Hey everyone,

time flies and we are already on 5th weekly github update. Project is doing great: We got some update from the devs, other projects are "playing" with the technology and subreddit has even more people and useful posts! Keep it up everyone!

There are no changes in disclaimers for this post. I am still a guy who invested in RDN, know a thing or two about programming and is trying to bring github news in plain english. For this post as well I got some help that I can't discuss in too much detail. Boring part is over, let's see what happened in microraiden and raiden =).

microraiden

As i mentioned in last week's post microraiden is in second plan at the moment. All last week's changes to a project were pretty much cosmetic.

In official blog post and one of the commits we got a confirmation that EIP712 is a main issue that needs to be dealt with. EIP712 is a suggested change that needs to be accepted to Ethereum project before Brainbot people can implement it in microraiden (They can work side by side for most of the part). EIP712 is critical change that any project that wants to do anything offchain is depending on. From a discussion on that issue's github thread you can see that almost every big player got involved in discussing details around it. Good thing is that it seems they all agreed how it should be done. Bad thing is it is pretty hard to say when it will be finalized and implemented on clients/nodes. Microraiden, currently got around that issue by using Metamask, but that is not a final solution to that problem as it does not satisfy security requirements.

Reason why "Sprint 1" milestone was not yet closed is them wanting to really tidy up the documentation. It is tedious work but really important, because good documentation makes project more user friendly to the developers community which is crucial for ultimate success of any project.

Final thing they want to change about microraiden is code organization inside a project. This happens a lot on big projects. It is pretty hard to see in future what is the best way to organize code and after a while you end up with a mess (sometimes big sometimes small). Once they finish this task it will make code more logical and maintaining it easier.

All in all you can say microraiden is currently in second plan and devs are waiting for EIP712 to be finalized so they can implement changes on their side and release 1.0.

raiden

Raiden last week had 6 issues active in their milestone goal called next minor release. Right now they are 4 since they completed 2 tasks. Even tho those tasks were pretty easy ones it is good that they are done.

On Monday there were a lot of commits merged to a project. They were fixes and implementation of few tasks but the most important issue that was fixed was implementation of dynamic gas price. That fix enables nodes to adapt to network congestion so they can process transactions without getting overrun or missing something important.

In a blog post that team released this week they mentioned how they are working hard on making nodes able to recover after unexpected events (eg. a crash). They are far into developing that but there is still some more work to be done. I think 3 out of 4 tasks inside current milestone refer to this issue so it is a pretty big feature.

Last thing I would like to mention is their effort to completely switch from python 2 to python 3. When they were doing it during January they missed some things and they are working on finding what they missed and fixing it. Last issue in milestone goal is about part that was overlooked during the switch. Fixing only that is pretty easy but I think they are going trough whole project and looking if they forgot something and that takes some time.

conclusion

Team is really doing great job and we should be happy with their work. You can see they put lots of thinking in how things should be done and project planning.

Microraiden is waiting for EIP712 to be added to Ethereum and Raiden is looking to be able to recover from unexpected events without losing any data.

Hope you will find this post useful and I wish you all a great new week!

PS I know I am a bit late this week but I had a lot of work on my job.