EDG Community Update: Week of September 5th, 2022

Highlights

• Introducing SimpleUI, where you can do more with less!
• The Discord Games aka the 5th campaign from The Cutting Edge Conquest series has been kicked off and will run daily at 5 pm UTC until 14th September.
• 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), ThinkRate AMA ft. Ali Sajadpour

Ecosystem Updates

• OnFinality published the August 2022 usage report of their load-balancing RPC infrastructure (now featuring origins/domains as well) for Edgeware solochain mainnet. Overall there were ~68.99 million requests with ~78.63 GB of data traffic. They also released a new 'Network Insights dashboard' which shows OnFinality's API usage across the Edgeverse and its performance in an hourly manner.
• 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 ops@edgeware.agency.
• Community members interested in running Webb Protocol's transaction relayers on Edgeware, please reach out to drew@webb.tools.

Governance

• Referendum #108: SCU Proposal: August 2022 {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal: 64, Treasury Proposal ID:92}
• Referendum #109: New-Futures : Web3 media DAO and NFT launchpad on Edgeware // Phase 2! {Referendum type: SimpleMajority, Council Motion:106, Treasury Proposal ID:93}
• Referendum #110: Top-up proposal - Builders Program Application {Referendum type: SuperMajority, Democracy Proposal: 65, Treasury Proposal ID:96}
• Proposals in the pre-governance discussions: Edgeware knowledgebase with Peeranha, Deployment of Gnosis Safe multisig and subsequent support service, Community Developer Proposal Final Deposit: Depth Hoar, Edgeware R&D proposal for ThinkRate collective knowledge graph, Community Web Dev, Community Operations Lead, Community Dev, Describedot, Ruby Protocol, IvendPay, Creation of sign language based tutorials around the Edgeware for people with disabilities, Staking Rewards full integration
• Open Treasury Tips:
  • A voluntary contribution of Persian(Farsi) subtitles
  • Voluntary contributions by a whitehat bounty hunter
  • A voluntary contribution of Telegram Stickers by Sarah

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 knowledgebase with Peeranha
  • Less WenWenWen, more WhyWhyWhy - an Edgeware community development strategy
  • Deployment of Gnosis Safe multisig and subsequent support service
  • Top-up proposal - Builders Program Application
  • Moderators' Recruitment Quiz v2: Community Moderators for Kabocha
  • Validator documentation update
  • Decentration Previous pre-agreed monthly contribution (final invoice) August 8th to September 8th 2022
  • # Invoice - Nathan(Rusty Crewmates) - Pre-agreed 2 month work on Kabocha (core developer)
  • New-Futures : Web3 media DAO and NFT launchpad on Edgeware // Phase 2!

Events

• Ongoing Events:
  • Wednesday, 7th - 14th September: Discord Games aka 5th campaign from The Cutting Edge Conquest series.
• Recently Concluded Events:
  • 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: Kabocha Mods onboarding quiz, Continue collecting quotes from different MM, Update validator documentation, Stop nightly tests for SimpleUI, Multiple snapshots/instances of Hummingbot paper trades on Vultr, Start the final round of The Cutting Edge Conquest aka Discord Games, August Twitter Performance report, Preparations for Valorant Gaming tournament, Continue Proposal Component Report, Document Page Updates (Legal disclaimer, Hierarchy refresh), 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.