Sup folks! For the final part of the rapid catch up series of pending updates, here’s your week at Parachute + partners (13 Dec - 19 Dec'19):
Thanks to Trooper George for a masterclass in Uniswap. To read up on it, click here and scroll downwards. PAR4PAR lottery is now in stage nine with a 500k $PAR pool. Noice! Winners of the TTR Hat Contest were announced this week. Congratulations folks! This week we had two Parenas. A special one and the weekly one. The special Parena saw folks from Uptrennd, XIO and Parachute fight it out for the ultimate prize pool - $PAR, $XIO and $1UP tokens. Faiqa won the weekly Parena to take home 25k $PAR. Sweet! The latest Parachute Digest from Cap covers all that’s been happening in the PARverse in the last few weeks. Did you know that 64% of all ERC20 withdraws from ParJar uses the PARGas feature? Amazing!
Winners of the TTR Hat Contest
The theme for this week’s Two-For-Tuesday was Christmas songs for "special holiday magic" 1k $PAR gifts. A Tuesday well spent humming classics. Mariah Carey was a clear favourite. Like last year, Hang and Clinton made it to the finals of #PFFL. Andy and Alexis will be slugging it out for third place. Good Luck! For this week’s #wholesomewed Jason got everyone to take pictures of their backyard (or view from back window) and share a story from that place. Check out this epic video made by TTR Portuguese members’ photo submissions showing their love for "PAR". So awesome! LordHades continues to dominate the #FPL charts with NovelCloud and Alexis following close behind.
Nice retouch to the Two-For-Tuesday banner, Jose!
aXpire’s weekly 20k $AXPR burn went ahead like clockwork. The latest weekly update can be seen here. $WAVES was added to the 2gether platform this week. The news was covered in Cointelegraph as well. YouTuber Funontheride released his detailed review video of 2gether. $BOMBX:$XIO swap and staking into Uptrennd portal came to a close this week with 1.2M $XIO staked in it. The startup stake portals are now integrated into the XIO website. The XIO Liquidity Program (XLP) was kickstarted this week with 25M committed for stakers. This will allow XIO to build up liquidity on Uniswap and reward Citizens with $XIO bonuses. You will be able to estimate your XLP rewards from the calculator. As the XLP funds get distributed over time, the staking bonuses will decrease. In one day, the XLP saw 850k+ $XIO and 100+ $ETH staked on Uniswap by 50+ Citizens. And with this, the total $XIO locked in portals + XLP reached 2M+. Amazing! As hinted in last week’s proposed discussion topics list, an XIO Social Initiative (XSI) was launched with another 25M $XIO pledged for the program. XSI will reward Citizens for high quality engagement. Stay on the lookout for #XIOSocial. The XSI Leaderboard and rules can be seen here. XSI rewards will also consider your $XIO held in XLP apart from XID-linked wallet. Similar to the decrease in XLP bonuses, XSI rewards will also reduce as XSI funds get distributed over time. For the first #XIOSocial prompt, Citizens were invited to discuss the pros and cons of invite-only citizenship.
XLP rewards rates
The $ETHOS token was rebranded to $VGX on Coinmarketcap as well. The first mainnet built on Fantom, XAR Network received multiple governance proposals this week for stakers to vote on. All proposals can be tracked here. One of the major proposals among them were allowing $BTC as a collateral. If you haven’t had an opportunity to read up on XAR Network, click here. Or just watch this video. It has already seen ~1.8M USD worth of assets locked, minted and staked in total and a block height of 1M+ reached. Last week, we discussed staking on XAR Network, this week James (from Fantom) shared a simple guide to delegate staking on XAR. Technical Advisor to Fantom, Andre Cronje published an article explaining some basic trading terminology with regards to protecting staking rewards. When creating CSDT’s using collateral, it was observed that a “liquidation” event in CSDT was actually a rebalancing of collateral and debt. Hence, it has been decided to use the correct terminology to better reflect this activity. The launch instructions for the Opera Mainnet have been released and validators are invited to join the pre-net. Read more about it here. If you’re visiting Dubai Expo 2020, don’t forget to say Hi to Fantom who will be at the event. So much happening at Fantom, right? Well, here’s a compilation of it all just in case feel dizzy. Haha! Uptrennd is now available as a custom home search provider on decentralised search engine Presearch. Jeff was interviewed by Crypto Coin Show. Uptrennd featured in Scott Cunningham’s list of high growth blockchain social platforms. In the 24 Days of Celebrations series, this week saw community submissions on Original Content, Ugly Sweater Design and Anagram Quiz. Super fun!
