Lisk Week In Review – 60

by Victor · Published June 3, 2021 · Updated June 6, 2021

Featured in this new edition of Lisk Week in Review:

Lisk Foundation publishes blog detailing Lisk Interoperability solution around Lisk Roadmap
Lisk celebrates five years since creation
Lisk Foundation releases more details for HackonLisk
Lisk Foundation releases more updates on Lisk Core, Lisk SDK, Lisk Service and Lisk Desktop
Lisk Foundation releases details for Lisk Grant Program
Lisk Delegate overview for the past week

Full blog on Lisk Interoperability published

After numerous researches, documentation and several LIPs publication, and in-depth review at the just concluded Lisk.js 2021 conference, Lisk Foundation has now published a full blog detailing its proposed scalable and decentralized interoperability solution for the Lisk ecosystem. The blog details Lisk Interoperability around eight roadmap objectives. These roadmap objectives were as follows:

Define cross-chain messaging protocol
Define side-chain registration and lifecycle
Define state model and state root
Introduce token standards for the Lisk ecosystem
Update Lisk-BFT for Lisk Interoperability
Update block header format
Introduce alternative validator selection mechanism for sidechains
Enhance signature scheme

After successfully publishing the entire amount of interoperability and supporting LIPs, the team will now focus on implementation phase, which will see it work on topics such as reducing the time for finality in the consensus mechanism, or providing a sound incentivization for the role of the relayer in the interoperability solution.

A solution is only as relevant on how it is easy to use, hence, the Lisk Foundation developers and researchers will also collaborate with its UI team members to ensure that the accessibility for end-users to the Lisk ecosystem is as seamless and secure as possible.

Lisk blockchain celebrates five years since launch

How best to celebrate another anniversary of Lisk blockchain if not just after the epoch Lisk.js 2021 conference? The Lisk community celebrated five solid years of Lisk blockchain creation and continuous improvement with several products launched on it as the community witnessed at Lisk.js 2021. Since the Mainnet went live, Lisk reached a block height of 15.5 million. Over 1880 delegate accounts have been registered on the network and more than 37 million LSK tokens have been forged by delegates so far. So much has been achieved within these five years comprising developmental achievements like the release and continuous improvement of Lisk design and desktop implementation, Lisk service, launch of Betanet v4 and v5, external security audit of Lisk SDK 5.0.0 and Lisk Core 3.0.0 and more. Per research, Lisk has completed 35 LIPs and merged into GitHub.

On community initiatives, Lisk Foundation opened Lisk Centre Berlin, joined COPA to help bolster sharing of cryptocurrency-related patents, celebrated one year of Lisk Builders’ Program featured top products built using Lisk SDK and the acquisition of the pricey Lisk.com domain.

Full details of the newly launched HackonLisk Program

Lisk Foundation has released the complete information on HackonLisk, Lisk’s first fully-online hackathon detailing how the virtual event will run. Per the blog announcement, the event will be hosted on DevPost’s platform and is open to both individuals and already formed teams. HackonLisk is geared at taking Lisk’s awesome blockchain solution to an already existing blockchain developer community and wooing them to build with Lisk SDK written in Javascript, the web’s friendly developer language.

Participants can submit applications in areas such as Lending, Stablecoins, NFT marketplaces, Collectibles, Prediction markets, Social media networks, DAOs, Oracles etc. For these, the Foundation has set aside a total of 33,000 USD worth of prizes, as well as other non-monetary prizes. This is a call for developers and anyone seeking to change the world through blockchain technology can apply.

More updates on Lisk Core, Lisk SDK, Lisk Service and Lisk Desktop

Lisk developers have started competitor analysis for Lisk SDK v6.0.0 covering areas such as compare libp2p with lisk-p2p, compare state store implementation and framework hooks, compare block forging modularization and more.

Lisk Foundation announced that Lisk Core v3.0.0-rc.0 now depends on Lisk Desktop v2.0.0 reaching the (rc.0) release candidate status.

Lisk Foundation announced that Lisk Service v0.3.0 was released into production with the development of v0.4.0 with 8 issues closed in the past sprint and 7 open issues remaining. It plans a QA process once development of v0.4.0 is complete.

Lisk Desktop v2.0.0-beta.3 was released into public testing with 6 issues closed and 6 issues still remaining.

Lisk Foundation releases details for Lisk Grant Program

The Lisk Foundation has released full details for the Lisk Grant Program with the purpose of attracting both entrepreneurs and developers into the Lisk ecosystem to build blockchain applications.

To incentivise application developers to build on Lisk, Lisk’s Grant Program offers up to 60,000 CHF grant per application for anyone ranging from individuals to teams equivalent to 66,667 USD s. Lisk Grant’s applicants are expected to take their projects through four milestones before they get 1,000 CHF, 4,000 CHF, 30,000 CHF and 25,000 CHF respectively for the four phases.

Delegates’ Overview

According to Lisk Monitor, Lisk delegates have now lost votes for two consecutive weeks. GDT lost about 103 million LSK, with individuals losing more than 184 million LSK. Forging delegates lost approximately 3 million LSK each.