On the 15th February, we announced a partnership with ShapeShift which allows us to freely use their technology, like the Shifty Button and their API calls. In return the ShapeShift team would provide support to the users who have problems with the altcoin conversion.
This deal was officially communicated between Max Kordek, CEO of Lisk, and Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift. There was a mutual agreement beforehand and both parties agreed on this technologic partnership.
Unfortunately, there was a miscommunication which resulted in ShapeShift protecting their own interests and reputation by denying the partnership with Lisk. We reached out to ShapeShift in order to clean up the misunderstandings and find a way forward.
What was the miscommunication?
ShapeShift assumed that we would just casually tell people about the partnership and not heavily promote it. We thought that with an official yes we were good to go. Therefore, we published a press release and blog post, in which we also announced our stand-alone ICO website.
In the last few days we cleared out all misunderstandings with Erik Voorhees. Lisk is now officially in a technologic partnership with ShapeShift again. This allows us to freely use their API calls and altcoin shifting features. However, to make this point clear; ShapeShift is not deeply involved with the Lisk Platform, nor are they hosting the Lisk ICO.
We are looking forward to continue using their technology on our ICO website and are getting excited about the three remaining ICO weeks.
Thank you very much!
Kind regards,
Max Kordek & Olivier Beddows
