We are almost caught up now. In the homestretch folks! Here’s your week at Parachute (19 Apr – 25 Apr’19):
This has been a fairly relaxed week. This post will be relatively shorter compared to earlier ones. The Charity Parena went on to raise over USD 700 and Gian won the Parena to take home a one-of-a-kind D&D themed Parachute shirt designed by Clinton. Chris turned 30 this week. Belated wishes to ya medicine man! Rene’s been a super trooper throughout the week for Wysker trying to get word out on the project. He’s been hosting giveaways and treasure hunts with WYS prizes from his own stack. Way to go bud! Remember Cryzen moved to Bangkok last week? Here’s a few pics from their office:
An Office with a View
Spanish fans of 2gether are in for a treat this week. CEO Ramon’s article “The rise of neobanks” was published in Forbes Spain. Expansion’s review of 2gether’s Visa card also came out this week. Woot! Blockchain Economia also reviewed the card in a brief article. This was week 17 of aXpire’s weekly burn for 2019 that went on as usual. CEO Gary was in the final shortlist to become a Board Member to the prestigious Hedge Fund Association (HFA). More updates on this in a future update. BOMB became the second most traded token on DDEX this week. Sweet! Bounty0x CMO Pascal sat down for an interview with Scott Cunningham where he talked about all things Bounty0x. Check it out, if you want to know the direction that the platform will be taking in the near future. After joining the Binance transparency initiative, Fantom followed it up with induction to Messari’s disclosures database.
FTM supply curve. Metrics for Apr’19
Hydro partnered with Ferrum Network this week. Ferrum will be using Hydro’s Snowflake protocol for identity management in their financial applications. TD Bank Group (which entered into a relationship with Microsoft recently) did a small shoutout to Hydro in their PR announcement. The Hydro developer update covers a range of news including Snowflake protocol moving to mainnet, Hydro bounties for community developers etc. Lenny’s article talks about blockchain use-cases in healthcare and how various HYDRO applications could be useful this space. If you’re looking for a job in crypto/blockchain, check out Hydro’s latest career page. Opacity announced two giveaways this week. 500TB of storage was given away 500 new members in their Telegram channel. There’s also a Ledger Nano S up for grabs for their Twitter followers. Check out the rules here. Mike continues to make improvement tweaks to the WednesdayClub app.
Lenny explains through this schematic how Hydro could play a part throughout the value chain
In this article, Voyager CEO Stephen Ehrlich explains how the partnership with ETHOS is helping reduce the gap between digital and traditional finance. There’s also some sneak peeks into ETHOS development. Plus, here’s a quick technical explanation of SmartKeys used by ETHOS. Birdchain’s BTC event was announced this week. As part of this, the first 200 participants can trade their BIRD tokens for a bitcoin coupon. Here’s a tutorial on how to go about it. Content creators who want to make a living from podcasts or videos, have a read of Birdchain’s article on this. What next for BIrdchain? Check out this video on future updates. District0x’s District Weekly covers their favorite publications and latest proposals (none for this week). If you own a .eth domain, there’s an important announcement regarding domain migration. Make sure not to miss it. The District Roundup Live stream can be rewatched here. DNT is now listed on SwitchDEX. Neat! Switch is working on some updates for the coming months (new trading pairs, ESH listings etc.). Read more about these in their Medium post.
And with that, it’s a wrap for this week. See you again soon. Ciao!
