"Charlie Lee, Litecoin Creator and Managing Director of the Singapore based, Litecoin Foundation, has just announced via Twitter the Core development teams plans to add Confidential Transactions into a future release of the full node implementation sometime in 2019..."
Interesting..
- CT can be safely implemented via a soft-fork, there are some drawbacks with the system
-regulated bodies would still be able to deal in the asset so long as transactions made to and from them are clear and publicly viewable on the blockchain.
-increase in the size of bandwidth reqirement and the Unspent Transaction Output set
Litecoin - Bitcoin's layer 2 testnet ;)