ARK Monthly Newsletter — June 2019 Edition
June is in the box! The ARK Team is pleased to bring you the return of the
monthly newsletter, now packed with more highlights, activities, achievements,
and unique content. Let’s take a look at what the team has been up to during the
past month.
JUNE REMARKS
“ARK has made great strides in June. Websockets and parallel relay
sync
brought a huge stability and speed boost to ARK Core. Syncing the chain from
zero is now faster than ever. Of course, our desktop and mobile wallets still
work instantly with no sync required. Our Slack, Reddit, and Twitter have seen
steady growth through June as the blockchain community continues to build
interest in what we’re doing. With Core v2.5 and v2.6 around the corner, there
will be more utilities and features for developers to harness including the
long-anticipated AIP-11/18/29
implementations. ARK.io is hard at work
hand in hand with the community, and I only see that increasing as we move
through Summer.”
Justin Renken, ARK.io Senior Brand Manager
JUNE ARK TIMELINE
ArkTimeline.com is a community resource built and
maintained by the ARK Community Committee. The entire history of all ARK
achievements and accomplishments are available there, and they are both sortable
and filterable. Here’s a quick rundown for June:
- ARK Announces ARK Core v2.4 Release Date on 12th of June
2019 - ARK Announces Listing at DOBI
Exchange - ARK Ecosystem Releases ARK Core v2.4 Featuring P2P WebSockets and Parallel
Block Downloading - ARK Releases ARK Mobile Wallet v1.4.4 for Android and Apple iOS Featuring Core
v2.4 Compliance - ARK Ecosystem Showcases Website V2 Teaser Featuring Tailored Developer
Pages - ARK Highlights CardRates.com Full Article About ARK Helps to Improve Business
Operations by Leveraging Distributed Ledger
Technology - ARK is Now Listed on Crypto.com App Featuring Spending with MCO Visa
Card - ARK Releases Desktop Wallet Update v2.5.0 Featuring Wallet Export
Option - ARK Ecosytem Announces ARK Website v2 Launch Date on 9th of July
2019 - ARK Highlights ARK Pay Integration with
ScanBlocks.io - See what the future holds for ARK at
Roadmap.ARK.io.
JUNE FRANCE ACTIVITIES
ARK.io is incorporated as an SCIC in
France, giving ARK a leg up when interfacing with the legacy financial system.
This SCIC is the first of its kind for crypto in France.
- On June 4th, ARK CEO Francois-Xavier Thoorens appeared in the French press for
Les Échos, the first daily French financial newspaper.
- On June 14th, FX Thoorens participated in a meetup orchestrated by AssoCryptoFR,
a French cryptocurrency association. The theme was “Cryptocurency and
Governance” and featured discussion on why a cryptocurrency network is always
linked to a social contract of governance. Participants included WisElement,
Tezos, LGO, and Ethereum France.
- On June 19th, FX Thoorens gave a presentation pertaining to local currencies in
the Franche-Comté region of France. They run alongside the euro to serve
communities. FX met Jean-Christophe Léonard, a La Pive representative who is
interested in ARK technology.
JUNE ADVENTURES
Some members of the ARK team assembled in New York City for Consensus NYC 2019
in May. The team gave a special presentation on ARK at the show, made new
connections, had private meetings, and participated in media opportunities. June
brought the release of a new ARK Adventure video. If you missed the video all
about NYC, check it out below:
JUNE AMAs
Ask-Me-Anythings were conducted during June featuring ARK team members
answering questions by the community on Slack.ARK.io.
Here’s the list:
- ARK Core AMA with
Joshua - ARK Explorer AMA with
Michel - ARK IoT AMA with
Simon - ARK Deployer AMA with
Alex - ARK Mobile Wallet AMA with
Lucio - ARK Desktop Wallet AMA with
Alex
JUNE DEVELOPER ROUNDTABLE
The ARK Developer Roundtable is a monthly, open attendance video call, conducted
by ARK.io Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Kristjan Košič. These calls allow a
unique opportunity to present information to the community and gain valuable
insight from community developers. Here’s June’s meeting:
JUNE DEVELOPMENT REPORT
The ARK Monthly Development Report covers all pull requests (opened, closed,
merged) as well as all issues opened and closed in every ARK Ecosystem public
repository, the number of contributors during that month, the number of new star
gazers, and total lines of lines of GitHub code added or deleted. Check June’s
report
here.
JUNE PODCASTS
The ARK Crypto Podcast releases weekly episodes all
about ARK, featuring interviews, monologues, tutorials, reports, presentations,
and more. The show aims for a 30 minute runtime and releases new episodes every
Friday. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Sticher, Soundcloud, Spotify, Castbox,
and more. Check out the episodes released this month:
ARK Crypto Podcast #040–100% Community Questions All About The ARK
Deployer
ARK Crypto Podcast #041 — Bad Crypto Podcast Interview
Syndication
ARK Crypto Podcast #042 — Diving Into The ARK Deployer From Start To
Finish
WHAT’S NEXT
The following month for ARK will include the finishing touches and release of
the all-new ARK website, slated for launch July 9th. The team will also be
releasing Core v2.5 on Thursday July 11th. No action is needed for users.
Additionally, a video tutorial series will be created, showing just how easy it
is to create, customize, and launch a blockchain in minutes using the ARK
Deployer. The team also has a couple other Aces up
its sleeve for July.
GET INVOLVED
Here’s a quick list on what your first steps might be to get involved with ARK:
- Join our community on Slack or
Reddit - Launch an ARK community service
- Contribute code and earn ARK
- Launch an ARK node and
campaign for forging status - Create a blockchain in three simple steps
Looking forward to July!
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