Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 80. This week we’re focusing on upcoming events revolving Blockchain Week Berlin, the usual GitHub development progress and Grow Ethereum hackathon submissions. Let’s dive in!

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Raiden at Berlin Blockchain Week

Blockchain Week Berlin is a decentralized community-organized initiative focused on education in order to push mass adoption by providing first-hand information about the industry. From August 19th until August 28th countless crypto-related events will take place all over Berlin as a part of that. Raiden will be presenting at and/or sponsoring four events during the week: Layer 2 Meetup, ETHBerlin Opening Party, DappCon and ETHBerlinZwei.

The Layer 2 Meetup will bring together technology leaders of Layer 2 where they will discuss shared pains and gains in the development of second layer solutions. The event’s planned for the August 21st and the Raiden team will be represented by Dominik.

DappCon is a nonprofit global developer conference organized by Gnosis. It focuses on decentralized applications, tooling, and foundational infrastructure on Ethereum. At the event, Raiden will be represented on the stage twice, both times during the first day of the event (August 21st). First, Lefteris will share Raiden’s perspective during the panel titled “The road to scalability”. A couple hours later Lefteris will make a presentation on stage titled “Next stop Alderaan: Feature preview of Raiden's upcoming release”. Full agenda of the event can be found here while a link to livestreams will be shared as soon as they are available.

ETHBerlinZwei is a hackathon, a culture festival, an educational event, a platform for hacktivism, and a community initiative to push the decentralized ecosystem forward. The Raiden team decided to sponsor the event and offer 3 bounties to hackers. In preparation for the hackathon, the Raiden team released a blog post containing all the information hackers need to get started. Additionally, a Raiden workshop on the first day of the event is planned. Here attendees will have the opportunity to learn about Raiden's developer tools and how to build with Raiden.

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Development progress

Last week, the latest release under the codename Antifragile Crocodile was introduced. It’s a testnet release mostly fixing bugs since the previous release. Bug fixes included in the release can be found in the changelog while the most significant feature is a new minor version of the WebUI.

In terms of development progress, the development team focused on making further progress towards Alderaan milestone. Several minor bugs and issues in the test infrastructure were resolved in the Raiden client repository as a result. In the Raiden contracts repository, more Alderaan related issues were successfully resolved as well.

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Grow Ethereum hackathon submission

The deadline for the hackathon submissions closed on Thursday (15th). Here is a list of what developers submitted:

• Raiden-graphql - GraphQL interface to the Raiden Network
• Tip_raiden - A twitter bot for micro-payments using raiden network
• Raiden-api-client - A lightweight Raiden Network API TypeScript client to interact with a Raiden Network node
• Ez-raiden - A no-frills UI for interacting with the Raiden Payment Network
• Raiden-client-js - Lightweight, well-documented and clean Javascript client library for Raiden API, written in typescript.
• Raiden_py - Raiden Python Client Library
• Raiden-api-sdk - Server/Client side SDK for interacting with the Raiden API
• Raiden-client-python - Raiden API python client

As for the winners of the hack, that’ll be announced later this week and we’ll be including that in the next update.

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Conclusion

To wrap up this Weekly Update, it would have been fun to dive into each hack in more detail however, there’s quite a few this time! Please leave a comment if there’s one in particular you’re interested to learn more about. Event livestreams and information will be posted on /r/raidennetwork throughout the week so keep your eyes peeled. As always, thanks for reading and we’ll see you again next week.

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Cheers!