EDG Community Update: Feb 28th, 2022
A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.

Highlights
- Kabocha Soupcan testnet went live on the Pop-Art relay chain.
- Kabocha secured a Para ID #2113 on the Kusama relay chain for 1.62m EDG (after conversion to KSM).
- 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
- Kabocha’s Technical Steward Ramsey talked about Edgeware and Kabocha in the Blockchain Recorded Podcast hosted by Nina Cerar.
- OnFinality published the usage report of their load-balancing RPC infrastructure for Edgeware solochain mainnet in Feb 2022. Overall there were 137m requests with 101GB of data traffic.
- 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) {Sister campaign to EDG Pizzadrop}
Governance
- Referendum #61: Agency Funding Feb '22 {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:76, Treasury Proposal ID:51}
- Referendum #62: Pizza Airdrop {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:41, Treasury Proposal ID:52}
- Proposals in the pipeline: GMI Crypto Media (How to make it in Crypto Media) - Top up proposal V2, #Art_rate project, Funding - Asset Diversification proposal_Fund A, Market Maker-facilitated Liquidation and Exchange B Final Items
- New treasury tips:
> New Beresheet Faucet: https://gov.edgewa.re/discussion/3926
> Missing 10% NSP fee on the proposal 'Kabocha Crowdloan Interface + App': https://gov.edgewa.re/discussion/3716
> Community Mods' incentives for Feb 2022: https://gov.edgewa.re/discussion/2938
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):
> GMI Crypto Media (How to make it in Crypto Media) - Top up proposal V2
> Community Research/Findings: Forum, Website, EdgeApps suggestions' report
> Proposal: Kabocha's Para-ID deposit for Kusama
> Beresheet Faucet - Treasury Tip Request
> RFP: Meme Contest (Open to Anyone)
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: Existing governance items, Community Roadmap, Beresheet and EdgeEVM support on EdgeApps, Merge Delegation page, Styling on EdgeApps, Website update, usual operations, community campaigns and BD activities, Treasury Tips, Docs.
- ‘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.