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      "body": "Ark quietly goes about its business, giving frequent updates & for those who research its clear to see Ark’s future prospects and use cases. This is by no means, a full list of current projects & partnerships, but rather the most promising to date. \n\n\n**Persona**\n\nYou can find a previously written, detailed rundown of Persona & its ICO here \nhttps://steemit.com/ark/@nweng/persona-ark-fork-and-ico\n\n![DQmZynvHF6AJwpirhBp4s4nyWpSQPAnLECENNaW6NUhaKX8.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZynvHF6AJwpirhBp4s4nyWpSQPAnLECENNaW6NUhaKX8/DQmZynvHF6AJwpirhBp4s4nyWpSQPAnLECENNaW6NUhaKX8.png)\n\n**What is Persona?**\n\nPersona will be the first consumer project that uses Ark's new services to create its own chain. This will be connected to the Ark main-chain at a protocol level, allowing transactions and contract interaction to an unlimited amount of coins & tokens. 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      "body": "Thanks you for writing this quick rundown! I'm sure it will help others just learning about NAS and why it's so powerful.\n\nOne thing I do want to mention is that this article lists Testnet as Q1 of 2018 and Mainnet as Q2-Q3 of 2018. The Testnet is already up and Nebulas is expected to go Mainnet in Q1 of 2018 (max of 8 weeks away). In Q4 of 2018, Nebulas will really start to take shape with Nebulas Rank (NR) and Developer Incentive Protocol (DIP) going active. You can see the roadmap at https://github.com/nebulasio/wiki/blob/master/roadmap.md\n\nFor those wanting to take a bit deeper dive, I highly suggest reading the white paper at https://nebulas.io/docs/NebulasTechnicalWhitepaper.pdf\n\nBut if that is too much, I wrote up an easy to read overview of the white paper. It's located at https://www.reddit.com/r/nebulas/comments/7rwllx/nebulas_technical_white_paper_review_january_20/\n\nThanks again!",
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      "body": "ARK \n![1514036888461.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbGuJfRFjok3dq41uzLAYcH57z2osPZmyEnWEJARrEjFj/1514036888461.jpg)\n\nI like to think of Ark as a tree, ever expanding, limitless providing the energy (users/ideas) is there.  Sharing one root system like the Pando, Quaking Aspen. Sentient; like the LOTR Ents. \n\n![tree.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmV3P1RpR9V9iruTajDEBFEAr2uRuL2knzsiCm7rUzcfak/tree.png)\n\nThe trunk = The mainchain.  Trust less coin swaps should take place here, utilising ACES. ACES as explained later will be described as Sap. The mainchain can be thought of as the Sap producer, providing the rest of the Tree with Sap.\n\n![tree_trunk.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmW2oDowhhiGVWXbwotwkRWam1pYARxXeMmAYWyLd1r8w8/tree_trunk.jpg)\n\nThe branches -= Forked chains. 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It’s everywhere you can’t get rid of it, it flows between chains and originates from the Trunk, the mainchain. \n You could imagine Sap leaking from branch to branch acting as that physical bridge representation, but I like to think of it as Tree blood. Blood travels throughout the body with chemicals like oxygen, potassium etc. in one direction, drops them off, then returns with different chemicals. Sap would carry out a similar role here flowing through the Trees & Branches with transaction info. Bridging the gap between chains. \n\nDPoS = Self governing, securing, a sort of sentience managing the tree. Ensuring a fast secure network, improving things without every needing to bring issues to a larger limelight.   \n\nETHEREUM\n\n![ETHEREUM-ICON_Black_small.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmR9NsvGU2NUyebQGczQkzpseDBXgsDnkX61GtkqGQmKwT/ETHEREUM-ICON_Black_small.png)\n\nEthereum is a City, like New York, contained by water. It can, and will, grow massively, upgrading infrastructure, regulation etc. but its limited and inefficient, traffic jams occurring more often. \nCities often have outdated infrastructure and that forces the community, the leaders to come up with novel ideas to solve minor issues. \n\n![jhb.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPfLXutB1vxBcmgoJGcTW57JQVZB4L2X3UPJVx579Wimp/jhb.jpg)\n\nHow does Ark interact with Ethereum? We’ll have to size it down a bit, imagine a 4 way junction, one way only….\n\nRoads = Chains. I think all roads within the city as one way, with the ability to improve & change with city upgrades and regulation. I.e. widening roads akin to faster transaction speeds. Ring roads, subways trains etc. circling the City can be thought of as ultra-fast off chain transactions. \n\n![junction.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXArvWjf9ij74ridU3AhMxGD9sWjAbZCXGgwySapWWTst/junction.jpg)\n\nCity Block = The block and its buildings represent the project. The bigger better ones Omisego are like Wall St. Big fancy buildings sleek clean roads providing the City with great wealth. Confido is like the unkempt, groggy, apartment block where crack is sold and your grandmother gets mugged.  \n\n![download.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXDd9upUvZ77ktsnHhAvcRAh8RJexZPtSFjR47AQk8zR1/download.jpg)\n\nCars = Represent transactions moving through chains. Different cars represent different transnaction information. Sports car would be a fast moving transaction,  there maybe a truck carrying cars, groups transactions, a sharding of sorts. \n\n![Life-of-Pix-free-stock-photos-night-city-road-Akappuru.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPTK1y2zvEZtoyVhSbUt4LvL9VUi4AdBguauk51AzXPAk/Life-of-Pix-free-stock-photos-night-city-road-Akappuru.jpeg)\n\nTree = Ark fork chain. Ark sends its roots over to Ethereums city and sprouts up Trees where needed, interacting, but going unnoticed, slowly growing over the city. \n\n![ltrue-tree.