Who are the ARK.io Team Members and Why it Matters - Blog #4

https://ark.io/

The conceptual framework of ARK hopes to bring the technology to bridge everybody together through all the major Blockchains, something that has not yet been seen in the current crypto space.

The ARK team consists of the grouping up with other Lisk team members working on further developing the code and making adjustments to what has become the Ark.io Project.

When you take the time to look at who is heading up the ARK project, things become a little more interesting, especially where the Managing Director and the Head of Development. . .

The Managing Director of ARK is Mike Doty. Mike Doty’s background is not something to be sniffed at. When we look into Mike Doty’s background it is clear to see that he is very able, having heavy experience in mechanical engineering working in the aerospace and robotics industries. On top of this, Mike Doty also lays claim to being Co-founder of Bitseed and a Co-founder of Crypti , the predecessor to Lisk.

Now launching Ark he hopes to continue and improve on what Crypti originally set out to do.

Blockchain technology is in its infancy and developers are still learning what works and what does not work. Having worked on so many different projects in the past and seeing where past and current projects have failed at certain things, Mike Doty is well positioned to head up a new and ground breaking approach to develop cross-blockchain solutions to bring users real world usability across all major blockchains and further developing the space and to help speed up user adoption.

With his vast experience and down to earth approach, Ark has a very good chance of gaining a foothold in the crypto space and establishing itself as an important cog in bringing blockchain solutions together.

The Head of Development, Francois-Xavier Thoorens, is not short on credentials either. Francois-Xavier is a full stack developer (Metor JS and Grails) and has primarily served as scientific officer for the scientific officer for the European Union architecting the use of satellite observation for maritime surveillance, his work being referenced by the European Commission, NATO, Black Sea Commission and ESA. From 2010 he has been working as a consultant for different organisations to help them organize around data collection. This vast experience having worked for such respected institutions is testament to his abilities and the caliber of his work.

But what is even more relevant in his recent endeavors is that Francois-Xavier was also the core developer of Lisk up until August 2016. Francois-Xavier, being the core developer of Lisk must have seen something quite unique being drawn to the ARK project, especially as he was already working for a very well funded and growing project that is LISK. For Francois to jump across to ARK from Lisk tells me that the ARK Project must be very viable as a working model. The ARK team must be extremely happy to have Francois-Xavier on board.

Much to the same reason to that of Francois-Xavier, the main reason why many members of the Lisk community migrated towards the ARK project is that there are certain elements of LISK they believe could be improved on, such as in the way side-chains work in Lisk with regards to security reasons, and due to their belief that the blockchain is only as good as a centralized service.

Francois-Xavier was the Sentiff for the Europen commission set up several companies dealing with data Management before coming across crypto currency when he joined Lisk as a developer working on the Network, but left due to disagreeing with the vision and what crypto should do.

The ARK project is aiming to offer something where anybody should be able to use what blockchain has to offer without ever needing to know anything about blockchain and with the use of items such as a smart card and NFC enabled devices such as NFC rings for ease of use and accessibility to the functions and use cases of what blockchain technology has to offer. Each Blockchain has individual strengths and uses, for example, Ethereum has Smart Contracts, Waves has the ability to create tokens that can be created for any asset, much like Ardor, Bitcoin for financial transfers, and so on. ARK’s vision is that the uses of all the different blockchains can be integrated, working together to serve everybody with all the different things they have to offer.

The Smart-bridge tech being developed is to enable the Ark platform to be able to grab assets from any other blockchain it is linked to, and send these assets to another blockchain or to a third party/centralized service using the 'listening' mechanism acting as a trigger for these transactions, creating contracts between them.

30 people have eagerly joined the project who share the vision of ARK and these team members believe in the vision of ARK and believe that Mike Doty has the right idea and approach as opposed to what Lisk is trying to do, and improving on what he believes are weaknesses in the Lisk framework. As they say, a project is only as strong as its weakest link.

Drawing this many people who were previously working on Lisk is a testament to the idea of ARK as firstly, 30 people from Lisk prefer the vision of ARK, and secondly ARK now has 30 people working on it at its very beginning, which is a lot more encouraging than the beginnings of Lisk, not taking anything away from Max and Lisk, it is still a highly regarded project with a lot of potential.

Also, what is important to note is how the Business is structured in relation to the different departments and the different fields that the departments cover. You’ll notice that the structure is similar to that of any well set-up organisation as can be seen on the first page of the ARK.io Bitcointalk Forum:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1649695.0

There are some very clever minds working on ARK, and with 30 clever minds collaboratively working on a blockchain project that promises to bring real world blockchain solutions and user adoption, ARK is well worth keeping an eye on.

There is still one week left to participate in the ICO/TEC if you are looking to make an investment into the ARK project you can find the instructions on how to do so by clicking on the link shown below;

https://ark.io/

For more information on the ARK.io Project, you can see additional articles from the links below;

Introduction to ARK - Blog# 01
https://steemit.com/steemit/@deanero/the-ark-platform-ico-introduction-to-ark-blog-01

Roadmap Explained - Blog# 02
https://steemit.com/steemit/@deanero/the-ark-platform-ico-roadmap-explained-blog-02

Funding - Blog# 03
https://steemit.com/steemit/@deanero/the-ark-platform-ico-funding-blog-03

https://tec.ark.io/#deanero