchain itself. But we're also focused on growing our community and our projects. Like Justin mentioned the Deployer MarketSquare coming up, the platform SDK. But platform SDK, I wanted to jump on that real quick. If you're familiar with Coinbase and their Rosetta API, it's something similar to that, a universal way to interact with all kinds of different protocols and make it easier to interact with them. We're also focusing on like node management for brand new blockchains that are spinning up in the Arc ecosystem. We're focused on our new desktop wallet just coming out what's gonna be multi-asset, not just Arc. And there's much more in the background and more coming in the future. Awesome, great. Before I go on to my next question, I just want to remind our audience to subscribe to the YouTube channel and to please start sending your questions because Justin and Travis are ready to answer anything. So feel free to send those in the chat. And yeah, so next question, Justin, Justin, I'd like you to take this one. I know that Market Square is kind of a big deal right now within the ecosystem. Can you kind of further explain what that is? Yes, definitely. And it's true that Market Square is a pretty big deal in the ecosystem right now because it allows Arc to have a springboard to offer value in communicating with other projects and businesses in order to form strategic relationships with the rest of the industry. So it's already nice that we have this really powerful toolkit for developers. JavaScript and TypeScript developers can use our toolkits to build blockchains, customize chains, integrate with the Arc public network, and the Arc crypto asset, do all that stuff. But Market Square is kind of taking care of the dark side of the moon if that was one side of the moon. And that is the social aspect of bringing the entire industry together. So what we've been doing in the later half of 2020 and now is really reaching out to many different projects and businesses and protocols as well. We've been doing a lot with the Hive ecosystem that's running a lot of social media apps such as 3Speak and D.Buzz and Dappler, but also different businesses, like even e-tailers like cryptos. They sell these crypto themed socks that you can wear and Dogecoin cuff links, they got it all. But really it's kind of like a cooler version of LinkedIn for the crypto and blockchain industries. So that users and developers who wanna discover real services that they can use with blockchain can do that and connect with their favorite blockchain powered projects and businesses. And as we roll out more features to this platform after the initial public beta launch, we're going to be integrating Arc technology into the Market Square platform directly with crypto fueled transactions and payments for things like promotional posts, advertising and other features like that. Very cool. Can we talk a little bit about the Arc token? How can people earn the Arc token to businesses accept that? Travis, maybe do you wanna go into detail there? Yeah, the Arc token is, it runs on the Arc blockchain. It can be used as a payments system. It can be used for transfers like any cryptocurrency can. But it also is used in a governance aspect on the Arc network itself to vote in delegates, which is, some people call them validators but Arc call them delegates. Every Arc token that a user holds equals one vote for a delegate, push them into a forging position. So if you feel that you're comfortable with a certain delegates running the Arc network for you, you vote for them and you put their trust into them. At any point in time, you can change your votes. You can swap between your Arc wallets into mobile and you can vote from your ledger hardware wallets. Going into the side of work, you use Arc, sites like travel law accept Arc. There's things like now payments that integrate Arc for retailers or websites. There's a lot of different uses. So if a business wanted to actually accept the Arc token, is it easy for them to just like set up and do that? What's the process like? Yeah, there is. We had something called Arc pay. It's on our GitHub. People can utilize that. But like I was mentioning now payments, they have a great system to just integrate with websites like Shopify type of websites and stuff like that. Yeah, and cryptocurrencycheckout.com as well, I believe also has that. And just recently, Arc was integrated into Travala.com as well. Very well-known platform for booking travel and flight hotel accommodations using cryptocurrency. That has also been integrated as well. So yeah. Awesome, that's really, really cool. I'm gonna take some questions or a question from the audience real quick. So let's see here. Jermaine Medant Dima is asking, what's the difference with coin market cap and market square? Oh yes, that's a good question. I like that question. Travis, I got this one if you don't mind. So yeah, the key difference between coin market cap and market square really lies in the vision of what we want people to do on our platform. So when you go to coinmarketcap.com, they do a pretty good job at showing you all this different information about different projects and you can learn about what they do in the descriptions of each project, right? Each crypto asset and ecosystem that lies under it. However, the difference is coin market cap seems to have a bit more focus on valuations, market capitalizations, financial information, price histories, that kind of thing. I guess more like a speculator resource, right? Even in the name, right? coinmarketcap.com, that's what they're doing. With market square, we're focusing on utility first. So we're showing our users that come to market square what you can specifically do with different crypto assets, with blockchain projects, which DApps are running on which