EDG Community Update: Week of August 1st, 2022

Highlights

• The Reels/Shorts/Tiktoks Competition aka 3rd campaign from The Cutting Edge Conquest series had been kicked off and open for entries until 14th August, 12 pm UTC.
• 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

• SENTIMENTITE NFT drop by AGNIESZKA KURANT is now live on Zien.
• 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 #99: Richard Welsh, Edgeware R&D Q4 invoice 2 {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:103, Treasury Proposal ID:86}
• Referendum #100: SCU Proposal - July 2022 {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:57, Treasury Proposal ID:87}
• Referendum #101 (based on Democracy Proposal #58) and Council Motion 105 are incorrectly encoded proposals by Ramsey Ajram and are recommended to vote against.
• Proposals in the pipeline: Decentration Invoice #002 for work done {Council Motion:104, Treasury Proposal ID:88}, Community Operations Lead, Community Web Dev, Community Runtime Dev, IvendPay, Describedot, Protofire (Gnosis Safe), Ruby Protocol, 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):
  • Marketing with Social media outreach through infographics - by Dotgraphic
  • Solo Contributors' Union (SCU)
  • Moderators' Incentives [Postpaid Proposal]
  • SCU Proposal: July 2022
  • Edgeware R&D proposal for ThinkRate collective knowledge graph
  • New-Futures : Web3 media DAO and NFT launchpad on Edgeware // Phase 2!
  • Decentration Invoice #002 for work done past 3 months
  • EDG-GAMING TOURNAMENT

Events

• 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: Proposals' Negotiation framework draft, Edgeware UI open sourced and further development, First batch of small updates/fixes to the website (3.0.1), Alternative KAB distribution suggestions, Market Making skills (learning phase), July Twitter Performance Report, Valorant Gaming Tournament draft, Treasury/Inflation Budget, Chain Analysis quarterly update, Problem management support (accountability), 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.