POWERED BY ARK UPDATE

The Powered by ARK Program aims to help recognize, support and collaborate with projects building on ARK’s technology. The first accepted official partner is nOS, the virtual operating system for the Smart Economy. Here’s a brief update:

The nOS Project, building on ARK Core, successfully deployed the Public Testnet of their blockchain platform in February!

nOS is an all-in-one platform that allows both decentralized and centralized applications to grow their user base, increase their revenue potential and expand their reach by utilizing the new business models that decentralized blockchain technology can offer.

nOS was originally issued as a NEO NEP-5 smart contract token. As their project grew and evolved, they began to look for a blockchain solution that would not only help them improve the speed, flexibility and scalability of their platform but one that would also allow them to fully realize the vision of nOS.

After an extensive research and evaluation process, ARK’s blockchain technology was selected by nOS to lay the foundation for its new network.

Impressed by the ease of use and ability to customize the framework to meet their specific needs, nOS initially selected ARK for their mainnet due to our:

Open-source codebase

Interoperability

Scalability

Modular design

Flexible plugin framework

Typescript Core

Ability to create custom transactions quickly and easily with the Generic Transaction Interface (GTI)

As the partnership continues to evolve, we’re excited to continue to work together with nOS on many more projects in the future. In the short term, we’re exploring how the upcoming ARK Marketplace can benefit from the native features and adaptable modules being built by the nOS team, and we are confident this will enable us to strengthen the ecosystem.

On February 6th, after many sleepless nights by nOS working on their code, nOS announced the release of the Public Testnet. Within the Public Testnet, the majority of features in the nOS whitepaper are already live, and people can test them out.

According to nOS, you can use the blockchain today to test the following features:

Stake Public Testnet NOS

Vote for validators

Try out and build blockchain code and applications

Launch a validator and nodes and collect block rewards

In the future: deploy databases and other files (descriptions, icons) to the on-chain nOS IPFS system, and serve them in your apps

Dean Van Dugteren, CEO and Founder of nOS, had this to say:

We’re incredibly grateful to the ARK team for giving us all the help and support we need for our blockchain’s development, and we look forward to continuing our partnership! We’ll be releasing more updates, tutorials, and features over time. So keep an eye out! Want to talk about nOS? Join nOS.Chat.

You can track nOS’s progress via their blog by clicking here.