networks and organizing that information so that somebody with a specific interest set can access all of the real services that would interest them quickly and easily. So like with coin market cap, it's more like filtered by the biggest market cap. But like, if I'm somebody who wants to find really cool blockchain games, I'm not really gonna find games that are really cool like Splinterlands or Town Star by sorting by biggest market cap, right? So market square is more like, what do you like to do? Who do you like to hang out with? What are you interested in? Where do you see blockchain technology going? Like what examples do you wanna see of blockchain technology enriching real people's lives right now? That type of experience is what we're trying to give people with market square. Got it, Travis, did you wanna add anything to that? I think he nailed it. Cool, well, just based on that, I'm curious, are you guys doing anything with NFTs because obviously that's huge right now and I think it's a great real world use case. So Justin, did you wanna take that? Yeah, sure, yeah, NFTs are definitely big right now. And it's interesting, you know, because Arc, like Arc.io, we're kind of like OGs in the space, you know, Arc started mid to late 2016. Now it's after 2020, right? So we're into 2021. So we've seen like the ICO craze come and we've seen the DeFi craze come and now we're seeing the NFT craze come. Each wave brings with it real utility, of course, but there's definitely a lot of buzz and hype going on with NFTs right now. Earlier last year, Arc launched the Enterprise Blockchain Services Division called Protocol. Protocol is designed to help enterprises and businesses design business models around blockchain and then integrate it into their existing processes. So as a mechanism for that end goal, they're doing a lot of experimenting and looking into working with NFTs. And in specifics, I'm talking about things like the sports entertainment industry. There's lots of applications for NFTs there. We've seen that with things like NBA Top Shots, right? Esports is something that I think the traditional markets are overlooking a little bit because only recently has esports been starting to get as much notoriety as regular sports. And so the cool thing about esports is it's already E, right? So the collectibles can also be E by way of NFTs. And so Protocol is doing a lot of work with that. The cool thing that Market Square has been doing with NFTs is releasing some content, educational content that makes NFTs understandable and gets people's gears turning about what NFTs can really do. We have a video series on the Market Square YouTube channel called The Blockchains of, where we take a look at popular movies and TV shows and figure out how blockchain can power that fictional technology. We recently released an episode called The Blockchains of Ready Player One during Digicon, a blockchain gaming festival. And it was a widely received video. It became the number one video on our channel within one day. So that's just one example of the power of NFT buzz. But the video itself is really great, very well done, teaches you a lot about NFTs, blockchain, real life VR, experiences powered by blockchain. So definitely recommend anybody to check that out on the Market Square YouTube channel. Cool, yeah, it sounds like you guys are definitely doing a lot in terms of educating the public about blockchain and cryptocurrency. I was also reading that there's something called on your platform a blockchain glossary. Is that correct? Travis can talk about that if he likes. Actually, I like Justin's talk about it because I'm pretty sure he used the main guy for that whole project, so. Thank you. Yes, we've compiled a glossary of over 300 blockchain terms to help beginners in both the user space and the developer space get into the blockchain industry quickly and easily. So what we ended up actually doing was collaborating with the community. And I run this little thing called the Arc Community Committee where I got a bunch of people together in the community who was like, hey, you wanna help us do cool stuff? You wanna get some Arc, then join the committee. So part of that project was having the committee go out and find all these different blockchain terms, help define them and kind of work together to create this collaborative glossary. And once that was done, we're starting to now make videos about each term. So on the Market Square YouTube channel, which also acts as an educational resource and platform, as well as all the other things I talked about, we're creating videos for each term so that people who are just getting into blockchain and they're like, well, what does that word even mean? They'll be able to access quick, short, concise videos that gets right to the point for each term. So yeah, it's a very cool thing. I think a glossary is a cool way to kind of get people involved to learn because every time you read one sentence about blockchain it has like two or three terms in it where you're like, what does that mean? And then you read the next sentence and that spawns nine more terms. And you're like, what do those mean? So we figured that glossary would be a cool way to kind of tackle that. Yeah, definitely. I mean, especially as more of the mainstream starts to enter the crypto space, we need things like glossaries and educational resources where people can just easily see what these terms mean. I'm gonna take another question from the audience real quick. This is actually a really interesting question. Alessandro Perilla is asking, can ARC solve the problems of Ethereum? That's not a solid day. That's not a solid day. You wanna answer that? Yes and no, I guess. Transaction wise, yeah, I don't see why it wouldn't be a great alternative. We're not trying to