Good evening everyone 👋

Another very busy week here! First up, we passed the 1,000 transaction milestone on the XE Blockchain.

In the last month we’ve also seen strong growth across the project, with CT mentions up 35%, profile visits up 49.6%, followers up 2.6k; Discord engagement is up 89.7%, membership 10%.

Keep your eyes peeled for a fun Edge-based competition in the coming days. The Edge Scavenger Hunt will take you through the history of the Internet, the former ideals and the potential future of Web3. There are a series of great prizes on offer.

The team pushed forward with two fantastic crypto-related partnerships. Both will see usage of the network. And both are helping to inform the future direction of the project.

This week saw Index v1.8.2 and Explorer v1.7.2 released, which introduced named and trusted wallet status to wallet pages. Not only does this help you easily identify official Edge wallets, but also adds useful metadata to the wallets.

The core team has added data to all of the named wallets in the Community Wiki. For example, the Dev Fund (https://xe.network/wallet/xe_ed9e253143488BF40C088C17aBf627108d76c14e) and the Growth Fund (https://xe.network/wallet/xe_ed9e3AcDA88AFFe508d72503845289ca43390032).

This brings a high level of transparency to the operational wallets for the project. In time the functionality will be made available for use elsewhere.

In addition to the wallet metadata, these updates also introduced a number of health checks to the Index service, which we use to keep an eye on the freshness of gas & exchange rates that they deliver.

The Index service, for those who don’t know, synchronises new blocks from the blockchain, and keeps an up to date index of blocks, transactions, wallet balances, as well as gas and exchange rates from the Bridge. It is the central API for reading XE related data. And what’s more, it’s open and free to use. We’ll write more about the endpoints soon.