The price of most cryptocurrencies is driven by product development milestones, strategic partnership announcements, and overall market health. ARK is no different ARK has experienced a few major price increases since its lCO in 2016. The first price spike occurred in April 2017 when the development team released a library to provide Java Support on the platform. Java is one of the most popular programming languages and the added support most likely pleased numerous Java developers who were previously excluded from using the platform. There have also been smaller price increases with each additional language that was added in 2017. The largest increase in the ARK token price (in BTC) coincided with two related events. In September 2017, the Crew released a desktop wallet update that fixed many of the bugs spotted by users. This update also included a partnership with Ledger – one of the most popular and trusted hardware wallets available. The USD price reached an all-time high of just over $9.00 (~0.000659 BTC) in January 2018 before falling with the rest of the market. The price has spent the remainder of 2018 in a freefall. Even the release of Core v2 has little to no effect on the price. You can currently pick up some ARK for under a dollar. market, these milestones may provide a small bump.