replace anyone by any means we run our own path. But the way ARC is designed is multiple chains. So it's one chains fast, but when you have parallel blockchains that can offload multiple transactions in between interoperable blockchains, you start solving scalability. It's, that's kind of how we've been designing it in the background since 2016. And with our new core V3, we're in the last step making this actually happen. Very cool. Justin, did you wanna add anything to that? Yeah, sure. The scalability issue of Ethereum, which is a very widely adopted decentralized computer blockchain, right? That's kind of one of the driving forces that attached me to ARC in terms of its vision because as a speculator, it's a great thing to have everything run on one network and it all relies on one crypto asset by force through gas fees. That's a great thing for speculators because then it kind of like strong arms the utility of the main crypto asset. But for a user, it might be less than fair from time to time. If, for example, like I wanna use Ethereum to pay somebody to mow my lawn, if the fees are really high because some random application I've never heard of is getting really popular on the same network, then that doesn't seem fair to me or the person I'm paying to mow my lawn. So that's where I was starting to ask questions about scalability and I found ARC's vision to be really elegant in terms of giving each use case or each even decentralized application on its own its own standalone blockchain and then allowing interoperability to take care of the glue that makes that ecosystem up. And then with the ARC crypto asset at the middle of that ecosystem, it's running on the ARC public network which is not bogged down by specialized code that has been put there by other developers who want to run specific applications. So I can pay somebody to mow my lawn using ARC in a very cheap and efficient way while also enabling an ecosystem, a thriving ecosystem of hundreds of applications running on ARC technology at the same time. So I saw that as kind of a win-win there. Got it, got it. I'm gonna take another question from the audience real quick that's kind of related to what we were just talking about. So this is from hard classic records. He's asking, is it possible that Ethereum developers are moving their projects to the ARC blockchain easily? Travis, do you wanna answer that one? Yeah, it certainly can. I know a lot of Solidity developers right now would rather stick with Solidity though. So they're going to Ethereum clones at the moment but there is a very easy way to actually make this happen. We have an ERC-20 token, a conversion system. Really use that with the new ARC Deployer and you convert your Ethereum tokens into an ARC-based blockchain and token. It's called the ARC Migrator and it'll be coming along with the Deployer. So yeah, you could be an Ethereum DAP and then you could convert all your stuff onto an ARC chain easily with the Migrator and you can launch the ARC chain really easily with the Deployer, then you can manage nodes really easily using Notom, another product in our platform family. So yeah. Awesome, just a reminder to the audience please keep sending your questions. These guys know everything so please send them our way so we can answer them. I'm gonna go back to one of my questions real quick. I wanna talk a little bit about open source because I know the ARC platform is open source and I think that this is really important for the blockchain ecosystem in general. So Travis, what are your thoughts on open source and the importance there? It's extremely important. That's what this whole industry is about. We wouldn't be here without it. Everything that we do is all open source except when we're developing it but when we release it to the public it is all open source. We believe in that. We're actually, I believe we are part of the COPPA, correct? Yeah, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance. So yeah, it's an organization designed to put forward a culture that doesn't try to iron fist, grip all the intellectual property in the blockchain space. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Definitely a cool thing to be a part of that organization. There's a video about that on our YouTube channel as well. Awesome. Okay, so a comment from the audience from Harshji Tiwari, he's saying, hey Travis, can I get an ARC cap? I'm a believer in ARC since day one and I would love to wear it to college. So just throwing that out there, you guys have a lot of fans that want hats. Shop.arc.io. Nice. Just off an ARC hat. Yeah, I got my tan one over there. I'm not wearing it right now, but yeah, the hats are really cool. Yeah, that hat is awesome. Okay, back to a question from the audience. Let's talk a little bit about the new wallet. So audience member Dissociative is saying, will the new wallet allow to hold stable coins? Oh. The new wallet is running on our, combined with our platform SDK, which is supporting Ethereum. It will support Ethereum. So everything built on Ethereum will eventually holding stable coins can be added to the multi-asset wallet, yes. Justin, did you want to add anything to that? No, yeah, Travis got it locked down, yeah. Yes. Can you guys also just talk about the new wallet? Are there any cool features that you want to discuss? Anything like that, Justin, Travis? Yeah, just looking at the, as we continue to look at the designs and how the development is coming together for the actual functionalities of the wallet and seeing the wallet in action, what I've noticed that's a huge improvement in the wallet is we've really improved the user flow for doing common actions in the wallet, things like sending funds, receiving, adding a new address. It's much more user-friendly in terms of it takes you on a little