Tera is a decentralized application platform. This is akin to an operating system. Tera consists of a repository of programs and data storage integrated into the Internet. The mechanism for publishing programs and data on this platform is free from censorship. The circulatory system is the blockchain.
ARPA is a Secure Computation Network Compatible With Blockchains They propose a blockchain-based secure computation network of Multi-party Computation (MPC). ARPA cryptographically enables private smart contract, unprecedented data-at-use privacy protection, as well as scalable computational sharding.