Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 76. As mentioned in the last update (#75), we’ll be covering the Beyond Blockchain results in this week’s update. We’ll also be going over some of the additions and changes to the Raiden Github, namely documentation and internal testing. Let’s dive in!

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Beyond Blockchain hackathon results

The Beyond Blockchain virtual hackathon was an event organized by Gitcoin and supported by several sponsors, one of which was Raiden. The Raiden team created 3 tasks for hackers to choose from and offered a bounty for the best solutions.

Last week the Raiden team went through all the submissions and announced the winners. Christopher Purta won the bounty for the best Raiden enhancement hack. He built a Golang client library to interact with Raiden. The best submission for the IoT hack with Raiden was Raiden Ticker created by pisuthd. His solution integrated an LED matrix display controlled by ESP8266 to display messages paid for through Raiden. pisuthd created a nice video demonstration of the solution as well. Additionally, a couple of great submissions created as part of the hackathon are the Raiden Burner implementation and python client library - PyRaiden.

An idea worth mentioning although didn’t get implemented was by cryptomental. The idea being to integrate Raiden support into Zerynth to be able to use Raiden payment channels directly on microcontrollers using the current Raiden implementation and provide a simple example. You can find a TL;DR here and read more about combining IoT and blockchain using simple Python here.

We would like to give a big shout out to the organizers, all the hackers and congratulate the winners on their interesting ideas and submissions. Looking forward to seeing more such events in the future!

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Development progress

During the last week, the development team continued working on Ithaca related open Github issues, internal testing, and bug fixing.

In the Raiden client repository, the developers focused on updating documentation, bug fixing and investigating issues related to the testing infrastructure. The developers working on the Raiden services successfully addressed all the issues found during the internal security audit and continued working on improving infrastructure and various enhancements. Tasks related to the Service Registry were in focus in the Raiden smart contract repository.

In the Raiden Services repository, the documentation and configuration necessary to run the services have been added. This includes an installation guide with hardware and software requirements. If you happen to be interested to test out or set up a system running Raiden Services before Ithaca then we’d recommend checking it out.

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Conclusion

In conclusion to this Weekly Update, this week wraps up the coverage of Beyond Blockchain. The next major events we have will be DAPPCON and ETHBerlinzwei, both a part of Blockchain Week 2019. Thanks for reading and please feel free to leave any comments you have about this update or Raiden and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

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Cheers!