The Cutting Edge: Week of May 17th
A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.
Highlights
- EdgewareMeek aka SpaceGoat97 from EDG Builders released EdgeApps, a backport fork of Polkadot Apps bringing back the contracts deployment functionality.
- Dillon Chen announced Hedgeware, a Kusama parachain in the Edgeware ecosystem on behalf of Commonwealth Labs.
- Seedcode shared the final community update on Staking UI.
- Upcoming AMAs: How To Make It in Crypto-media, AllianceBlock and Exit Theory.
Ecosystem Updates
Commonwealth.im
The multi-chain governance and community interface. (Join TG/Discord)
- Successfully raised $3.2MM led by Dragonfly Capital and ParaFi Capital.
- Support for Off-chain Polls was added to the Commonwealth Forum.
- New Homepage is live.
- The ability to create a token community gated to token holders for any ERC20 and WalletConnect support was added.
- Introducing Omni-Search Bar: searching members, posts, forums, and communities.
dTrade
dTrade is a platform for trading perpetuals and options on Edgeware. (Join TG/Discord)
- dTrade presented their mobile app demo in Polkadot Decoded.
Governance
- Referendum 39: Agency’s Treasury funding proposal for 1-year of work span. {Referendum type: SuperMajorityApprove, Democracy Proposal ID:36, Treasury Proposal ID:31}
- Referendum 40: Treasury funding proposal to integrate Biconomy’s multichain meta-transaction infrastructure on Edgeware EVM. {Referendum type: SuperMajorityApprove, Democracy Proposal ID:34, Treasury Proposal ID:30}
- Democracy Proposal #35 was accidentally created and it can become Referendum 41 if no other Democracy Proposal gets proposed within the current cycle of the launch period. So it is advised to reject (aka vote ‘Nay’).
Community
- All community members are invited to participate in the ‘Edgeware Culture & Values survey’ by Grant Dever.
- 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.
- Trending Community Research threads:
> Defining Edgeware's Key Differentiators/Benefits.
> Why Hedgeware is currently a terrible idea.
> What is the treasury for? Who should benefit and how?
Events
- The Edgeware All-Community call was hosted on May 19th, 2021. Each month, different individuals/entities from the agency, builder guild, different working groups and enthusiasts come together to speak on various essential topics, ideas and updates related to Edgeware. If you missed it, you can find the meeting notes with recordings here.
Agency
- The agency proposal is in live as a democracy referendum(#39).
- The OTC trades under the OTC Community offer are continued to be actively executed.
- Thom Ivy shared that ‘Exchange A’ has a firm date now and all listing details have been confirmed. He is currently working with the market maker (Efficient Frontiers) to ensure that they can align their strategy for ‘Exchange A’.
- Check out the Edgeware Community Calendar to stay in the loop.