August was among the most crucial and special months for the Lisk development team. We finally reached our most vital milestone to date — after many months of careful and rigorous development and testing, we smoothly migrated Lisk Core 1.0 to Mainnet. As we explained in a major blog post dedicated to the event, our development team, delegates and our dedicated community helped make this migration the great success that it was. The journey towards a fully fledged Lisk ecosystem that will fulfill our credo of creating a better world by enabling blockchain accessibility has only just begun. We’re very excited for what the future holds and we look forward to reaching many more developmental milestones and achievements.
Before we dive into this month’s community update, we want to announce that the Lisk Reddit AMA date has been announced! It will take place on September 18 from 4 PM to 6 PM CEST. Mark your calendars!
To complement this blog post, we’ve included the Lisk Vlog #6, which provides a visual recap of all the happenings at Lisk in August.
The Community Update for August will cover the following:
- Company Update
- Development Update
- Marketing Update
- Community Update
- Next Steps
Company Update
- We’re continuing to make a big push towards hiring the utmost talented and dedicated individuals who will help support Lisk’s growth and success. We will announce many new hires in the coming months. In August, two new team members joined the Marketing team.
Rachel Black, Tech Evangelist
Jedrzej Jezierski, Community Manager
Development Update
- As we explained earlier, we successfully deployed Lisk Core 1.0 to Mainnet last week. All 101 Lisk delegates finished migrating and began forging and securing the network in less than 24 hours from the time the migration began on August 29. There was a very strong decentralized effort by Lightcurve, exchanges, delegates and the community to make this happen smoothly, without a hitch. This milestone also comes with another exciting achievement for the Lisk development team — we merged more than 1,000 pull requests in the Lisk Core repository. Lisk Core 1.0 comes with many new features. The most important ones are a new API and design, a new P2P communication layer, transaction memo, fully atomic block writes, structured and rewritten test suites, and much more. You can learn more with our dedicated blog post and by watching Lisk Core in 1 Minute. We also created a special section on our website with stats and everything else you need to know about Lisk Core 1.0.
- In August, we released Lisk Elements 1.0, our new general purpose JavaScript library. As you may already know, Lisk Elements replaces LiskJS as our go-to resource for Lisk-related JavaScript functionality. The Lisk Elements 1.0 release comes with a complete codebase rewrite and redesign, new API client, new protocol for signing messages, more utility functions, and renaming of exposed functions and variables. You can learn more with our dedicated blog post and by watching Lisk Elements in 1 Minute.
- We also released Lisk Commander 1.0 in August, the latest version of our command line interface tool. Previously known as “Lisky”, Lisk Commander is a tool for advanced users of the Lisk network and uses our general-purpose JavaScript library, Lisk Elements. The Lisk Commander 1.0 release comes with new functions to help you access more information, the ability to create, sign, verify and broadcast transactions and signature, encrypt and decrypt passphrase commands that are now compatible with Lisk Core 1.0, and more. You can learn more with our dedicated blog post and by watching Lisk Commander in 1 Minute.
- Lisk Hub 1.0 and Lisk Hub 1.1 were also released in August. The four new key features in the releases are a reference field, a help page, menu highlight and network switcher designs. You can learn more with our dedicated blog post and by watching Lisk Hub in 1 Minute.
- Lisk Explorer 2.1.4 was released in August as well. As previously announced, there are exciting plans in the works for Lisk Explorer, so stay tuned to our social media channels to hear all about it! In the meantime, you can learn more about Lisk Explorer with Lisk Explorer in 1 Minute.
- Last week, we announced our plans for the future of Lisk Nano — following the release of Lisk Nano 2.0.0 in August, we will not put forth any follow-up release aside from security patch releases, if necessary and as of January 2019, support for the product will not be available. But the repository will remain public for the community to fork it if they would like. We want to discontinue Lisk Nano as we will shift focus to creating a new and improved Lisk Hub wallet, which we are currently working on.
- Prior to the migration last month, we released a patch, Lisk Core 1.0.1, to help specific node operators for the migration. You can learn more with the subsequently released blog post.
- The Lisk Documentation and Guidelines continues to be periodically updated to help users discover new features. For example, the Lisk Core API can be explored interactively now, as you can make a live request to a testnet node and see the results.
- We put out four Weekly Development Updates in August. You can read them by clicking on the links below.
Weekly Development Update: August 2
Weekly Development Update: August 9
Weekly Development Update: August 16
Weekly Development Update: August 23
Marketing Update
- All hands were on deck for the Marketing team last month in preparation for the migration. In addition, the team worked very hard to make sure all exchanges were fully aware and properly prepared for this event.
- The Lisk Creative team was on fire last month, creating all of the videos highlighting different products in the Lisk ecosystem. They will continue bringing the best quality videos to the Lisk Community.
- The Lisk Blog put out 14 blog posts in August, including a feature on Tech Evangelist Rachel Black where we sat down with her and asked questions to learn more about her and her background. We also wrote about BLOQspace, a US-based Lisk community builder who has worked incredibly hard to spread the word about Lisk through events and much more.
- Lisk had 64 media mentions and 30 media placements for the month of August.
Thomas was interviewed by the Technology Blog Writer
Thomas and Will were interviewed by CryptoCoinsNews
Jacob wrote an article for Bit-Media
Max was interviewed by Crypto 101
Community Update
- Qualitative and Quantitative research has been a focus for our Performance Marketing team in the last month, in order to validate assumptions and guide our marketing strategy. Last month, we distributed a Community Survey to better gauge the current composition of our community. Furthermore, we want to better target our key stakeholders by understanding content preferences. As for the results:
We received 366 responses, which were all very valuable.
Respondents rated Lisk 7.4 out of 10 for overall level of transparency.
Monthly vlogs are our community’s favorite video-related content.
Development and business updates ranked highest for preferred blog content.
Of all Lisk social media channels, Reddit is the most favored.
- Last month, Lisk community member Southpaw hosted a Lisk meetup in Houston! We wanted to give him a shoutout and a thank you for continuing to spread Lisk awareness.
Next Steps
The team is very excited to embark on this new chapter. This month, we will be hosting the Lisk Reddit AMA on September 18 from 4 PM to 6 PM CEST. The development team and several members from the Marketing team will be present to answer your questions.
Later in the month, on September 26, several team members, including Max Kordek, will be present at next month’s big conference in London — Blockchain Live.
Thank you again to our dedicated community for the support! We look forward to continuing to deliver the most secure and high-quality products possible.
-The Lisk Team
