lol. this project is totally scammy. The only reason why they don't wanna compete with lisk as you mentioned, is that they want to wait till lisk will do all the job, and they just copy paste the code. The only way the price will move is down..till 1 satoshi.. sad but true. sorry bagholders and icoinvestors.
BigKush, RISE is no longer based on Lisk code, as announced a few months ago our Development Team is building a new code base from the ground up with a completely different technology stack than Lisk, and many other differences that I've listed a few posts back in this thread.