This article covers the take of 5 experts from diverse fields of blockchain technologies on widely discussed blockchain trends.

Since the inception of blockchain in the year 2008, the digital world has experienced a massive revolution. The blockchain technology has undergone a considerable evolution in a short period. It has been pushing limits and setting new boundaries in the digital space.

According to experts, the year 2017 has been phenomenal in terms of the developments in blockchain technology. So, it goes without saying that 2018 is most likely to be as prodigious.

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There’s no doubt that Americans are showing more and more interest in cryptocurrency. A recent survey from LendEDU found that Bitcoin ownership in the U.S. is just below 14%, with over 17% interested in adding it to their portfolio in the future.

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In 2018, RippleNet has expanded its reach to over 40 countries, on six different continents. In addition to its expansion, Ripple announced that this year it has signed an average of two production customers per week, and xRapid commercial production is now underway.

Big things are stirring over at Ripple.

xRapid Commercial Production

xRapid is going into commercial production. @mercury_fx_ltd, @Cuallix and Catalyst Corporate Federal Credit Union will be the first to make on-demand cross-border payments on RippleNet using #XRP. https://t.co/dQ02J4vdBl

— Ripple (@Ripple) October 1, 2018

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In today’s edition of Ethereum news, we’ll cover the details of Ethereum Startup Parity Technologies adding Casper code to their blockchain toolbox and why Ethereum’s co-founder, Joe Lubin, invested in a competitor.

Ethereum News: Parity Technologies and Casper

Parity Technologies, an Ethereum startup, has just added an early version of the highly anticipated Casper code to its platform, Substate.

The code was released on GitHub yesterday, and the team behind the implementation at Parity is calling it their ‘Shasper’ upgrade.

“Shasper is combination of Casper and sharding. Once it lands, we should …