Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 66. This week we’ll be covering the recent Raiden Pulse and go over the regular Github progress. Also a quick note, if you happen to have any input on the recently released Raiden Developer Portal, the team is preparing Iteration 1 so feel free to mention anything you’d like to see more of in this thread. Let’s dive in to this update!

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Raiden Pulse #5

Raiden Pulse is a bimonthly official update on all things Raiden. Raiden Pulse #4 covered the most important events in the first 2 months of the year, so with the end of April, it was time for the Raiden Pulse #5.

The newest edition of the Raiden Pulse focuses on development and general updates, events the Raiden team participated in the last 2 months and events the team is preparing for. Development & General Updates section briefly goes through current key development achievements and all the major announcements such as collaboration with DAppNode and introduction of the Raiden Developer Portal. Part of the Pulse dedicated to the past events reminds us of EthCC, ETHCapeTown and all the other great events Raiden team had the opportunity to participate at.

The section of the Pulse covering upcoming events brings several new announcements; On May 22nd Stefan will participate at “Scaling the Public Blockchain for Payments” meetup in Frankfurt, on June 10th Dominik will be at CogX in London while in August Lefteris and the crew will participate at both dAppcon and ETHBerlinZwei hackathon (part of the Berlin Blockchain Week) in Berlin.

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Development progress

Last week the development team continued working on issues inside the Next Release and Ithaca milestones.

For the last couple of weeks, we followed the progress of mypy tool integration to the codebase. Last week, the development team completed integration of mypy tool to the codebase except for the testing infrastructure. Parallel to the mypy integration, they also focused on reducing technical debt across repositories and bug fixing. Several significant pull requests from the last week are ready for review and we can expect the development team to handle merging them in the upcoming week.

Alongside the pull requests ready for review we can expect the team to continue their “Spring Cleaning”, making Raiden easier to understand and extend, which the recent addition of new tools has already contributed to.

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Conclusion

Wrapping up this Weekly Update, another 2 months and another Raiden Pulse has gone by. Next week development continues and there’s a small Raiden related event called Payment-Channels: Lightning, Raiden & Co. in Stuttgart, Germany. Again just a quick reminder relating to the Raiden Developer Portal, if you’re a developer interested in Raiden and have any feedback or suggestions, be sure to drop a comment here. Or if you’re having a lazy Monday, just in the comments here and we’ll Owl Post it across. Anyway as always, thanks for reading and see you again next week.

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Cheers!