Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 59. This week we’ll be going into the usual activity in the world of the Raiden Network project such as events and Github activity throughout the week. On top of that we’ll also go into the progress towards the next release milestone. Let’s dig in!

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Mainz Crypto Community meetup

After a very successful week during which Raiden was represented at two events in Paris (complete coverage can be found in Weekly Update 58), the Raiden team participated at a crypto community meetup on their home turf in Mainz (Germany).

As a part of the event, Oliver Bünting did a technical introduction to Raiden in the form of a presentation. During the presentation he focused on both theoretical and practical aspects of Raiden and underlying technology, going through some of the concepts similar to what can be found in the Developer Onboarding Guide in the documentation.

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Development progress

Last week the Raiden team was working on both planning and further development of features which will be part of the Ithaca release.

Roadmap planning and improvements of developer experience were two main focuses during internal workshops in the Berlin office. Speaking of developer experience, the development team additionally started working on one-click installer for the Raiden client. The aim of the one-click installer is to further simplify setting up of the full stack needed to run Raiden on MacOS and Linux (including ETH client, RPC or Infura). The developer in charge of the project is newest addition to the development team, Nils Diefenbach.

In terms of advancing development of features for the Ithaca release, the development team continued working on the remaining open issues in the Next Release milestone. As a result, a couple more open issues were resolved while significant progress has been made towards completing those remaining. In parallel to the development of the new features, the team continued internal testing of the existing features and fixing minor bugs they find in the process.

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Conclusion

In conclusion to Weekly Update 59, the team has held an intermittent roadmap meeting to fine tune moving ahead in the following months. Additionally, the Raiden team took part in the Crypto Mainz meetup to give a technical introduction into Raiden. To keep this update short and sweet, thanks to everyone reading for the support and the contributors to this Weekly Update. Let us know if you have any questions about the update or Raiden Network in general and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

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Cheers!