EIP 1014 is part of the coming Ethereum Constantinople hard fork.

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https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/1014

"EIP 1014, called Skinny CREATE2, was proposed by Vitalik Buterin and adds a new opcode that allows for improved performance of state channels."

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"EIP-1014, CREATE2: Adds a new way to create contracts that isn't based on account nonce, so addresses of contracts can be known and agreed upon before they're ever created. This is mainly to help with counterfactual state channels so the parties can agree on the address before the contract is created."

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I wasn't sure if this is using the term 'counterfactual' referring to the product Counterfactual.

https://www.counterfactual.com/statechannels/

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It appears counterfactual is related to generalized state channels, not payment state channels (which Raiden is).

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However, one of more detailed explanations I read was:

"EIP 1014 will introduce off-chain transactions, similar to what Bitcoin’s Lightning Network provides, significantly improving the performance and throughput of Ethereum. Previously, Ethereum contracts had to be deployed on-chain before you could use them. Now, you can provide the address which corresponds to the contract you want to deploy, and the recipient can pay to the contract before you deploy. This means that developers are able to generate receive addresses without paying the deployment fee of the receive address until they want to spend from it. This EIP is also allows for certain off-chain state channel commitments to be possible without requiring a deployment of said state channel."

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This seems to apply to Raiden payment channels.

So does anyone know?