EDG Community Update: July 25th, 2022
A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.
Highlights
- Edgeware solochain now has one more RPC infrastructure provider, Dwellir.
- All the Validators, RPC infrastructure providers, Exchanges and Ecosystem Projects can upgrade their nodes to the pre-release v3.5.1 to be prepared in advance for the upcoming ERUP5 upgrade’s on-chain democracy proposal.
- Upcoming Activities/Events: The Cutting Edge Conquest campaigns, Kabocha’s Technical AMA ft. Ramsey and Rusty Crewmates, Kabocha’s Community Mods Onboarding Quiz
Ecosystem Updates
- Research Thread: (Re) Introducing Kabocha's Seeds
- 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.
- EDGizens are welcomed to participate in the research survey by one of the ecosystem partners.
- 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 EdgeEVM, please reach out to [email protected].
- Community members interested in running Webb Protocol’s transaction relayers on Edgeware, please reach out to [email protected].
Governance
- Referendum #98: Role Upgrade Proposal: Senior Community Moderators {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:56, Treasury Proposal ID:85}
- Proposals in the pipeline: Richard Welsh, Edgeware R&D Q4 invoice 2 {Council Motion:103, Treasury Proposal ID:86}, SCU Proposal - July 2022, Decentration Invoice #002 for work done, Community Operations Lead, IvendPay, Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities, Staking Rewards full integration
- Open Treasury Tips:
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):
- Proposal of an Alternate Approach for KAB Distribution
- Treasury Tip: Voluntary contribution of YouTube Videos by Describedot
- Monthly Incentives' Standards
- Proposal: Richard Welsh, Edgeware R&D Q4 invoice 2 (Post paid)
- "Law: Decoded" seminars and Delaware/UK DAO pilots.
- Decentration Invoice #002 for work done
- Proposal: Richard Welsh, Edgeware R&D (Post paid + future good faith agreement)
- Exchange B update (Decent Partners assessment)
- Solo Contributor Proposal: Technical Moderator
Events
- Tuesday, 2nd August: Kick-off to the Reels/Shorts/Tiktoks Competition aka 3rd campaign from The Cutting Edge Conquest series.
- Friday, 5th August: (In-person) Opening Talk at Polkadot Relayers 2022 by Richard Welsh and Ramsey Ajram.
- Weekly Community Calls:
- Monday at 6 pm UTC: Contributors' Week-Planning aka EDG Week Planning Call
- Tuesday at 6 pm UTC: EDG Financials Call
- Wednesday at 4.30 pm UTC: EDG Design and Mission Planning Call
- Wednesday at 6 pm UTC: EDG All-Community Call
- Thursday at 4 pm UTC: EDG Dev Meeting
- All weekly community calls are hosted in the discord server and the recordings are published in the Community Calls' Directory.
Contributors
- Priorities: ERUP5 pre-release distribution and feedback collection, Tech stack draft: EdgeSociety pallet, Community Validator draft, Edgeware UI - material UI dependencies, validator documentation, Treasury Budget, Identify pallet/ registrar scoping, Documentation update support, Twitter Meme Competition’s Reward Distribution, 3rd campaign (Shorts/Tiktoks/Reels) announcement and execution of The Cutting Edge Conquest series, KAB distribution suggestion, MM skills (learning phase), Photography contest draft, Community Moderation, Community Infographics, Diversification experiment, Weekly Updates and bi-weekly bulletin, Proposals curations, Twitter management, Operational tasks and announcements, QA/testing, Docs.
- 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.