Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 41. Hope everyone’s had a good week. For this update there’s a bit to cover; the bimonthly Raiden Pulse was released with lots of interesting information. A few members of the Raiden team attended Devcentralized in Barcelona, Spain, where they held a presentation and workshop focused on helping attendees learn about deploying an ERC20 token network using Raiden. We will also cover the Github activity as usual. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden Pulse #2

“Raiden Pulse” is a bi-monthly update on everything related to Raiden, released in the form of a Medium article. After the first article of the series was released in late August, the latest one covering events from September, October, and beginning of November was released last week.

The second edition of the Raiden Pulse covers part of November as well, because the team wanted to include coverage of Devcon4 while it’s still fresh. Apart from the very nice and concise coverage of events at Devcon4 (for additional in-depth coverage you can also check out Weekly Update 40), the article goes through the updates in development, events attended and the new team members that joined Raiden in the past two months.

The new team members is the biggest news if you’re regularly following the Weekly Update series. Cryptography researchers Prof. Sebastian Faust (TU Darmstadt) and Prof. Stefan Dziembowski (University of Warsaw) joined the Raiden Network project as advisors (Both are also contributors to the Perun Network project) while Frederik joined the development team to help with CircleCI integration.

The full article is available on this link and a twitter thread containing all the most important information can be found here.

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Raiden v0.16.0 - “Sherlock”

Sherlock is the codename for the latest Raiden weekly testnet release. As the development team got back together after a big part of them had been in Prague, they gathered all the issues discovered by testing Raiden on the Ethereum mainnet and started addressing them.

As a result, a good chunk of discovered issues were fixed and shouldn’t be present anymore in the Sherlock release. The great news is that running Raiden with Infura has been significantly improved, but it is still recommended to use local Ethereum node while running Raiden as it is more reliable.

The Sherlock release is a big step forward towards making Raiden robust enough to handle the dynamic environment that the Ethereum mainnet is and if you would like to help the development team track down all the remaining issues, the best way is to play around with Raiden and report any bugs you might find in the process.

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Development progress

The development team continued to tackle bugs which were discovered once they started testing Raiden on the mainnet. It’s very nice to see that they are getting more and more help by the development community in testing and solving the root causes of issues.

A big number of bugs were resolved and fixes were released in Sherlock, but there are still several which require more work and investigating. The positive fact is that the number of newly discovered issues is dropping with every week behind us.

In the upcoming week, we expect to see more progress towards fixing all the remaining issues in preparation for successful Red Eyes release.

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Conclusion
To conclude week’s update, the team made a speedy recovery after Devcon4 and put all gears into Devcentralized and Development! If you’re interested in trying out Raiden but have been looking for more directions and you missed the live workshop stream the team has released the slides (link) for you to follow (Lefteris also shared his presentation slides). Thanks again for the support you guys give and also the help from brainbot. As always don’t hesitate to leave a comment, always happy to answer any questions.
Cheers!