The Foundry has been growing really nicely over the last couple of weeks. We assume that part of the success is due to the proposal program we have, the meet up we are organizing on February 10th as well as the recent podcast we were a guest on. The aim of The Foundry for a large part is to attract new people to Ark, people that might have never heard of Ark and get them excited.

We can do this because we are also getting huge support from the long term Ark community who see value in this proposal. We are extremely grateful for this support. However, to keep that proposal going and keep The Foundry interesting for new voters, we believe it is necessary to cap Ark voters with an extra-ordinary amount of Ark.

We do this because large Ark stacks can severely skew the distribution of all Ark voters in a pool. Seeing we want to aim to grow the Ark community and attract new members, wallets with more than 100k ark will be capped at 100k and the difference to the real amount within the wallet wont be accounted for in our true blockweight calculation. This change does not affect Ark voters that have been voting before February 2018.

We will review this policy and the size of the cap in the future again as this is a dynamic space. Our aim is to keep growing Ark and keep an eye out also for the smaller voter in the Ark community. We hope you understand our decision.

We will implement this change in roughly a week. Please reach out to us on Ark slack if you have any questions.

Yokoama — The Foundry