Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 67. For this update we’ll be covering a Raiden related meetup coming up today and and the usual development progress. In terms of development and improvements this week improvements have been deep into Raiden, so let’s dig in!

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Payment-Channels: Lightning, Raiden & Co.

Later today, May 13th, there’ll be a Raiden related and payment channel network technology event in Stuttgart (Germany) titled “Payment-Channels: Lightning, Raiden & Co.” organized by the local crypto community.

The focus of the event will be implementations and use cases of the payment channel technology on different layer one solutions (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Stellar). Participants will be provided with a great opportunity to discuss ideas about common challenges (eg. routing, privacy, user/developer experience, etc.) all state channel projects face, as well as share each project’s perspective on the state channel technology.

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Development progress

Last week, the development team focused on open issues inside the Next Release milestone and tasks related to spring cleaning.

Since current development priorities contain a wide range of tasks, bug fixes, new features, testing and minor refactoring were worked on in parallel throughout the week. A lot of pull requests were reviewed and merged while several more are still work in progress or waiting for review.

One of the topics discussed during the last week was Raiden’s approach to mediation fees. The development team came up with a unique approach to this challenge and we can expect to hear more about the topic in the future tech deep dives and presentations at the events.

Additionally, the team is working towards a potential transition to aid scaling of development workflow as the team and project grows. With the addition of Raiden Architectural Decision Records (ADR), we can follow proposals, drivers and potential outcomes. ADRs contain important architectural decision made along with its context and consequences.

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Conclusion

Concluding this Weekly Update, it’s been a ‘heads down’ and ‘coding up’ week for the Raiden project. Scalability isn’t just important for software, it’s important for a project and we’re seeing the team reflect that as time progresses. Separately from the update so far, the announcement of Devcon 5 (website) occurred this week, the Raiden team is yet to announce they’ll be attending but given their history of being present at each Devcon event so far we might be able to guess where some Raideneers might be that weekend. Thanks for reading and leave a comment if there’s anything Raiden related you’re interested in.

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Cheers!