Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 78. For this week’s update we’ll be covering the newly released Raiden Wizard, the latest Raiden version update, online hackathon and the usual overall github development progress. Let's dive in!

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Grow Ethereum Hackathon

After a successful participation at the Beyond Blockchain virtual hackathon, the Raiden team decided to join the latest hackathon organized by Gitcoin, Grow Ethereum.

The Raiden team once again prepared three very interesting tasks with varying flexibility. This time the hackers can choose between designing and building a new Raiden user interface, coding a Raiden client library in the programming language of choice or submitting their very own idea for a use case or enhancement featuring Raiden in the open / build whatever you like bounty.

The deadline for submitting hacks is August 15th. Several hackers have already started working and it will be very interesting to see the results, especially in BWYL (Build What You Like) category. Here’s a short curated list of the hack if you’re interested in more info!

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Raiden v0.100.5-dev0 - GANDALF2000

Last week, the Raiden team released a new testnet release of the Raiden client under the codename GANDALF2000. The release contains a number of important bug fixes which the dev team have been working on since the highfiveghost release as well as the updated WebUI which supports the latest features such as channel withdraw and token minting.

In addition to the release, the latest on-boarding tool was introduced as well. The Raiden Wizard enables users to install Raiden and connect to the Gorli testnet in 3 easy steps. The installation guide and explanation of how the Raiden Wizard works can be found in the corresponding medium article.

We invite everyone interested to try the Raiden Wizard and provide feedback. If you have any trouble installing Raiden or have any additional questions please leave a comment on this post or join the official Gitter chat.

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Development progress

In parallel to preparing everything for the successful release of the GANDALF2000, the Raiden dev team focused on addressing some of the remaining open issues on the path towards Ithaca milestone.

Currently internal testing, bug fixing and improvements of the test infrastructure are the highest priorities in the Raiden client repository. The developers primarily working on Raiden Services focused on a few of the remaining unresolved bugs, code and infrastructure optimizations.

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Conclusion

In conclusion to this week's,

Don't forget you can also try out some of the light client improvements and reference dApp implementation live. As always, leave a comment if there's something you'd like clarification on with this update or Raiden in general and we'll get back to you the best we can Otherwise see you next week.

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Cheers!