EDG Community Update: May 16th, 2022

Highlights

• The first-ever campaign by EdgeFrenZ NFP DAO, PizzaDrop has been concluded.
• 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

• Polka Häus hosted a Twitter space event featuring Kabocha’s experiments.
• EDGizens are welcomed to participate in the research survey by one of the ecosystem partners.
• 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 [email protected].
• Community members interested in running Webb Protocol’s transaction relayers on Edgeware, please reach out to [email protected].
• Activities in coming weeks: Event Trilogy, Kabocha’s Technical AMA ft. Ramsey, Kabocha’s Community Mods Onboarding Quiz.
  

Governance

• Referendum #74: OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q1 2022) {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal: 44, Treasury Proposal ID: 64}
• Referendum #75: Moderators' Incentives April 2022 {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal: 45, Treasury Proposal ID: 67}
• Referendum #76: Edgeware Visualised {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion: 86, Treasury Proposal ID: 66}
• Referendum #77: Rusty Crewmates: "pallet_mint" development {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion: 87, Treasury Proposal ID: 68}
• Referendum #78: Decentration: Completed and ongoing work {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion: 88, Treasury Proposal ID: 69}
• Proposals in the pipeline: Solo Contributor Proposal - Content Moderator: ZOVERN [Postpaid], Event Trilogy, Art_Rate Project V2.0, Proposal: Staking Rewards full integration

• Recent Treasury Tips:
  • A voluntary contribution of Persian(Farsi) subtitles
  • Voluntary contributions by a whitehat bounty hunter
  • Voluntary contributions by Planck Labs
  • A voluntary contribution of Urdu 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):
  • Rusty Crewmates: "pallet_mint" development
  • Market Research: Crypto Storage Solutions
  • Edgeware & Kabocha locations for contributor events, meetups and hackathons
  • Decent Partners - 2021/22 roadmap, deliverables and funding request
  • The Ucadia Journey: Introducing Frank and Web3[S]
  • Solo Contributor Proposal - Content Moderator: ZOVERN [Postpaid]
  • Proposal : Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities.
  • Marketing with Social media outreach through infographics - by Dotgraphic
  • Edgeware Road: parachains and bridges core development
  • Decentration: Completed and ongoing work

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 being hosted in the discord server and the recordings are published in the Community Calls' Directory.
  

Contributors

• Priorities: Exchange B items, PizzaDrop conclusion, Further Hummingbot testing, Docs,  custom type decode issue facing by 4thTech and Bittrex, Proposals curations, Twitter management, Operational tasks and announcements, QA/testing.
• 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.