The CBC Casper protocol, pioneered by Ethereum Researcher Vlad Zamfir, is now hitting the highway with new solutions to the longstanding problems of safety and liveness.

It’s no secret that decentralized applications are growing in popularity. Right now, there are about 3,000 dApps in existence, primarily scattered across Ethereum, EOS, and TRON.

BitMEX has experienced a data leak, but not in the way you might expect. In a major misstep, the company accidentally shared user email addresses with its customers.

On November 1st, the exchange issued a statement: “Earlier today, some of our users received an email which contained the email addresses of other users in the ‘to’ field.”

A familiar low volatility picture is characterizing crypto markets today. Bitcoin fell slightly below $9,200, while altcoins follow suit – though with some outliers.

Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t possibly have imagined it would be easy. Having ostracized the crypto community by banning their ads on his platform, the Facebook CEO went on to announce the intention to create a cryptocurrency of his own in Libra.

• Stellar Lumen has a bullish short-term trading bias, but remains bearish over the medium-term
• The four-hour time frame shows that the XLM / USD pair is trading in a rising price channel
• The daily time frame shows that a large descending price channel has formed

Stellar Lumen is on the rise, after the cryptocurrency posted strong double-digit trading gains over the last twenty-four hours and rose to its highest trading level since late September this year.

Huobi Group has announced the expansion of its footprint in the MENA region, launching its white-label digital asset exchange services at its office in Dubai, UAE. Huobi is the latest firm to leverage the blockchain-friendly attitude of the UAE, where the government has committed to a strategic agenda for adopting the technology.

Two up-and-coming blockchain projects have partnered on blockchain scalability for businesses. The first is Elrond, a blockchain with a focus on fast value transfer. The second is Cere, a customer relationship management (CRM) platform that handles customer usage and activity data in addition to basic transactions.

The cryptocurrency markets are continuing a diversification trend whereby most altcoins are seeing moderate increases, with several strong outliers. Bitcoin has grown by $200 dollars in a sudden move, continuing to establish a descending triangle pattern on lower time frames.

There is a new exchange on the block, and it has some heavily pro-Bitcoin, anti-political ad supporters behind it. Jack Dorsey has simultaneously banned political ads from Twitter and invested in CoinList Trade.