As we anticipated in this article, this year LiskHQ attended again the 2019 Consensus edition. Max Kordek (CEO & Co-Founder), Rachel Black (Tech Evangelist) and Jan Aalrust (Business Developer) were in New York City to attend the event and the whole Blockchain Week.

Their activities began on Friday 10th, when, as soon as they landed, they headed directly to the “Meet Berlin” event. There, they were pleased to see a large number of Berlin teams as well as a few extra networking events, because they were an index of Berlin’s value as a strategic point for the blockchain.

On Sunday, Rachel attended the “Building the Next Web” event in which she attended a developer workshop. Here, she discovered that several developers at that event had already visited the Lisk Center Utrecht. On the same day Max attended the speakers reception and Jan was out to assist at various Blockchain week satellite events.

Monday was the day Consensus began. The representatives of Lisk were able to attend various speeches and visit the stands. Compared to last year, they noticed that the number of participants was lower (though still enormous) and there was less hyped atmosphere, with conversations more oriented to tech. Some key themes were DeFi, developer experience, staking as a service, etc. It also emerged how several projects that had started using an existing public blockchain are now in the phase in which they are writing their own blockchains, indicating how important are the tools that allow developers to build them quickly.

Day two of #consensus2019! Just left the stage with @RachBLondon at which we gave a sneak peak of our upcoming #Lisk SDK. Great times are coming. ?⚙️ Presentation: https://t.co/VvYECkukhC pic.twitter.com/i1vz9Ko5nx — Max Kordek (@MaxKordek) 14 maggio 2019





Tuesday was a very busy day because Max and Rachel presented at the Construct stage: it was a great opportunity to update the community about the latest news. Max dealt with the first part of the presentation, speaking in general about Lisk and the developments of the last year. Later, Rachel showed a preview of the SDK interface. While waiting for the conference video to be published, you can view the slides here.

According to Rachel’s considerations, the talk went very well. The developers, for example, were able to appreciate some real code on the slides. Also the SDK interface had positive feedback, the developers of node.js have appreciated the fact of keeping it so similar to express.js. The new modular architecture has also been successful, as it reduces the discontinuity of the SDK development experience and allows community members to write their own modules.

After the presentation, Rachel had some press contacts, first of all with RT America, with whom she had a conversation about the need for blockchain technologies in a world dominated by big tech. Immediately afterwards she met the guys of Rizqi Presents Blockchain, who were hired for a second series on Amazon.

We conclude this recap with another interesting tweet from Max that show us some interesting meetings that he could do during these days of congress.

Second day of #Consensus2019 is coming to an end. Was a great day with many new connections and a successful speech. pic.twitter.com/uHSj5GCZBB — Max Kordek (@MaxKordek) 14 maggio 2019

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