Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 88. For this week, we’ll be going over some of the preparations for the upcoming changes, the explorer and a recent repository addition. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden Explorer

The Raiden Explorer is a tool built by the Raiden team which can be used to track metrics of the Raiden Network in real-time. It provides accumulated data about the number of token networks, channels, participants, amount of tokens deposited inside the network and much more. Additionally, it also provides detailed information about every node and its channels which is used for the interactive network visualization. Links to all the most important Raiden related resources are provided as well.

Last week an updated design of the Raiden Explorer was released. The link to the Goerli testnet Raiden explorer is available here. If scroll through the token networks and are wondering where the Scenario Test Tokens and corresponding networks come from, they are token networks created by the Scenario Player (SP), the testing tool created by the development team which is used to simulate expected real-life scenarios while using Raiden.

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Development progress

The development team’s efforts to reach the Alderaan milestone goal were continued during the last week as well. Inside the Raiden Client, the repository development team focused on resolving issues discovered with the help of the scenario player tool, general improvements to small parts of the codebase, adjustments in mediation fee handling and internal testing.

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Conclusion

To finish up, for this week’s development on Raiden Network GitHub repositories we’ve seen the Raiden explorer improvements, a focus on preparations for the upcoming mainnet release (Alderaan) and integration of UX features required to go along with it. On a short community-related topic, we saw OpenDEX (implemented by XUD covered recently in #85) hold a talk. Kilian was also at the Lightning Conference. That’s it for this Weekly Update, as always, thank you for reading and please ask any questions that you’re curious about this update or Raiden Network overall and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

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Cheers!