Permissioned Clusters

The Arcium Network offers versatile options when it comes to permissioned setups, enabling setups ranging from public / non-permissioned, to partially-permissioned, to entirely permissioned (fully self-operated).

Fully-Permissioned Clusters

Some organisations or institutions may opt to operate the entire Network stack themselves, including Clusters containing only self-operated Arx nodes, as well as running Middlelayer nodes themselves. Even such siloed organisations are still incentivized to run their use cases inside the Arcium Network (and not fork the protocol), since the Network collects no middleman fees (so no loss of value for siloed Computations) and they can take advantage of the broader census mechanism for dispute resolution even within their siloed use cases. Furthermore, such isolated use cases will also benefit from the natural price discovery of the Network-wide base price voting mechanism.

Partially-Permissioned Clusters

Partially Permissioned Clusters are Clusters where an organisation or institution runs some of the Arx node infrastructure themselves, but also includes some external Arx nodes to diversify their node-set. Such Clusters operate on a hybrid model, benefiting from the assurances associated with operating in a Cluster where, even if all external nodes were compromised, under dishonest majority MPC protocol rules, the Cluster would still remain secure and operable, while simultaneously benefiting from external oversight to their otherwise fully-permissioned Cluster.

Data Collaboration

One common use case for Permissioned Clusters on the Arcium Network will be companies performing, for example, data exploration or AI model training on siloed data held by multiple entities. On the Arcium Network, such entities can also readily collaborate with one another without gaining access to each other's data — but still reaping the mutual benefit from the derived insights.