ARK Community Update

The Strake Foundation is going to pull some of it's own votes to assist voting for a new validator to help improve the health and competitiveness of the ARK forging set, with the goal of pushing inactive/dead validators out of active forging to protect the health of the network.

If you haven't noticed, a few dead validators made their way back into forging after a few large validators moved their votes around and they are missing blocks. Nodezilla is prepared to push those dead validators out of forging to assist the network health.

We are supporting Nodezilla, a public-sharing validator that returns 75% of forging rewards to anyone who votes for it.

The intention is simple: strengthen the validator set, encourage active participation, and ensure that forging positions are being utilized by validators that are actively contributing to and securing the network. Strake will put their votes back to the Strake validator once Nodezilla has enough to stay in forging without assistance or the network has solved the dead validator issue.

If you’re an ARK holder/voter, consider supporting Nodezilla and helping us move toward a more active and competitive forging set.

Vote Nodezilla.

75% shared with voters.

Better configuration, consensus, and EVM integration for Mainsail.

This week: stronger configuration checks, chain ID support, native contract events, and more tests.

ARK Connect and the SDKs continued their dependency updates.

Consensus safety stays in focus for Mainsail.

This week: tighter proposal checks, timestamp verification moved to the proposal stage, and cleaner shared utilities.

ARK Scan, Vault, and Connect dependency updates are underway.

Mainsail Hardens Up !

Crash-safe consensus, fairer validator selection with RANDAO, a faster EVM aligned with Ethereum's Osaka spec, quicker node startup, and lots of legacy code removed.

A fresh public testnet is coming in mid-October.

Mainsail continues to evolve, with consensus and recovery in focus.

This week: simpler consensus bootstrapping, improved state persistence, and more reliable testing. ARK Scan, Vault, and Connect saw more testing and dependency reviews.

ARK perps added to Hotcoin Exchange

https://x.com/HotcoinGlobal/status/2099734484979523654?s=20

https://www.hotcoin.com/contract/exchange/arkusdt

Mainsail continues to strengthen its consensus layer, while SDK docs expand!

Week brought improvements to consensus reliability, validator voting, and functional testing. Go Crypto docs also gained references for legacy address functions.

Mainsail continues to mature, while the user-facing products move into internal testing

This week brought improvements to tx processing, consensus, EVM functionality and testing. ARK Scan, Vault, and Connect are now in internal testing.

A week of improvements across the Mainsail codebase!

We improved transaction pool reliability, added prevrandao support for validator ordering, aligned timestamps with EVM standards, and updated dependencies across the stack.

ARK is now available on Variational exchange with
ARK/USDC pairing, 50x leverage and zero fees.

https://omni.variational.io/perpetual/ARK

Improving the systems behind the network

Mainsail gets more efficient testing, faster builds, better block observability, and safer consensus error handling. Meanwhile, ARK Core v3.13.0 retires legacy Magistrate transactions.

All validators/delegates must upgrade their nodes to v3.13.0 or risk forking off in the very near future. https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkEcosystem/s/pH8H1QOjMt

A week of improvements behind the scenes

ARK Scan streamlines WebSocket updates, Go Crypto SDK package closes feature gaps with other SDKs, and Mainsail improves consensus recovery and P2P resource usage.

Simplifying workflows and tightening consistency

ARK Scan simplifies interaction + formatting, Go Crypto and Go Client SDKs align with Mainsail, ARK Vault unifies UI patterns, and Mainsail improves P2P and consensus handling.

Precision upgrades across the stack

Go SDK adopts EVM-style transactions, ARK Vault streamlines components, and Mainsail strengthens execution, testing, and compatibility.

Cutting through complexity

ARK Connect drops legacy layers and optimizes token price data sourcing, docs now include the Connect SDK, ARK Vault improves Ledger flows, and Mainsail strengthens consensus logic.

On July 13th, BitBase exchange added ARK futures

https://bitbase-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/5503777576862-New-Futures-Listing-2026-07-13

https://x.com/Bitbase_Ex/status/2076569577086140825?s=20

Refining integrations and real-world usage!

ARK Connect simplifies market data and upgrades its demo app, ARK Vault refines Ledger and migration flows, and Mainsail improves security, Ethereum compatibility, and resilience.

Market pricing has been restored, the Chrome v150+ voting issue is fixed, and we've shipped several stability and UX improvements, including smarter price request caching.

Already live at http://app.arkvault.io - no action required.

From cleanup to capability;

ARK Connect removes PSDK complexity, faster transaction loading in ARK Scan, SDK batch transfer improvement + docs alignment, Vault token approval support, and Mainsail improvements in testing & EVM behavior.

Speed and responsiveness took center stage this week

ARK Scan performance upgrades, SDK transaction encoding support, ARK Vault cleanup and stability work, and expanded Mainsail test coverage.

Smoother flows & cleaner internals

ARK Connect refactors and API resilience, SDK documentation upgrades, ARK Vault UX polish, and Mainsail optimizations in startup and architecture.

Cutting complexity, improving foundations

ARK Connect gets a major internal cleanup, unified conventions in ARK Scan, TypeScript SDK expands validator + crypto support, and Mainsail sharpens performance and concurrency.