A digital-first arbitral institution combining internationally recognized arbitration and mediation principles with AI-assisted case administration, cryptographically verifiable evidence, and smart-contract settlement.
Solomaris Arbitration covers arbitration, emergency arbitration, mediation, consent awards, digital evidence, and smart-contract settlement — with expert determination planned as a later addition. Every arbitration agreement, panel, and Award is structured to satisfy the New York Convention, giving Solomaris Awards the same standing as an award of any conventional institution in any of the 172 states party to it.
Seventy-two hours is Solomaris's target average for a case proceeding on documents alone — not a jurisdictional deadline. Complex or hearing-based cases take longer, as the Solomaris Arbitration Rules provide for explicitly.
Either party files on-chain. Both lock a security deposit into smart-contract escrow, funding the panel and pricing out bad-faith claims.
Every document is hashed and anchored to the ledger with a cryptographic timestamp. The hash — not the document — goes on-chain, so alteration after submission is instantly detectable without exposing confidential content.
Certified arbitrators are drawn by a cryptographic lottery, provable on-chain. Neither party nor Solomaris can influence selection.
On quorum, the panel's decision — recorded by encrypted ballot — is written to the chain, and the smart contract settles automatically where assets are pre-locked in escrow.
Documentary evidence is submitted through the Engine, hashed on receipt, and anchored to the ledger with a timestamp. The underlying document is held encrypted off-chain, accessible only to the parties and the Tribunal. Alteration after submission is detectable by hash mismatch and may be treated by the Tribunal as going to the weight of the evidence and the credibility of the submitting party.
Where the parties' assets are held in smart-contract escrow, the contract executes the Award automatically on the terms it sets out — releasing escrow, paying fees, and closing the case. This operates as a contractual mechanism the parties pre-authorised at filing, not enforcement by compulsion. Where no asset is pre-locked, Solomaris issues the Award in conventional enforceable form.
The ICC, LCIA, SIAC, and — closest to home — arbitrateAD in Abu Dhabi are credible, modernising institutions, but none are purpose-built for on-chain evidence or smart-contract settlement. Blockchain-native platforms have chain-native mechanisms but no bundled compliance or legal-intelligence layer, and their broader adoption has narrowed rather than grown. Solomaris Arbitration is the flagship of an institution that bundles arbitration, compliance, and legal intelligence together — not novelty in any single lane, but a combination no other platform currently offers.