EDG Developer Update: Oct 9 - Oct 15, 2022

Status updates

• Council member remz fixed the critical bug discovered by kpdnetstake. This Pull request ports to consensus transition logic to the new substrate convention it is set to trigger at Block #14555555, around 42 days from now as of writing.
• Depth Hoar Has made some updates to the escrow Dapp most notably making the status of the escrow into human-readable form.
• JelliedOwl Is running a public testnet node with EVM capabilities.

Ecosystem Headlines

Ecosystem & Community

• Web3 Foundation is launching courses on Blockchain, Web3, and Polkadot on edX.
• Messari published the State of Polkadot Q3 2022 report.
• In the past few months, the Web3 Foundation has released new video tutorials.
• Web3 Foundation announced the wave 15 grant recipients.

Tools

• Polkadot API v9.5.1 has been released.