EDG Community Update: Week of November 7th, 2022

Highlights

• The first crucial stage of the v4.0.2 runtime upgrade aka 'The Merge' has been successful.
• All the Validators, RPC infrastructure providers, Exchanges and Ecosystem Projects are requested to upgrade their node(s) to the release v4.0.1 or higher.
• Upcoming Activities/Events: Valorant Gaming Tournament and Reddit Meme Competition.

Ecosystem Updates

• OnFinality published the October 2022 origins/ usage report of their load-balancing RPC infrastructure for Edgeware solochain mainnet. Overall there were a total of 41251682 requests with ~66.9 GB 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 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 #123: Runtime Upgrade v4.0.2 {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:74}
• Referendum #124: Edgeware knowledgebase with Peeranha {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:76, Treasury Proposal ID:106}
• Referendum #125: SCU Proposal: October 2022 {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:77, Treasury Proposal ID:108}
• Referendum #126: Attempt to restore the temporarily stalled finality (at block #14210400) which is no more needed {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:75}
• Referendum #127: Reddit Meme Competition {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:78, Treasury Proposal ID:109}
• Proposals in the pipeline: Role Upgrade Proposal: DFS Team as MM {Democracy Proposal:79, Treasury Proposal ID:110}, Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities {Council Motion:113, Treasury Proposal ID:107}, Community Web Developer, Community Operations Lead, Deployment of Gnosis Safe multisig and subsequent support service, Edgeware R&D proposal for ThinkRate collective knowledge graph, Community Rust Dev, Describedot, IvendPay, Staking Rewards full integration
• Open Treasury Tips:
  • Voluntary contributions by a whitehat bounty hunter
  • A voluntary contribution of Persian(Farsi) subtitles
  • SleepLess Collective experiment by d.gen/dave.sama/David to spread Edgeverse awareness by streaming DJ sets and organising online parties.
  • Voluntary Beresheet v4.0.0 testing by KDPNETSTAKE
  • Voluntary Contribution of fixing a critical bug on Hummingbot by Ethicrypt
  • Voluntary Contribution of Edgeware docker builds by Eliott Teiss

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 & Kabocha: Project Overview [Sept 2020 - October 2022]
  • Edgeware | Funding - Asset Diversification proposal_Fund B
  • Treasury Tip: Voluntary Contribution of Edgeware docker builds by Eliott Teiss
  • Proposal : Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities.

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: Post upgrade checks and communications, Started drafting Edgeverse Blogs series, Escrow Dapp testing (both platforms), Twitter Performance Analysis (Sept-Oct) Update, EDG/KAB Project (3 Month Update) Review, Updates to escrow DApp (new chains and UI changes), R&D on gift pallet, Video walkthrough on Edgeware Keygen, Minor changes on the website, Keygen improvements, Market-making using Hummingbot continues, Review Kabocha ParaNotes' financials, Escrow Dapp testing, Drafting a proposal for the next engagement event, Business Development, Community Moderation, Community Infographics, Diversification experiment, Weekly Updates and bi-weekly bulletin, 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 theEdgeware Community Calendar to stay in the loop for community calls/meetings on NFTs, DAOs, chain strategy and governance.