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• Cardano (Ada) Rust project • 'Liquid Network': Blockstream's Bitcoin Sidechain goes Live • Ethereum Constantinople Upgrade Delayed Until 2019 • Security issues found in ½ of all exchanges • Zcash- Sapling • Bitcoin Smart Contracts • EOS Report dev news 

Cardano • Cardano launched an open source project, toolkit that will allow third party developers penetrate the Cardano ecosystem. • Rust project is a Cardano API that was written with a command-line interface and a Cardano wallet and works with the Cardano settlement layer that is designed in Haskell. • It is compatible with iOS, web and Android 

Bitcoin Sidechain • Liquid and Lightning: What’s the Difference? • Liquid is sidechain built on the Bitcoin network, facilitating faster bitcoin transactions between businesses and individuals. • The main purpose for the technology is faster settlements, improved transaction confidentiality, and tokenization for various assets. 

Ethereum Hard Fork • Constantinople Test Hard Fork Goes Awry • Notable changes include a 33% reduction in Ether block rewards and a potential change to the consensus mechanism of Ethereum to rid the network of ASICs 

Exchange Security • only 46% of cryptocurrency exchanges meet the desired security parameters • Console errors - 32% of exchanges have code errors that lead to operational malfunction • User Account Security - 41% allow for the creation of a password less than 8 characters • Web Protocols Only 10% of exchanges used all 5 security measures - HTTPS headers in URLs, X-SXX- protection headers, content security policy headers, x-frame-options headers, and x-content-type headers. 

Zcash Saplin • Light client support • The Sapling protocol will allow shielded transfers to be completed with about 100 times less memory (40mb of memory) and probably six or more times faster. • with the upgrade, the team hopes it can ultimately remove transparent transactions that can be damaging anonymity when used together with shielded transactions. • an era of "privacy-by-default" 

Smarter Bitcoin • First Truckload Shipment Using Bitcoin Smart Contracts using Rootstock (RSK) • Funds for the transaction were held in escrow by the smart contract on the integrated RSK platform and were automatically released to the carrier upon delivery. 

EOS Report • “EOS is not a blockchain, rather a distributed homogeneous database management system, a clear distinction in that their transactions are not cryptographically validated.” • “The performance metrics observed when factors such as real world network latency and packet loss are implemented indicate that TPS in EOS approaches levels comparable to Ethereum.” • Various forms of consensus failure were shown in the network testing. Consensus is entirely dependent upon the voting mechanism which is based on social consensus, not algorithmic BFT consensus.” 

resources • Cardano - https://smartereum.com/37313/cardano-future-forecast-cardano-ada-takes-its-blockchain-to-a-whole-new- level-with-a-new-toolkit-ada-news-today/ • Liquid Network - https://www.ccn.com/liquid-network-blockstreams-bitcoin-sidechain-is-now-live/ • ETH hard fork - https://ethereumworldnews.com/ethereum-constantinople-blockchain-upgrade-delayed-until-2019/ • Exchanges security - https://www.ccn.com/over-half-of-all-crypto-exchanges-have-security-vulnerabilities-report/amp/ • Zcash – Sapling - https://www.coindesk.com/zcashs-next-upgrade-to-make-private-transactions-100x-lighter-and-6x- faster/ • Smarter Bitcoin RSK - https://www.ccn.com/logistics-firm-completes-first-truckload-shipment-using-bitcoin-smart- contracts/ • EOS Report - https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/11/05/eos-misled-the-public-on-the-number-of-transactions-it-can- handle-says-new-study