Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 100. We’ve made it to a full century of the Weekly Update and the plan is to keep going until we run out of numbers to count with. This week we’ll be focusing on the latest Raiden Pulse update and our usual GitHub coverage. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden Pulse #9

The Raiden Pulse is a bi-monthly official update on the most important events related to the Raiden Network project. The ninth edition, covering the last two months of the year 2019, was released last week.

As you probably know, if you’ve been following the Weekly Update, the Raiden team is completely focused on testing and fixing the remaining known bugs in order to reach the Alderaan milestone goal. Significant progress has been made since the last release candidate of the Raiden client (“Narcoleptic Neo”) and some of the major improvements have been added to the code since then. The new release, which will include all those improvements, should be ready soon.

Furthermore, the Raiden Trust has finished reviewing its first batch of applications and we can expect more information about it in the near future.

The update is wrapped up with a short overview of the short term plans. In addition to continuing to work on reaching the Alderaan milestone goal, the team is looking for interesting hackathons to participate in and hope to see a lot of cool things being hacked on Raiden.

The complete article can be found here and we encourage you to check it out so you don’t miss anything.

Development progress

The first week after the holiday season we saw development activity going through the roof. Weekly Github pulse of the Raiden client repository shows that the Raiden development team worked on more than 40 different issues and merged almost as many new changes to the code.

In parallel to working on speeding up communication with the transport layer (slow communication between the Raiden client and Matrix is believed to be the source of a number of bugs), the development team improved other parts of the codebase as well. For example, thanks to the improvements of the connection manager, nodes will no longer open channels with nodes that are offline. This change will lead to improving the user experience when joining a new token network.

In the upcoming week, we can expect the development team to continue working full steam ahead towards the Alderaan development milestone goal.

Conclusion

To wrap up Weekly Update 100. This update we’ve looked at the information contained within the Raiden Pulse and the team has dived straight back into development, with the holiday season over. Coincidentally, the 100th Weekly Update came on the same week as the Raiden repository surpassed the milestone of 10,000 commits. If you have any questions about this update or Raiden Network in general then feel free to leave a comment. Thanks for the support and as usual, we’ll see you next week.

Cheers!