Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 123. For this week we’ll be checking out the team’s participation in the latest Gitcoin hackathon and what the latest release means for those running the Raiden client. Let’s dig in!

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Protect privacy Gitcoin hackathon

The Protect privacy hackathon is the latest virtual hackathon organized by Gitcoin. It began last Monday (June 15th) and hackers have 3 weeks to work on their submissions. The Raiden project is participating as a contributor to the hackathon with 2 interesting bounties.

The first bounty is looking for hacks which will improve the privacy in Raiden on-chain interactions by utilizing existing tools. Currently one team is working on this bounty and they will try to improve Raiden’s privacy by using zero-knowledge proofs. The second bounty challenges hackers to come up with a way to improve privacy of payments within Raiden itself. It also currently has one team working on the submission and they’ve described their submission with “PKI for administering certificates for websites”.

In order to help hackers get familiar with Raiden and to answer any potential questions, the Raiden team organized a workshop on the second day of the hackathon. If you missed it don’t worry, the workshop was video recorded and published online (link) while for any questions you can refer to the gitter dev chat. There is still more than enough time to make a great submission, and everyone is welcome to join.

Raiden v1.1.0 - “Alderaan - The Sun Prince”

The Sun Prince is the first update since the Alderaan release. It introduces features which weren’t ready in time for the Alderaan release and several bug fixes.

The most significant new feature is the completely refreshed WebUI. The new WebUI is much more user friendly and offers better insight and control over the Raiden node. Bug fixes include better handling of dependencies and small fixes to the Matrix transport and services.

If you are already running a Raiden node, updating should be pretty straight forward. All you have to do is download the latest release, paste it over the previous version and run it with the same command you used to run the previous version. New users can find the updated Raiden Wizard here.

Development progress

Apart from wrapping up “The Sun Prince” and releasing it, during the last week the development team was also working on fixes and features for the future releases.

Such a high priority feature currently being worked on is the WebRTC support in the Raiden client while fixes and optimizations are mostly targeting Raiden’s testing infrastructure.

Conclusion

To wrap up, for this Weekly Update we’ve seen the team work on integrating the flashy new Web User Interface along with participating in and sponsoring Gitcoin’s latest hackathon. We encourage anyone reading to check it out! If you have any questions about this Weekly Update or 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!