@cryptoholic11 and @bionioncle
If you want constant updates join the Ryver chat! It's very active. Also a new version of testnet was just released yesterday that gets the IPFS integration and it will be live on mainnet next. Phantom should be following closely behind although we haven't been given a solid date. It will be ready once it's ready.
https://github.com/ShiftNrg/shift/tree/testnet

Also Shift is based off of the Lisk codebase but the teams are not working together. Both teams have contributed to making the overall codebase better though.