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6 Apr 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
Hi everyone! Hope everyone’s doing well in their homes. As you shelter yourself from COVID-19, what better way to spend a few hours than catching up on another week at Parachute + partners (13 Mar - 19 Mar'20): Cap started off the week with the fir...
24 Feb 2020 6 minute read 0 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
Alright, let's do this folks! Starting today and over the next 6 days I'll be pushing out one weekly update report per day to catch up with the latest. Here’s part I of VII - your week at Parachute + partners (3 Jan - 9 Jan'20): Mery got redemption...
9 Oct 2019 5 minute read 9 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
Since the birth of Bitcoin in 2008, people the world over have woken up to the transformative potential of blockchains. While there have been obscure applications in the past, the role of blockchains in vastly improving operations and business proces...
18 Sep 2019 5 minute read 2 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
A research conducted jointly by consultancy firm Capgemini and BNP Paribas Bank states that the total volume of digital payments is estimated to reach 726 billion transactions by 2020. With crypto acceptance still at a humble 2%, the share of cryptoc...
13 Aug 2019 4 minute read 0 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
Hey guys, welcome to another recap of an eventful 7 days at Parachute + partners. Here’s your week at Parachute (5 Jul – 11 Jul’19): This week’s Parena had 235 participants with a 225k PAR pot. Amosity beat Gustavo in the finale to take home 75k PA...
7 Aug 2019 4 minute read 0 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
The prosperity of the crypto market has had a lot to do with the success of centralized/custodial exchanges (or, CEX). This seems ironic since decentralization is one of the founding pillars of crypto. Moreover, a long trail of hacks and scams from p...
25 Jul 2019 4 minute read 0 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
In their seminal research whitepaper that introduced cryptocurrencies as a new asset class to the world, Adam White (Bakkt) and Chris Burniske (Placeholder VC) described bitcoin as possibly the “biggest technological development since the Internet”....
10 Jul 2019 5 minute read 0 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
Hiya folks! Here’s your week at Parachute (21 Jun - 27 Jun'19): This was the biggest week at Parachute yet. So we will need multiple paragraphs for Parachute in this update. It has been a long time coming. PAR got listed on CoinMarketCap and we are...
10 Jun 2019 5 minute read 5 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
In 2018, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforced punitive measures in eighteen crypto related cases, as opposed to five instances the year before and just one case in 2016. Comparatively, the EU crypto scene has seen lesser legal act...
31 May 2019 6 minute read 4 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
This article is an exploration of the myriad world of cryptocurrency regulations; and specifically, ICOs, the U.S. (and the SEC) and Malta. Lagging behind "We believe that the SEC could do more to clarify its position" — U.S. Congress Members to S...
