EDG Developer Update: Nov 28 - Dec 4, 2021
Keeping you up to date on all things technical related to Edgeware and more! Always in a human-readable form, we look at the code changes so you don't have to.

Actionable Items
- Council member Remz has shared their work reviewing the Wako release after continued work by Drew and Raymond. They document several of their findings on Github, but they involve repairing unintended changes to network parameters. When this upgrade is ready and deployed successfully, EDG will have a stable EVM platform. Developers and validators are requested to review these changes, provide their thoughts on parameters and fixes, and otherwise test and run this node release and report bugs to the Github repo. Additionally, you can participate at the Builders channel in Discord at edgeware.chat
- Thom Ivy has pointed out that as a community we need to figure out the answers to our security policy, please give your feedback and ideas. You can do so in the discord / telegram builders chat or better yet on github.
New Video: How to Unstake your EDG
Status updates
- Cohort Session 3: We're looking for ambitious learners that would like to grow with Edgeware, and become a core part of our community. The Edgeware cohort program is a new program that will educate individuals on the structure and operations of Edgeware, Substrate, and blockchain technology, and provide the skills necessary to contribute to the evolution of Edgeware's ecosystem. The next one is December 8th, 11:00 AM EST in the Voice-Builders voice channel on the Edgeware discord.
- You can listen to the second cohort session here!
- Bi-weekly Builder's Call + Community Hackday: December 7th, 2:00 PM EST in the Voice-Builders voice channel on the Edgeware discord. Every other Tuesday at 2p EST. Bring questions, projects to show off, and ideas!
- You can listen to the recording of the last builders call on November 23rd here!
- During the Sub0 conference, the Edgeware agency took notes! You can check them out here. You can read through and get the main points and the slides of each presentation. It is not fully completed we will add to it over time as we finish watching the intermediate and advanced presentations.
Ecosystem Headlines
Substrate
"Basically, generics help reduce the redundancy of your code, by allowing you to use components of your codes on multiple types, without having to rewrite those components for each type."
- Phil Lucsok from Parity Technologies gives a great talk on why to use substrate and why decentralization by default is important. Also, goes over Substrate-connect a client that runs on Javascript.
- Next Substrate Seminar Dec 14th.
"Shelven, the Lead Researcher of Phala Network, will demonstrate how to to build a BTC price oracle with a Telegram bot in 50 lines of code in Phala's native Fat Contract (confidential ink! smart contract). In this workshop, you will learn how to leverage Fat Contract’s unique features like asynchronous HTTP request and computation-intensive tasks in ink! language."
Tools
- Polkadot JS API 6.9.1 is out with a medium-priority tag due to some important Metadata generation changes and support for new Typescript