Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 68. To start off the week, the team came together in Berlin for a workshop. Following that, there was the announcement surrounding the Raiden Light Client and dApp. Before we dive here’s also a quick reminder, that the Raiden team will be attending Scaling the public blockchain for payments in Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday this week so if you’re in the area make sure to check it out!

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Raiden Light Client SDK and dApp

A Raiden light client is considered as one of the key features which can enable wider user and developer adoption. Simply put, the Raiden light client SDK should provide an easy to use framework for the dApp developers, improving developer experience and providing more practical capability to run Raiden on lower end hardware such as mobile phones and IOT devices. Last week, the Raiden team released a medium article explaining current state of the Light client development and made light client Github repository available to the public.

The article released explains that within the light client repository 2 separate projects can be found:

• Light Client SDK: aiming to provide dApp developers with everything they need to implement interaction with Raiden client and Ethereum blockchain
• Raiden dApp: serves as a reference implementation of the Light Client SDK. Initially supported platforms by the SDK will be web3-enabled browsers, wallets and Node.js environments.

On top of that, the article contains more information on the development progress and roadmap. While architecture, code examples and an installation guide can be found on the homepage of the Github repository. We encourage anyone interested in Layer 2 user experience or scalability/latency of dApps in general to test and provide feedback on these features by opening an issue or commenting on Gitter. The developers won’t bite! :)

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Development progress

Last week, the development team continued progress on open issues inside next release milestone.

The introduction of the data classes to the Raiden client repository is one of the highest priority tasks for the ‘Spring Cleaning’ development goals. A number of significant pull requests—containing most of the related changes—have been successfully reviewed and merged during the week. This was followed up by several smaller changes related to this issue, many of which are also close to being completed. The developers primarily contributing to the Raiden services repository focused on proper handling of the edge cases, minor bugs and improving communication between services and Raiden nodes. Inside the light client repository, developers started planning several new features and worked on the UI features of the Raiden dApp.

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Conclusion

To finish up this Weekly Update 68, the team released some exciting development with the Raiden Light Client repository, the Weekly Update will be sure to cover the progress within closely as the project moves forward. After this weeks Scaling the public blockchain for payments (mentioned in the intro), the following one will be CogX in King's Cross, London, on the 10-12th of June. As always, thanks for taking the time reading this Weekly Update, if you have any questions on anything Raiden related feel free to leave a comment.

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Cheers!