Greetings from the Melonport Team,

In December's edition:

First things first: Happy new year from all of us. Thank you for all your support last year, it has been a delight to get to know our community, work alongside some of the best minds in the blockchain space and operate at the forefront of technological innovation in the financial industry. 2018 will be an even more exciting year for us as we are going live in a few week. We cannot wait to see the first decentralized crypto funds being set up on the Melon protocol!As we are building a decentralized tool for people to manage their assets, security is the number one priority for us. We have undergone two out of three code audits now, the results of the first one can be found here . More news from the development side are in our monthly Dev Update What where the highlights of the month of December?We finally published all the speeches from the M-0 conference with great content from quality projects such as Parity/Web3, 0x, Omega One, Aragon and many more. In addition, Melonport's CEO Mona El Isa was honored to be invited to speak on the main stage of this year's Tech Crunch Disrupt in Berlin.We also announced the upcoming hackathon we are organizing in partnership with University of Lucerne and ETH Zürich. The hackathon will take place in May and will focus on finding blockchain solutions to automise and improve the current financial infrastructure to accomodate for the new needs that arise from the digitalization of the finance industry.As we are getting ready for the first Melon fund manager competition and approaching the release to the main network, our developers are working around the clock to deliver the best possible first version of our product. Stay tuned!