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PROJECT RESEARCH DOSSIER - Arcium
1 · WHAT IT BUILDS & WHY IT MATTERS Arcium (formerly Elusiv) is a decentralised confidential computing network built on Solana. Its core thesis: every blockchain computation today is public — whoever processes data must access it in plaintext, making privacy-sensitive applications (dark-pool DeFi, private AI inference, sealed-bid auctions, healthcare records) structurally impossible on-chain. Arcium's answer is Multi-Party Computation eXecution Environments (MXEs) — virtual machines where encrypted computation runs across a distributed cluster of Arx nodes. No single node ever sees the plaintext; outputs are verified and committed back to Solana. The team also ships arxOS (the distributed OS coordinating nodes), Arcis (a DSL compiler for MPC programs), and imminently C-SPL — a Confidential SPL token standard that extends Solana's existing Token-22 to hide not just balances but the logic governing token behaviour.
Why it matters to the ecosystem: • C-SPL has the potential to become a platform-level primitive on Solana — the way SPL is the base standard for all tokens. Every protocol wanting confidential tokens would build on Arcium's infrastructure, creating a compounding network-effect moat. • MXE architecture outperforms FHE (10–1000× overhead) and TEEs (hardware trust assumptions) for many workloads. Parallel execution across clusters is the differentiated design claim. • Target verticals with large addressable markets: institutional DeFi (dark-pool order books), AI inference on private data, DePIN sensor networks, and healthcare data.
2 · TOKENOMICS: SUPPLY, ALLOCATION & VESTING Total supply is 1,000,000,000 ARX (SPL token on Solana). Full tokenomics breakdown has NOT been published as a standalone document; the figures below are derived from the CoinList sale page, ICO Analytics, and the official community-round blog post.
Token utility: ARX is used for (1) node staking collateral to activate Arx nodes; (2) third-party delegation — stakers earn a share of computation rewards; (3) deflationary burn — during high network demand, priority fees are used to buy and burn ARX; (4) governance voting. Computation customers pay fees in a base gas token (not ARX), reducing direct fee-demand pressure on ARX price.
3 · UNLOCK & DILUTION RISK MODEL The community round (2% of supply) carries zero vesting — those 20M tokens are fully liquid at TGE. This is the only confirmed unlock schedule. The rest of the supply picture requires modelling from industry norms and stated intent, since the full vesting schedule has not been published.
Key dilution cliffs to watch: • If team cliff is 12 months, a large team unlock occurs ~12 months post-TGE. • If VC/seed cliff is 6 months, $9M of seed + strategic investment backing begins unlocking at month 6. Exact token count unknown — depends on undisclosed seed valuation. • Node reward inflation: ARX has a dynamic inflation mechanism that compensates node operators during low-compute periods. If demand ramps slowly, inflation supply could be meaningful in year 1. • Positive offset: high-demand periods trigger buy-and-burn from priority fees, creating deflationary counter-pressure.
4 · TEAM VERIFICATION SIGNALS Verifiable: Team is fully doxxed with traceable academic and professional histories. Audits of the original Elusiv program (OtterSec + ABDK Consulting for ZK circuits) are on-record. GitHub: github.com/arcium-hq/elusiv (Rust, 65 stars, 21 forks). Limitation: New Arcium MXE codebase has not had a published independent audit as of this writing — the team cites testnet operation as validation, but pre-mainnet formal audits have not been confirmed publicly.
5 · KEY RISK REGISTER Open the document to see the tables.
6 · ANALYST VERDICT The technology thesis is credible, the team is deeply credentialed in MPC/ZK, and C-SPL as a platform primitive could be genuinely high-value if Solana DeFi adoption continues. Elusiv's audited on-chain history and the Inpher talent acquisition strengthen execution confidence. CAUTION: Three items require resolution before a high-conviction position: (1) full vesting schedule publication, (2) an independent security audit of the new MXE codebase, (3) demonstrated fee-generating computation volume on mainnet. The $200M FDV community round entry is not cheap for pre-revenue infrastructure.
Here is the full document for those who wanna see tables. Not all data was possible to copy into this thread as text.