An arbitration network
Dispute resolution, arbitration, legal aid, and court-grade digital evidence — as an open network on Fabric.
A gig worker is owed three weeks' pay by a platform. The amount is too small to justify a lawyer and too large to walk away from. The dispute, the evidence, and the resolution all live in different places — if they exist in a usable form at all. Meanwhile arbitrators, legal-aid paralegals, and specialist firms have capacity that never reaches the people who need it, because discovery and trust are manual.
Fabric lets legal services, dispute resolution, and evidence operate as a network: needs and capacity discover each other, decisions carry verifiable authority, and every transaction on the network produces evidence a court can actually trust.
What changes
A gig worker files a dispute and gets a fair decision in days at an affordable fee, routed to an accredited arbitrator instead of a courtroom.
An NGO matches pro-bono paralegals to the people and firms who need them instantly, with certification verified — not via spreadsheets and phone calls.
A boutique competition-law firm reaches the right clients through discovery instead of marketing spend.
A private arbitration institution issues decisions whose authority is verifiable and machine-actionable — an award can trigger a downstream settlement or asset transfer under policy.
A district-court judge can trust digital evidence because its origin and chain of custody are cryptographically anchored, not asserted.
A small business gains confidence that a smart-contract handshake is recognisable as a contract, because intent, identity, and signature are all captured and auditable.
What Fabric provides — and what stays with the State
Fabric provides the rails: verifiable identity, discoverable services, signed agreements, and court-grade evidence trails. It does not replace the judiciary or confer legal force by itself — recognition of digital contracts and self-enforcing awards remains a matter of law and jurisdiction. The network's job is to make the evidence and authority so clean that existing legal processes can rely on them.
Where to start
Pilot one dispute type (e.g. gig-payment claims) in one jurisdiction: register arbitrators with accreditation credentials, publish a resolution-service catalogue, and run a claim end-to-end with the full evidence chain anchored. Evaluate the anchored record with a legal reviewer before scaling to more dispute types.