bit of a journey through the steps, and it doesn't expose you to too much information at once. When we're designing things like the wallets, we have people who have never used crypto in mind. And one of the really cool things is that, even though there are some really great wallets out there that have a great user experience, the wallets like, for example, Abra, Spend, Exodus, Atomic Wallet, all great wallets, all great user experiences, we take extra pride in being the business entity responsible for helping to maintain the code base of a blockchain project directly, but also being able to release these types of products that have really great user experiences. I mean, when Arc first started, it was like 2016, and wallet experiences were far worse than they are now. And so the Arc wallet coming out in 2017 really helped us earn a trusted place in the industry as being a user first, and really valuing the user experience as a blockchain project natively, which was kind of like a new, innovative thing at the time. So definitely some really cool things coming to the new wallet. And I think the Arc fans and people just discovering Arc, both will really enjoy what we've got going on with the wallet. I think my favorite thing coming is the sheer speed of it, just connecting to a ledger. If anyone has a ledger wallet with multiple addresses, it takes some time to pull those addresses and bring them up into the wallet. It is lightning fast now. Awesome. I have a question about the new wallet. Also we're seeing a lot of these wallets integrate with tax platforms to help make crypto taxes easier. Are you guys doing something like that already or are you planning to do that moving forward? So one of the cool things is MarketSquare allows us to forge relationships with entities that handle crypto taxes, things like token tax, come to mind, joining MarketSquare. And so that kind of opens doors for Arc to add more functionalities to the wallet and other products. So the wallet is unique for us because of the plug-in manager that we're integrating into the wallet. So this plug-in manager will allow both Arc.io and third parties to release applications that enhance the wallet experience. Similar to when you use the Google's Play Store or the iOS Store to use apps to enhance your phone, you can do that same thing, enhance your wallet with the plug-in manager. So plug-ins can include things like tax-based applications that help you manage your activities within the wallet. It's definitely within the realm of possibility and capability using Arc technology. Awesome. Cool. I'm gonna take another question from the audience. Cam CYJ is asking, will the multi-asset wallet have swaps? If so, is it looking to compete with stuff like Atomic and Exodus? Travis, do you wanna answer that? I don't think that's gonna be a feature right out of the gate. It's not something I wouldn't say no to at the moment. I'm just thinking of getting the coins into the multi-asset wallet, getting the wallet out first before we start looking at it like a built-in dex or something like that. It's not a no, but it's not our focus to get out right now. Okay. The roadmap is showing that we're laying the foundations to include decentralized communications between different blockchains. So we have this technology called HTLC SmartBridge that is currently functioning on the Arc development network, which is not the Arc main network, the Arc public network. That technology would allow Arc public network to swap decentralized with new blockchains that are powered by Arc technology. So if you had, for example, let's say like a blockchain developer wanted to launch an Arc-based chain to power their decentralized application, or maybe somebody launched it with their own crypto asset name called like game or something, then Arc HTLC SmartBridge would allow swaps to happen between the Arc public network and that games blockchain. And so naturally, like eventually, the wallet would be able to help facilitate those swaps and people could do those swaps within the wallet. But like Travis said, it's not a priority number one right now because we're still fleshing out the total product platform offering kind of overall. And then we'll be iterating that over time. But I wanted to add that right now in the wallet, you can already use the plugin system. Like there's like change now is already in the plugin system. So you can do swaps using the change now. They'll be in the new wallet as well. And anyone can really build any kind of plugin they'd like to put into the wallet. Cool. So I have a question that I wanted to ask. It sounds like because the ecosystem is so vast, I'm wondering what's the best use case for Arc IO? I mean, is it payments? Is it enterprise? In your opinion, what would you say is the best and maybe most common use case that you guys are seeing? Justin, do you wanna answer that? Yeah, sure. It's interesting because we are building a toolkit that developers can use to do anything, but also do that easier than they could with something like Solidity. So we have what's called Arc smart transactions, which are discrete TypeScript modules that developers can integrate into their new blockchain that they're creating with Arc. These transactions can be designed to do anything. Any developer that knows TypeScript can design functions that they can integrate into their version of the Arc core and do whatever they wanna do. For example, there's a project right now that's built and powered by Arc called Compendia. And Compendia is essentially using Arc technology to implement DeFi applications as well as decentralized Oracle networks. So Compendia is doing something kind of similar to something like a chain link using Arc technology. And they're using Arc smart transactions to do that and get that job done. So