Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 39. These past few days and the days coming up are looking to be very exciting. The Raiden Network github has seen a crazy amount of development and this week Future of Layer 2 and Devcon4 are coming up! So we can’t wait to dig into some of the details, let’s dive in!

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Events and conferences

After Web3 Summit in Berlin, where Raiden wasn’t directly part of the program but was still represented by a couple of team members in the crowd, Devcon4 in Prague will be much more interesting. Devcon is often considered the most important annual conference in Ethereum space and Raiden will be part of the several events surrounding the conference.

On Monday 29th of October, the day before Devcon4 officially starts, Raiden will be part of the small event organized by Celer Network and Nervos Network titled The Future of LAYER 2: Prague Edition. This event will gather team members of more than 10 projects focused on Ethereum L2 scaling where they will take the opportunity to discuss the latest development and breakthroughs across scaling solutions. Raiden will be represented by Jacob at the event.

In Thursday morning of Devcon 4, Lefteris will do a presentation as a part of a session called Scalability Breakout: State Channels (see Day 2 of the Devon4 Agenda). His presentation is titled “Getting to a production ready payment channel network for Ethereum”. It’ll be very interesting to see his presentation because the title hints that he won’t talk only about Raiden from the technology perspective, but about the Raiden’s development process as well. The session starts at 10am local time and Lefteris’ scheduled to be second on stage.

In the afternoon on the same day a 2 hour workshop with Raiden in focus will take place. Jacob, Paul and Urlich will be coordinating the workshop ready to answer all the potential questions coders might have.

Links to live streams and videos will be shared on our official Reddit and Twitter as they become available while link to the full Devocn4 agenda can be found here.

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Raiden v0.15.0 - “Things to come”

Things to come is the codename for the latest weekly testnet release. It was released on Saturday evening and not on Friday because development team wanted to address all the issues discovered during testing before releasing it.

Bug fixes as a part of this release will ensure Raiden always restarts correctly and a potential scenario where channel becomes stuck due to incorrect handling of Expired Lock was addressed as well.

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Development progress

The development team continued with testing and addressing bugs discovered in the process. The progress made is evident as the list of bugs discovered and addressed is considerably shorter with every week behind us. Apart from the code, they worked on the documentation as well, some of the outdated documentation that’s become less irrelevant with recent changes has been removed and updated with more recent and relevant information in preparation of the mainnet release.

The continuous integration tool ‘Travis’, which is used to run tests on every code change, unexpectedly broke late into the week. This is not the first time Travis is causing trouble, so the team is considering switching to CircleCI which should as well reduce the time required to run all the tests.

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Conclusion

To conclude Weekly Update 39 I’m very excited for the ‘Things to come’ release, you can almost feel how close we are to mainnet, even if there isn’t a set date. Exciting times ahead. Thanks again for the support you guys give for this update and also the help from braintbot! Don’t hesitate to leave a comment if you feel something wasn’t clear enough, always happy to answer.

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Cheers!