EDG Community Update: April 25th, 2022

Highlights

• Edgscan aka Edgeware EVM explorer now has token whitelisting/blacklisting functionality. Contract verification support powered by Sourcify.dev is in the pipeline.
• The crowdloan waitlist is open for Kabocha.
• All validators are requested to upgrade their nodes to the release v3.3.3 to proceed further with the ERUP5/Wako upgrade through the on-chain governance. The core community dev Ramsey recently shared the docker image for v3.3.3 aka ERUP5/Wako upgrade to save the compiling hustle for node/validator owners.
  

Ecosystem Updates

• Knit Finance recently launched their bridging infrastructure and collected feedback from the Edgeware community for which blockchain to bridge the wrapped EDG aka kEDG. The community favoured Ethereum (40% votes) followed by Polygon (34% votes).
• Get to know more technical oriented updates on the ‘Developer Update aka EDG Dev Digest’.
• Looking for the speculative performance of EDG? Check out the Community-run DAO Financial Bulletins.
• Community Treasury-funded Web3 Media platform, New-Futures opened up pre-registrations for their highly anticipated upcoming launch.
• Community members interested in running bridge relayers or Chainlink’s oracle nodes on Edgeware, please reach out to ops@edgeware.agency.
• Community members interested in running Webb Protocol’s transaction relayers on Edgeware, please reach out to drew@webb.tools.
• Activities in coming weeks: Weekly Quiz competition, Kabocha’s Technical AMA ft. Ramsey, Kabocha’s Community Mods Onboarding Quiz.
  

Governance

• Referendum #72: Kabocha's Para-thread deposit for Kusama (recoup) {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:84, Treasury Proposal ID:62}
• Proposal in the pipeline: Builders Program Application - Blockexplorer and Wallet, Solo Contributor Proposal: Content Moderator, Moderators' Incentives April 2022, OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q1 2022), Proposal: Staking Rewards full integration.

• Recent Treasury Tips:
  • Voluntary contributions by Planck Labs
  • Voluntary contributions by a whitehat bounty hunter
  • A voluntary contribution of Persian(Farsi) subtitles

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.
• Recent/trending Community Research thread(s):
  • Builders Program Application - Blockexplorer and Wallet
  • Proposal: Kabocha legal and compliance
  • Edgeware & Kabocha: Project Overview [2021 - April 2022]
  • Treasury Tip: A voluntary contribution of Persian(Farsi) subtitles
  • [Proposal] Market Maker-faciliatated Liquidation and Exchange B Final Items

Events

• Monday at 6 pm UTC: Contributors' Week-Planning aka EDG Week Planning Call
• Tuesday at 6 pm UTC: EDG Financials Call
• Wednesday at 6 pm UTC: EDG All-Community Call
• Thursday at 4 pm UTC: EDG Dev Meeting
• Thursday at 5 pm UTC: EDG Design and Mission Planning Call
• All weekly community calls are being hosted in the discord server and the recordings are published in the Community Calls' Directory.
  

Agency

• Priorities: Docs, Domain names, Exchange b prep including foreign corp research and pricing, Liquidation bot service for exchange B prep, Delegation UI improvements, Vercel setup for the website, Website V3, Proposals curations, BD, Staking Rewards Full Service proposal analysis, Twitter management, Operational tasks and announcements, QA/testing.
• ‘Exchange B’ is in the pipeline and the new ETA is 1+ months.
• The public release of the Edgeware Ledger app is out on Ledger Live. The further tentative milestones in the full blockchain support can be tracked via the Height board.
• Check out the Edgeware Community Calendar to stay in the loop for community calls/meetings on NFTs, DAOs, chain strategy and governance.