Open-source Lisk platform that allows developers to create their own applications on dedicated sidechains is all set for its official launch on May 24, 2016 following its successful ICO earlier which raised $6 million.

Initial Coin Offering was held from February 22 to March 21, 2016 in which Lisk raised over $6 million in Bitcoin and other digital currencies. In the Lisk ICO statistics, the exchange rate calculated was 0.0001821238671 BTC/LSK.

After a 5 month-long period of development, fundraising and community-building, Lisk is set to launch on May 24, 2016. The team, preparing for the official launch on Tuesday is putting the “final touches” on their platform. The team also says that, this will give developers ‘endless opportunities’ for building blockchain applications.

The List platform uses “heavily customizable” sidechains on the apps built, which can be hosted on any cloud platform by creating a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) Virtual Private Server (VPS). Applications can be created by developers on Lisk using JavaScript which is the most widely used programming language. This draws developers from different backgrounds. Lisk which offers the multiplatform support, is ideal for powering the Internet of Things (IoT) devices using Odroid or Raspberry Pi.

With the platform being hardly 6 months old, Lisk has partnered with the likes of Microsoft and Chain of Things. The partnership offers world class support to developers using the platform. This platform hired the services of Michael Terpin’s Transform PR to handle the public relations.

Lisk founded by two former Crypti team members Max Kordek and Oliver Beddows, is a decentralized start-up which was founded last year. Being an open-source platform built on an unreleased version of Crypti, Lisk is an alternative to Ethereum platform and allows developers to create blockchain-based applications easily using JavaScripts.