Lisk Chain Shutdown: Bridge LSK by October 21

If your LSK sits directly on the Lisk Chain or is locked up in staking there, you have to bridge it to Ethereum before October 31, 2026. Whatever is still on that chain on the day is unreachable afterwards. If your LSK is already on Ethereum or with an exchange, there is nothing for you to do at all.

That is the short answer. The longer one matters more, because it contains a date that appears in no headline. Leaving the Lisk Chain means clearing two waiting periods, and they run one after the other rather than side by side: unlocking staked tokens takes three days, and the bridge transfer to Ethereum that follows takes at least seven. Lisk therefore tells holders explicitly to start no later than ten days before the shutdown. Your actual deadline is October 21, 2026.

Coverage of the shutdown appeared at the end of August and correctly described what the company intends to do. The calculation that decides the outcome for holders does not appear in those reports. This article closes that gap. It shows which of the three possible places your tokens can sit demands which action, why the seven days cannot be shortened by any technical means, where the clock actually starts running, and what you should record for your own bookkeeping.