After just six weeks since Lisk was launched, the token is currently being traded on 18 cryptocurrency exchanges. In some countries, the company has managed to overcome its main rival, Ethereum. Lisk is now starting to conquer the Japanese market. One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the country Coincheck has added Lisk on its list of traded currencies. Now the users of the platform will be able to buy Lisk with bitcoins or yens. In the future, the exchange is planning to trade ether and DAO tokens. The first markets to start trading Lisk were Bittrex and Poloniex. The tokens are currently available on cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide, including small regional platforms such as the Chinese Yunbao, Jubi, BitBays and Touzibi, the Russian Livecoin, the Polish BitBay and the Brazilian ChameleonBit.
“We recognize at Lisk that blockchain applications are automatically global,” said the company co-founder Max Kordek. “Therefore, we made the rapid globalization of our developer community and exchanges an immediate priority. We are pleased that the Lisk message of scalable blockchain applications using sidechains and the ability to port over existing programs written in JavaScript has been so well received.”
In June, Charles Hoskinson and Steven Nerayoff, two American developers that had earlier worked with Ethereum, joined the Lisk team. Lisk is a blockchain platform that works on JavaScript and is supposed to become an easy solution for developers. Since Lisk was officially launched, it has raised around 14 thousand bitcoins (about $6 million) in crowdfunding. According to the team, their main competitor is Ethereum. Both platforms make it possible to create decentralised applications (dapps). But Lisk claims that, unlike other decentralised platforms, its users will be able to develop their own dapps without having to deal with vast documentation or learn a new programming language.