Lisk describes itself as a platform that helps company finance teams handle bank transfers and stablecoins together in one place. Of the 7 things it promised, it delivered 3, 4 are still open (3 with no date); the next dated step is 31 October 2026. It trades at $0.4258, #273 of all coins by size, 99% below its highest ever price.
This week in the news: burn or buyback.
A real job, real backing. Delivered 3 of 7, none late. Next step in 46 days. #14 of 68 payment solutions. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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Passes all four
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: payments
- ✓Real backingBacking: trades on Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance
- ✓Something aheadAhead: next dated step 31 October 2026; 3 of 7 promises delivered
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $100.1M, 67 times smaller than Stellar, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Payment Solutions)
Listed on 7 big exchanges
- Origin6 January 2018about about 8 yearslisk.com, GitHub, Whitepaper
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
- BackingNo named investorListed on Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance, OKX
- Standing on the record3 of 70 confirmed by outside news104 headlines last month, 2 about governmentNo corrections needed so far
- Real-world purpose: payments
- Backing: trades on Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance
- Ahead: next dated step 31 October 2026; 3 of 7 promises delivered
- Room: worth $100.1M, 67 times smaller than Stellar, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Payment Solutions)
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Payment Solutions ($9.33M). To match the leader, Stellar ($6.68B), its price would need to rise 6571%, to about $28.41.
Still to check
- No named investor among its tags
What to do Add it to My coins and come back on 31 October 2026, when it says it will deliver: Lisk says its own blockchain, the Lisk Chain, will stop running on October 31, 2026. That step does not add use of the coin, so it is a date to watch, not a reason to hold. If it lands, the record moves; if it slips, so does the case.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
3 of 7
promises delivered, by the project's own pages
0 of those confirmed by an outside news report
Promises by the year they were due
delivered open past due
delivered open past due, not yet checked today. Click a point to open that promise.
- Open31 October 2026Lisk says its own blockchain, the Lisk Chain, will stop running on October 31, 2026.46 days away
- Openno dateLisk is destroying 100 million LSK tokens, cutting total supply from 400 million down to 300 million once that finishes.
- Openno dateLisk is shutting down the Lisk DAO's voting contracts and its governance forum, on a timeline set out in a proposal that has already passed.
- Openno dateLisk plans to add a Portfolios feature letting users hold and invest in things like tokenized treasuries, money market funds, currencies, and crypto within the same tool.
- Deliveredno dateLisk changed its staking system so anyone can unstake their LSK at any time without a penalty, though there is still a 3-day wait after asking to unstake.delivered August 2026Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
Details
“Staking is now flexible for everyone. The staking contract has been updated, and anyone holding LSK can unstake at any time with no penalty. A 3-day waiting period still applies after unstaking.”
source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13
Page also states 'penalty-free unstaking is now live.' source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13
- Deliveredno dateLisk worked with Celo to open a way for apps and developers on the Lisk Chain to move their projects to the Celo network.delivered August 2026Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
- Deliveredno dateLisk made its new money-operations product available today to qualifying businesses that sign up for Early Access.delivered August 2026Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
What is next, and when?
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46 days
until 31 October 2026: Lisk says its own blockchain, the Lisk Chain, will stop running on October 31, 2026.
Everything still to come, soonest first
- 31 October 2026Lisk says its own blockchain, the Lisk Chain, will stop running on October 31, 2026.46 days
Recorded August 2026. Date moved 0 times. The ring is how much of the time between the promise and its date has passed.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
Payments
18 coins we checked say they are for payments, worth $1.64T together. #15 of 18 by worth.
Payment Solutions: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
Lisk$100.1Mthis coin−60.3%58% out3 of 7 delivered
Stellar$6.68B66.7× bigger, +$6.58B+3.8%, gap +64.2no max0 of 20 delivered
POL (ex-MATIC)$1.03B10.3× bigger, +$928.5M−0.3%, gap +60.0no max0 of 14 delivered
Quant$921.15M9.2× bigger, +$821.05M−1.0%, gap +59.4100% outnone dated
Dash$680.68M6.8× bigger, +$580.58M−2.1%, gap +58.268% out1 of 9 delivered
Bitcoin SV$335.17M3.3× bigger, +$235.07M−2.7%, gap +57.696% out0 of 1 delivered
Gnosis$300.72M3.0× bigger, +$200.62M−2.4%, gap +58.088% outnone dated
Decred$292.12M2.9× bigger, +$192.02M−0.1%, gap +60.384% outnone dated
Payment Solutions: this coin next to Stellar, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Lisk says
- Lisk describes itself as a platform that helps company finance teams handle bank transfers and stablecoins together in one place.
- Stellar says
- Stellar says it is a public blockchain that lets anyone build payment experiences that feel more like using cash than typical cryptocurrency.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
Lisk describes itself as a platform that helps company finance teams handle bank transfers and stablecoins together in one place.
Its listing puts it this way: Lisk is the modern money operations platform for businesses. Finance and operations teams use Lisk to run accounts, payments, and approvals in one workspace, moving money across fiat and stablecoin rails.
Problem it says it solves: payments. 41 coins we have checked say the same; together they are worth $1,745,498,830,279.
Where it trades: Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance, OKX, KuCoin
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
Nothing printed today
None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.
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Payment Solutions: this coin next to the group's largest, Stellar.
| Lisk | Stellar | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 9 years | 12 years |
| Major exchanges | 7 | 10 |
| Named backers | 0 | 0 |
| Headlines, last month | 104 | 87 |
| Promises delivered | 3 of 7 | 0 of 20 |
What it says is different: Lisk is the modern money operations platform for businesses. Finance and operations teams use Lisk to run accounts, payments, and approvals in one workspace, moving money across fiat and stablecoin rails.
