Lots of problems on beginning, more luck to rise 14000 btc in ICO rather than ready product or solid team behind with reasonable business plan. After year of downtrend and failures with really starting project to move forward, foundation is formed, money raised in accessible. Huge development progress, new developers on board. Possibly it may be next ethereum in no more than 6 to 12 months. Lisk advantages -Over 10k BTC + roughly 1.5mln eur hold (almost unlimited funding) -Scaleable approach to support thousands of applications -Formed team of experienced JS developers behind.
Unlike etheruem which: -Foundation which has almost no funds -Not scalable approach at all, most of network is not verifying transactions backwards, weaker machines are not able to catch up with network. -Overhyped