The invite to Consensus was entirely unexpected, but I was so excited to go! The first day of Consensus I ended up running late to the event and only showed up during the afternoon because I was trying very hard to print hundreds of paper wallets for all the people who might be interested in using the faucet, but don’t carry an Android device. When I arrived at the event, I was very impressed by how Ark was literally EVERYWHERE. On ceilings, plastered on walls, elevators, escalators, even bathrooms! (just kidding, at least I didn’t notice..haha).

Ark really killed it with the marketing aspect, but that really wasn’t the highlight of the entire event! When I arrived at the booth, I met with Chin (Cannabanana), Simon (sleepdeficit), Travis (djselery), Scott, Fx, Lars, Carly, Moonman, Goldenpepe, Dutchdelegate team, yokoama from thefoundry, Arkade, and Arkland all standing around talking to people who were interested about Ark!

But the biggest thing that caught my attention, was that beautiful white ceramic faucet with an Ark sticker on it! I was delighted to see people use their phones upon my arrival, but soon enough people who did not have an Android device began to ask about using the faucet. Thankfully, I printed out enough wallets for people to use and almost everyone who approached the faucet ended up using it!

In order to intrigue the people walking by, Carly from the Ark Team helped make a ‘Free Money’ sign to hang above the faucet! Sure enough, we ended up disposing more than 250 Ark by the end of the event!

The 3 days were packed full of people, presentations, and new ideas to help grow the project.

The Ark Delegates who came out to Consensus! Starting from top left: yokoama (thefoundry), Rudy (dutchdelegate), myself (del), Moonman (biz_classic). Bottom left: Munich (Arkland), Bootlegjim (Arkade), Charles (Dutchdelegate), and Goldenpepe (biz_classic).

Ark Ecosystem CTO — FX Thoorens giving a technical talk about V2 and what it has to offer.

The month itself has been extremely busy and I am very happy to have met everyone, attending these events, and learning so much. There are more adventures and developments planned for Ark, so be sure to keep a look out for future posts!

Thank you again to the Ark Team for giving me the opportunities this past month, representing Ark has been incredible and I hope to have future opportunities like it. Furthermore, I would like to thank my voters that went out of their way to meet me during these events, it was a great pleasure speaking with all of you, and I really hope to meet many more of you in the near future.

Till’ next time!

Del

Ark is a voyage, join me and together we will reap the rewards of this great journey.