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Get started on Ark with bark

This step-by-step tutorial will get you started with bark, our Ark wallet client that can be used from the command line or integrated into apps.

Currently, bark only supports signet, a bitcoin testnet. Ark is still in alpha, and we don't want anyone losing any real sats!

Installing bark

Your wallet is called bark and has two installation methods:

Binary release

Binary releases can be downloaded from Codeberg.

Below are instructions to download the binary, mark it as executable, and add it to your PATH on different platforms.

# Download bark
curl https://codeberg.org/ark-bitcoin/bark/releases/download/all-0.0.0-alpha.9/bark-0.0.0-alpha.9-linux-x86_64 --output bark

# Mark the binary as executable
chmod +x bark

# Add bark to your PATH
sudo cp bark /usr/local/bin/

# Download bark
curl https://codeberg.org/ark-bitcoin/bark/releases/download/all-0.0.0-alpha.9/bark-0.0.0-alpha.9-linux-x86_64 --output bark

# Mark the binary as executable
chmod +x bark

# Add bark to your PATH
sudo cp bark /usr/local/bin/

# Download bark
curl https://codeberg.org/ark-bitcoin/bark/releases/download/all-0.0.0-alpha.9/bark-0.0.0-alpha.9-apple-aarch64 --output bark

# Mark the binary as executable
chmod +x bark

# Add bark to your PATH
sudo cp bark /usr/local/bin/

# Download bark
curl https://codeberg.org/ark-bitcoin/bark/releases/download/all-0.0.0-alpha.9/bark-0.0.0-alpha.9-apple-x86_64 --output bark

# Mark the binary as executable
chmod +x bark

# Add bark to your PATH
sudo cp bark /usr/local/bin/

# Download bark
wget https://codeberg.org/ark-bitcoin/bark/releases/download/all-0.0.0-alpha.9/bark-0.0.0-alpha.9-windows-x86_64.exe -OutFile bark.exe

Note

Note that when using Windows, you will have to change the rest of the commands in this tutorial by replacing bark with bark.exe.

Compile from source

Refer to the dedicated page for instructions on how to compile from source.