EDG Community Update: Feb 14th, 2022

Highlights

• Edgeware’s solochain mainnet became 2 years old on 17th Feb 2022. The self-sustainability experiment turned stability-oriented public ecosystem has entered into the third year with several teams and solo individuals as contributors!
• The new runtime developer, Filip Kalebo has been onboarded by the community.
• 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

• Over the last 90 days, the EDG staking percentage has increased by 11.69%, strengthening the Edgeware solochain’s network security.
• PJS summarized Kabocha in his vision aka ‘Subversive Metaversing’ phenomenon into a subsocial article.
• 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 have 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 [email protected].
• Community members interested in running Webb Protocol’s transaction relayers on Edgeware, please reach out to [email protected].
• Upcoming: Community domain email and distribution campaign (EDGPass Perk) ft. EDG Pizzadrop
  

Governance

• Referendum #56: Recruitment of Flipchan as Edgeware Runtime Core Developer {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:69, Treasury Proposal ID:46}
• Referendum #57: Kabocha Crowdloan Interface + App from Johan and Jan {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:70, Treasury Proposal ID:47}
• Council Motion #71: Passed but failed to execute as the external proposal queue for the referendum stage can hold only one proposal in each launch period. The motion was for the creation of a SimpleMajority referendum for the treasury proposal ‘Kabocha’s initial runtime development and support from Elio’.
• Referendum #58: Kabocha's Para-ID deposit for Kusama {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:72, Treasury Proposal ID:49}
• Referendum #59: Kabocha’s initial runtime development and support from Elio {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:73, Treasury Proposal ID:48}
• Referendum #60: OnFinality’s High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q4 2021) {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:74, Treasury Proposal ID:50}
• Council Motion #75: Passed but failed to execute as the voting threshold was set to 7 instead of 8. The motion was for the creation of a SimpleMajority referendum for the treasury proposal ‘Agency Funding Feb '22’.
• Proposals in the pipeline: Agency Funding Feb '22, Funding - Asset Diversification proposal_Fund A, GMI Crypto Media (How to make it in Crypto Media) - Top up proposal V2, Pizza Airdrop
  

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):

> Funding - Asset Diversification proposal_Fund A

> Kabocha funding and Edgeware recoup

> Agency Funding Feb '22

> GMI Crypto Media (How to make it in Crypto Media) - Top up proposal V2

> Proposal: Collab-Land to launch on Substrate with Edgeware and Kabocha

> Service/Tooling Proposal (Quarterly, Postpaid): OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q4 2021)

Events

• Monday at 1 pm ET: Contributors' Week-Planning aka EDG Week Planning Call
• Tuesday at 1 pm ET: EDG Financials Call
• Wednesday at 1 pm ET: EDG All-Community Call
• Thursday at 12 pm ET (noon): 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: Documentation Audit / Improvements, Agency Proposal Top-up proposal, Marketing and Social Media campaigns, Website V3, Clans concept, Node-types research, Bots configurations, On-chain bounty walkthrough, the floor price for the liquidation of Exchange B top-up treasury proposal, usual operation and BD activities
• ‘Exchange B’ is in the pipeline and the new ETA is 2+ months.
• The dev release of the Edgeware Ledger app is out on Ledger Live while the current progress and further milestones in the public listing 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.