Cyberspacemonkey,

Ascendancy is not a Lisk clone, we have discussed this with many other people that have asked the same question.
Our plan for Ascendancy is to make it easier to use by the average person along with developing faster and more efficient algorithms in order to make the Ascendancy Framework work better.

If you'd like to discuss more about Ascendancy and how we plan on achieving these goals, you're welcome to Join our Slack.

Thank you,
Andrew Penn