Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 86. This week we’ll be focusing on the upcoming events in Japan and the usual GitHub development progress. There have been some new releases in a couple of important repositories, so let’s dig in!

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Raiden @ DevconV and Japan Blockchain Week

Devcon is the largest annual Ethereum ecosystem conference. It’s organized by the Ethereum foundation and this year’s fifth edition will be held in Osaka (Japan) between October 8th and October 11th. Raiden has been a part of every Devcon conference ever since Heiko Hees introduced the project during DEVCON1.

Members of the Raiden team will be attending the conference this year as well. There is no Raiden talk on the agenda yet, however, Raiden will be part of the state channel session which is currently scheduled for the first day of the conference. More details will be shared as soon as the agenda is updated.

If you will be attending the event and would like to meet the team and pick their brains about the project you will be able to find out their whereabouts by following the official twitter account.

Additionally, Raiden will participate in a meetup in Osaka on Sunday demoing the Raiden Light Client and will be part of the Layer 2 meetup Osaka on Wednesday joining a discussion round alongside many other layer 2 projects.

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Development progress

During the previous week, the development team focused on the remaining Alderaan related open issues. There has been a lot of activity across all the repositories.

New minor releases of the WebUI (v0.10.0) and Raiden contracts (v0.32.0) were introduced, significant parts of the specification have been updated, adjustments to the mediation fee calculation have been successfully implemented in the services repository while in the Raiden client repository dev team successfully resolved more than 15 Alderaan related open issues.

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Conclusion

To finish up this Weekly Update, keep a look out for the Raiden team if you’re attending Devcon this week. We’ll be sharing some information here and on community channels for those who are interested. Additionally, you can find a community created spreadsheet covering the entire event here (keep in mind the calendar changes automatically based on your local timezone). As always, thanks for reading and please leave a comment if there’s something you're wondering about this update or Raiden Network in general. See you next week.

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Cheers!