I suggest you to take a good look at Lisk and leave your thoughts right here.
Do you think LSK will go to the moon?
I was feeling positive about their short term releases (namely rebranding as well as imminent SDK) They are very active on social media / interacting with supporters as well as release regular team/ community meetings streamed on youtube. Their last one the announced more staff joining the team etc.
What initially drew me too them was mainly that it would be a smart contract platform built on Java script and once the SDK gets released it would open up App development to literally millions of coders, who at the moment have to use Ethereum’s native language wich only a handful of people comparitivley can use.
Like I say though, this is before i was clued up on antshares (NEO) and it may have had a bit of it’s wind stolen by Neo’s moonshot attempt.
I’m still holding thumbs and holding on to what i got.
However to you it’s probably going to come across as a flashy new way of currency first and foremost. Building applications on blockchains isn’t gonna seem like a reasonable thing to do in the near future. It’s not like there’s a huge niche waiting to be filled in development world. Sure, there’s new frameworks and languages being invented all the time, and some of them even manage to stay mainstream a while. But the “winners” all have one thing in common. Effectiveness and ease of use. Occams Razor. The simplest answer is always best, so why bother with all the blockchain / tangle / whatever tech when ya can just use what’s proven and familiar.
Here is where Lisk has a great opportunity. By choosing to write Lisk in JS (or TypeScript), Lisk could become the transition. Everyone in the world knows JS so it will feel a lot more familiar than a lot of the other blockchain technology. It has great support for safe development (isolated sidechains, which by the way also solves the congestion problems many big names have been having). It is however going to need to market itself in such a way that the mainstream picks up on it. If they manage to release an sdk devs will find a usefull addition to their arsenal, and get lucky by having devs create some great working examples / projects on Lisk, whoo knoooows where Lisk might go.
Of course there is a reason Vitalik decided to write new languages. JS can’t do everything, and sometimes it’s not that secure. So I might very well be completely wrong, and maybe Serpent and Solidity will be taught at uni in ten years time.
We cant forget that Lisk partnered with Microsoft to integrate Lisk into its Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) program. +Plus, they have the re-branding in the pipe line.
This article covers everything else
https://blog.lisk.io/what-is-lisk-and-what-it-isnt-e7b6b6188211
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