Some of the entries from ugly jumper/sweater contest
In this week’s educational content from SelfKey, we learnt about how to remove your personal information from public searches. Blockfyre’s Constellation research report is due for an update. Before that, they shared a sneak peek on some of the changes taken into consideration. Benjamin’s State of the Union was this week as well. Mateo shared a video walkthrough of the $DAG token swap. Arena Match Beta v0.7 was released with upgrades like anonymous access, new UX, simplified solo challenges etc. Pynk crew visited Turkey this week to speak at Ege University and Ege Teknopark. And congratulations on building meaningful engagement on Twitter. If you’re interested to protect your data here’s 7 tips from Wibson. The team travelled to the Ethereum Buenos Aires meetup to connect with the who’s who of the Ethereum ecosystem in Argentina. Nick from Harmony appeared for an AMA with Delphi Digital this week. Here’s the transcript. CTO Rongjian Lan sat down for another AMA with BitMax. Trust announced support for the mainnet $ONE tokens. The engineers from the team explain how they go about testing the network among other things in this week’s insight video. Congratulations on winning ABC Blockchain Community’s Best Partner of the Year award. As the year comes to a close, Harmony released a few project reports – Q4 planning, December milestones, 2019 round up, 2020 plans and the latest All-Hands Report. Intellishare hosted some sweet Christmas giveaways this week for 100k $INE. Jobchain’s $JOB token was listed on Atomic Wallet. The team hosted a giveaway for token holders this week. The token was also audited by Certik and received 98% security score. GET Protocol’s $GET token was listed on Hotbit this week.
That’s the Harmony Ops team “spamming” thousands of $ONE transactions on the DevNet for testing
Birdchain announced a Holiday Special Referral bonus which will net 5x the normal rewards for all referrals made till 3rd January. $BIRD was listed on Exrates this week with $BTC and $ETH trading pairs. The latest District Weekly from District0x can be seen here. As discussed last week, Hydro hosted a Banking-as-a-Service happy hour this week which saw great footfall. Remember the team had attended a MassChallenge Fintech event in Boston last week? Turns out Hydro was accepted into their 2020 cohort. Congratulations! Hydro also made it to the list of one of the most popular DeFi projects by DeFi Info after a public vote. If you missed the crew’s AMA with Apache Traders last week, you can catch up from the transcript here. Bank of Hodlers is the latest DApp to join Hydro’s DApp store as a third party partner. The VoPay partnership news was featured in a latest article on pymnts.com. For a round up of latest Silent Notary news, click here. It also includes info on the Traders Battle. Welcome to Sentivate, Luke! The new team additions are possibly in preparation for the Universal Web soft launch. OST’s Pepo app personalisation is now live – the more you use it, the more personalised it gets for you. In other Pepo updates this week, activity improvements and changes in reply @mentions. If you're on the app, check out Sébastien Couture's (host of the Epicenter podcast) entry for the "Home for the Holidays" Challenge which was launched last week. Jason was at Blockshow this week where he talked about building high engagement crypto products in an interview with Cointelegraph’s Stephen Chase. Plus, his keynote on designing crypto user experiences is a must-watch for product developers. OST’s L2 apps now have almost the same number of token holders as its L1 $OST token holders. That is pretty neat indeed! Did you know that Pepo uses Gnosis Safe as its in-app wallet? You can read more about it here. The team is looking for a Global Controller based out of their New York office. If you find the role suitable, don’t forget to apply.
And with that, we close for this week in Parachuteverse. See you again soon with another weekly update. Ciao!
P.S. The cover pic for this article is a compilation of the latest ParJar stats
This article is a repost of our weekly update post.