I guess the shortest way to answer it would be as Arc.io, we're trying to build a library of tools that developers can use to do anything. However, as we notice developers doing more and more specific things, we can start to integrate quick launch use cases into what we're already deploying. So for example, Deployer, the product that you can use to make a blockchain, you would be able to customize that blockchain, things like the number of delegates, things like the block time, things like the tokenomics of the blockchain. And so in the future, we can deploy modules in Deployer that says, oh, are you making a blockchain that you need NFTs on? We have an NFT module already done for you. You can just press this button and it's already on your blockchain too. Or something like, do you wanna have like what's it called? Document storage, like a way to store documents on the blockchain itself instead of using something like IPFS. Like we have a module for that. Like you can just put that on. So like as we assess the use cases and the needs of both our partners and new people coming to Arc Technology, we can expand our product suite to include those types of use cases. Awesome, great. Just another reminder to the audience, keep sending questions. I'm gonna take another one right now, actually, which is relatable to what we were just speaking about. It's from Cam CYJ. He's asking, when someone deploys a chain via Arc Deployer, what is the upper limit of TPS? Travis, do you wanna take this one? Upper limits. I mean, that would be hardware-based, I guess, at the moment. It's tough. The best would be to sandbox it and run a test simulation. It's gonna be a little different than the real world, but really it's limited, I guess, on your hardware, latency, how many delegates you have, what you set your TPS at, what you're sending itself. Is it just transactions? Are you sending multi-payments? So are you sending NFTs? Is there a lot of data being sent back and forth? It depends, really. Yeah, it does. It does depend. I mean, as your number of delegates goes down, your blockchain will get higher throughput because there's less block propagation that's needed, but it kind of depends on the use case. So the developer who's designing and customizing the blockchain will need to kind of understand these types of parameters, like how they would affect performance and then what performance they need and what specifications they need. You could create a blockchain with just five delegates and everybody's voting on five delegate slots and all the delegates are located in one country in Europe or something and they're all right there, like maybe on a university campus and you could have transactions per seconds of as high as you can think, but then if you had another blockchain that's running on slow internet in all different continents, then that's gonna affect the performance of that blockchain. So I guess like to answer that question like simply, we haven't executed our own experiments on what the limitations of transactions per seconds could be in different environments. However, we know that we can always raise the TPS as needed and it's remained stable. Like right now the ArcPublic network is, Travis correct me if I'm wrong, is it at 500 transactions per block right now and each block is eight seconds? Because we were always increasing it, so. The DevNet I believe is on 500 right now. The ArcMainNet right now is at 150 with multi payments that you're looking up at 2,000 plus TPS. Yeah, yeah. And then that can just be increased as needed because of delegated proof of stake makes it really easy to do those types of scalability actions. You're also fighting centralization versus decentralization too when you're thinking about TPS. Hire the TPS most likely to lower the decentralization. Because now you're like he's talking about latency hardware which is great for like an enterprise blockchain. They don't need decentralization. They can push a million transactions between their two servers that are running. But when you're looking at centralized blockchain and environment, then you start pushing real world testing as opposed to centralized enterprise blockchain simulations. Right, yeah. That kind of leads into the next question that I'm gonna take from an audience member in K. He's asking why did Arc choose DPOS instead of POS? That's Travis all day. He was there. I mean, he was there. I didn't come in until like 2018. It was something that we knew. We knew DPOS. We all came from a DPOS background. We knew it could be better than it was. Like there was voting issues in the past. There was address creation issues in the past. We saw the actual need for a DPOS system and we went with that. Got it, makes sense. Okay, another question from an audience member. Rose Lovely is asking, what is it about ETN and Arc partnership? What is it about? What is the partnership about? Yeah, I suppose maybe that's what Rose Lovely meant. Okay, yeah, sure. Well, that is largely due courtesy of MarketSquare, reaching out to a lot of different projects, businesses, protocols, and Electronium and any task was a really great grab that MarketSquare had. We have a strategic partnerships manager, Ray Alvarez, pounding the pavement, constantly bringing in new projects that are joining MarketSquare. And then as I mentioned earlier, doing it like this and having a product like MarketSquare allows us to open doors to start conversations with other entities in the industry to really create a lot of synergy and build something even cooler than we could have done separately. So if we go to the blog article, which is at blog.arc.io, you have a cool article about this partnership with Electronium and any task. And any task is a really great platform that Electronium is doing. And it's basically like this