Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 117. This week we’ll be summarizing the bi-monthly Raiden Pulse that just came out and going over the usual GitHub activity. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden Pulse #11

Raiden Pulse is the official bi-monthly summary of all things Raiden. The 11th edition provides a very high-level coverage on what the Raiden team has been up to in the last two months.

To summarize, March and April were (almost) all about the development progress towards the Alderaan mainnet. The article provides more details on how the testing of the release candidates moved to the Ethereum mainnet and what the development team is currently focusing on. Furthermore, you can also find the updates on the Raiden Trust and the links to all the events the Raiden team participated in during the last two months.

Development progress

The Raiden development team continued progress towards the next release candidate and the Alderaan development milestone goal.

In the Raiden client repository, the main focus was towards investigating and adjusting the client’s communication with the Ethereum chain on the mainnet. The Raiden team is striving to ensure that the Raiden client can work reliably in the case of chain congestion, high gas prices and chain reorganizations.

Refactoring of the Raiden Wizard continued and on top of introducing a number of new changes, the development team organized the internal testing in order to collect more feedback.

The current developers working on the Raiden Light Client created a new testnet release. This release introduces monitoring service integration and mediated transfers as the experimental features. The full changelog is available here while you can try out the release by yourself by following this link.

Conclusion

To wrap up this Weekly Update, we’ve covered the Raiden Pulse and there have been notable development improvements that will benefit the Alderaan release once it’s ready. Additionally, the team focused on some experimental additions to the Light Client. That’s all we have for you for this update, if you have any questions about this update or want to learn more about the Raiden Network, please leave a comment and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

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Cheers!