Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 89. For this update, we’ll be covering some things in relation to Raiden Trust to make sure you guys don’t miss anything. We’ll also be going over the usual summary GitHub activity. Let’s dive in!

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The Raiden Trust

The Raiden Trust manages the Raiden Network grant programme and its mission is to strengthen and foster the greater Raiden ecosystem by supporting projects and individuals working on complementary, foundational components or applications that help to build and grow the Raiden Network.

This means that any individual or team who has an interesting idea on how to improve the Raiden ecosystem has the opportunity to seek help in bringing those ideas to life. The first submission window closed on August 31st and all grant applications submitted before this date will be reviewed at the latest by October 30th. The results should be announced soon after.

We are looking forward to seeing what challenges and opportunities projects from the first wave aim to tackle. As soon as more information is available it will be shared. If you have an interesting idea related to Raiden and need help in realizing it, each wave of applications opens soon after the current one finishes, so make sure to follow the official Raiden Trust twitter account to stay up to date.

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Development progress

The development team continued working on open Alderaan related issues. Last week a significant effort was dedicated towards internal testing and identifying and fixing the root cause of several hard to reproduce issues. Additionally, the development team worked on minor improvements (such as Raiden Services communication), refactoring and documentation.

There has been a lot of activity in the Raiden light client repository. Developers focusing on the light client have both worked on user experience improvements and new features.

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Conclusion

In conclusion to this Weekly Update, the first wave of Raiden Trust grants will be reviewed before the end of this week. On the development side of things, it’s been mostly a focus on the next mainnet release and making sure everything is ready. As always, thanks for reading and if you have any questions about this update or Raiden Network overall don’t hesitate to ask and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

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Cheers!