Weekly Update: W/C 03rd October, 2022

Good evening @everyone 👋

This week we’ve been focused on getting CDN ready for release, and everything is on track for launch early next week. We’re super excited to be able to make CDN publicly available again. You’ll be able to see hourly metrics showing content delivery across all regions, and manage your deployment in real time with easy to use and advanced configuration options.

This week saw two releases, with Stargate v2.12.0-255 and Gateway v2.11.1-156 being deployed to mainnet. These updates introduce content delivery usage aggregation, among other things, to the network, preparing the way for next week’s launch.

You may have noticed that our marketing efforts have ramped up recently. If you haven’t, be sure to take a look at our various social media profiles, and if you want to help, feel free to retweet and reshare and repost and tell your friends. We’ve got a great content schedule ahead of us, including today’s video on CDN:

https://twitter.com/edgenetwork/status/1578339785051086848

Following next week’s CDN launch, we’ll be getting the account interface repository ready to open source, including instructions on how you can contribute to it, how you can run it on your machines, and how you can make use of the account API, should you wish to spin up services yourself.

And in the spirit of open source software, from which we all benefit so much, we’re taking part in Hacktoberfest this year, the month-long celebration of open-source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors. Want to learn more about how to participate? Take a look here:

https://hacktoberfest.com/participation/

In short, we have marked six public repositories with the #hacktoberfest tag: cli, discord-bots, explorer, wallet, mobile-wallet, and account (due to be made public very soon). Feel free to attempt some of the issues in these repositories or, if you have an idea, why not give it a go? Be sure to read the CONTRIBUTING.md file in each repository and if you need any help, just let us know.

In short, we have marked six public repositories with the #hacktoberfest tag: cli, discord-bots, explorer, wallet, mobile-wallet, and account (due to be made public very soon). Feel free to attempt some of the issues in these repositories or, if you have an idea, why not give it a go? Be sure to read the CONTRIBUTING.md file in each repository and if you need any help, just let us know.

We have a list of new features and improvements coming soon too, including priority support, server metrics, and more. The new website is also coming along nicely, and we’re excited to be giving the website a fresh new look. Work is underway to increase the number of Stargates operational on the network, and we continue to look at delegated staking on the blockchain.

With CDN launching imminently, the time has never been better to join the referral program. Every Edge account has a unique referral link, which you can share with your friends, colleagues, and social channels. You will receive 10% commission on the usage of anyone who signs up using your referral code for the lifetime of their engagement. This can easily add up to a highly significant amount.

Over the coming weeks we have a number of commercial clients that will be migrating CDN over to Edge, using the account system, so for you network contributors out there, keep an eye on your node metrics, we expect 📈!

And that’s all for this week. Be sure to keep an eye out early next week for announcements 🚀.

Enjoy your weekends!