Fiverr-type solution for freelancers, but also integrated with blockchain technology. And it's using the Electronium platform to facilitate all the payments for all the freelancers, which allows them to make money from all over the world without needing a bank account. So as we kind of move forward with projects such as anytask.com and Electronium, we can figure out more things that we can do with these types of entities. Like for example, like having Arc as part of the payment mechanism is possible. So like having this type of relationship allows that door to be opened. But I guess without taking too much of the time here in the AMA, there's already a blog article about this. You can just check it out on blog.arc.io. Great. I'd like to also talk a little bit about the roadmap and what we can expect moving forward. Are you guys able to kind of discuss that and maybe some features that we can expect to see? Travis, do you wanna take that one? Yeah, most of what we've discussed so far is roadmap items like the new wallets, new core code base, MarketSquare. All of this is all roadmap based. Okay, well, based on, I mean, so an audience member is asking, invisible, the audience member is asking, when will the new Explorer be released? The new Explorer is gonna come with core V3. It's pretty much ready. I think it's the newest, the last version, the updated version is on the test net right now or DevNet. Yeah. But I think they're gonna be polishing some new designs when we release the core V3 with it. Yeah, very true. There's like a first look at the functioning new version of the Explorer at dexplorer.arc.io. So dexplorer.arc.io is where you can go and see this first look at the new design. But as Travis said, there's probably gonna be some additional tweaks and improvements before core V3 goes to the Arc Public Network. But yeah, the new Explorer is really clean. I'm looking at it right now. That's why I'm not looking at the camera, Rachel. Sorry. I'm enamored. The design is really clean. It looks beautiful. And it really is cohesive along with the other products that we'll be releasing. The new wallet, Market Square, it's just all just like this really clean look. So definitely a lot of credit goes to the design team for that. Yeah, that's awesome. I wish you could share your screen, Justin, and show us that. But I mean, obviously I'll check it out after this. It just, you make it sound so amazing. So I'm excited to see it. Yeah, and I bring that up, Rachel, because as I remember my journey with crypto in the beginning times, the Block Explorers were always something that was a little extra confusing to me because I was like, well, okay, I'm here at this location, but what does this mean? And what does that data point mean? And how much crypto is here? And where did this crypto go to? And it was difficult for me to get my hand around other explorers. I think it's probably largely due to the UTXO model, which can get kind of like convoluted. But with architecture technology, like you can go to the Explorer and you can like clearly see like, okay, here's the address, here's what it is, copy to clipboard, like see what happened with all these different funds, see all these different transactions where they came from, where they're going to, the dates and all that. Like it's really just nice and clean. So that's one of the things that I really liked. I remember that from my early days. So I wanna bring that up. Yeah, exactly. I mean, we need more user-friendly applications. That's for sure, because if we're gonna get mainstream adoption, that's like one of the major elements here. So I think what you guys are doing, it's great on top of that with the blockchain glossary, market square. I mean, this is all I think, these are all the elements needed in order to drive adoption to blockchain networks. I couldn't have said it better myself, Rachel. Yeah, we're hiring. No, I'm just kidding. Well, actually someone was interested, an audience member, Jeroenick is asking, how many developers do you have right now? Oh, yeah, Travis, do you know? The easiest answer for that right now is to go to arc.io slash about and click the expand button to look at our entire team. We keep that updated as much as often as possible. Arc.io forward slash team. Yeah, arc.io forward slash team. Yeah, we've got, I mean, nearly 16 on the development team right now. And the design teams got four people on it, including Eugenie, who works on the motion design, works closely with me because I do like the arc YouTube channel at youtube.arc.io and he makes off like the cool like visual video graphics for that, which I really like. And then the protocol team, which is, as I mentioned earlier, the subsidiary of arc.io, working on enterprise blockchain solutions also has a completely separate roster of team members, including developers. So there's a lot of developers on the team. And of course, we're always hiring and looking for the newest talent to join our team. So if you're proficient in TypeScript, you can check out arc.io forward slash careers and take a look at what we've got going on over there. Awesome. And I'm trying to encourage more women to enter the space. So ladies, if you're watching this AMA, arc is hiring, they're a great company. They're a great team. Be sure to check out that site with the openings. Cool. So I'm going to take another question from the audience. And I also just want to remind the audience to keep sending questions. We've still got some time here. So Justin and Travis can answer those questions. Jermaine Medima is asking, when will Nodem be released? Nodem's basically done. Like I said with the Explorer though, it's kind of like a bundle deal with the new Deployer and Core V3 coming out. It's all coming at once. Yeah. Got it. I'm going to take another. Justin, did