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EDG Community Update: Week of August 8th, 2022

A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.

Aug 17, 2022 • 3 min read

Highlights

The Sticker Competition aka the 4th campaign from The Cutting Edge Conquest series had been kicked off and open for entries until 28th August.
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

OnFinality published the July 2022 usage report of their load-balancing RPC infrastructure for Edgeware solochain mainnet. Overall there were 64 million requests with 55GB 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].

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.
Referendum #102: Decentration Invoice #002 for work done {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:104, Treasury Proposal ID:88}
Proposals in the pipeline: Kucoin Trading Competition Proposal (Aug 2022), EDG-GAMING TOURNAMENT, Public RPC and bootnodes - JelliedOwl, 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:

Sunday, 14th August: Kick-off to the Sticker Competition aka 4th campaign from The Cutting Edge Conquest series.
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.

Priorities: BD activities, Framework drafts, EdgeUI development, Port Polkadot Staking Dashboard, Contributor Agreement/Legal Disclaimer, Chain Analysis QTR Update, Identity Registrar Process Update Scope, Testnet Proposal/Pilot Support, Website fixes (v3.0.1), Conclusion of the 3rd event from The Cutting Edge Conquest, MM skills learning by DFS team, Gaming tournament proposal thread, 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.