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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…
After waaay too much time under development, we’re proud to finally announce version 1.8.0 of the Go Ethereum client: Iceberg! The release fixes a lot of pain points felt by the community and ships a few notable new features, tallying up to ~170 modifi…
Despite the recent plunge in bitcoin’s price from nearly $20,000 to less than $10,000, we remain convinced that bitcoin is the first of its kind in a new…
It is with sadness that we announce that Ming Chan, who has served as Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation for nearly three years, is leaving the Foundation. Since her arrival in 2015, she has played a critical role in the development and succ…
Dear Ethereum community (and wonderful Etherheads!), Today, January 31, 2018, is my last day as Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation. I’m pleased to have been able to guide the Foundation as ED with my fellow directors, team leads, and outst…
Which companies are likely to outperform in 2018, and a few companies that skirted by just enough in 2017 to get a Participation Award.
The Industry Focus cast votes on notable quotes and M&A deals from last year.
Our industry expert analysts look over the last year to vote on two more categories in the inaugural awards show.
The cast is rolling out the red carpet for some of their favorite stocks with the first annual Industry Focus Awards ceremony.
The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for blockchain applications to reach mass adoption. Block…
Ethereum has grown very rapidly in the last few months. Transaction volume on the blockchain has more than doubled, surpassing 10 transactions per second for days at a time. The number of new accounts created per day passed 100,000
The ancient board game of Go highlights AI’s incredible future.