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbhSem5CoK1SpCA7WHrGM3afvpXf3bQD9xM2TW9BAd3nU/ltrue-tree.jpg)\n\nSo here we are. Scenarios set. We have our Tree stood there listening to the cars (transactions) race past, thinking ‘bloody hell, nuffin’ interesting today’. He then spots a car his friend back home wants some info on (A Contract execution request). He takes a peak, like a silent spy, and using his sap collects the necessary info, before sending it off. The sap may need to visit other chains, exchange further information, before completing its journey back home. \n\nPOW = City workers. 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This kid must be in a maple tree as there’s Sap all over the model and chains, that means contract executions and coin swaps going on! \nHopefully you get the picture, if it gets up and running it could become a substantial revenue boost, and Ark would be in a type of first mover role, but that’s investor talk. I hope I’ve sparked your imagination, if you think you can improve or offer any corrections please do.",
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      "body": "Staring into the abyss below, you won’t find any moon talk here. An objective look at the negatives of investing in Ark. I’ll jump right in.\n\n![1_Z7mAAHmqa4UjvtOlMX6_jg.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmY8jcMC2ae7JMeXS4Sa44PmyPPzNa8EDjMc1gs9E3wgoE/1_Z7mAAHmqa4UjvtOlMX6_jg.png)\n\nPerhaps the most obvious, critical and frustrating critique of Ark is its marketing. I’m a firm believer of Tech before hype, but it’s become increasingly apparent that in a market as hyped & reactive as this, those who shout the loudest win. It’s important to have the tech too, but it doesn’t always have to be great, or even exist yet, as IOTA and Cardano have shown. Both use existing tech but market to great effect, with that added pinch of luck. Ethereum itself bumbled along until it announced its ‘Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) and showcased the utility to the world in the form of ICOs. \n\nThere are a number of complaints brought up about Ark’s marketing strategy, or lack of. To begin, the team has vast reserves; they have rainy day funds for the long, long term future of Ark, and keep 52.5% of their money aside for development, by law. Their certainly isn’t as much liquid money as some shout about, but there needn’t be, $250,000 would go a long way. Hire 3 – 4 top notch marketing professionals, sales executives, a spokesperson!! etc. Have them attend conferences, respond to online outlets, speak to businesses, run new bounty campaigns - aimed at attracting developers, increasing usage. Effectively, let the developers crack on without worry & support, & improve, the existing marketing team. \n\nThey may very well be trying to do this, believe it or not its relatively hard to recruit effectively for blockchain start-ups. SALT itself has had a director role open for the last 2 months, salary circ. £100,000. Good professionals are less likely to take the risk with start-ups in the cryptosphere. \nIt’s a vicious circle of sorts; little exposure maintains little confidence that makes it hard to recruit. The lack of vocal, clear vision from the team doesn’t help. It’s certainly possible to market what Ark has, but when quizzed on specifics, it’d become a hard job very quickly.\nIt appears to me at least that the team doesn’t particularly want to market yet. The blockchain & delegate node have some bugs & security issues that will hopefully be solved when ArkcoreV2 comes out. Although, again, developers haven’t inspired confidence that this will happen. It also seems that they are satisfied with price, confident of adoption when tech arrives.\n\nWith all that in mind I think it’s important to refer to the EEA point once again, Ethereum had the tech, the ability, a slow growing presence, and then It catapulted upon announcement. I feel as if a similar scenario will occur with Ark; however timing is of the essence for the investor. The crypto market will grow substantially over the course of the next two years. Will the Ark move fast enough to give investors that return?\n\n![1_itmuWTj8JdWvnvBtjpfxfA.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeM2iCZ1LZroitZLGg2fKP1TW8UyDhwkr2LRfVi81REGf/1_itmuWTj8JdWvnvBtjpfxfA.png)\n\nNo clear vision from the team is another frustrating negative feature of investing in Ark. Most importantly concise, understandable, clarification is needed;  how Ark will be used and derives value? Will it be used for transaction fees, a sort of Gas for the ecosystem? Will it be used as a trust less currency with built in coin swap function? From my reading it’s a yes to both, but it’s not relayed effectively. If that the case then DPoS interest could provide a great return for investors, the interest covering transaction fees, operating ACES node fees etc. \n\nSome minor complaints have been found about lack of progress on Technical documentation (25% complete), but this will be updated alongside the new core, with any hope! I wouldn’t place too much stress or worry about lack of progress on this feature. An additional whitepaper updates has been promised, to represent project advancements, but no release yet.