Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 112. Similar to much of the world, the Ethereum ecosystem has moved to be primarily online. This week we’ll be focusing on the online Ethereum event this week, NONCON, which the Raiden team participated in virtually. We’ll also go into our usual Github coverage of progress. Let’s dive in!

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Raiden at NONCON2020

NonCon 2020 is a virtual, Ethereum related event which took place over the past weekend. Raiden, on top of actively participating, was also one of the proud sponsors of the event.

The event brought together 71 speakers, including Jacob from the Raiden’s development team, who has been working on the project for approximately 4 years (i.e. since the beginning). Jacob started his presentation with a short introduction to the Raiden network and key concepts of the underlying Raiden protocol. Later on, he focused on challenges Raiden team is facing (e.g. user experience challenges) in the development and their approach to addressing such challenges. The video of Jacob's presentation can be found here as well as all the other presentations from the event.

Noncon 2020 is a continuation of the Ethereum community efforts in moving conferences and meetups from the real world to the virtual space. It is interesting to see all the creative attempts community members are coming up with in approaching this challenge.

Development progress

After a successful release of the third release candidate for the Alderaan mainnet release, the Raiden development team has been fully committed to in-depth testing and addressing all of the issues discovered in the process. Currently, most of the testing is done on the Gorli testnet, however, the team plans to begin testing on the Ethereum mainnet in the near future.

Parallel to testing, the team also plans to check and update all the corresponding documentation.

Conclusion

That’s everything we have for you for this week’s update. In case you missed it, an exciting and notable part of the presentation that Jacob brought up is that for the Light Client they aim to have more or less the same functionality of the Python client of Raiden, and that they’re working on a PoC that can both mediate and receive payments. So there’s many more interesting things to come in the world of Raiden. If you’d like to know more about anything brought up in this Weekly Update or just Raiden 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!