Do you remember how long it took the ETH devs to release ETH to the public. lol it took sooo long.

First major fuck up, no doubt one of may more to come.  

The obvious has been stated twice now with nary a response.

Send the losers an email and tell them to "validate" there keys immediately.

More importantly why? How can this operation be held hostage by this so-called requirement. No I doubt believe it is about being fair to them. Zero need to validate the keys, next to no one's saved passwords didn't work. Even so opening mainnet what the hell has that got to do with all of this    it is there "loss" even if there is a loss which I do not think exists.

And to all the whackos chiming in how it is a good thing things need to be done right, gives time to do things right blah blah blah mindless shills not even thinking about what is going on.

Send everyone an email. Open mainnet on time, with or without them, once live they will hear about it if they ignored the emails, most if not all will have success on their own with their keys, to the morons that forgot their keys tough luck. Split the booty amongst everyone and tell them to fuck off.

Or portion off that unclaimed balance, start mainnet minus it and go about over the course of the month chasing them down then reintegrate it.

Even simpler send an email each day remaining of this week. Those that don't respond, send back their funds to their sending address and be done it with.

Being held hostage like this does not bode well for the future.  Developers need to seize control and run this show with a firm hand from day one.

Send everyone an email starting now.

Now if none of the above cannot be done them something else is very very very wrong.  Be aware.

Official Lisk Mainnet Launch - End of April

Up until today, we had estimated an official launch of the Lisk platform for April 11th, 2016. Unfortunately, there have been setbacks concerning the generation and validation of keys, associated with each ICO exchange. Consequently, we have decided to delay the official launch to the end of April, the worst case scenario being early May.

The delayed launch will not be in vain; not only will it provide the community enough time to generate and validate their keys, we will also implement important security features into the platform.


Passphrase Validation

As of today, 87% of all ICO participants have generated their keys and claimed their passphrases, while only 44% have validated them. The validated passphrases percentile provides the team a degree of certainty that ICO participants have saved the correct passphrases. We need this as high as possible to follow through with the official launch. Current status:

- 13% not claimed passphrases: ~1,800 BTC or $750,000
- 56% not validated passphrases: ~7,840 BTC or $3,292,800

At the present time we would have to escrow over $750,000 in LISK, while having the uncertainty of potentially $3,300,000 in incorrectly recorded keys. We feel these numbers need to be reduced.

Starting this week, we will send out emails to all users who have not yet generated or validated their passphrases.

- How to Generate your Lisk ICO Passphrase
- Verifying your ICO Generated Passphrases

Paving the way for a bright future

After discussions with individual community members and advisors, we have decided to deviate from our current pre-launch roadmap, and focus towards improving the security first. The updated pre-launch roadmap will be available this week, and will include the plans for building a modular crypto-currency, the implementation of mnemonic checksums, updated fees and much more.

Modular Crypto-Currency

Lisk is poised to become the first truly modular crypto-currency by utilizing sidechains as a solution to scalability. Lisk sidechains allow us to implement various features into the Lisk main network as Decentralized Applications (Dapps). This not only makes single features optional, it also keeps the Lisk mainchain streamlined in comparison to other crypto-currencies.

Mnemonic Checksum

Crypto-currency brain wallets have a history of problems concerning users choosing too simple passphrases for their accounts. It’s important to understand that the passphrase represents the private key of your account. Therefore, we integrate mnemonic checksumming of passphrases that conforms to BIP39, forcing users to generate highly secure passphrases directly inside our client (12 words like: all spike short ill claim field credit doctor paddle appear price music).

Responsive Design

Lisk community members are already working on mobile clients for Android and iOS. If you want to access your Lisk account inside your smartphone browser you are able to do so right at launch - thanks to our responsive design.

Updated Fees

We feel the current fees are a bit on the expensive side. Prior to the official launch we will adjust the fees accordingly to make them accessible and affordable to the community. Conversely, we also believe that fees should have an impact to discourage name squatting and low quality delegates or decentralized applications. For this reason, we are evaluating the current fees associated with delegate and dapp registrations.

In summary, we strengthen the stability and security of the network while the community completes their validations, and hopefully officially launch by the end of April. These are very exciting times, and we are as excited as everyone to experience the next technological revolution. Thanks for the support on testing the public network, you will soon have another version to play with.

Kind regards,

Max, Oliver & Joel

Polo on the first few days can be more than 5 or even $ 10 ...  

Lisk — The first modular crypto-currency

Scalability has been a problem with crypto-currencies since Bitcoin’s introduction.

Scalability is the capability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work, or its potential to be enlarged in order to accommodate that growth.

In order to resolve this, Lisk will become the first truly modular crypto-currency by utilizing sidechains as a solution to scalability. Lisk sidechains allow us to implement various features into the Lisk main network simply as Decentralized Applications (Dapps). This not only makes single features optional, it will also keep the Lisk mainchain streamlined in comparison to other crypto-currencies.
From an architectural standpoint it is rational to apply this modularity prior to the official Lisk launch. Therefore, effective immediately, we have completely removed the current implementation of usernames and contacts from Lisk. In the near future, they will be part of the so called “Core Dapps” which bring new features directly integrated into the client user interface (UI).



The first Core Dapp allows users to create a unique identity on the Lisk network involving information such as username, first name, surname, email, forum/chat username, and/or a description. Dapp developers are be able to access the identity sidechain and use the information within their own dapps, e.g. the name of a Lisk account owner.



Alongside with the other planned Core Dapps (messaging, dapp reviews/ratings, contacts), Lisk not only becomes a decentralized network, it becomes a feature-complete and independent ecosystem. Combined with the many dapps by our users Lisk will form a one of its kind hub for the world, empowering the Internet of Things and motivating many industries.

Hey LiskHQ,
When can we expect to see the full bounty numbers (first day buy, Newsletter,translation, sig's, etc....)?
When exactly will they be distributed?

Sure they can just release the coin and take their ico money and go to the Bahamas.

Why not? Lisk has tokens reserved for the core team also.

Whoever decides to open a fiat gateway should ask wesellcrypto.com for some advice, they use PayPal and have been open for a long time now. I use them when I need Btc in a hurry. Maybe we could ask them to add lisk.

hey there, fellow WAVES supporter

will this have a hard time getting listed on bittrex? they used to have a rule of not listing coins that offered shares of a company that paid out dividends. Im sure it can make it on c-cex and yobit. etc though..

How did this coin make it to bittrex with it mentioning and paying out dividends? Just wondering. They use to have rules back in the day on bittrex for things like this. Don't worry im not going to snitch cause i'am probably wrong. Gotta read some more. Theres a coin I hope can get added there, just hoping that won't be a road block.