you want to add to that before I go on to another question? Oh, not much. I was just going to say that to fully appreciate the value that each of our products brings to the blockchain space, they all kind of need to work together in tandem. So like to see the value of my grader, it really helps to have the Deployer already ready for you right now. To see the value of Nodem, it helps to have something else ready right now. To see all these things. So it's all kind of interconnected. Not unlike Adobe Creative Suite. Like Adobe Creative Suite, they have all these different products like Photoshop and Premiere and After Effects. But when they all work together, you can really understand the true power of creation. And so like the Arc blockchain platform is kind of like that to have all these different complementary products working together. And so yeah, as we're building them, we have to rely on each one and all the features of each one as we're building them. And then we'll be releasing them kind of like bang, bang, bang, basically. At least that's the plan at least. Cool. I'm gonna take another question from the audience. It's actually an interesting question from Dissociative. He's asking, is Polkadot copying architect Travis? What do you think? I don't think anyone's copying anyone really. We all have the same thoughts of interoperability and our own ways of going about it. Each project is focused on interoperability, but I don't see anyone copying anyone. Everyone's going their own directions. We're all here to work together. That's what interoperability is, right? Right. And you guys were also just talking about the importance of open source for the blockchain community. So I think that kind of relates to that as well. I totally agree with that. Moving on to another audience question. I like this question, because Justin, I was commenting on the poster behind you. So this is a fun question. How did you come up with the design for the poster behind you, Justin? Or I don't know if you can type this design, but it's a pretty awesome poster. Thank you, thank you. Everybody be asking me about this poster. I went on the Coin Republic to do an interview earlier this week. They were asking me about the poster. I saw you, Rachel, today. The first thing you said was, whoa, what's up with that poster? So this poster is a commission that I commissioned for a delegate on the Arc Public Network. The delegate's called Delegate the Golden Horde and they're responsible for different creative acts and they do like a lot of artwork type stuff. So I came to them and I said, hey, can you make me a poster like from nothing? And I want it to be like the LA skyline and then like me and some people being cool with Arc and then like have the logo and have like some palm trees. And they were like, yeah, sure, no problem. So they came up with this, which looked 10 times cooler than I ever thought it would be. I thought it was gonna be like way more basic than this. So I created two editions of it. I minted two editions of it. One of them's in LA as a winning prize for a Crypto Trivia show that I did in 2019. The other one's right behind me. So who knows, maybe I'll NFT this someday, but for now it's just a cool poster in my room. Yeah. Thank you Delegate Golden Horde. It's really great. I love it. And I wanna see that as an NFT Justin. That's awesome. Love that poster. Okay, back to a serious question now. So I'm curious to know, obviously there's still a lot of challenges and work that need to be done in the blockchain space. So I wanna know from both of you, what in your opinion, what are the biggest challenges that still need to be overcome within the ARC ecosystem? So Travis, do you wanna go first on that? Biggest challenges, I guess interoperability itself is a huge, that's a huge issue, but also the user side of it, not just the back end, but the easy to use, getting somebody, like having your grandma be able to cross chain transaction by clicking a button instead of researching what that even means. That's a huge hurdle in the industry that I see right now. Justin, do you have that? Yeah, I mean, ease of use and user experience is always gonna be a massive hurdle in this space. I mean, regardless, the hurdle is the same for every single entity that's involved in this space. I mean, we're constantly battling, like Travis said, constantly battling that user experience problem of how do we make blockchain as easy as possible for the most people possible? And so there's that. But also in recent years, like 2020, as we start to re-strategize and release products as their own brands, like for example, MarketSquare is its own brand. It's not like Arc Marketplace and like Nodom is its own brand. It's not Arc Node Manager, right? Deployer is its own brand now. It's not Arc Deployer. We're releasing products that appeal to the entire industry, but that comes with it, that brings with it the challenge of breaking into that industry, cutting through the noise with a new brand, right? It's almost like that startup mentality. I mean, Arc is a well-funded entity that's already been around for four years and it's probably gonna be around for at least 10 more years based on funding we have now. But at the same time, we're launching new brands that appeal to the entire industry, not just the Arc ecosystem, that are, I get, I mean, in one way, competing with existing brands, but in another way are brands that nobody knows about yet. So we have to do a lot of work to get the word out there and build the brand awareness with those brands as we have with Arc as well. So yeah, those are challenges as well. Very, very true. Got it, okay. Just wanna remind the audience, we've still got a little bit of time. Please send your questions. And if you haven't done so already, subscribe to the