Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 119. This week we’re excited to cover the development progress leading up to Alderaan, there’s been some very interesting development on that front so let’s dive in!

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Development progress

In terms of development progress there are a couple of very nice updates from the last week.

The first update we have for you is that the Raiden development team started the process of creating the Alderaan release. Currently, the Alderaan ready smart contracts have been deployed on the Ethereum mainnet and the Raiden Service Bundle Alderaan release was also introduced. The primary components being focused on in order for the release to go ahead are: Raiden client, Raiden wizard and the Raiden explorer.

The Raiden Wizard refactoring is close to completion. Most of the tasks that the development team had planned were successfully implemented. The only major task left open is making sure the documentation is up to date with all the changes made during the refactoring.

Our second update is that a new Alderaan release candidate of the Raiden client was released. The Plumbus release will be used by the development team to continue their testing on the Ethereum mainnet. In general, apart from testing, most of the remaining open tasks are related to updating the documentation for the Alderaan release.

We would like to point out that the completion of the Alderaan release greatly depends on the success of the tests with the Plumbus release. In case serious issues are discovered during the testing process, the Alderaan release will have to be postponed until those issues are resolved.

Conclusion

To wrap up this Weekly Update, we’ve seen the team focus on getting the Alderaan release ready. We hope that with the Plumbus release, we can progress into a successful Alderaan release. If that is the case then we could expect the Alderaan release relatively soon. That’s everything we have to cover for this week, if you have any questions about this Weekly Update or Raiden Network in general then feel free to leave a comment and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

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Cheers!