EDG Community Update: Week of October 17th, 2022

Highlights

• Edgeware node release v4.0.1 is out with the new Beresheet testnet.
• All the Validators, RPC infrastructure providers, Exchanges and Ecosystem Projects are requested to upgrade their node(s) to the release v4.0.1.
• Upcoming Activities/Events: Valorant Gaming Tournament and Reddit Meme Competition.

Ecosystem Updates

• Ecosystem spotlight: BitStack, the new infrastructure and on-chain data provider for Edgeware offering 150k free private API requests per day under their base/free tier.
• 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 #117: Richard Welsh - Edgeware R&D August / September invoice 3 {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:112, Treasury Proposal ID:101}
• Referendum #118: Community Developer Proposal: Depth Hoar {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:71, Treasury Proposal ID:104}
• Referendum #119: Dwellir RPC Infrastructure Services Q3 Proposal {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:70, Treasury Proposal ID:103}
• Referendum #120: OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 2022) {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal:69, Treasury Proposal ID:102}
• Proposals in the pre-governance discussions: Edgeware knowledgebase with Peeranha, Role Upgrade Proposal: DFS Team as MM, Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities, Reddit Meme Competition, Deployment of Gnosis Safe multisig and subsequent support service, Edgeware R&D proposal for ThinkRate collective knowledge graph, Community Rust Dev, Community Web Dev, Community Operations Lead, 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

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):
  • Treasury Tip: Voluntary Beresheet v4.0.0 testing by KDPNETSTAKE
  • Community Developer Proposal: Depth Hoar
  • Proposal : Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities.
  • Reddit Meme Competition
  • OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 2022)

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: v4.0.1 Beresheet announcement and upgrade preparations, The Metaverse Summit Initiative Mumbai meetup on 20th Oct, Updates to validator docs, Polkasembly fork, Escrow Dapp deploy to beresheet, Reddit Meme competition plan, Escrow Testing and Thoughts Documentation, Project Management Report & Review, Sidebar Js (Until end of the month) commit, Distribution report for the Cutting Edge Conquest event, Upcoming engagement event planning, MM responsibility takeover using Hummingbot, Citizen Appreciation Posts, 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 theEdgeware Community Calendar to stay in the loop for community calls/meetings on NFTs, DAOs, chain strategy and governance.