§1 — The brief.
The brief.
Mawari is the Immersive Compute Network: a DePIN that streams AI-powered 3D experiences to any device in real time. The streaming technology — the Mawari Engine and its orchestration layer — is the client's own, running in production since the company's XR-streaming days. What the network needed was the decentralized half: a chain to carry node licensing, verification, and settlement; node software people can actually run; and the token infrastructure the economics depend on.
That is the part Zpoken builds. Rendering and streaming are millisecond-shaped workloads that don't belong on a blockchain — but proving that nodes are online, verifying the quality of streamed work, and settling rewards do. The engineering problem is keeping that boundary clean: a chain that coordinates a physical network without ever sitting in the streaming path.
§2 — What we shipped.
What we shipped.
[01]
Mawari Network chain — application-specific L3 rollup (chain ID 1576) on Arbitrum Nitro (AnyTrust), settling to Arbitrum One, built with Caldera; MAWARI as native gas token
─ LIVE · MAINNET
[02]
Guardian node stack — node operation, delegation offers, and reward claims through the Guardian Node Console
─ LIVE
[03]
Members Portal — Guardian Node License claiming and MAWARI staking
─ LIVE
[04]
On-chain protocol surface — Guardian Node Licenses as ERC-1155 with a 365-day transfer lock; node heartbeats as on-chain transactions; reward settlement
─ LIVE
Mainnet went live in May 2026.
§3 — Engineering decisions.
Engineering decisions.
An application-specific L3, not contracts on someone else's chain.
A DePIN whose node heartbeats are on-chain transactions needs its own blockspace and its own gas economics — on shared blockspace, a global node network is a noisy neighbor bidding in someone else's fee market. The Mawari chain is an Arbitrum Nitro rollup in AnyTrust mode settling to Arbitrum One: AnyTrust data availability keeps per-transaction costs low enough for DePIN-scale traffic, while Arbitrum One settlement keeps the canonical MAWARI token (ERC-20, 1B supply) where the ecosystem's tooling and stablecoin rails already are.
Thin on-chain, thick off-chain.
Streaming stays off-chain where latency lives; the chain carries only what needs to be provable: the license registry, node liveness, verified work, and settlement. Verification is split by hardware class — CPU-based Guardian Nodes verify the quality of work done by GPU-based Spatial Streamer Nodes — so checking the network's output never competes with rendering for the same compute.
License-gated node operation with delegation.
Guardian Node Licenses are ERC-1155 tokens with a 365-day transfer lock — operator commitment is enforced by the contract, not by policy. License holders who don't want to run hardware delegate through the console; the reward path stays on-chain either way. Staking runs through the same Members Portal, so the economic surface (claim, stake, delegate, collect) sits in one place with one auth model.
§4 — Where it stands.
Where it stands.
Live and ongoing. The network's mainnet launched in May 2026; license issuance is open; staking is live.
§5 — Tech stack.
Tech stack.
~/zpoken/work/mawari/stack
Arbitrum Nitro (AnyTrust) L3 · Caldera rollup infrastructure · Arbitrum One settlement · Solidity / EVM · ERC-1155 node licenses · ERC-20 canonical token · Blockscout explorer
§6 — Public surface.
Public surface.
§7 — Founders.
Founders.
Engagement led by Mike Yezhov and Anton Yezhov.