Here is my update for the month of March 2020.

This month, I spent a lot of time preparing for the Leasehold ITO which has officially just started. See https://leasehold.io/ito. We made a low-key announcement on the Leasehold Discord channel yesterday and have started to roll out some marketing campaigns. The ITO will last until the end of May.

We were considering to do the ITO using the DEX initially but we decided against this because we wanted to guarantee that all participants would be able to buy LSH for the same price. As a result, we decided to delay the launch of our mainnet DEX (called LDEX) until the end of the ITO period; this will allow Leasehold tokens (LSH) to be traded directly against the Lisk tokens wallet-to-wallet.

Here is a screenshot of the DEX which is currently running on Lisk testnet:

Trading on Lisk DEX with Lisk DEX UI

Users will be able to create new Leasehold wallets and buy LSH tokens directly from the DEX UI without having to download or install any additional software. We will provide a web-based DEX UI for convenience but we will also distribute desktop versions of the DEX UI application for all major operating systems from our website https://leasehold.io/ so stay tuned…

Generate a Leasehold wallet from the Lisk DEX UI

Special opportunity

We are currently looking for people to operate Leasehold delegate nodes on mainnet until the completion of the ITO (after which investors will likely take over delegate slots) — This is a great opportunity to pre-mine some LSH tokens before the ITO. If you have experience running a Lisk delegate node (e.g. on testnet), this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for. Note that unlike LSK, LSH is deflationary and so delegates only earn from transaction fees (no added forging rewards), that said, the fact that it is deflationary should make those early-mined tokens more valuable in the future. Get in touch with jong on Discord (either Lisk or Leasehold channel) to register your interest ASAP.

Note that the following people have already been approved and will be voted in as a Leasehold delegate sometime this week (please be prepared):