Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 90. This week we’ll be looking at the latest post on the Raiden blog, an EthRaspbian update and what it means for anyone considering running various nodes (L1 L2) and dApps. We’ll also go into the usual GitHub development activity. Let’s dig in!

Raiden Pulse #8

The eighth edition of Raiden Pulse covers all things Raiden from September and October.

In terms of development progress towards Alderaan milestone goal, most of the focus was dedicated to testing and bug fixing. Additionally, the article advises not to download the latest testnet Raiden client pre-release v0.200.0-rc1 “Aloof Alpaca” and instead recommends waiting for the next release which should be available very soon. The article also gives a short overview of all the events Raiden was represented at over the last two months, announces participation at Frankfurt Ethereum Meetup and welcomes the newest full-time team member, Talel.

The full article is available on the official Medium blog and contains more useful information so we encourage you to check it out!

EthRaspbian

EthRaspbian is a custom Linux image for the Raspberry Pi 4 that automatically turns the device into a full Ethereum node. The image includes a number of the Ethereum ecosystem components such as Trinity, Status.im, Raiden, IPFS, Swarm and Vipnode as well as initial support for Eth2.0 clients.

The Raiden version included in the image is the latest release candidate binary 0.200.0-rc1. Complete overview of the image including feature list, hardware requirements and install instructions can be found here.

Development progress

During the last week, the development team continued working towards reaching the Alderaan milestone goal. As a result, several hard to identify bugs that were discovered during internal testing were successfully resolved.

The issue related to correct fee calculation was fixed by using the fraction python library which can handle arithmetic operations with big integer numbers correctly. A number of small improvements to parts of code working with Matrix transport ensured more reliable handling of mediating transfers.

The developers working on the Raiden light client continued with active development of new features resulting in more than 30 new pull requests merged and 11 issues closed, the goal being (amongst others) to make the light client fully compatible with the Alderaan contracts and new features included in Alderaan (e.g. pathfinding).

Conclusion

To wrap up, this week has been quite a broad coverage since there were a few things to get through. Additionally for those that haven’t seen it yet, recently we’ve been working on organizing a few things to help the Raiden community stay more up to date. Blockfolio Signal is a place where we can help the community to be more up to date on all things Raiden Network, alongside many other projects. Thank you for reading and a special thanks to Franzi who assisted in the verification process for Blockfolio Signal and helped make it possible. Don’t forget to leave a comment if there’s anything more you’d like to know and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

Cheers!