We fell from 50th to 84th... so I guess 34 awesome coins that are better than ARK were introduced? Fat chance!
I know the team is focused on v2 and they're preparing for their marketing move, but still... this is oversold beyond any understanding. So many shitcoins are above ARK.
Ark used to be 20th for about a week, it was as high 18th for a day or half a day I think.
Ark really didn't release anything in this 2 years, just some updates to wallet, website then the released of mobile wallet and business entity.
Ark have been pretty much snoozing from the tech perspective even though we know the core coders do working.
Ark ACES is not from the Ark team. Some of the Ark team very much busy working for someone or creating other scam like Stefan Neagu or Mike Doty, or canabanana doing nothing besides attending some events.
I don't know anything about behind closed door but this pretty much from my observations above surface
In crypto world is simple, you snooze you lose, this pretty much sum up if you don't take the project seriously it will fail, this shouldn't be a side project or a joke. It shouldn't be a joke because some of the guys making ten of thousands a month. But it do seem most of them think it's a joke or side job.
I don't know about Ark ACES and the dev team, but I disagree with you about this being a joke/side job for them. They wouldn't be hiring new people, and by reading their job descriptions I believe they have the correct focus.
For v2 they've practically rewrote everything, including APIs and documentations, which (for better or worse) makes the ARK blockchain of today a beta-test.
I couldn't know how long does it take to write all this code, but it makes sence they're not focusing their efforts into marketing and/or new additions to ARK v1 (aka beta )
Just my observations. Not all the team members. Yes I know about v2 and I said the core coders do working but we're still not see and know how this v2 work yet
At least they stopped working on retro compatibility with V1 to move forward to V2 development only, this must speed up their work. We don't know when they will finish it unfortunally