It is 1.5% the size of Stellar. On the facts above it is behind on years trading, major exchanges. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.
The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $34.92 on 6 January 2018. Today is 1% of that.
58%
of all LSK that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 233.08M coins.
42% (166.92M coins) is already created but not in public hands, held by the project or locked in escrow. That is a large share, though not a majority. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
Pays for every use of its network
Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it. That is the built-in reason anyone needs it.
- Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- of the maximum supply is in circulation: 233.08M of 400M.
- 166.92Mcoins still to be released, 42% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- 1.7×fully diluted value versus today's market cap. The gap is coins not yet released.
- of its all-time high of $34.92 on 6 January 2018. That is −98.8% from the top.
- #273by market cap, $100,099,904.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
- $148.82K is locked in apps built on it right now
- Users paid $502 in fees to use it in the last 30 days
From DefiLlama, refreshed nightly. Fees are what people paid to use the thing; value locked is what they trust it to hold. Facts, not a score.
What the news says
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Headlines per day, last 30 days
104 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
- Treasury24
- Price9
- Partnership7
- Unlock5
- Banks3
- Stablecoin3
- Upgrade2
- ETF1
Why it movedDown 60% today. Headlines that name it: Top 3 Trending Cryptocurrencies Today: Lisk Explodes 764.7% as Pons Falls (Cryptonews.net, 11h ago) Lisk to Burn 100M LSK Tokens, Cutting Supply by 25% (Crypto Economy, 17h ago)
- Top 3 Trending Cryptocurrencies Today: Lisk Explodes 764.7% as Pons Falls
- Lisk to Burn 100M LSK Tokens, Cutting Supply by 25%
- Top 3 Trending Cryptocurrencies Today: Lisk Explodes 764.7% as Pons Falls
- Lisk: Chain Shutdown Requires Holders to Bridge Funds to Ethereum - 31 Oct 2026
- Best Crypto To Buy Now After Lisk (LSK) Volume Jumps 377%? AlphaPepe Buyers Are Hunting the Next Bigger-Multiple Trade
- Lisk Chain to shut down by Oct 2026, forcing LS...
- Lisk Chain is winding down, but LSK explodes 344% in one day – Last hurrah?
- Lisk Soars 325% in a Day as Bitcoin Stalls Near $77,000
- Lisk (LSK) Surges 12.21% Amid Structural Supply Shock
- LSK - Lisk
- Lisk: CEO-Linked Wallet Sends 3.3M LSK to Binance
- Forgotten Crypto Token LSK Jumps 500% Before Crashing: What Happened?
- Aster DEX lists Lisk and Power Ledger perpetual futures with 5x leverage
- Lisk Soars More Than 700% in 24 Hours as Futures Volume Surges 11-Fold
- Lisk Forces LSK Holders to Migrate by October 31 as Price Nears Double
- Lisk Chain Shutdown: Bridge LSK by October 21
- Lisk Rich List — Top 100 Holders & Distribution Chart
- Swiss-Based Blockchain Company Lisk to Shut Down as it Pivots to Financial Operations Platform
- Lisk To Shut Down Blockchain, Ending Key Funding Pipeline For African Web3
- Lisk to Shut Down Chain on Oct. 31, Pivots to Enterprise Payments and Burns 25% of LSK Supply
- Lisk Chain to shut down on October 31 as project pivots to business finance
- Lisk Chain to shut down Oct 31, 2026; users mus...
- BlackRock’s Crypto Holdings Jump $15B in August as Bitcoin, Ethereum Rally
- Lisk to Shut Down Its Own Chain at End of October, Pivoting Fully to Corporate Finance Platform
- Lisk Prepares Full Shutdown After 10 Years, Proposes Burning 100M LSK
- ZEC, XRP and AAVE Outpaced Bitcoin, Which Altcoin Gains Look Most Sustainable?
- Lisk is Shutting Down Its Blockchain After 10 Years. It was Once Worth $4 Billion
- Lisk shuts down blockchain, cutting off a backer of African startups
- Lisk Proposes Ending DAO and Burning 100 Million LSK Tokens
- Zcash Price Hits 8-Year High Above $850 as Grayscale ETF Nears Launch: Is $1,000 Next?Government
- 3 Altcoins Decline as Binance Flags Delisting Risk
- Lisk Step Guide: Value, Charges And How To StartGovernment
- Purchase Lisk With Card: Detailed Step Guide
- How do I buy Lisk on App: Mobile Guide
- Buy Lisk Digital: Method, Cheapest & Legitimate Advice
- Buy Lisk with Debit Card: Complete Guide
- Buy Lisk: Latest Value, Process & Market Handbook
- Best Place to purchase Lisk: Fees, Access & Method
- Buy Lisk with Splitit: Cheapest, Roadmap & AdviceUpcoming
- Buy Lisk: Current Value, Roadmap & Market IntroductionUpcoming
104 headlines in the last month.
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
Lisk describes itself as a platform that helps company finance teams handle bank transfers and stablecoins together in one place.
“That's what Lisk becomes today: the modern money operations platform for finance teams.”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13
Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.
3 of 7 promises delivered. 4 open.
Others in payments networks: Nockchain 20 of 30, Beldex 10 of 48, eCash 8 of 10, ADI 7 of 15, and 18 more.No public code repository is listed in this record.
None of the project's captured pages has changed since capture began on 11 September 2026.
Next deadline: 31 October 2026, in 46 days.
This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.