Heyo folks! It’s been quite some time since I wrote a weekly update and am really backed up with pending ones. So here goes one as I start to catch up. Your week at Parachute + partners (29 Nov - 5 Dec'19):

The PAR4PAR lottery entered stage eight this week with the total pot notched up to 400k $PAR. Whoa! In this week's creative prompt (#creativity) by Jason, folks drew the admin crew in Christmas scenes. 10k $PAR for the winners. Nice! Chris announced the winners of the Parachute Thanksgiving FamDuel which was launched last week. But first, an honor roll for the "Face down" "A$$ up" participants (Thanks Nathan and Hang for that piece of literature. Lol). Jason, Cap and Tony came in last (in that order). Props to Tony's lil' one for beating Cap fair and square. Haha. Congratulations to Jibola, Ganteng and ShaQ for topping the charts. That is 100k $PAR in prizes given away. Saweet! Doc Vic (from Cuba) hosted a medical trivia (on Gynecology and Obstetrics) in TTR for a 25k $PAR pot. Cool! Kim's Zany Zebra won this week's Parena to take home 25k $PAR from the 50k $PAR pot.

Lolarious sticker pack out in the wild! :D

Andy’s Advent Calendar goes off to an epic start

Jason launched the Parachute Running Club this week to get Parachuters across the globe into shape. Everyone is welcome to join. There will be monthly run challenges and every confirmed mile will win $PAR rewards. Thank you James (@JJD1000) for the friggin’ awesome idea! This week's Two-for-Tuesday by Gian was themed on vowels. "Post any two videos from bands or artists whose name starts with A, E, I, O, or U". GC also permitted W and Y coz why not! Haha. Like clockwork, Charlotte hosted her Math trivia in TTR for 25k $PAR in prizes. Woot! Next week, we will be having a townhall with Cap and Ice to get feedback from Parachuters on what we are doing right and what could be better. Cap will also be sharing sneak peeks on what’s coming up in Parachuteland. Cheers to Kamo and DogGodFrogLog for their quick gun Dean Winchester replies and winning a boatload of $PAR in return. This week we welcomed Jobchain’s $JOB token as the latest asset to be listed on ParJar.

Some of the early entries to the #creativity contest. Hats off!

Gazebo from our dreams on Chris’ porch

This week, 2gether CEO Ramón Ferraz attended another event by Cecabank to talk on Innovation in Fintech. And congratulations for making it to the finals of EBC’s startup competition, RACE. Bounty0x’s December product update was released on Republic. If you’re in two minds regarding how the XIO Liquidity Pool on Uniswap will work, make sure to watch Chris Blec’s video on the subject. $BOMB token is now tradable and playable on gaming platform Play Royal. This week's Discussions with Dash episodes revolve around a Tim Ferris podcast on choosing startups for funding and initial liquidity offering. Have a read of this tweet thread if you want to find out what an incubated startup in the XIO ecosystem gets. Here’s an early mockup of what the XIO portal could look like. The crew also took inputs from Citizens on how to improve operations in the XIO Foundation. A Uniswap tracking bot went live in TG. Etherscan also started recognising XIO as a Crowdfunding platform. The first couple of Around The Block episodes were aired this week featuring the first 2 startups in the XIO Incubator: Uptrennd and Opacity. $XIO got listed on CoinMarketCap. Yay! Birdchain will be setting up its own blog soon. The new Voyager token ($VGX; formerly $ETHOS) whitepaper was released this week. As the SelfKey crew continues to work on the platform, it regularly churns out crucial guidelines to stay one step ahead of hackers. This week, they discussed about social engineering hacks. Also, read up on federated identity management (FIM) and how it is different from single sign-on (SSO). $KEY was listed on Estonian exchange ExMarkets with $BTC and $ETH as trading pairs this week. Catch up on the latest at Opacity from their November update.

Yup. 200 new accounts in November for Opacity. Not bad at all!

