About Arrow

Arrow is a global community collaboratively designing and building open source aircraft. We're working towards a future where affordable, automated VTOL aircraft increase physical connectedness for people everywhere.

How We Work

Arrow operates entirely online. We don't have offices or an official in-person presence — our community members are scattered all over the world, and we coordinate through Discord and GitHub. Periodically we hold in-person meetups to spend time together and assemble our designs, but day-to-day everything happens asynchronously online.

Decentralized Governance

Arrow is structured as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) on the Ethereum blockchain. We have our own token, $ARROW, which is distributed to contributors and used to govern our shared treasury and make decisions about where to focus the organization.

Arrow is not a company in the traditional sense. We don't have fiduciary responsibility to token holders — we're doing this out of passion to build technology we believe in. If you become a token holder, do so out of shared commitment to our vision rather than any expectation of financial return.

You can participate in governance on our DAO forum and Snapshot voting page.

Can a Distributed Community Build Real Hardware?

We think so. The software world has clearly shown that open-source is a viable way to build large and successful projects, and hardware is starting to look a lot more like software. Design and simulation tools have advanced to the point where many problems can be solved collaboratively without requiring hands-on hardware. AI tools are only increasing the efficacy of online hardware design.

Being internet-first lets us welcome talented engineers from all over the world rather than from one city. The coordination overhead of a distributed community may not be much of a penalty at all — and it's a huge asset when it comes to scaling designs out into the world quickly.

Instead of vertical scaling (think giant factory), Arrow optimizes for horizontal scaling — we build our designs everywhere, all at once, using our global community.