The abundance of news each week at Lisk led us to not only launch a bi-weekly newsletter, The Lisk Insider, but also bring back community updates starting with a monthly recurring blog post. It is our intention to ultimately bring you weekly updates here.
November was a busy month at Lisk! Across development and marketing, here’s a brief recap of our latest releases and business updates.
- In mid-November, we released Lisk Explorer 1.4.0 with enhanced UX/UI, improved performance, bug fixes and website analytics.
- The latest version of our wallet, Lisk Nano 1.3.0, was released near the end of the month with several improvements including saved accounts, message encryption and new version notification.
- Lisk was a trending GitHub repository in November, which brought a lot more visibility to our projects.
- Our highly anticipated Development Roadmap was unveiled at the Lisk Berlin Meetup on November 22. We will be publishing a comprehensive blog post to explain the releases and their implications in further detail.
- At the beginning of the month, we announced updates to the Ambassador Program and Local Meetup Initiative
- Our Marketing Lead Thomas traveled to Rotterdam last month to speak at a Lisk community hosted meetup.
- Max returned to Tokyo to speak at the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference hosted by Blockchain Labo.
- Only a couple of weeks later, Max delivered a keynote presentation at the hub.berlin conference.
- On November 21, Lisk was officially listed on Binance, a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange.
- Lisk became a unicorn after surpassing a market capitalization of over $1 billion.
- At the end of the month, we hosted our largest meetup yet (as well as our last of the year) with more than 200 people in attendance.
- At the Berlin meetup we announced the news that we will be Relaunching Lisk in conjunction with a major event in Berlin on February 20, 2018.
- And last, but not least, we’ve added six new and incredibly talented members to the Lisk family in the last month alone.
Latest Hires at Lisk
Michael joined the team on November 1 as a Marketing Manager with a specialization in PR. He brings with him many years of marketing and communications experience, as well as political journalism and NGO-related knowledge. The most fun part of his job is getting even more people excited about and included within the Lisk movement. He defines Lisk with three Fs: fun, fascinating and futuristic. Michael is also excited to see how many industries and charitable causes will benefit from the blockchain technology created by Lisk. Decentralization grants the freedom to explore and create; blockchain provides the tools to do so. Michael is a self-proclaimed history buff and enjoys snowboarding and cooking.
The first QA Engineer to join the team, Yair is among the latest additions to the Lisk dev team with a start date of November 1. He is originally from Israel but is not a newcomer to Berlin, and describes Lisk as new, innovative and smart. Blockchain technology and decentralization will give humans more power and choices in life. Yair added that he sees Lisk as spearheading this movement. In his opinion, developers are tech leaders and should take the bull by its horns, particularly in blockchain. In his free time, Yair likes to make electronic music, cycle, and read science fiction.
The second Argentinian on the team, Julian started working at Lisk on November 22 as a Motion Designer. He began his career in videography in 2009 before shifting focus onto motion designing. For him, the best part of the profession is that there is never a shortage of new things to learn. In his view, Lisk will be a game changer in blockchain, an unexplored land full of opportunities that could change the world. The three words he uses to describe Lisk are clever, friendly but defiant. His hobbies include watching soccer and television shows.
Mat, our new Community Manager, began at Lisk on December 1. His forte is in communication, building relationships and engaging in discussions with passionate individuals. Innovative, fresh and disruptive are the three words he uses to describe Lisk. He loves that Lisk strives to make blockchain accessible with JavaScript and believes it will bring a wave of innovation to many industries. Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, Mat loves to keep an active lifestyle by playing basketball and cycling on the weekends.
Andries joined Lisk on December 1 as an HR Manager from Belgium. He loves the social aspect of his job — getting to know the team behind the company and coming up with new strategies on how to create the best work environment possible. If he could only pick three words to describe Lisk, they would be: innovative, accessible and futuristic. He loves the accessibility that Lisk provides for developers as the lack of accessibility is one of the biggest issues blockchain is facing at the moment. When he isn’t in the office, he loves to travel, cook and read on the subject of blockchain technology.
The latest Backend Developer from Poland to join Lisk, Michał began working at the company on December 1. He feels decentralization and blockchain are incredibly important — decentralization can be a way to provide a fault-tolerant and safe solution to many issues society is currently facing. For him, Lisk is agile, developing and innovative. Lisk possesses the right tools to bring blockchain technology to ordinary people. Michal is a big fan of the water and enjoys both swimming and diving.
December Onwards
As we head into the last few weeks of 2017, our team is busy preparing for major developments and events, particularly the Lisk Relaunch on February 20, 2018. As always, thank you to the Lisk community for the incredible support.
— The Lisk Team
