Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 63. For this week’s update, we’ll be focusing on updates on the upcoming event with an article from the team—“Build with Raiden at ETHCapeTown!”—which covers some interesting idea-sparking suggestions. We’ll also make an overview of the Github activity for this week. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden at ETHCapeTown

The ETHCapeTown hackathon is a continuation of the ETHGlobal hackathon series. From April 19th to April 21st, hackers will have the opportunity to compete for prizes by building new and interesting tech in the Ethereum ecosystem supported by a team of knowledgeable mentors with years of experience in the field.

Raiden’s sponsorship of the ETHCapeTown hackathon was announced couple weeks ago, while the details of the sponsorship were revealed last Friday in the latest Medium article. The article covers that Raiden team will reward $2000 in RDN tokens to the hackers with the most innovative use case built using the Raiden API or the best Raiden enhancement hack. Furthermore, to spark ideas, the Raiden team provided long list of potential use cases they see Raiden tech could fit in. For questions and support, Jacob and Franzi will be available to hackers at the event while rest of the team members will keep a close eye on the official Gitter chat.

It’ll be very interesting to see what new use cases or improvements to the Raiden tech that hackers will come up with. ETHSingapore and ETHBerlin resulted in some great ideas and we hope to see more of that at the ETHCapeTown.

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Development progress

Last week, the development team was dedicated towards making further progress on Ithaca related features, bug fixing and internal testing.

Significant progress has been made in fixing bugs discovered during internal testing. Last week, all the known bugs in the Raiden client were fixed and only several smaller ones related to smart contract deployment remain in the smart contract repository. In terms of features, further progress has been made in completing integration of PFS to the Raiden protocol by implementing logic for publishing information about mediation fees from Raiden client to the pathfinding services.

A number of pull requests either reviewed and ready for merge or pending a review are waiting to be completed across repositories. We can expect that the development team will sort most of them out in the upcoming week as well as continue working towards next release on the path to Ithaca milestone.

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Conclusion

Wrapping up Weekly Update 63, Ethereum’s largest event in South Africa so far is less than a week away. With some ideas for hacks relating to the RDN reward already flying we can’t wait to see what’s to come, whether it’s improved UX, DX or something outside the box. As for development progress, internal testing of 3rd party services is moving ahead with a number of code additions being already prepared and pending review. As always, thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment if you’re unsure about anything with this update or Raiden related.

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Cheers!