EDG Community Update: May 23rd, 2022

Highlights

• Neatcoin announced the NEAT airdrop for EdgeFrenZ PizzaDrop participants.
• Kabocha’s investment deck is out!
• 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

• OnFinality published the April 2022 usage report of their load-balancing RPC infrastructure for Edgeware solochain mainnet. Overall there were 223m requests with 2.468 TB of data traffic.
• 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 #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}
• Referendum #79: Solo Contributor Proposal - Content Moderator: ZOVERN {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion: 89, Treasury Proposal ID: 70}
• Proposals in the pipeline: Event Trilogy, Art_Rate Project V2.0, Proposal: Staking Rewards full integration, Marketing with Social media outreach through infographics - by Dotgraphic, Proposal : Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities.

• 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):
  • Service Catalog: Edgeware and Kabocha
  • Community Developer Proposal: Depth Hoar
  • Decentration: Completed and ongoing work
  • Keeping up with Kulupu
  • Discord Mod. Work
  • Edgeware Road: parachains and bridges core development
  • Proposal: Kabocha legal and compliance
  • Marketing with Social media outreach through infographics - by Dotgraphic
  • Proposal : Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities.
  • Solo Contributor Proposal - Content Moderator: ZOVERN [Postpaid]
  • Law Decoded seminars and Delaware/UK DAO pilots.
  • Decent Partners - 2021/22 roadmap, deliverables and funding request

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: Corp Handoff Post / Explainer, Executing enough liquidation to cover MM fees while we decide/explore, Drafting Agency infra agreement to cover costs of services and products, Finishing roadmap suggestion post, humming bot experiment, working on the new UI website, BD, contract interactions issues, Validate website implementation, 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.