I released the Ara's whitepaper: Whitepaper, Bitcointalk forum, Website. Although the whitepaper approaches this from a blockchain perspective, Ara is not crypto project in a traditional sense. Instead, it redefines blockchain as a protocol agreement that carries software's semantics and acts as the decentralized recommendation engine. The Ara's goal is the "software ownership" for the users. Or in the decentralization community sense "Web3 as the creative digital workspace built on collective wisdom". Technically, it's a desktop shell where users can change the software itself. For developers who submit open-source projects, Ara gives a funding, and a feedback for refactoring projects toward MVC pattern: data lives on the user's computer, the view is on their screen, and the application itself is simplified into a remote service that does concrete thing. Possible future For me, the real use case for AI is embedded and possibly trained by the user, residing in the workspace, allowing to customize them. It also gains the semantics of the applications allowing for the extended Siri on the desktop. Also, Ara redefines the metaverse as MVC-split software with spatial data blending all applications together. There are Utopian ideas beyond the metaverse, but I kept those in the appendices of the whitepaper. AraTalk: • This post is to discuss the idea, criticism and collaboration are welcome. • For the blockchain related questions (technical, economical etc) visit Bitcointalk post (requires sign up to write) • For the open-source sustainability model, and Ara from the open-source maintainer's perspective, visit the SustainOSS discourse.