Good evening everyone 👋

Joseph is locked in meetings on a new and exciting network engagement, so I’m going to be providing this week's update. It’s going to be a great one!

As you may have seen in Discord, we’ve been very busy with Stargate, Gateway, and Host development lately, with non-stop updates being deployed to test.network throughout the week and late into the night.

While we’ve been able to manually update network nodes during the development period, before we’re able to open up onboarding on mainnet, the network needs to be capable of automatically delivering updates.

I’m happy to tell you that the network now has this capability, and with that, onboarding of devices onto the mainnet is now open 💥

I know lots of you have been waiting for this, so to you I say thanks for your patience. For those of you who are new, I say welcome aboard!

Adding devices to the network is quite simple, but there are a few steps you’ll need to follow. We’ve written a handy guide for that, which you can see below, but if you need further help, pop into the onboarding channel in Discord. Here’s the guide:

https://wiki.edge.network/contributing-to-the-network/setting-up-a-host

Each device will require a stake, with Hosts requiring a stake of 2,500 XE. To read more about staking, take a look at https://wiki.edge.network/contributing-to-the-network/an-introduction-to-staking, or feel free to raise a question in the staking channel in Discord.

For those who are new or folks who would like a refresher, there are three node types: Stargates, Gateways, and Hosts. To learn more about how the network is structured, have a read of https://wiki.edge.network/contributing-to-the-network/network-nodes.

For those of you who have legacy stakes that need transferring over, we’ve been busy preparing for this and are now ready to start this process. To begin, you’ll need to fill in a form providing us with details of your existing stakes. We’ll then verify these and migrate them to the XE wallet you provide. You can find the form here: