What is Arrow?

Put simply, Arrow is truly private digital cash.

Arrow represents a major step forward for privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. It significantly expands and delivers upon Zcash’s promise of privacy, making transactional privacy mandatory, while also implementing necessary upgrades to the Zcash blockchain and codebase.

Arrow is faster, lighter, more private, and easier to use than Bitcoin or Zcash. Arrow aims to bridge the divide between mainstream adoption and the cryptocurrency world through an intuitive user experience and effortless transactional privacy. Where other projects have failed to remove barriers to entry, Arrow is focused on bringing the significant benefits of the technology to as many people as possible. The features of Arrow place it at the forefront of truly digital cash.

Arrow is a fork of Zcash and integrates and builds upon Zcash’s existing open-source technology. Arrow will not inherit the current Zcash block height, starting from block one.

For a more in-depth look at Arrow, read the whitepaper here: http://www.arrowchain.io/s/arrow.pdf

More information can be found on our website: https://www.arrowchain.io





Updates:

07 July 2019 - Genesis block mined, Arrow launched fairly.
29 August 2019 - 100,000 blocks mined.
20 September 2019 - Block explorer released.
5th December 2019 - Lite wallet released.
7th January 2020 - Successful scheduled hard fork to get back on mining reward stepdown schedule and increase max tx size
8th January 2020 - First exchange listing (SafeTrade)

Download:
Wallet:
Quiver Lite - https://github.com/Arrowchain/quiver-lite/releases
Desktop - https://github.com/Arrowchain/arrow/releases/tag/1.0.4
cli - https://github.com/Arrowchain/arrowwallet/releases/tag/0.1.6


Contribute:
Arrow is open source and decentralized. If you would like to contribute to Arrow’s development, join us on GitHub: https://github.com/Arrowchain

There may be future bounties available for contributions towards the development of Arrow, including but not limited to design, translation, etc. Please respond below with particular enquiries.

Mine Arrow:



Pools:
https://miningpoolstats.stream/arrow


FAQ:

Technical information: (More detail in Whitepaper)

• Arrow uses a proof-of-work (PoW) mining algorithm (Equihash Heavy (192,7) algorithm).
• The total supply of $ARW is 210,000,000, 10 times the supply of Bitcoin and of Zcash.
• Block Time - 45 seconds, 3.33 times faster than Zcash (Zcash’s block times are approximately 2.5 minutes each)
• Arrow’s block reward (years 0-8):

• A higher block reward with corresponding step-down for the first two years following the genesis block incentivizes miners and works to further decentralize the Arrow network.
• The mainnet launch is fair and transparent. No premine, ICO, or airdrop was done. Arrow is a block one public fork.
• 4.8% of block reward to founders’ reward (compared to Zcash’s initial 20%), which is reduced, forever, to 0 after 8 years.
• Halving occurs four years from block one.

Website:
https://www.arrowchain.io


Community:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arrowcrypto
Telegram: https://t.me/arrowchain
Discord: https://discord.gg/HkNu6E5
Medium: https://medium.com/@arrowchain
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArrowCrypto/


Resources:
Github: https://github.com/Arrowchain
Block Explorers: https://explorer.arrowchain.io/#/ - http://explorer.arrowchain.net/stats
https://quiver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/arrow


Exchanges:

SafeTrade - https://safe.trade/

We are not able to discuss future listings.

that's great, nice to see project announced in advance and with no premine. The only concern how are you going to fund any exchange listing.
Another  concern is a team. Are  you solo developer or do you have a team of supporters? Single person, even a good one, may simply have not enough time to handle everything

The exchange listing fee is easy, don't need a premine because don't need to pay listing fees.

The team has decided to stay anonymous for the moment. There are a number of individuals working on the project currently, and as Arrow is open source, anyone can contribute via GitHub.

Great, looking forward to it.

Luxor is considering this coin.  We'll be in touch.

What exchanges?

Isn’t that more or less what Pirate coin is (ARRR) - Zcash with privacy enabled by default?

Interesting but what is the plan to offer protection against 51% attacks? It seems too vulnerable to double spending. PirateChain is similarly a fully shielded blockchain but it added Komodo's dPoW protection for this reason.

Updated:
- Added roadmap
- Added Discord link
- Added new graphics