YouTube channel for more very awesome AMAs like this. I'm gonna take another question from an audience member. Bradley Henry is asking, will the Explorer have an API? Travis, do you wanna answer that one? Yeah, it will. Very simple, yes. Justin, you wanna elaborate on that or is it just? Yeah, I mean, yeah. But also like the Arc API itself that interfaces with the Arc core is really elegant API. And it's been getting some tweaks over the years. Like we've redesigned the API. Now I think it's on API v2. But if you're not a developer and there's probably people watching the AMA that aren't developers, it's a lot harder than you think to get data out of like a standard issue popular blockchain in the top 10 right now. And there's like a lot of like random hoops and hurdles that developers have to go through to use the APIs of certain blockchains. So this is why there's a huge need for things like Coinbase's solution and R solution platform SDK. But the cool thing is that the Arc API is just natively easy. I mean, everything we're doing is trying to live up to our vision of the simplest way to blockchain. Like that is what you see in big texts when you come to Arc.io, you see the simplest way to blockchain. So everything we do is trying to live up to that. And the API is definitely no exception. So developers have specifically said how easy it is to work with the API. Like for example, Delegatefun is a delegate that operates Arcfun.io, which is a suite of blockchain powered games that you can play online and win Arc every day. It's a pretty cool use case of Arc technology. And Delegatefun said that, you know, Arc is so simple to use, I barely even needed to read the documentation. So it's definitely a testament to how simple it is. But yeah, that's a longer version of, yes, there's an API for the Explorer. I didn't forget the question, but I wanted to add a couple of those things because I know we're running out of time. Yeah, definitely. So I think I'm gonna take one more question from the audience. Cam CYJ is asking, can you explain Arc logic? Justin, I think you kind of touched on this just now with saying, you know, blockchain simplicity, but is there something else that you guys wanna add to that in terms of the logic behind Arc? Yeah, yeah, sure. So Arc logic is our name for the technology that developers use to implement decentralized logic into a blockchain, okay? So on Ethereum side, they call that like Solidity and smart contracts, right? On our side, we call that Arc logic and Arc smart transactions. That might be, that might be a, you know, swap that. Solidity equals Arc smart transactions and smart contracts equals Arc logic. Okay, right. Now Arc logic allows developers to work with TypeScript, which is a very common programming language that 11.6 developers know in the world. So very common, unlike Solidity, which is a little more difficult to work with, but it lets developers design their own transaction types and integrate them into their version of the Arc core. So really easy to do that. And you don't need to worry about like making mistakes with coding using a new language, which can lead to very, very serious security vulnerabilities because you're dealing with blockchains value on the internet, other people's money in some cases too. So, yeah, Arc logic is designed to make decentralized applications easier for developers. Travis, what were you gonna say? I saw you making a face a little bit. I think you forgot to say million. 11.6 million? 11.6? Yeah. Exactly, 11.6 developers know. 11.6 developers. That's a lot, Rachel. That's a lot. I mean, we're going places with JavaScript and TypeScript right here. Yeah, it sounds like it. Awesome. Well, that's good to know. I'm sure everyone's excited to hear that. I know we're running low on time, so Travis, any final thoughts that you wanna add before we end the AMA? Yeah, if you have any other questions, you can find me on Twitter. You can find me in the public Arc Discord too. Jump in, learn, read our blog, follow. If you have, like I said, any questions at all, I'm always in Discord. It's true. He lives there. I think. Well, since we can't go anywhere basically, it's like what else are we gonna do, right? But Justin, what are your final thoughts that you wanted to add? Yes, final thoughts. I just wanna thank everybody out there who supports the Arc ecosystem. It definitely does not go unnoticed. Sometimes your support gets me through the day. It's really hard to work in this industry sometimes. There's a lot of stress, there's a lot of pressure. So thank you very much for your support. Also, I'd like you to help us out and join the MarketSquare.io public beta mailing list. You can do that at MarketSquare.io. MarketSquare is not available yet. However, the MarketSquare video channels are cranking out real content that can help you today. So you can go to any of the MarketSquare video channels on YouTube, on Threespeak, Decentralized, on Library, Decentralized, on Bitshoot, Decentralized, and you can learn all about cool blockchain stuff and watch more episodes of the Blockchains of, which is in my opinion the coolest video series to reach the blockchain industry that I've ever seen. It's so fun and cool. So check it out and make sure you watch a couple of episodes. Awesome. I'm gonna check that out also. That sounds really cool. Mm-hmm. That is correct. Great. Well, Justin and Travis, it's been a pleasure. It's good to see you again. I know that we ran into each other a few years back at World CryptoCon, so it's always a pleasure catching up and seeing the ecosystem grow. So thank you so much for joining us. And I just wanna say, yeah, and I just wanna say thank you to the audience for joining us. Please be sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel and yeah, it's been a pleasure.