Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 109. I hope everyone is staying safe with the recent world events! For this update we’ll be summarizing the Raiden Pulse that came out last week and going into our usual GitHub development. Let’s get into it!

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Raiden Pulse #10

Raiden Pulse, the official bi-monthly update on all things Raiden, reached a small milestone last week. The 10th edition covers overall development progress, product updates, event participation, and more from the first two months of 2020.

In terms of the development updates, the article covers the dev team’s efforts in fixing issues related to the Matrix transport layer in the Raiden client and the great progress in the light client’s development.

Furthermore, we are updated on changes in the Raiden team. Rakan, Franzi and Lefteris will no longer contribute to the project, while Kamal filled the role of project manager. Management is actively looking for candidates to fill the newly opened positions.

The link to the Raiden Pulse article can be found here. It’s a great resource for bringing you up to speed with everything Raiden related in 5 minutes.

Development progress

The focus of the last week was the scenario player. Significant parts of the scenario player were refactored. The main goal of the refactoring was removing the transaction server, which was successfully completed. Refactoring significantly simplified the code while making it more reliable and better at detecting bugs.

The great news is that Matrix servers were updated to work in “split mode” and initial tests show Raiden client works with them without issues. Split mode offers a significant performance boost and the dev team dedicated a lot of effort in making Raiden client compatible with it.

Conclusion

To wrap up this Weekly Update, the milestone of the 10th Raiden Pulse is behind us. In terms of development, we’ve seen some refactoring of the code and Matrix related improvements. Also, the next event the Raiden team will attend (NonCon) decided to switch to an online format. As always, thanks for reading. If you have any questions regarding this Weekly Update or Raiden Network in general then please leave a comment and we’ll get back to you the best we can, otherwise, we will see you next week.

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Cheers!