Lisk Blockchain Project Opens Books, Announces Non-Profit Foundation

Lisk, the decentralized blockchain application platform, today announced the successful registration of the Lisk Foundation, a Swiss “Stiftung” or not-for-profit organization.

With registration of the entity complete, the Lisk project opened their funds to public inspection. As of today, the Lisk Foundation controls approximately $10,000,000 USD in crypto-currency.

Lisk CEO Max Kordek said, “In March 2016 we concluded what many consider the first modern ICO – the crowd funding vehicle of the future. Through thousands of ICO investors, all of whom have made profit to date, we raised the equivalent of millions of dollars to fund what we believe is the future of all application development. Today we’re proud to make our biggest announcement yet, a showing of enormous progress with the creation of a foundation and by making our funding fully transparent.”

Kordek added, “Lisk continues to blaze new pathways, but we were happy to follow principal virtual currencies lead in establishing a non-profit foundation, a necessary infrastructure, in Switzerland. The Lisk Foundation is tasked with a mission to financially support the development and promotion of the Lisk project overall; its establishment will help guarantee the success of a widely used, next-generation blockchain application platform.”

Kordek said, “Since the conclusion of our ICO, the Lisk team has made a number of strategic investments, all within a strict legal framework, and many of which have begun to pay off. We have moved the core team to offices in Berlin, added an extraordinary board of advisors, hired key developers from across the world, created contests to grow our pool of delegates, set and paid bounties to contributors, secured the services of prominent marketers, established a long-term Community Fund, and diversified the Lisk Foundation’s crypto-currency portfolio.”

Kordek concluded, “With the Foundation in place, we now have have the team, the funding, and the community to realize the extraordinary promise of Lisk. We end 2016 ready for a tremendous year ahead, and the future for Lisk could not be more bright.”