Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 58. This week the Raiden team has been busy attending multiple events, including DeFi Meetup and Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) so that’ll be our focus for this week. Of course we will also go into summarizing this week’s Github activity along with it. Let’s dive in!

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Raiden in Paris

As we announced in Weekly Update 57, last week the Raiden team participated at 2 conferences in Paris; DeFi Meetup and EthCC. EthCC was a 3-day event where more than 200 speakers covered all the hottest topics in the Ethereum ecosystem such as decentralized finance, scalability, web 3.0, security, privacy and many more. DeFi Meetup was a smaller event at which representatives of several projects working on decentralized finance made presentations of their projects and discussed common challenges they all face.

On the first day of the EthCC, the Raiden team set up a Raiden booth where they showcased Raiden tech, gave away goodies and mingled with conference attendees throughout the conference. The second day of the conference was the day of Raiden’s presentation on stage.

Presentation was held by Raiden’s communications lead Franzi Heintel and one of the core developers Paul Lange (you can find the video of the presentation here). Franzi started the presentation by updating everyone on the current status of Raiden. The second big topic of her part of the presentation was DX (Developer Experience). Franzi said that the Raiden team recognized the requirement to run a full Ethereum node alongside Raiden as a big obstacle towards great DX and that they will try to address this issue with the help of the Infura project. Once Infura implements several open feature requests on their end (all of which were already prioritized on their roadmap), Raiden and Infura will become fully compatible and running full Ethereum mainnet node locally won’t be mandatory. Running a full node will still be the recommended option, which not only supports Raiden, but also fosters the overall decentralization of Ethereum. Other important components of the DX Franzi pointed out are: gitter developer support, documentation and REST API. On the UX (user experience) end, the intuitive and ever-evolving WebUI was pointed out and showcased. The second half of the presentation was by Paul. During his part Paul explained the role and importance of PFS and MS in the Raiden protocol.

In the evening of the same day, the Raiden team joined members of Gnosis, Centrifuge and Bounties Network at the DeFi Meetup. Each of the projects were presented on stage (Raiden presentation was done by Franzi) and the rest of the evening was spent networking with everyone at the event.

The last day of the EthCC was reserved for more showcasing Raiden at the booth and a small closing party.

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Development progress

As a significant part of the development team was occupied with promoting Raiden in Paris, the rest of the members dedicated majority of the week towards internal testing. The number of smaller improvements were merged in all the repositories alongside several more waiting for review in the Raiden client repository.

In the upcoming week, we can expect for the development team to prioritize finishing up features and remaining open issues in the current milestone.

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Conclusion

To finish up this Weekly Update, the team put in a lot of work this week with their booth representation and presentations at both EthCC and DeFi Paris to spread the word about Raiden Network to the community. Thanks again to all the readers for the support! Leave a comment if there’s anything about this week’s events you’d like to know more about and we’ll get back to you.

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Cheers!