The ARK Desktop Wallet has been updated, v1.6.0 has been released and brings a lot of UI improvements & a few new features. We encourage everyone to update and help us test this latest release!

You can download the latest release from:

https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/desktop-wallet/releases

or click on “New Version Available” inside the ARK Desktop Wallet which will open the release page.

Hashes for 1.6.0 of Desktop Wallets (SHA256)

Linux (ArkClient-Linux-1.6.0.tar.xz) d506025804eb7005afe5c13c1a080712fa64176de630ef4b348efc12f3884066

d506025804eb7005afe5c13c1a080712fa64176de630ef4b348efc12f3884066 MacOS (ArkClient-MacOS-1.6.0.dmg) 588b92d889d0b23b28ece6b165ed49d592985e62d33a133390090eb75561997b

588b92d889d0b23b28ece6b165ed49d592985e62d33a133390090eb75561997b Ubuntu (ArkClient-Ubuntu-1.6.0_amd64.deb) 25a5e83d0ae86097c713b852e24359b926620c0b01779d3ef0cab7b60751feb9

25a5e83d0ae86097c713b852e24359b926620c0b01779d3ef0cab7b60751feb9 Windows X86 (ArkClient-Win32–1.6.0.exe) c8d776cdb2d724fa3bce2b88ee2f601418cca9fc7163861f5326b0640cc5c916

c8d776cdb2d724fa3bce2b88ee2f601418cca9fc7163861f5326b0640cc5c916 Windows X64 (ArkClient-Win64–1.6.0.exe) 0bb7f8e7238729a9b60e9110a34646ac7f7416831a4f0584678ab9d993746e43

It’s been almost 5 months since our last update of the ARK Desktop Wallet and in that time a lot of things have been added and further improved.

This will be one of the last 1.x releases as we are already knee-deep in Desktop v2 development.

Let’s go over what has been improved upon and added in this new release.

Changelly integration from within ARK Desktop Wallet — making it easy to buy ARK coins from inside the ARK desktop wallet either by exchanging it from another coin or by using your credit card to purchase them with FIAT currency.

You can do this by opening the ARK address you wish to fund, click on the PURCHASE ARK tab and follow through with your preferred method of exchange.

We will also add more exchange options in the future, such as Blockport exchange.

Sending ARK to multiple ARK addresses — you can now load and send multiple transactions from a file within ARK Desktop wallet by clicking MULTIPLE on the SEND window. (Pictured example is using dARK, our developer network token. The process is the same for both.)

When you click send icon and multiple this window will appear, follow instructions on the screen

Select a .CSV file with info for multiple tx you want to send (note that it needs to follow a standard — address,amount,smartbridge)

eg if we want to send to 2 different addresses

Example format:

DRac35wghMcmUSe5jDMLBDLWkVVjyKZFxK,2,test

DN8nGwcNbE3YcnZYFp8uvvc9z4WWDbytWK,3,test

This will send 2 transactions to 2 different addresses.

In this initial version you can do 10 transactions per batch (note that fee is still required per tx, this is not the multi-payment option that is coming with AIP-11 integration in the core v2 future update).

Loading from a file and reading data will result in this overview

Generate and import passphrase in all possible BIP39 languages — we have implemented an option for you to import or generate BIP39 compatible 12 word passphrases in all BIP39 supported languages; English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (traditional and simplified). In order to switch to a different set of words you want to use for passphrases, click on the gear icon in the upper menu (settings) and change “Passphrase language” to the one you prefer.

For example if we use Korean and you want to create a new ARK address, you will be presented with 12 Korean words:

Selecting Korean as passphrase langauge will result in using Korean BIP39 words

NOTE: We cannot stress this enough, triple check when you are creating new ARK addresses from passphrases to write/copy them down EXACTLY as shown on the screen — each change will result in a different ARK address.

Some of the other enhancements and bug fixes in this release are:

Enhancements

Resolve contacts in send form #524

Make ARK client work if main peerseed is down on fresh-install #523

Make screenshot protection configurable #542

Added ability to shift-click the currency button to have it rotate backwards #547

Add a message on the sending dialog when using a Ledger #555

Add transactionId, senderId and recipientId tooltips #556

Improve Contact information #539

Add loading indicator when switching network #563

Sort the languages alphabetically (in the application) #573

Upgrade Electron and node-hid #596

Bug/Minor Fixes

Show error messages when a transaction fails #528

Dashboard accounts box #541

Fix issues in translations #545

Save network not directly after create was pressed #551

Fix that toAddress was sometimes an object #552

Standardized menu and shortcut to match the system’s #558

Bug fixes & changes in manage networks #562

Switch the network if removing the active network #566

Delete network related data when deleting a network #567

Fee override from the network #575

Fix broken reload command on Windows #576

Fixed cross-platform menu to be more consistent and bring back missing items #578

Remove global flag on regex validation of delegate name #590

Change the remove icon of the wallet menu to something more recognisable #595

Change market data provider #599

We’d like to thank all of the ARK community developers, who are helping to find bugs, implement new features and lending a helping hand to our dev team. You’re all doing amazing work for the ecosystem!

Want to get involved with development and earn some ARK bounties?

Check our Github Bounty Program :

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

Found a bug or have an idea for improvement?

Be sure to open a ‘Github Issue’ so we can keep track:

https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/ark-desktop/issues

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