The Cutting EDG: Week of April 19th

A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgware ecosystem.

The Cutting EDG: Week of April 19th

Highlights

  • Peter Holsgrove and Rafael Jegundo have opened a discussion for a grant proposal to bring zien.io to Edgeware. Zien is a gateway to contemporary art and (soon to be) digital co-operative for the vanguard of visual culture.
  • Chris Thomas’ proposal for a user-centric asset management platform on Edgeware is preparing for voting.
  • Justin Murphy opened a discussion for a grant proposal to fund Exit Theory: a content and community project that will drive adoption of Edgeware.
  • Thom Ivy opens a discussion on the concept of EDGPorts: a publically-funded brick-and-mortar business in the physical world.
  • Ryan Todd, Ramsey Ajram, and James Harford open a discussion for a grant proposal to fund New Futures Network a web 3.0 media launchpad and creative DAO platform specializing in arts, culture, and NFT’s.

Ecosystem Updates

Commonwealth.im
The multi-chain governance and community interface.
The Commonwealth Protocol team is working on the UI integration to the CW app. They’re also continuing smart contract reviews.

DTrade
DTrade is a platform for trading perpetuals and options on Edgeware.
No major updates this week, just building.

Decent Partners
Decent is a 'metadao' that seeks to create crypto-native public media.
No major updates this week, just building

LexBridge
Lexbridge is a technological bridge to jurisdictions in the US - launch a DAO, and get a Series LLC mapped to that DAO.
Progress has been made on LexBridge's interface. During the bi-monthly DAO working group call, we discussed how to map an Edgeware address to a legal entity. Our next priorities are adding in PDF generation, as well as the blockchain call for making a record each time a user 'adopts' a legal entity.

Webb
Webb is a privacy technology designer launched from Commonwealth Labs.
No major updates this week, just building.

4thTech
EU-Identity compliant document notarization and transfer service.
4thTech has announced FOUR staking, in the form of a service fee discount option. Read more about it here.

Governance

  • No active proposals at this moment

Community

  • The Calendar of events has many items each week, meetings on NFTs, DAOs, chain strategy and governance- whatever you're interested in, take a look.

Events

  • Past — Edgeware All-Community call was hosted, last week on April 21st 2021. Each month, the core development team is available to speak with validators, users, developers, and all enthusiasts about the roadmap, ideas, and the space. If you missed it, find the meeting notes here.

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