Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 85. Looking forward to another update with some content focusing on Raiden and wider community contributions. Also, the usual more specific GitHub development progress will be covered. Let’s dive in!

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Community

For this update, we want to get a bit into about some of the exciting things that have been encountered in regard to community involvement. As a decentralized project, Raiden Network can symbiotically reap the benefits of anyone wanting to use test the tech. Given there’s the consensus and support that it’s a good contribution, it can be included. There’s recently been some testing and opened issues from the Raiden community that have been either solved or clarified, particularly in the light-client repo, which is encouraging to see.

The Exchange Union team just this week have published the First-ever off-chain BTC/DAI Atomic Swap, this accomplishment was carried out using the Lightning and Raiden Network. This was achieved with a lot of hard work by the Exchange Union team working on XUD, especially Kilian Rausch who’s regularly participating in the Raiden GitHub repo to help it come together, and in addition to the collaboration between the two teams helping one another simultaneously improving each project.

There are lots more examples like these throughout the open-source community so it’s exciting to see it growing here. It might be difficult to get a sense of the huge amount of work going into the development of projects without digging into the individual repositories so /u/Mat7ias created an updated visualisation of commits.

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Development progress

Last week, the dev team focused on open issues inside the Alderaan milestone goal. Most of the development activity occurred within the Raiden client repository. As a result, a significant amount of open issues were resolved while many more are in progress or waiting for final review.

Correct handling and calculation of mediation fees are one of the biggest tasks dev team successfully resolved. Additionally, they worked on performance upgrades and optimizations, testing infrastructure and documentation.

In parallel to working on code, a lot of effort is put into exhaustive internal testing. It is positive to see that very few bugs are discovered in the process.

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Conclusion

In conclusion to this Weekly Update, looking over the community we’ve seen some great contributions. In open-source it’s always interesting to see what people come up with to use and improve the tech. Don’t forget that Devcon5 is coming up soon, only two more Weekly Updates until then! Thanks for reading and please leave a comment about anything in this update or Raiden in general and we’ll get back to you.

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Cheers!