Ara: A community-led decentralized distributed computing and content delivery platform. Ara leverages the idle processing power, storage, and bandwidth capacity of any device in the world, turning it into part of a global supercomputer, database, and delivery network. These devices form the Ara network, an ecosystem that anyone can join and benefit from.

Ara Tokens

Distributed services created using Aras SDK are called modules, which can be bought, sold, requested, and redeemed on the Ara network. Module tasks can be outsourced within the network to peer users who, upon successful completion, are rewarded with Ara tokens. To foster an open and competitive marketplace, Ara allows service requesters to set bounty distributions or rewards for the services they request and service providers to determine their minimum acceptable bounty amounts. Similar to Amazon Mechanical Turk (a marketplace for crowdsourcing tasks requiring human intelligence), Ara establishes a market for outsourced distributed computing or networking tasks. Modules can be one-time on-demand tasks such as distributed transcoding or long-term recurring services like P2P multiplayer game servers.

Functionality
Ara tokens can be used in various ways across the network.
• For consumers, Ara tokens can be used to purchase a variety of content, from entertaining digital content to participation in new modules, etc.
• Service requesters can use Ara tokens to initiate work requests and set bounties for successful completion of these tasks.
• Service providers can pay an Ara token deposit as a commitment to complete tasks for a reward (deposits can be refunded upon request, but the provider cannot earn rewards anymore).
• Developers can use Ara tokens to deploy new modules within the network.
Given the significant overlap between these roles, service providers can directly use the Ara token bounties earned from completing tasks to purchase new content, and developers can use the Ara tokens earned from selling modules to initiate new work requests.