<ul><li>Ark Labs, created by Marco Argentieri and Simone Giacomelli, is an open-source protocol created to help scale Bitcoin by amortizing the cost of a single on-chain transaction across many off-chain swaps.</li><li>Ark was founded under the pretext that users don't want to become experts in running Lightning nodes to make payments.</li><li>Argentieri acknowledged Cisco's shortcomings which prompted the founding of Ark.</li><li>The liquidity constraints of Lightning are remedied with Ark servers. Liquidity can be sourced and provided in exchange for a small fee.</li><li>With Ark, a UTXO can provide liquidity for an exponential number of transactions compared to the amount of funds in the UTXO.</li><li>Argentieri also shared that using Ark is nearly as trustless as using Bitcoin.</li><li>Ark Labs announced a partnership with Boltz to enable off-chain Lightning liquidity management, with the intention of making swaps faster, cheaper and easier via the Ark Node.</li><li>Argentieri and the team at Ark Labs have a seemingly countless number of new advancements in the works.</li><li>The plan for now is to remain on mission and make Bitcoin payments get better.</li></ul>

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