Ark (ARK) Trading Up 1.5% This Week

Ark (ARK) traded 0.8% higher against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 10:00 AM Eastern on May 5th. One Ark coin can currently be bought for $0.81 or 0.00001264 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Ark has a market capitalization of $146.46 million and approximately $6.00 million worth of Ark was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last week, Ark has traded up 1.5% against the dollar.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:

• Belrium (BEL) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $2.51 or 0.00009565 BTC.
• TRON (TRX) traded 1.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.12 or 0.00000189 BTC.
• BitTorrent-New (BTT) traded down 0.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• Tezos (XTZ) traded down 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.96 or 0.00001495 BTC.
• EOS (EOS) traded down 1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.81 or 0.00001270 BTC.
• Terra Classic (LUNC) traded 0.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• Terra (LUNA) traded down 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.60 or 0.00000931 BTC.
• aelf (ELF) traded down 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.56 or 0.00000866 BTC.
• Lisk (LSK) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.92 or 0.00002987 BTC.
• USDX [Kava] (USDX) traded 0.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00001286 BTC.

Ark Coin Profile

ARK is a distributed proof-of-stake (dPOS) coin that uses the DPoS hashing algorithm. It launched on June 8th, 2016. Ark’s total supply is 180,613,530 coins and its circulating supply is 180,613,406 coins. Ark’s official website is ark.io. Ark’s official Twitter account is @arkecosystem and its Facebook page is accessible here. Ark’s official message board is arkscic.com/blog. The Reddit community for Ark is https://reddit.com/r/arkecosystem and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here.

According to CryptoCompare, “ARK is a cryptocurrency token of the ARK Public Network (APN), a blockchain platform that empowers developers and users by providing tools to create and deploy blockchains. ARK tokens are used for transaction fees, voting in the Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism, and staking to earn passive rewards. The project was launched in 2016 by a group of 27 individuals from diverse backgrounds.”

Ark Coin Trading

It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Ark directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Ark should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as GDAX, Gemini or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Ark using one of the exchanges listed above.

ARK/USD price chart by TradingView