Ark (ARK) Price Up 4.6% Over Last 7 Days

Ark (ARK) traded down 1.1% against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 22:00 PM ET on May 6th. Over the last week, Ark has traded 4.6% higher against the dollar. One Ark coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.81 or 0.00001277 BTC on major exchanges. Ark has a market capitalization of $146.95 million and approximately $6.36 million worth of Ark was traded on exchanges in the last day.

Here is 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 1.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.12 or 0.00000187 BTC.
• BitTorrent-New (BTT) traded 2.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• Tezos (XTZ) traded down 2.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.94 or 0.00001480 BTC.
• EOS (EOS) traded 0.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00001286 BTC.
• Terra Classic (LUNC) traded down 10.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• Terra (LUNA) traded 7.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.61 or 0.00000957 BTC.
• aelf (ELF) traded 0.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.55 or 0.00000867 BTC.
• Lisk (LSK) traded 1.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.94 or 0.00003043 BTC.
• USDX [Kava] (USDX) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00001291 BTC.

About Ark

ARK is a distributed proof-of-stake (dPOS) coin that uses the DPoS hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was June 8th, 2016. Ark’s total supply is 180,645,736 coins and its circulating supply is 180,646,522 coins. The official message board for Ark is arkscic.com/blog. The official website for Ark is ark.io. Ark’s official Twitter account is @arkecosystem and its Facebook page is accessible here. 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.”

Buying and Selling Ark

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

ARK/USD price chart by TradingView