Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 116. For this update, we’ll be covering primarily development progress and improvements to UX looking at the Raiden Wizard. Let’s dive in!

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Development progress

The developers working on the Raiden client committed the last week to manual testing of the latest release candidate - “last_jedi”. Thus far there have been no significant new issues discovered in the process, taken into account that some minor old known issue related to the correct handling of the pruned blocks was successfully resolved.

The Scenario player is currently not used to execute scenario runs on the Ethereum mainnet. It is missing functionality to reclaim all ERC-20 tokens used in scenarios after a scenario run. Implementation of the missing functionality is in-progress and Scenario player should be ready for the mainnet testing soon.

In order to make the upcoming Alderaan release easily accessible to the wider audience, the dev team decided to revisit the old implementation of the Raiden Wizard and expand its features. It is planned for the Raiden Wizard to support users during the complete process of setting up and running the latest version of the Raiden client.

Lastly, rapid development progress continues in the Raiden light client repository. The big feature merged within the last week is monitoring services integration. Additionally, a number of smaller improvements to the Raiden dApp were successfully completed as well.

Conclusion

To finish up this Weekly Update, this week in the Raiden world we focused mostly on development and testing the new Release Client. Due to the flexibility within the Raiden client, naturally, it can be run on mainnet already however the team recommends to only run the release candidates on testnet. If you have any questions about this update or just want to know more about the Raiden Network in general, then 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!