Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 87. This week will be a dual-weekly update, the stars didn’t align last week with the busy-ness surrounding Devcon so we’ve combined all the resources during the last two weeks into a larger update. There’s been quite a lot going on, we have lots more information to go over related Devcon 5 and our usual Github coverage. Let’s dive in!

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Raiden in Japan

As it was announced in the previous weekly update, the Raiden team participated in several events in Japan during the last week. The main event of the week was Devcon 5, while a number of smaller community organised meetups were on the agenda as well.

On Sunday, October 6th, the Raiden team participated at the event titled “Demo time at the mystery box!” alongside Gnosis Safe and Trustlines Network. At the event, each project demonstrated part of their tech and answered questions from the audience, giving out some swag and networking. The focus of Raiden's presentation was the Raiden light client.

Next on the agenda was State Channel Summit which was part of the Devcon 5. The summit was organized by L4 and featured Connext, Perun, Celer, Funfair, Magmo, Counterfactual and Raiden. In other words, a significant part of the projects in Ethereum space working on different state channel implementations. Raiden was represented by Augusto and Franziska.The talk focused on UX and system design challenges in payment channel networks and how Raiden is tackling those. Franzi’s part focused on the challenges on the user experience side and solution approaches while Augusto outlined Raiden’s core design principles, several architectural design dilemmas and how Raiden tackles those. We hope to get the video recording of the session soon!

The last event the Raiden team participated in during their visit to Japan was Layer 2 Meetup: Osaka Edition. The goal of the event was to bring technology leaders of Layer 2 solutions together to discuss the shared pains and gains in the development of second layer solutions. There were 15 speakers confirmed in the final agenda where topics covered everything from scalability to interoperability and more. Raiden was officially represented by Lefteris while other members of the team were part of the crowd.

All in all, a very interesting and eventful week in Osaka over and done with for the Raiden team. As videos from the events and other relevant content gets uploaded we will share it, so stay tuned!

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Development progress

Since the last weekly update, the Raiden development team continued their efforts towards reaching the Alderaan development goal.

A significant effort has been given to internal protocol testing with the help of the scenario player and fixing issues found in the process. As a result, several issues with mediation fees handling were discovered and resolved. A new minor release of the light client has been introduced under the codename Red Eyes Asleep. It includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes.

In addition to internal testing, the development team is in the process of updating all of the remaining documentation to be up-to-date with the code.

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Conclusion

To conclude this Weekly Update, being the largest event of the year Devcon is always an action-packed week. There’s been a lot to include over the past two weeks and we’ve also created a more general Layer 2 Devcon guide help keep the Raiden community updated on relevant information. As always, thanks for reading and please leave a comment if there’s anything related to this update or Raiden Network in general that you’re curious about.

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Cheers!