I. Inception
We are currently operating within the Inception phase, which contains three major milestones, and has a focus on stability and some basic groundwork. It prepares Lisk for community forging and blockchain applications development.
II. Resilience
Resilience drastically improves Lisk and enables it to become a serious blockchain applications platform, with a more elegant core system, an even better Lisk App SDK, various useful features, beautiful and easy user interfaces, and a major focus on security. Resilience is definitely the biggest phase of all, with a total of six major milestones, and is intended to set Lisk apart from any other cryptocurrency on the market.
III. Expansion
The Expansion phase finalises the (trusted) blockchain applications platform by adding more advanced features, and support for smart contracts. During this phase we will also introduce support for third party technologies so that developers can easily implement them into their blockchain applications.
IV. Ascent
The Ascent phase introduces truly trust-less blockchain applications to Lisk, and focuses mainly on security, optimisation, and scalability, in order to make Lisk (officially) ready for the enterprise and financial sectors.
V. Eternity
The Eternity phase is the final step of this roadmap, and is all about governance. It includes a decentralised voting mechanism in order to add proposals, and gather opinions from LSK holders in a decentralised way.
We will soon announce a Lisk fund which will collect LSK from individuals and delegates. Once we are in the Eternity phase, these LSK will be controlled by 16 known curators in a multi-signature account. Until then, the Lisk team will manage the fund with the legal obligation to not use any of it.
The Lisk fund will act as a funding vehicle for new blockchain applications, and will guarantee the continued development of the Lisk core.
[full article here]
https://blog.lisk.io/lisk-development-roadmap-5afc4cd0612e
Lisk started their Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on the 22nd of February 2016. In just four weeks, Lisk has raised over 14,000 BTC, or more than 5.7 Million USD.
14,000 BTC today is worth over $100,000,000 today...
Lisk HQ fund wallet currently holds 4,352,670 LSK https://explorer.lisk.io/address/5726759782318848681L
In today's USD value that is - $38,208,171.67