If you’re running a law firm, check out aXpire’s article on how to be future-ready with the latest in legal tech and how aXpire’s Bilr can help you get there. In this week’s videos, Joakim discusses crypto vis-à-vis hyperinflation in the fourth episode of the blockchain for good series and then shared a weekly update as well. 200k $AXPR tokens were burned in the latest burn event. Fantom announced a collaboration with XAR Network to make its CSDTs (Collateralized Stable Debt Tokens) tradeable on OpenMarket, a decentralized marketplace for NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens; think CryptoKitties). Sikoba's e-voting platform, Itugen, was unveiled. It uses Fantom's Lachesis consensus. The project also released a brand new website. Click here to read the philosophy behind it. P2P lending platform Constant announced a special offer for $FTM users and appeared for an AMA with the Fantom community. Uptrennd’s 24 Days of Celebrations in December kicked off with a Meme Contest on Day 1, Sticker Contest on Day 2, Banner Contest on Day 3, BTC Price Prediction Contest on Day 4 and Crypto Trivia on Day 5. With 42k+ users, the platform has been growing from strength to strength. Uptrennd announced a partnership with Istanbul Blockchain Week to spread the word on crypto/blockchain in Turkey. Luke sat down for an AMA with CryptoHub this week to talk all things Uptrennd. Click here for the transcript. Did you know that it is already listed on State of the DApps? Congrats! Steven Aitchison's (CYT Crypto) interview of Jeff was released this week as well.

Some entries for Uptrennd Banner Contest

The latest District Weekly from District0x covers news such as a possible alternative to the Ambassador program, a potential art DAO etc. DeFi platform Aave and Ethereum development suite platform Infura joined the Hydro dApp store this week. Here’s a lowdown on the developer tools available in the store. For the latest update on Hydro, click here. Congratulations to the team for making it to Mastercard’s StartPath program. Don’t forget to read the team’s thoughts on how blockchain solutions will transform the banking landscape. Early access sign ups for the Vault storage was started this week. The Silent Notary crew is hosting a Clash of Clans cryptogame. Join in if you're interested. The Sentivate community’s opinions were gathered on the visual aspect and intrigue of the planned NFTs with utility – Artifacts. AMA with tehMoonwalkeR will happen next week. The latest Mycro roadmap update was published. The Mycro Hunter beta app v1 is scheduled to be launched in January. Some use-cases of the $MYO token in terms of staking and rewards was also explained in an article. OST’s Pepo app introduced Pepo Conversations this week which allows high quality threaded video replies and mentions for a price. This ensures meaningful engagement for thread creators and to reduce spam. Jason also hosted a quick Pepo Conversations bounty asking the community what to build next on Pepo. Devs wanting to know how the Pepo smart contracts work, can just ask Benjamin on the app. Neat!

Set a price and start your Pepo Conversation. High quality engagement made simple

Constellation entered into a partnership with Quant to allow interoperability of big data between disparate systems. To celebrate the occasion they hosted a giveaway contest. News of the partnership was covered by The Daily Chain as well. Here’s a community-made video that explains details of the tie-up and how the two technologies will work together. Nik Patel’s Christmas Altcoin Wishlist was released. And $DAG made it to the list. Noice! Catch up on the latest updates of the Yazom App from the November report. Shuffle Monster is a largely volunteer-driven project and admin Trooper George made a cool community raffle if you hadn’t noticed it yet. This week’s raffle pot crossed 10k $SHUF. Whoa! The Wibson crew were invited by Intel to talk about their Data Marketplace. Harmony’s detailed tokenomics model was released this week. The social mining campaign is closing in on its objectives. Next up: Open Staking on Testnet which already has an interest list of 100 validators. $ONE was listed on MXC with a $USDT trading pair. BitMax announced mainnet support for $ONE. As a Binance V Label project, Harmony publishes regular updates as part of its transparency pledge. Click here to read the latest. Intellishare founder Raymond Xiong responded to some community sourced questions this week in his Thanksgiving message. You can also read about it here. Looks like the Turkish and Indonesian communities are the biggest and most active in the INEsphere. Congrats on the wins! Get upto speed on the latest monthly update here. Plus, a word of caution from the crew.

And thus we close for this week at Parachute and partners. See you again with another update. Ciao!

This article is a repost of our weekly update post.