Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 102. This week we’ll be covering GitHub development such as synchronization improvements and smart contract upgrades. Let’s dig in!

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Development progress

Last week the development team continued working towards reaching the Alderaan milestone goal. Significant progress has been made in better understanding and resolving issues related to slow synchronization between the Raiden client and the Matrix transport layer.

Additionally, the development team also worked on several optimizations inside the Raiden client such as improved handling of protocol messages and optimizing the number of threads created by the Raiden client.

The Raiden smart contracts have been upgraded to the new version and the rest of the projects (Raiden client, services and the light client) were updated to use the newest release, v0.35.0.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the week’s development focused primarily on synchronization improvements, smart contract upgrades and getting ready for Alderaan. If you’re new to Raiden, then just a reminder to check out the revised docs 2.0 which are continuously extended with tutorials and walkthroughs. That’s it for this Weekly Update. If you have any questions regarding the content or Raiden Network and Layer 2 scaling in general then don’t hesitate to leave a comment and we’ll get back to you the best we can. See you next week.

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Cheers!