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Friends, It has been an exciting week! We initiated our first wave of ticket sales and sold out in just 18 minutes! Don’t worry though, there will be more ticketing waves in addition to a variety of discounts and scholarships that you can still apply …
ARK believes remote operator networks could be a massive windfall for the telecom industry. If the cost of data were to remain at current levels, ARK estimates that remote taxi service operations could add $100 billion, or 40%, to telecom revenues in t…
Your Identity Closet: What shall you wear now that you are free? In high school all three sororities asked me to join – three different flavors of girls to giggle and gossip with. I must have joined one because my actual memory isn’t of joining….
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Friends, Today, we’re happy to announce some significant updates to the Devcon4 website, and with it we wanted to unveil a bit about the ticketing and discount processes and more! Applications for scholarships and builder & student discounts are now …
ARK forecasts that EV sales will scale more than ten-fold to 17 million globally during the next four to five years, increasing the demand for cobalt by 75,000 to 338,000 metric tons depending on which battery chemistries EV manufacturers choose. In th…
The Swarm Team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Swarm client v0.3, the third proof-of-concept release (POC3) of the Ethereum Swarm client. The POC3 code is now merged into the official go-ethereum repository’s master branch. Swarm 0.3 h…
According to ARK’s autonomous vehicle adoption forecast, we may be riding in self-driving cars sooner than expected. GM and Waymo plan to launch commercially in selected cities this year, while Tesla plans to launch its fully autonomous Autopilot natio…
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In November 2017, Waymo announced it was testing autonomous cars in Phoenix without drivers. Next, the company plans to commercialize a ridesharing service.
Přátelé, Now that we’re well into the year, we know that many of you have started to plan ahead for changing weather, holiday celebrations, and (of course) Devcon! We’re excited to announce today that Devcon4 will take place in Prague from 30 October…
Thank you all for applying, and we’re excited to announce the latest Ethereum Foundation grants! We funded 22 recipients for a total of $2.84M. Apply here for the next round! 🦄 Background The Ethereum project seeks to sup…
Streaming as a technology and subscription as a business model are transforming the total available market for recorded music, setting it up for at least a decade of sustained growth. We expect music streaming revenue to grow at a compounded rate of 30…
ARK’s research shows that for the past three years, EV forecasts have increased significantly, with a consensus forming recently around four million units for 2022. According to ARK’s research, global electric vehicle sales will be more than four times…
Netflix could triple its subscriber base over the next five years. Assuming continued growth in the US and a moderate inflection in international growth, the number of Netflix subscribers could more than triple to nearly 400 million, two times higher t…
Delivery drones are ready to launch, once regulators give them the greenlight. So how many people will these drones be able to serve in the US? Our research suggests that, if the FAA approved them today, Amazon’s drones could transport packages to more…
We have long recognized that in order for cryptocurrency to reach mass adoption, a form of cryptocurrency that has higher price stability than existing cryptocurrencies like BTC and ETH would be needed so that people can use the currency to store funds…
In early 2017, ARK published “Deep Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Revolution”. Since the paper’s publication, the state of deep learning has continued to grow at a rapid pace both in research and in commercialization. In this update, we review fo…
We’re excited to share the results of the first wave of grants from the Ethereum Foundation. As a reminder, the Ethereum project seeks to support useful dapps and smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and the goal of the Ethereum Foundation is t…
In fewer than five years, however, air taxis could fly from cities to airports at a price competitive with traditional taxis, if the batteries that power them continue to improve as we expect. At least three startups – Volocopter, eHang, and Kitty Hawk…
We expect four types of firms to get a cut of the estimated $0.35] in revenue per mile that autonomous taxis will charge: platform providers, lead generators, vehicle manufacturers, and owner/operators. Some companies probably will benefit from more th…