Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 103. This week we’ll be going into some development in the wider Raiden community as well as looking at utilized testing tools for the Raiden client. We can expect mostly heads-down development and GitHub coverage in the month of February with the next event coming up being EthCC, so let’s dive in!

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Raiden community - Hub20

While the Raiden development team is focused on resolving open issues inside the Alderaan milestone goal, several projects have already started building on top of the technology Raiden provides. A couple of weeks ago we covered the progress and beta release of the Exchange Union and this week we will check out an interesting idea behind Hub20.

Hub20 aims to provide a self-hosted online payment solution for Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens. Key features it provides is an option of using custodial wallets for managing funds and Raiden integration. Raiden integration enables users who are running Raiden nodes to accept and send payments of ERC20 tokens with near-zero fees and latency.

The project is in the early stages of development and open source. We’ve been following some of the development progress closely since the repository was initially made public. This week the project worked on the handling of event data. We’re looking forward to covering future development.

Development progress

The Raiden development team continued working towards the Alderaan milestone goal. In order to help them better understand the root cause of the remaining open issues, the development team members working on the Raiden client decided to utilize additional profiling tools, expand logging and improve testing infrastructure. This revealed several bugs that will be in focus during the upcoming week.

Optimizing matrix usage and improving documentation were the highest priority tasks inside the light client repository.

Conclusion

That’s everything for the first Weekly Update of February. In terms of events coming up, the next one will be EthCC in March (3rd - 5th), mentioned in the latest Raiden Pulse (#9). Make sure to check out the agenda and tickets available on the EthCC website if you’re thinking of attending. If you have any questions regarding this update or Raiden Network in general then don’t hesitate to leave a comment and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

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Cheers!