Bitcoin’s Price Behavior: Why 2017 is Not the Same as 2013
If a few marketplace characteristics are investigated, we think the difference in bitcoin’s price behavior between 2013 and now becomes clear.
The CRISPR Gene Editing Approach to Treating and Curing Diseases
The discovery and commercialization of CRISPR gene editing could herald the age of personalized medicine, making genetic information actionable.
Starting 2017 On The Right Side Of Disruptive Innovation
ARK’s take on the market last year and our thoughts about the next few years, especially as they relate to our disruptive innovation investment themes.
Introduction of the Light Client for DApp developers
The first version of the Light Ethereum Subprotocol (LES/1) and its implementation in Geth are still in an experimental stage, but they are expected to reach a more mature state in a few months where the basic functions will perform reliably. The light…
Financial Blockchains: The Peril and Promise
ARK recently participated in a panel to discuss the future of financial blockchains within financial services. The main points are outlined here.
December Roundup
December marks a month of continued progress in the Ethereum ecosystem. Research on proof of stake and sharding continues after the research team’s workshop in Singapore in November, the light client slowly keeps getting better, Whisper and Swarm keep …
The Autonomous Taxi Market: Worth 3X The Value of All Auto Manufacturers in 5 Years?
The Autonomous taxi market will create a tremendous amount of value for consumers and expand the mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) market dramatically.
Free Residential Solar Panels? Not Worth The Money.
ARK suggests that even if solar panels cost nothing, residential solar wouldn’t make economic sense given the high costs, logistics, and panel installation.
Deep Learning Based Diagnostics: Unlocking a $16 Billion Market
ARK estimates that the total global addressable market for deep learning based diagnostics could be a $16B market and make radiology much more accurate.
Security alert [12/19/2016]: Ethereum.org Forums Database Compromised
On December 16, we were made aware that someone had recently gained unauthorized access to a database from forum.ethereum.org. We immediately launched a thorough investigation to determine the origin, nature, and scope of this incident. Here is what we…
Swarm alpha public pilot and the basics of Swarm
With the long awaited geth 1.5 (“let there bee light”) release, Swarm made it into the official go-ethereum release as an experimental feature. The current version of the code is POC 0.2 RC5 — “embrace your daemons” (roadmap), which is the refactored …
A Potential Use Case for Blockchain Technology Outside of Bitcoin
One promising use case for blockchain technology outside of Bitcoin is in healthcare. Right now in the U.S. we spend $3 trillion annually on healthcare.
The History of Casper – Chapter 2
This chapter describes the game theory and economic security modelling we were doing in the Fall of 2014. It recounts how the “bribing attacker model” led our research directly to a radical solution to the long range attack problem. Chapter 2: The Bri…
The History of Casper – Chapter 1
Vitalik suggested last week that I share my basic research and design philosophy in a blog post, I agreed but complained that it was still changing. My friend Jon West told me that everyone would really appreciate it if I told everyone about my Casper …
zkSNARKs in a nutshell
The possibilities of zkSNARKs are impressive, you can verify the correctness of computations without having to execute them and you will not even learn what was executed – just that it was done correctly. Unfortunately, most explanations of zkSNARKs re…
Ethereum Research Update
This week marks the completion of our fourth hard fork, Spurious Dragon, and the subsequent state clearing process, the final steps in the two-hard-fork solution to the recent Ethereum denial of service attacks that slowed down the network in…
Could Deep Learning Grow the Robotics Market Ten-Fold (or More)?
Could deep learning grow the addressable market for robots dramatically as they learn new tasks on the job and work safely alongside humans? We think so!
Security alert [11/24/2016]: Consensus bug in geth v1.4.19 and v1.5.2
Security Alert Affected configurations: Geth Severity: High Summary: An issue has been identified with Geth’s journaling mechanism. This caused a network fork at block #2686351 (Nov-24-2016 14:12:07 UTC). The…
3 Things to Watch in the Stock Market This Week
Keep an eye on Palo Alto Networks, Dollar Tree, and GameStop stocks over the shortened trading week.
From Morden to Ropsten
Testing a fork The Spurious Dragon hardfork is scheduled for the coming week; block 2675000 is likely to occur Tuesday evening (CET). The block number for the testnet “Morden” was scheduled at block 1885000. Performing the fork in the test network pri…