Hey everyone,

Another week is behind us, another weekly update is ahead. This week we will do a short coverage of ongoing conference development team is participating in and standard update of development progress.

Master workshop: off the chain

If you happened to miss it, Raiden is currently participating in an L2 oriented conference in Berlin called Master workshop: off the chain. The conference started yesterday and will end today (July 1st).

On the first day there were a number of interesting talks, and Raiden was represented by Lefteris in a 30 minute panel held at the end of the day, called Challenges for payment channels. Apart from Lefteris there were also another 3 members on the panel (Ethan Heilman, Lisa Eckey and Christian Decker) and a moderator (Pedro Moreno Sanchez).

One of the main focuses of the panel was handling offline users in different projects. Lefteris briefly explained that Raiden Network will support users going offline by delegating the task of monitoring of the channels to auxiliary services called Monitors. A few other topics were discussed as well, and Lefteris gave Raiden’s perspective on each of them. If you are interested in more details, you can find the complete panel here (https://youtu.be/1suuQVJb4P4?t=3h47m46s).

Lefteris’ presentation about Raiden was scheduled for the second day at 10:30am local time. Unfortunately there were some technical difficulties with the live stream, so we’re not able to see the presentation itself. I’m sure that there will be complete videos uploaded to youtube very soon.

This section has only been a brief coverage and you can expect a more thorough one in next week’s post.

Development progress

The development team is still going very strong and each week we’re nearing more and more to the Red Eyes release.

At the end of the week the team reorganized Github open issues and created a new milestone called Red Eyes Testnet. Inside the new milestone the team added all the issues they think need to be done before they can do a stable release on the Testnet.

The most bigger issue they have to complete before Red Eyes Testnet is ready would be finishing up the smart contract integration in the raiden client repository. A significant amount of work regarding this issue has already been completed, but few subtasks are yet to be done. The good news is that the team’s sorted out most of the other tasks they had in raiden client repository.

Regardless of the new milestone, the old Red Eyes milestone goal is still active. After the reorganization 2 big group of tasks were left in it. First group of tasks are related to documentation for Red Eyes release and second group are tasks regarding updating tests in smart contract repository.

To sum it up, the current development priority is to release a Red Eyes version on Testnet to see how the code behaves. While they perform all the tests on Testnet, they will finish up documentation and wrap it all up for the Mainnet release.

I discussed the new milestone with Lefteris briefly and, on top of a quick explanation of what their goal was with the introduction of new milestone, he confirmed that in the future they’ve planned to have many smaller milestones instead of fewer big ones such is Red Eyes.

Conclusion

Out of the 4 big issues Red Eyes aims to solve, 3 are done and one is under development. Mainnet Red Eyes release was announced to come sometime this Summer (Q3) and it seems the deadline will be met. I would like to thank Lefteris and /u/Mat7ias for the help and everyone for great support. If you have any questions, just leave a comment and we will give our best to find an answer for you.

Cheers!