Lisk Community Update — April 2018
Hello everyone!
As always, April was a very busy month on all fronts — development, marketing and operations. To complement this blog post, we’ve included the Lisk Vlog #2, which provides a visual recap of all the happenings at LiskHQ in April.
The Community Update for April will cover the following:
-Company Update
-Development Update
-Marketing Update
-Community Update
-Next Steps
-Company Update
Consistent with our strategy to double in size this year, the Lightcurve team is continuing to grow month after month. In April, two new members joined the team: Abel Boldu as our latest DevOps Engineer and Gabriela D’Alo as Human Resources Generalist. We’re very excited to have them on board.
Development Update
In April, Darpal Rating ranked Lisk as one of the top blockchain projects in terms of GitHub activity for March. Our development team continued to work incredibly hard throughout the month of April. We recently announced that we have decided to cease hosting the online versions of Lisk Hub and Lisk Nano as we have come to the conclusion that the web version cannot guarantee the additional levels of security that the desktop version of Lisk Hub offers. If you haven’t already, please download and use the desktop version. And if you’re interested in learning more about decision, please read our comprehensive blog post on the topic.
Lisk Core 1.0.0 Beta was released for testing last month. As we described in major detail in our corresponding blog post, we decided to divide our testing processes in two distinct phases for all major releases going forward, starting with Lisk Core 1.0.0 — Betanet and Testnet.
Lisk Explorer 1.6.0 was released last month, and included new UI and UX elements that correspond with the new Lisk.io design. To learn more about the release, please read our recent blog post. Prior to this release, we also released Lisk Explorer 1.5.0, which fixed bugs and closed issues; you can read the full changelog here.
We released Lisk Core 0.9.14 and closed issues such as inconsistent behavior between syncing and snapshotting and added code changes for handling inert transactions. You can find the changelog on GitHub. We also released Lisk Core 0.9.13 earlier in the month which addressed variable shadowing and added json schema validation for transaction.signatures property among much more. You can read the full corresponding release notes here.
Lisk Hub 0.5.0 was released, which brought the following changes: delegate registration, new version release notes in the desktop app and simplified URL scheme. You can read much more about the release with its corresponding blog post. In the same month, we’d also released Lisk Hub 0.4.0, which added new features such as a tutorial, second passphrase registration and launch protocol in the desktop version. Read more about this release on the Lisk Blog.
Marketing Update
The Lisk Blog published 10 articles in April, including an interview with Lisk Community Member Aleksey aka Alepop, a feature on ADAMANT Messenger, as well as Jan’s comprehensive post about the Lisk North America Tour.
Last month, Community Manager Mat Piaggi and Lisk Academy Lead Jacob Kowalewski traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania to attend the Crypto Capital World Summit on April 25–26. Jacob presented on the topic of ICOs on Day 1 and participated in a panel on Day 2. Jacob and Mat formed key relationships at this conference, include those with projects planning to develop on the Lisk network.
In April, we received 49 media mentions and 8 media placements, including Nasdaq, and ICO Crowd Magazine.
There were a number of great interviews that took place over the month:
Lindsay Buescher was interviewed by Crypto Potato
Julian Alterini was interviewed by Crypto Briefing
Max Kordek was interviewed by IvanOnTech
Max Kordek was interviewed by BTC Echo
Jan Liz Fonts was interviewed by Ryan Berkness and Dale Brose
Will Clark was interviewed by International Business Times
Thomas Schouten provided commentary to ValueWalk
Andries Bellemans provided commentary to Bankless Times
In addition, Michael and Jacob were interviewed in London for an upcoming documentary, Beyond Bitcoin.
Community Update
On April 18, Lisk held its inaugural London Meetup. With over 150 attendees, the meetup was a great success. Presenters included members of the Lightcurve team as well as Shane V. Kehoe of SVK Crypto, a prominent London-based cryptocurrency investment fund.
We opened up applications for community members in Japan and China to translate the Lisk Academy into their respective languages. We had a number of quality candidates and will continue to consider people who are willing to contribute. If you would like to find out more, please email [email protected].
Finally, we want to give a special shout out to the dedicated Lisk community members who reviewed our Core Betanet: cc001, slamper, gr33ndrag0n, punkrock, arca_music, carbonara, StellarDynamic, Karek and biolypl.
Next Steps
We are still actively hiring talented individuals to join our team. We have recently added a new opening for the position of Community Manager. Please check out AngelList for more details about Lightcurve’s open positions.
These next few months are going to be incredibly busy for Lightcurve. In a recent blog post, we highlighted all of the blockchain and cryptocurrency conferences around the world that team members will be traveling to in order to spread the word of Lisk.
We hope to possibly see some of you in person at any of the events we will be attending this month! As always, thank you for your continued support and dedication to our vision to make blockchain accessible.
-The Lisk Team
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