Heyo folks! We will be doing another quick recap for this week. Here’s your week at Parachute (15 Aug – 22 Aug’19):

Rene pointed out that we haven’t had a Parena for quite some time now. And Jason built one on-the-spot for Rene. A "Rene got me in the feels" Parena. Haha. Novel Cloud beat Edson in a quick finale to take home a big chunk from the 100k PAR pot. Noice! Incred the S#!tcoin Crusader, otherwise known as the silent tipper, kicked off a storm in Tiproom by starting a SNTR tipping mayhem. 2.3M+ SNTR tipped out. And that led to reaching the 250k tips milestone with ParJar. Woohoo! We welcomed our first partner project to the ParJar Starter Class this week – Constellation (DAG). Make sure you take time out to explore and learn about DAG. As Cap says: "Parachute will be supporting Constellation in every way we can — from the support of the Parachute community — to our products — to our network". The Merkle Hash published an article on ParJar this week. Click here to check it out.

The Constellation partnerverse. Love seeing Parachute in there!

Fans of Big Brother can catch up if they have been missing out on the show. Gian summarises each episode with screenshots every day around 12 AM Eastern Time in the Parachute channel along with some cool weekly PAR giveaways to folks who made accurate picks. Chris shared that the Fantasy Football contest entry fee was revised to 20k PAR (from 10k PAR last week). 14 participants. Prize pool of 280k PAR. Sweet! Jason hosted a discussion session in ParJar where people talked about their favorite crypto and why they thought it was the next big thing. No shilling. Honest conversation. Some cool technical points. And a lot of PAR tipped out to the most thought out responses. Another discussion session on people’s worst crypto purchases resulted in some interesting convo :p. Alexis announced the start of the #PAR4PAR lottery. A sort of a staking contest to win PAR. You can read more about it here. And we reached the end of the Big Chili Race. Jason won 400k PAR, half of which he donated to Clinton’s charity. That is awesome!

Final standings. In the end, no one else even came close to Jason’s Tazman Black

HeatMap and Growth Chart of the contenders. Was an exciting few weeks. Congrats Jason!

aXpire joined Binance Info’s V Label initiative which is Binance’s transparency endeavour. Remember, Fantom joined the initiative a few months back too? aXpire is now part of that league. The new updated whitepaper was released. CEO Gary Markham spoke about why they recently shifted base to Miami in this video with the Miami Downtown Development Authority. PayBX’s brand new website is live as well. Have a peek when you get a moment. For a quick summary of the last week at aXpire, watch the weekly update video. The 20k AXPR burn took place as usual. Magnum wallet also started an AXPR airdrop program this week. aXpire’s Blockchain For Good series back. In the latest episode, Joakim discusses how blockchain can be used for reducing plastic waste. The updated WednesdayClub beta is out now. Mike will be giving out WED to folks who try out the beta. BOMBX’s plans over the coming months are explained in this tweet thread. The idea is to become a "media company in addition to a blockchain incubator". Zach sure knows how to make people go absolutely bonkers. BOMB TG went crazy for a full hour after this tweet. Lol. How to identify a crypto scam? Watch this video. BOMBX TG and Twitter crossed 1k members this week. Yay! This called for a celebratory gif created by community member Malt1. Wicked good!

PayBX 1.0 App interface (excerpt from aXpire whitepaper)

Sikoba is an R&D organisation that Fantom partnered with a while ago to work on Isekai – a verifiable computing engine. A update report on Isekai was published this week. The Crypto Gent’s FTM review came out as well. Lition partnered with Fantom to bring their private sidechain tech to Fantom’s mainnet as a compliance hedge for privacy and data protection. In a bit of a shocker, Horizon State ceased operations after a legal case against them was served in Australia. Read all about it here. This is a sombre moment for all of us at Parachute to take a step back and ponder. We wish the best to the HST Team. Bounty0x followers can catch up on the latest distribution report by clicking here. Uptrennd makes the most of Fridays. How? Check out their giveaway post. As promised, winner of the last public vote, Dragonchain, got a detailed review report made by Romana. If you haven’t been keeping track of Uptrennd, have a look at their recap. Last week we wrote about the Opacity-QLC Hackathon announcement. The website for the event was opened up for applications this week. The prize pool was also revealed – 125k OPQ and 250k QLC up for grabs. Say what!

Hackathon timelines

This week’s District0x Dev Update includes job opening for solidity developers to audit District Registry smart contract package, debugs on Meme Factory, upgrades to DANK faucet etc. Read more about them here. For other weekly updates from the Districts, click here. The mobile app of Silent Notary’s Ubikiri wallet is under development. Click here and here for a sneak peek. Congratulations to Hydro for yet another award nomination. This time to the 2020 Fintech Power 50. Hydrogen entered into a partnership with Liquid to use Liquid’s liquidity platform (Quick Exchange) for Hydro Pay’s remittance solution. The news was also covered on Reuters. To celebrate the occasion, Hydro started a rewards campaign for signing up on Liquid and completing KYC. 5k HYDRO for each. Boom! The HYDRO token also made it to CryptoTicker’s "Top 3 Underestimated Cryptocurrencies of 2019 You Might Like" list.

Hydro Socials Team is crushing it!

The Daily Chain’s recent interview with Sentivate Co-Founder Thomas DeMarchi was published this week. The interview delves deep into what Sentivate is BUIDLing, the proposed VIAT cryptocurrency, the Universal Identity System etc. For a detailed review report on Sentivate, you can also check out Proof-Of-Review’s Analysis. Spanish speakers can have a read of the Cryptogemas article on SNTVT. For folks wanting to get their hands dirty with the Sentivate Tech Stack, the team has got that covered as well. If you were at the Berlin Blockchain Week, hope you got a chance to touch base with the OST Team there and watch their Pepo app preview. Chief Tech Strategist Benjamin Bollen will be in Tel Aviv in mid-September to speak at StarkWare Sessions. Get your tickets! SelfKey’s KEY token was listed on Bitlocus this week. This will be KEY’s first EUR pairing. Moreover, Bitlocus will be listed in SelfKey’s upcoming Exchange Market, which will let users to access Bitlocus from the SelfKey Wallet directly. In this week’s SelfKey data threat advisories: (1) Always keep your security software updated and (2) Be wary of links, USB sticks and email attachments. And finally, click here to read about deepfakes and how tech is being used to identify it.

And with that, it’s a wrap for this week at Parachute. See ya!

This article is a repost of our weekly update post.