Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 62. This week, we’ll be covering a recently announced collaboration between Raiden and DAppnode and briefly discuss the UX and DX benefits. On top of that, looking into the GitHub progress/activity. Let’s dive in!

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Raiden and DAppNode

DAppNode is a project that focuses on providing an easy and user friendly way of hosting P2P clients for DApps, VPNs, IPFS and other entities in decentralized P2P networks (Documentation). In their work, they don’t just focus on the Ethereum ecosystem (e.g. Geth and Aragon) but also provide helpful solutions for other popular blockchains such as Bitcoin and Monero.

Last week, the Raiden team announced that they’re collaborating with DAppNode on providing an easy solution to running Raiden on DAppNode. The work on integration has already started and progress can be followed on DAppNode’s github. For those of you that are short on time and still wanting to keep up with changes, don’t worry because the major milestones of integration will be covered on Raiden’s official Twitter or more in-depth in this Weekly Update series.

The collaboration with DAppNode is in-line with Raiden’s effort to provide great UX (user experience) and DX (developer experience) to the user base. For more information on how the Raiden team’s tackling these problems, the presentation from this year’s recent EthCC conference is also available.

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Development progress

The development dedicated last week towards making further progress on Ithaca related features, solving bugs discovered during internal testing and refactoring minor parts of the codebase that needed more organization due to the addition of new features.

In terms of features, a large pull request containing initial implementation of mediation fees has been merged. Such a feature will offer a significant improvement to channel balancing. There’s other related long-term potential, for instance; mediation fees that will be correlated with a channel capacities imbalance (i.e. payment routes helping balance the network might offer a cheaper fee compared to route making the network less balanced).

In relation to Raiden services there were additions to the codebase along with improvements to the services documentation (work in progress).

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Conclusion

To finish up Weekly Update 62, it’s exciting to see the ease of setting up nodes being focused on and gradually improved, there will be more to come and if you’re interested in learning more don’t forget to checkout the DAppNode’s informational video. Thanks for reading and also the contributors of the Weekly Update. Always welcome any questions or comments about the contents of this update or Raiden Network in general and we will give our best to answer.

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Cheers!