Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 108. This week we’ll be looking at conferences, both recent and upcoming. For the most recent event we’ll be covering EthCC. For an upcoming event, mentioned this week, the Raiden team will be attending NonCon in April. We’ll be covering our usual GitHub progress in addition. Let’s get into it!

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Raiden @ ETHCC

In case you missed it, Jacob and Kelsos were at ETHCC representing Raiden last week. For more general information on the conference and a small overview of the previous years, you can checkout the last week’s weekly update.

The conference lasted 3 days and on the third day the Raiden workshop was on the agenda. Considering the early time slot (by crypto standards) that the workshop was scheduled at, the turn up was quite good.

During the workshop both the Raiden client and the Raiden light client were showcased with emphasis on the new features offered by the light client.

The “Re-generate account” feature which utilizes the derived subkey in order to bypass the need to sign every message, while using the light client, was demonstrated. This feature was experimentally exposed in the latest light client release from two weeks ago and it is great that the Raiden team got some real world feedback on it. Second cool feature demonstrated during the workshop is the Raiden light client on mobile phones. With the latest improvements, using a Raiden light client on mobile devices through metamask is a breeze.

Unfortunately the workshop wasn’t recorded but you can still try all the light client features using a web3 supported browser here.

Development progress

In terms of development progress, the development team was mostly focused on fixing bugs and improving the test infrastructure.

It was decided that the scenario player needs some refactoring in order to make running scenarios simpler and more reliable. Refactoring will include removing microservice architecture and improved process management. In parallel, developers also made improvements to the stress test and fixed several bugs.

Conclusion

To finish up this Weekly Update, the Raiden team showcased the exciting progress made within the light client. As always if there’s anything more you want to learn regarding this update or Raiden Network in general, then leave a comment and we’ll get back to you the best we can! See you next week.

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Cheers