\n However this is my issue, make that apparent to investors, put the ‘Tech docu..’ square at the bottom of the roadmap, with a note explaining the ongoing issue, transparent, informative & engaging for the community. \n\nArk’s DPoS system is routinely touted as the gold standard of DPOS systems. A few articles have been bandied about that doubt the integrity of the system, Vitalik recently posted his thoughts. We’ve had no rebuttal. This is the crux of the issue, it may be that Vitalik is incorrect, but new users, sweaty palmed investors don’t see any correction, who’s right who’s wrong. Oh I’ll place my money in something safe. We lose investment, we lose progress. \n\nOne way to increase progress, exposure would be new exchange listings; I only have a couple of minor complaints in this department. Ark seems to have its own vision for coin swaps, exchanging and trades but it doesn’t make sense to distance the project from traditional exchange sites and pair with small exchanges. \nI can’t shake the feeling that more could be done, the wallets should have a buy Ark function, similar to the Byteballs wallet, this would massively increase user adoption and maybe that’s what their recent Blockport partnership, partly, aims to solve. I think Ark’s vision will pay off here, 3 new exchange announcements were made in December, with USDT & USD pairs. 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      "body": "‘ ARK Gives no dates, we just deliver!’  - Ark's self proclaiming motto  \n\n![ark2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmY4298PLFWq6VevzsXpsCM5gt2wUsXkhqyfqNyCTG76PW/ark2.jpg)\n\nThe Ark ecosystem project and its developers have one of the most ambitious and user friendly roadmaps in the crypto market today. However time-frames / deadlines are left somewhat ambiguous, partly in an effort to avoid hype, but also to relieve pressure on the team.\n\nDevelopers complete projects frequently and give updates consistently, but the roadmap technicals are set in percentages. As we've seen with the infamous mobile wallets, stuck at 98% for what seemed like an eternity, we just don’t know when releases will happen. 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It’s closely related to mobile wallets, but Ark has much more ambitious plans for NFC than just mobile tid bits. \n\nFeb - Mar: \nRumors of Ark CoreV2 release (Started  Nov 15th 25% complete)Over a ¼ done already, rattling through it, added developers to the team too. They are set to have ICO projects running by March (Persona). I’ve heard its heads down, all focus is on the core that, will resolve many minor issues. See https://blog.ark.io/re-engineering-of-the-ark-core-9e69a2b5d70a for a detailed rundown. \nExpected completion date Mid Feb – Mid Mar \n\nThe core update may be coming quickly but I think that the release of ArkVM (60% rapid progress made since announcement in late June) will arrive just as quick. We'll likely see one released after the other, within a couple of weeks. The percentages may shoot up very quickly too, pushable blockchains received an 8% bump last week, out of nowhere.\n Projects / ICO’s need the ArkVM, they also need the new core, (they will have to rewrite code to use the new core so developers may think it’s better to wait) but without the VM nothing substantial can happen. Vm will use solidity, I think they’ll have no trouble attracting people and projects. Struggling to get noticed due to the hundreds of other ether tokens? Come over to Ark, all the same languages, with proof of stake and no bloat worry!\n\nMar - April: \nOnce the Core and ARKVM have been deployed it’s clear that the team will turn their attention towards the Deployment of Testnet Clones for Start-Ups (75%) & Push Button Deployable Blockchains (61%). Persona, the latest ARK ICO project, aims to have a testnet in Feb & mainnet running by early March. It’s expected that these two goals will need to be completed before this can happen, and given the close ties the team has with Persona I hope that the given dates are accurate.\n\n![ark_moon.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSWTbomouCijKoNWSRkzKbkoCkQcc9Db1WgeaKcoFNP2q/ark_moon.jpg)\n\nQ2 (Apr - Jun ) 2018: \nPrice Change $25 - $60 50% confident\n\nI can only give a general idea of what will happen during this period. If we follow the natural market cycle we will do quite well regardless, but updates should see the project take full flow. Start-ups and ICO’s will launch. Persona itself will fund 10 other start-up projects! Hopefully we will see an Ethereum bull style run, with a floor of $60. \n\nACES - An ongoing delegate member /u/Rayno / community project; enabling decentralised trustless coin swaps, automatic contract execution in multiple currencies, in browser metamask like wallet & much more. 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      "body": "http://vitalik.ca/general/2017/12/17/voting.html\n\nA technical run down on Blockchain governance. Vitalik gives a detailed rundown on various blockchain goverance methods used today. EOS, NEO, LSK, TEZOS, ARK. \n\nHe critiques Ark under the section 'Game-theoretic attacks', then goes onto to state; \n\n'It’s worth noting that this section is not a prediction that all tightly coupled voting systems will quickly succumb to bribe attacks. It’s entirely possible that many will survive for one simple reason: all of these projects have founders or foundations with large premines, and these act as large centralized actors that are interested in their platforms’ success that are not vulnerable to bribes, and hold enough coins to outweigh most bribe attacks. However, this kind of centralized trust model, while arguably useful in some contexts in a project’s early stages, is clearly one that is not sustainable in the long term.'\n\nHave a read come back and chat, I'd love to know why its not a sustainable model. I think utilising ARK's side chains could slove some of the issues Vitalik has.",
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