Hey everyone,

I hope you are enjoying your weekend and if you took some time off to enjoy Labour Day I am a bit jealous :). This week's post is planned as a small recap of where projects currently are and I will try to keep it short without too many explanations so we don't lose ourselves in too much text. All major updates this week will be covered as well, so don't worry.

Raiden

Some time ago we got introduced to two milestone goals inside Raiden. First one due is Red Eyes and second is Ithaca. Pathfinding repository has Croseus as well.

Red Eyes

Main focus in Red Eyes milestone goal are smart contracts and Raiden client. Name comes from the fact that in this release users will need to be constantly online in order to use Raiden.

Smart Contracts

Smart contracts are undergoing refactoring. Refactoring of a project is when you change how already implemented functionalities are implemented without adition of new features.

A massive pull request which contained most of the refactored code was merged during this week. It took team two days to properly review the changes but it was done. This is great news because many other features were waiting for this to happen.

Remaining work in Red Eyes milestone inside contract repository can be logically split in three groups.

First groups are tests and they are the smallest group. Second is coverage for edge cases inside the code. Inside last group are issues related to making whole contract repository a package.

Making contract repository a package is needed because they need to be added to Raiden as a package.

Bottom line is, huge chunk of work was done but there is still some work to be done inside contract repository.

Raiden

Before Raiden client is ready for Red Eyes several issues need to be solved.

Our old friend recoverability is not yet completely done. Most of the work is done but they need to finish implementation of WAL (write ahead log) before it is really done.

After recoverability is sorted out big task related to Atomic token swaps can be worked on.

Another big issue which I somehow put inside Ithaca in my last post is transport protocol. They want to switch from UDP to Matrix. Some work related to this was already done but majority is yet to be done (maybe more is done in private branches but I can't see that).

Few issues related to security are inside Red Eyes as well.

Some smaller issues that can't really be put in any group are remainder of ones inside Red Eyes milestone goal.

Ithaca

Ithaca is second milestone goal team has planned. Main focus of Ithaca milestone goal are pathfinding and monitoring services. It is called Ithaca because reaching this milestone will "bring project home".

Pathfinding

Even tho Red Eyes is planned as first milestone goal and Ithaca second, there was a lot work done inside pathfinding for Ithaca milestone goal.

Matrix implementation is close to done.

There are several smaller issues related to enhancement, security, testing and security to be done.

Monitoring

Montiroing was worked on as well.

I don't see any big issues that need to be sorted out inside Monitoring. All of the remaining issues are smaller ones targeting something else. It might be changed in future but this is current state.

Croesus

Croesus is third milestone goal currently present only in pathfinding. Team's idea is to host pathfinding themselves and to make it free in the beginning. Integration of fees to pathfinding is planned inside Croesus

Microraiden

Waiting for EIP712...

Conclusion

This post was brief coverage of current state of the project. I figured out that after three months we needed one post where we will as briefly as possible recap everything. Comment section is always open for any questions you might have and I will try my best to find the right answer.

Thank you for all your support and don't be shy, ask anything you are interested in about the project :).

Enjoy!