Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 107. This week we’re looking forward to following the events at Ethereum Community Conference 3, there’ll be a wide range of topics including scalability, security, privacy, etc. In terms of GitHub development, this week the team has focused on fixing the most pressing Scenario Player issues.

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Raiden @ EthCC

The Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) is described by the organizers as the largest annual European Ethereum event focused on technology and community. The third edition of the conference will take place in Paris between March 3rd and 5th.

This will be the third time Raiden participates at the event. The first year Lefteris gave a short overview on what Raiden is about (link), while last year Franziska provided an update on the development progress and Paul explained the role of auxiliary services in the Raiden protocol (link).

The plan for this year is a little different. Instead of making a presentation on stage, the Raiden team decided to organize a workshop where the goal is to showcase both the Raiden client and the Raiden light client. Furthermore, workshop attendees will be introduced to the resources of the new developer portal, will be given a short overview of how Raiden works and will be provided with everything they need to get started quickly. The members of the Raiden team in charge of the workshop will be Jacob and Kelsos.

We will be closely following events at the EthCC and will share with the community all the relevant links and resources as they become available.

Development progress

Progress towards the Alderaan development milestone goal continued.

In the Raiden client repository devs focused on finishing up tasks that were started some time in the past which had remained due to change in priorities. As a result, more than 10 such tasks were successfully completed. Another important feature the devs worked on during the last week was enabling split mode in the Matrix servers. Running Matrix servers in split mode offers a performance boost and devs aim for the Raiden client to be compatible with such servers.

Devs working on the Raiden light client successfully made a new testnet release with codename Crescendo (v0.4.0). Crescendo introduces several bug fixes and improvements for the UX, performance, protocol compliance and testing. The derived subkey feature is exposed experimentally, this feature bypasses the need for constant message signing while using the light client. Lastly, everything was tested to make sure it is ready for the EthCC workshop.

Conclusion

That’s everything for this Weekly Update, we’ve seen some exciting features be added in the Light Client release, Crescendo. If you’re interested to test out the progress you can go here to the Raiden dApp reference implementation! We’re going to keep an eye out for if any interesting livestreams become available for EthCC. If you have any questions about this Weekly Update or Raiden Network overall then don’t hesitate to leave a comment and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

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Cheers!