FAQ: Upcoming Ethereum Hard Fork

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2463000, which will likely occur between 12:00 and 13:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 18, 2016. A countdown timer can be seen at https://fork.codetract.io/. As a user, what do I need to do…

Transaction spam attack: Next Steps

Today the network was attacked by a transaction spam attack that repeatedly called the EXTCODESIZE opcode (see trace sample here), thereby creating blocks that take up to 20-60 seconds to validate due to the 50,000 disk fetches needed to process the tr…

The Ethereum network is currently undergoing a DoS attack

URGENT ALL MINERS: The network is under attack. The attack is a computational DDoS, ie. miners and nodes need to spend a very long time processing some blocks. This is due to the EXTCODESIZE opcode, which has a fairly low gasprice but which requires no…

The Abundance of Lithium

ARK believes global lithium reserves will continue to grow even as lithium production rises to meet EV demand with lithium mining companies benefiting.

Reusable Rockets: At the First Stage

SpaceX is aiming for reusable rockets that will transport people to distant planets in the not too distant future. A research outlook on reusable rockets.

Why ARK Created A 3D Printing Index

Innovation is Key to growth. We created the Total 3D Printing Index to track the performance of the 3D printing market as a whole

Dev Update: Formal Methods

Today, I am delighted to announce that Yoichi Hirai (pirapira on github) is joining the Ethereum project as a formal verification engineer. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo on the topic of formalizing communicating parallel processes and cre…