The New Desktop Wallet release is here and we are excited for you to try out our speed & performance improvements. This update is quicker, snappier and more responsive throughout your journey from start to finish, but this is not all so let’s dive into all of the changes.

You can download the ARK Desktop Wallet at https://ark.io/wallet or use the new download feature from within your current wallet (available in v2.7.0+).

With more frequent releases of Desktop Wallet, we want to bring a constant flow of improvements to you, the users. This release focused on performance improvements and a major overhaul of the underlying system that takes care of reading, requesting and saving data (from the inside and outside of the wallet). One of the initial things you will notice is much quicker loading times when opening the wallet. On one of our slowest testing machines that had a lot of profiles, networks, wallets, and installed plugins it went from 40 seconds to 12 seconds for the initial load, all due to how we reengineered and optimized underlying processes. Once opened you will see that switching between wallets, tabs, charts and while retrieving data, the experience is much smoother than with the previous release.

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What’s New?

Plugin images & slider — we have now implemented a way for plugin developers to also include screenshots of the actual plugin. Images can also be clicked so they expand. (to see how it looks open Plugin Manager and open ARK Explorer plugin).

Transaction close confirmation modal — until now, when you were trying to send, cast a vote or initiate any kind of transaction, if you clicked outside of the modal it automatically closed. This created a pain point for users where they would be required to create a new transaction and enter the transaction details again if closing the modal by accident. We have now improved this behavior with a confirmation window.