EDG Community Update: Week of August 29th, 2022
A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.

Highlights
- Edgeverse wallet by Bharathcoorg is now available on the Firefox browser.
- Edgeware Trading Week consisting of 3 campaigns on Kucoin Exchange had been kicked off on 30th August with a reward pool of 23M EDG for traders.
- The StickerCompetition aka campaign 4 from The Cutting Edge Conquest series concluded on 28th August and winners have been announced.
- 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(ongoing), Kabocha’s Community Mods Onboarding Quiz
Ecosystem Updates
- Edgeware got featured in the case study by OnFinality.
- Want to run a validator node for Edgeware solochain but don’t have technical knowledge? OnFinality’s 5-step guided validator deployment got you covered!
- 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 welcome 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 #105: Public RPC and bootnodes' infrastructure by JelliedOwl {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal: 63, Treasury Proposal ID:91}
- Referendum #106 and #107: Incorrectly encoded proposals (Recommended to vote against Referendum #106 to avoid the creation of a new treasury proposal that could lock the 5% bond infinitely while Referendum #107 upon getting passed/rejected won't result in any loss/locking for the proposal raiser.)
- Proposals in the pipeline: SCU Proposal: August 2022 {Democracy Proposal: 64, Treasury Proposal ID:92}, Community Web Dev, Community Operations Lead, Top-up proposal for Builders Program Application by Bharathcoorg, Community Runtime Dev, IvendPay, Describedot, ThinkRate, 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:
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):
- Edgeware Visualised
- Kucoin Trading Competition Proposal (Aug 2022)
- Validator documentation update
- Builders Program Application - Blockexplorer and Wallet
- Top-up proposal - Builders Program Application
- Marketing with Social media outreach through infographics - by Dotgraphic
- SCU Proposal: August 2022
- Solo Contributors' Union (SCU)
Events
- Upcoming Events:
- Wednesday, 7th - 13th September: Discord Games aka 5th campaign from The Cutting Edge Conquest series.
- Sunday, 11th September: Moderators' Recruitment Quiz v2: Community Moderators for Kabocha
- 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: OnFinality's Customer Case Study, BD, collection of quotes from more MMs, Final finishing of SimpleUI (previously NoobieUI), Hummingbot MM experiment, Continue Proposal Component Report, Obtain CW data dump, review and extract data for reporting, Set up the Instagram account, Hire a Reel creator for Valorant Gaming Competition, Initialization of 5th Event in "The Cutting Edge Conquest" (Discord Games), Rewards Distribution of the 4th Event aka Sticker Competition, 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.