As a community technical coordinator and developer for the Edgeware community (which is my self-assigned role) my role is to build, inspire and cultivate: I’m building with our parachain integration; I’m inspiring through getting people interested in directions we could go; And I’m cultivating by scouting people and projects with…

What tools do we have to build decentralised governance systems now? What examples are there of them in action? And how can we conceptualise and build them? — Right now, in 2021, the tools available to build decentralised systems with democratic “on-chain” governance capabilities are very real, very awesome, and are in practice and working effectively (here is an example). Communities are making decisions on using voting, councils, referenda, and treasury proposal decisions. …

If blockchains aim for decentralisation then why should we encourage giving our vote to someone else? It may be useful to add a bit of nuance to the discussion about voting to guide discussion. Because those who want to maximise decentralisation may fear that some of the voting systems may…

While Kabocha establishes the integration with Karura DEX, it’s not just a matter of switching it on. Of course it’s not the only piece of the jigsaw, let’s explore the other pieces, (and perhaps other jigsaws altogether). — In 3 to 8 years how do we want KAB price to look? Like this…? Or like this:

We have reached Sudo phase completion, here are some key points, and what are the next steps for technical development…? — Kabocha parachain on Kusama, is now at a viable working state and ready to be freed from the sudo control and handed over to community governance. Kabocha is a free spirit The aim is to cut Kabocha from the umbilical cord of its mother, Edgeware. …

and Self-Moderation Recommendations for our network playground… and life in general. — The question I am asking to open the backdoor of possibilities, what is a more conscious (kabocha) way to create community guidelines? Here is what showed up for me… Typically, when I enter an online community and they make me read the rules: 1) I rarely read them; and 2)…

Wen Kabocha? Imminently. This post highlights the progress status of Kabocha’s parachain journey from sudo phase to Live. — TL;dr Kabocha has made its first runtime upgrade, kab-release-v0.1.8, which upgrades the runtime to the latest polkadot release, v0.9.27, on our main net on the Kusama relay chain. There are still 2 more key upgrades to go, kab-release-v0.1.9, which contains more pallets including the ability to mint new coins based on…

What tools does web2 offer that keep people and businesses within web2, until it can be provided by web3? — Web3 is a revolution in many ways. And the future is bright with all the new possibilities available, but what are some of the blockers for wider adoption? Here’s a perspective on one big blocker, and a solution… What’s the situ? We now live in a world where you can transact with another…

Introducing to the substrate ecosystem, Supersig, a tool that has a few more very useful features for decentralised organising. Status: Milestone 1 complete Multisig is a rather powerful and pervasively used tool across the Substrate ecosystem. Almost every chain has the pallet. It allows a group of people to take…