The Cutting EDG: Week of April 12th

Highlights

• EDG community member Ronald proposes to create a Wordpress payment gateway for Edgeware.
• Sean Ford adds the latest revision to EDG brand identity process discussion
• Dosto joins Edgeware as a validator
• Richard opens discussion to research the network state to bridge the online Edgeware community to the real world
• Manu opens discussion requesting support for DoinGud—an interoperable community owned marketplace
• Richard opens discussion to rethink the Edgeware grant programme structure

Ecosystem Updates

Commonwealth.im
The multi-chain governance and community interface.
The Commonwealth team has finished v1 for contracts on Commonwealth Protocol. This week and next, they’re testing + auditing the contracts.

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.
Decent is onboarding new teams directly to the chain to help remove blocks ahead of decent protocol (e.g. they need basic NFT infra before other stuff can happen). Rich, from Decent Partners, will be posting a phased NFT roadmap strategy outline in the coming days for feedback.

LexBridge
Lexbridge is a technological bridge to jurisdictions in the US - launch a DAO, and get a Series LLC mapped to that DAO.
No major updates this week, just building.

Webb
Webb is a privacy technology designer launched from Commonwealth Labs.
The team has added multi token support based off ORML. They’ve begun the development of our p2p node and brought on another developer to help there.

4thTech
EU-Identity compliant document notarization and transfer service.
4thTech deployed the smart contract for their 2.0 platform on Edgeware last week, it is now open to the public.

Governance

This week features a proposal to fund OnFinality to implement and run a network of shared Edgeware public nodes on their API for users to access.

• No active proposals at this moment

Referendum #34 OnFinality public nodes for Edgeware  
Active
OnFinality is a SaaS platform that provides infrastructure services for the Polkadot/Substrate community. They will implement and run a network of shared Edgeware public nodes on our API service for your users to access, read more here.

Referendum #35 treasury to reject proposal 15  
Active
Proposal for treasury to reject prop15

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

• April 21 2021 — Edgeware All-Community call will be hosted. 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 the lasty call, find the recording here and meeting notes here.

Agency

• Agency proposal nearing onchain proposal
• Thom Ivy shares concept for 'citizen benefits' program, including a new token $EDGPass
• Agency shares a listing of active community validators
• New meetings have been launched to better organize efforts across the chain. Check out the Edgeware Community Calendar to see.