EDG Community Update: July 4th, 2022

Highlights

• The Twitter Meme Competition aka campaign 2 from The Cutting Edge Conquest series has been kicked off and will be open for entries until 6 pm UTC on 18th July.
• An update on Kabocha's genesis issuance, treasury and EDG and crowdloan distributions is out!
• 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.
• Upcoming Activities: The Cutting Edge Conquest campaigns, Kabocha’s Technical AMA ft. Ramsey and Rusty Crewmates, Kabocha’s Community Mods Onboarding Quiz

Ecosystem Updates

• OnFinality published the June 2022 usage report of their load-balancing RPC infrastructure for Edgeware solochain mainnet. Overall there were 48.9 million requests with 37.7GB 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.
• 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 #89: The Cutting Edge Conquest, a Community Campaigns' series (aka Campaigns by community mods) {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:51, Treasury Proposal ID:77}
• Referendum #90: SCU Proposal: June 2022 {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:52, Treasury Proposal ID:78}
• Referendum #91: Community Developer Proposal: Depth Hoar {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:99, Treasury Proposal ID:79}
• Referendum #92: Edgeware DAO Social Media Manager {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:100, Treasury Proposal ID:80}
• Referendum #93: DAO Financial Strategist Team {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:101, Treasury Proposal ID:81}
• Referendum #94: Art_Rate Marketing Plan (Art Rate Campus)/ Top-up Proposal {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:53, Treasury Proposal ID:83}
• Referendum #95: Pallet_Subscription MVP (Milestone 1 funding) {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:102, Treasury Proposal ID:82}
• Proposals in the pipeline: OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q2 2022){Democracy Proposal:54, Treasury Proposal ID:84}, Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities, Staking Rewards full integration

• Open Treasury Tips:
  • A voluntary contribution of Persian(Farsi) subtitles
  • Voluntary contributions by a whitehat bounty hunter
  • A voluntary contribution of Telegram Stickers by Sarah

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):
  • OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q2 2022)
  • Treasury Tip: Voluntary contribution of Telegram Stickers by Sarah
  • Purchase Edgeware.io for ~10k
  • Art_Rate Marketing Plan (Art Rate Campus)/ Top-up Proposal
  • Kabocha genesis issuance, treasury and EDG and crowdloan distributions

Events

• 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: Hummingbot handover, Fix docs based on feedback, Validator setup, Edgeware UI, AMA with Placeholder Labs, Case Study blogs, BD, Project Management Post, Service Campaigns, Twitter Performance visuals, Territories/Society Pallet Scoping with Rusty Crewmates, AMM R&D, EDG/KAB Value Creation Overview, Twitter Performance Report, Proposals and AMA infographics, KAB recoups’ review, Planning of The Cutting Edge Conquest event, V3 website touchups, 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.