That article is funny, first off. We aren't done with the funding yet. Second, we are launching no matter what. the funding minimum is an arbitrary number at the moment and we can and we move on with or with out hitting the minimum. That article is a spinoff of another bogus article that was posted not long ago by an uniformed member of a different project. Clearly just a bunch of fud. fud fud fud, who cares what that uninformed person says. if anyone read that and didn't take it as satirical, then they made need their head checked.

people will cry later for missing their chance.

ark funding 1 m usd , is this project will continue?

why on earth would you want a refund? ark will be the biggest sleeper investment of the year, and the best project in 2017 Everyone gets ARK for christmas this year!

whether fund ICO have reached?

short answer, yes.

Long answer, https://tec.ark.io/ shows only 73% of the original funding goal has been met with 17 hours to go.

My understanding is that ARK plans to launch with current funds raised and offer a refund opportunity to investors if the original goal not met by the end of ICO.  

Note that I am not a member of the ARK team and the statement above should be confirmed by official ARK leadership.

For those who do not know me, I am one of three escrow agents (along with Minerjones and Blazed) for ARK's Bitcoin donation account at https://blockchain.info/address/3A8TEQ9dNPnJyG3BHyNERPbgZpE5DqvFeY , and the sole escrow agent for the ARK's Lisk donation account at https://explorer.lisk.io/address/9569486828221897676L .  ARK devs cannot access or move any Bitcoin (currently approx $150K) without the participation of either Minerjones, Blazed or myself.  ARK devs cannot access or move any Lisk (currently approx $800K) without my participation.   I am not a member of the ARK core dev team, although I consider them to be my friends.  

My primary responsibility is to look out for investor interests in the ARK ICO process.  If ARK does not reach 100% threshhold at http://tec.ark.io by the end of ICO in 17 hours then I will not release any Lisk funds to ARK until all requested investor refunds, if any, have been processed.  

yup what these guys said

yes, if they want