EDG Community Update: Week of September 19th, 2022
A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.

Highlights
- Richard Welsh introduced Kabocha and (re)introduced Edgeware on the new Polkadot Forum.
- Introducing the Geo-awareness feature on JelliedOwl’s load-balanced RPC infrastructure!
- All the Validators, RPC infrastructure providers, Exchanges and Ecosystem Projects can upgrade their nodes to the pre-release v4.0.0 to be prepared in advance for the upcoming ERUP5 upgrade’s on-chain democracy proposal.
- Upcoming Activities/Events: Valorant Gaming Tournament
Ecosystem Updates
- Edgeware Docs now have been migrated to the new domain.
- 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 #110: Top-up proposal - Builders Program Application {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal: 65, Treasury Proposal ID:96}
- Referendum #112: Community Developer Proposal Final Deposit: Depth Hoar {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion: 109, Treasury Proposal ID:97}
- Referendum #113: # Invoice - Nathan(Rusty Crewmates) - 2 month work on Kabocha (core developer) {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion: 110, Treasury Proposal ID:98}
- Proposals in the pre-governance discussions: Role Upgrade Proposal: Lead Community Moderator{Democracy Proposal: 67, Treasury Proposal ID:99}, Decentration Previous monthly contribution (final invoice) August 8th to September 8th 2022{Council Motion:111, Treasury Proposal ID:95}, Edgeware knowledgebase with Peeranha, Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities, Deployment of Gnosis Safe multisig and subsequent support service, Edgeware R&D proposal for ThinkRate collective knowledge graph, Community Web Dev, Richard Welsh - Edgeware R&D August / September invoice 3, Role Upgrade Proposal: DFS Team as MM, Community Operations Lead, Describedot, Ruby Protocol, 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.
- Recently closed 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):
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: EVM testing on private testnet, Escrow Dapp development, Twitter report, engagement analysis, legal disclaimer entry into documentation, (CW Data) Proposal component report, Cutting Edge Conquest event report, November/December event planning, MM Hummingbot paper-trading, Podcasts planning, Further communication with Riot games, 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.