Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 110. For this week’s update, we’ll be diving into how the wider Ethereum community is getting accustomed to the climate of real-life events. We hope that everyone is staying safe during this time. Let’s dig into the events of this week!

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ETHVR0

Since the COVID-19 outbreak and the current climate that needs to be taken into account by active projects, many Ethereum related events have either been delayed or canceled. The community didn’t take that lightly, and in turn, many have looked towards safe alternatives for their beloved conferences and meetups. One such attempt is ETHVR, An Ethereum meetup entirely in VR (virtual reality).

Last Sunday, the first ETHVR meetup took place under the name ETHVR0. Five speakers presented their projects, one of which was Jacob presenting Raiden. In his presentation, Jacob gave a short overview of what Raiden is, what problems it solves and gave updates on the latest development progress.

The event was recorded and you can find the video here (Jacob’s presentation starts around 0:48). We can expect more such events in the future. The first big one coming relatively soon is NonCon 2020 where Jacob will make a presentation about L2 scaling and Raiden.

Development progress

The development team continued working towards the next release candidate. Most of the issues related to the testing infrastructure and the scenario player were successfully resolved. In parallel, developers also worked on updating geth and parity packages to the latest versions inside the Raiden client.

Interesting news comes from the weekly planning session. As we can see in the goals for the upcoming week, the Raiden dev team aims to make a release candidate for all the projects. After a successful release, they plan to execute their test plan on the Gorli testnet. It is important to remember that there is a chance it will have to be delayed due to something unexpected. However, we are very close to the next release candidate and we can expect it soon.

Conclusion

To finish up this week of events, getting accustomed to this week's change of climate that’s impacted us all has also impacted the Raiden project. We’re excited that they’re moving forward regardless with events such as the VR event. If you have any questions about this Weekly Update or Raiden Network in general then please don’t hesitate to ask. We will see you next week.

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Cheers!