Development Update:
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Before we move further on that, we have decided that we will push out Rise Classic by cloning Lisk to get delegates forging and earning rewards ASAP.
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Rem
As one of the first RISE forging delegates (check delegate hagie) and as a active delegate on the LISK network I can assure that delegate forging is working fine right now and there is no need to wait for the SDK to arrive.The latest roadmap for the lisk SDK shows 8-10 months until it arrives
This is not a "ASAP" to activate community forging.
if you want to do it, you may do it right now.
regards
LSK delegate forging is indeed working fine right now, that is why Rise (Rise Classic, the current mainnet of Rise) will be updated with the new LSK code ASAP. Scifirem didn't say we were going to wait for the LSK SDK to arrive first. Where he said "before we move further on that" he was referring to Rise 2.0. Please note that currently Rise is not yet running on LSK's latest code changes that enable stable community forging so as soon as our new developer is brought up to speed he will get that set up for us.