The December 2017 GitHub Development Bounty has ended. We would like to thank all of the community developers who keep improving ARK, and we strongly hope you’ll continue to contribute in 2018 as well.

With the new year, we have also decided to rewrite and re-purpose the GitHub bounty program, and make it permanent. We learned a lot running it in 2017, and want to make our GitHub Bounty Program permanent for the foreseeable future. That’s right, every month from here on out there will be a GitHub Bounty.

More on that in this blog post:

https://blog.ark.io/ark-github-development-bounty-113806ae9ffe

Please note that for ease of tracking, PRs count in the month when they get merged, and not when they are submitted. All PRs merged from the 1st of January through the 31st of January will count as January GitHub winners.

December 2017 Winners:

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1st place: 1000 ARK

Github User: Nasicus

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2nd place: 700 ARK

Github User: ckhatri

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3rd place: 500 ARK

Github User: Moustikitos

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4th place: 250 ARK

Github User: perryhoffman

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5th-7th+ place: 150 ARK / each (no particular order)

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8th+ place: 20 ARK / each (no particular order)

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Contributor of the Quarter ( Oct-Nov-Dec 2017) : 1000 ARK

Github User: FaustBrian

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Brian was one of the most versatile community developers with tremendous impact on the development of ARK that went up and above:

ARK PHP Client

ARK Ruby Client

Smash — A bash template for ARK

ARK Javascript Library

ARK API Docs

Refactoring of ARK.io website & making it international

Noah — Automated Rebuilds for ARK

Moses — Automated Snapshots for ARK

Refactoring ARK Explorer

And much much more

Thank you Brian and I hope you will continue to contribute to ARK in the same way in 2018.

January 2018

1st : $2,000 USD

2nd: $1,500 USD

3rd: $1,000 USD

4th–6th: $250 USD / each

7th+ : $50 / each

(+ all $10 merged PR’s)

(all ARK github bounties will be paid in ARK equivalent)

I missed these bounties — What is this all about?

Read the full instructions here: https://blog.ark.io/ark-github-development-bounty-113806ae9ffe

Are there any other development bounties going on?

There is also the community run ACF (ARK Community Fund) — read more here:

And remember to join our Slack!