Our biggest Core update is about to go live and alongside it comes the newest Desktop Wallet that makes it compatible with all of its changes and new transaction types that are coming, including Multipayments and Multisignatures. It now also features a download & update option inside the wallet with a click of a button (if you have the latest release installed)!

The ARK Desktop Wallet update is here and it brings new transaction types, bug fixes, and some new user experience features. In this blog post, we’ll go over all of the newest transaction types that can be used inside the Desktop Wallet.

You can download the ARK Desktop Wallet at https://ark.io/wallet or download from within wallet with a new feature (see below, requires v2.7.0 to be installed prior to update).

You can now download and update from within Desktop Wallet (short video showing how to download from within wallet) after it downloads press on Quit and Install.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Ledger users (Nano S or X) have to update their Ledger’s ARK App version to the latest release (v2.0.1) via Ledger Live once Core v2.6 goes live on the Public Network if they wish to keep using it uninterrupted.

New Transaction Types

Inside the Desktop Wallet, you will be able to use these new transaction types as soon as Core v2.6 and AIP11 flag go live on the Public Network later on in the day (stay tuned to this blog, Twitter, Facebook, Slack or Reddit to be the first one to know once the migration has been successful).

Multisignature Registration

You can now get all of the benefits of multisignatures by registering a new multisignature wallet. For this, you and all other participants will need to connect to the multisignature server to confirm each part of the registration.

You can open the multisignature registration window by clicking on the 3 vertical dots beside the Send button ->Registration->Register Multi-Signature.

On the initial screen, you can add participants of the new multisignature wallet either by wallet address or public key — you can have up to 16 participants per multisignature wallet.

On the second screen, you can input the minimum required signatures per each transaction out of the new multisignature wallet and a fee for registering this wallet.

The third window is confirmation for it to be broadcast to the multisignature server where other participants will be able to confirm their part of the registration by connecting to multisignature server via Multi-Signature tab.