Stable Ark

Self-custodial, dollar-indexed bitcoin balances on Ark-family VTXOs. No issued token.

Status: research prototype — design notes published; Arkade-first PoC with Nostr discovery planned; no production software yet.

Stable Ark pairs a USD-indexed claim with a leveraged bitcoin counterparty on a normal public Ark operator. Price updates are joint multi-input offchain reallocations; lifecycle renewal uses each stack’s batch or intent path—not the price clock.

Anyone can seek stability or provide risk—there is no Stable Ark–run liquidity desk you must join. Counterparties meet over Nostr (replaceable relays), then settle with your keys on that public operator. Discovery can be censored only as hard as the relays you choose; the Ark operator’s co-sign path remains a separate trust assumption.