Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 83. This week, we’ll be covering material from the most recent Raiden Pulse. We’ll also go back for content made available this week from DAPPCON and look out how things have been going in the GitHub world. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden Pulse #7

The Raiden Pulse is an official bi-monthly update on all things Raiden. Last week, the newest edition covering the most significant events and development updates in the months of July and August was released.

The update begins with a short overview of the Alderaan milestone. According to the update, Alderaan will be the first integrated mainnet release coming with a service layer (monitoring and pathfinding service) and recently added new features (channel withdraw, source routing, mediation fees). Currently, the development team is dedicated to extensive integration testing (integrated client with services) using the scenario player, testing infrastructure and manual tests in preparation for Alderaan.

In addition to the short update on the progress of the Alderaan milestone, the article goes over the general updates, Raiden Wizard, Gitcoin hackathon participation and events the Raiden team participated at and is preparing for.

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DAPPCON 2019: Panel - The Road to Scalability

DAPPCON 2019, “the developer conference for Ethereum Dapps and Infrastructure”, took place two weeks ago. Raiden contributed by participating in a panel as well as giving a talk. Even though this event wasn’t live-streamed, you can now catch up by watching most of the talk and panel recordings on youtube..

The Road to Scalability panel brought together members of various projects working on scaling Ethereum, one of which was Raiden’s Lefteris. The full video is uploaded and be found here. Some of the topics discussed during the panel were:

• Huge importance of UX when it comes to the L2 solutions
• Pulling events and reliance on L1, keeping in mind that L1 isn't always working properly (relevant timestamp)
• Lefteris emphasizes we have to help L1 to make it stable enough as L2 depends on it

We believe the side-chain stage talks are going to be uploaded this week so we should be able to cover the “Next stop Alderann: Feature preview of Raiden's upcoming release” talk in the next Weekly Update.

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Development progress

The development team continued working towards Alderaan milestone. In the Raiden Client repository defining defaults for values such as PFS and MS fees and fixing bugs discovered during internal testing were in focus. Developers dedicated to Raiden contracts worked on expanding testing infrastructure with tests that cover Alderaan related features. In addition to working on code, significant effort has been made in updating and expanding the documentation.

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Conclusion

To wrap up, this Weekly Update includes some of the new details on the Alderaan release and what we can expect from it. Soon we’ll be going over more content from DAPPCON. If you haven’t had a chance to watch the scalability panel we’d recommend it. As a blast from the past, you can also find last year’s panel here. Thanks for reading and please leave a comment if there’s anything you’re interested in and we’ll get back to you the best we can. See you next time.

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Cheers!