Games first. Everything else underneath.
What ArcadeUnion is, who is building it, and how to tell whether any of it is true.
One person, so far.
Working in crypto gaming since 2018. Six playable games, the smart contracts, the node software, the developer tools, our own blockchain and this website are the work of one person, unfunded.
That is said plainly because it cuts both ways. It means things get built and shipped quickly, and it means there is a single point of failure sitting at a desk. Anyone weighing this up should know which they are getting.
Reach me at contact@arcadeunion.com, on Discord, @arcuchain, or LinkedIn.
The evidence is the work
- Seven games you can play in a browser right now
- A sovereign Avalanche L1, live, carrying real contracts
- A marketplace settling in ARCU, with items listed on it
- A 979 KB game wiki stored as contract code — readable without any server of ours
- 832 passing tests across the system
None of that is a reason to trust the plan. It is a reason to believe things get finished.
A simple principle.
The people who play, build and power this should be able to see how it works. Not as a feature we added, but because a network that asks people to run it on their own machines owes them a straight answer about what it is doing.
Games first
The infrastructure exists to serve the games, not the other way round. If a chain makes a game worse, the chain is wrong.
Players need nothing
No wallet, no token, no sign-up to play. The parts that use a chain are optional and sit out of the way.
Rules published first
How contribution is scored and what it pays are written down before a period starts, not decided afterwards when the numbers are known.
What you can check yourself.
Claims are cheap. These are not claims.
Go and look
- The token contract, its cap, and that nobody can mint — source verified on Avalanche
- Every transaction on our chain, in the explorer
- The contracts themselves — the source is published for anyone to read
- The game wiki, read straight out of contract code
- What is live and what is not, on the transparency page
What you cannot check
- One computer runs our chain, and it is ours. We could stop it. It is not decentralised.
- Nothing has been security audited. Quotes have been requested.
- No node network is running and no rewards have been paid to anyone.
- Scores and contribution are counted on our machines, then published for challenge.
Come and build it with us.
Play the games and tell us what is broken. That is genuinely the most useful thing right now.