Good evening @everyone 👋

Work on project governance progresses at a strong pace — we’re on track to launch before the end of the year. The interfaces are looking fantastic: fast, simple, and effective. We’re very excited to be able to show them to you, and to enable governance on-chain.

The first few governance proposals have been drafted by one of our founders. They cover the planned burn of project revenues, adjustments to staking requirements, development prioritisation, and a few other items besides.

For governance to be a success the project needs as high a level of participation as possible. We’ll be calling on all of you to engage with the proposals and to vote accordingly.

This week saw just one mainnet deployment, with Index v2.0.4 being released. This patch contained a few bug fixes relating to node data. We’re aware of a few other issues with the index API, mostly around sorting. We’ll be fixing these over the coming weeks. I think we can all say that the Explorer experience is much smoother now with the new index!

There was a question about hardware wallets in the community this week, and I think that my follow up is worth reposting here. While we don’t have third party hardware wallet support for XE yet, it is easy to put your XE into cold storage. Note that for $EDGE you can use any hardware wallet with standard ERC-20 support.

For XE, it is possible to securely generate a wallet. The aim of this is to generate a wallet and transfer XE to it without the private key existing on a machine that has access to the net. You’ll need a machine that you’re happy to wipe, depending on how confident you are in the security of your devices (or how paranoid you are), you can either use a sandboxed virtual machine or a physical machine you’re happy to wipe. (Another option is to use a live CD to run a temporary operating system.)

Once you have your machine, you’ll connect to the internet and load up https://wallet.xe.network/ in a browser, and then disconnect from the internet. Disable WiFi, disable bluetooth, and unplug any network cables etc. Then you click “Create wallet”, and make a physical copy of the wallet address and private key. If it helps, breaking the key out into sets of four works well. You don’t need to type in a password or go through that process on the wallet, you just need a copy of the address and the key.

Next, we need to verify the private key has been copied down correctly. Cancel the Create wallet modal, and click Restore wallet. (Remember, we’re still offline. This machine should never again go online, so keep the network disconnected!)