Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 126. In this update we’re celebrating a dozen of Raiden Pulses (2 years!) so we’ll do a summary of that and also of the recent Raiden Trust update. Of course, we will go over our usual GitHub development update as well. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden Pulse #12

In the past 2 months, a lot of exciting Raiden related things have happened, especially in terms of the development progress. The twelfth edition of the Raiden Pulse covers all the most important development updates and much more.

The highlight of the past 2 months is the Alderaan mainnet release while the current development efforts include work on the Alderaan version of the Raiden light client and the participation in “The Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off”. For complete coverage of all things Raiden make sure to check the Raiden Pulse #12.

Raiden Trust Update - Hub20

The Raiden Trust is the Raiden project’s grant program introduced at the beginning of the token launch. The external development fund is on a mission to strengthen the Raiden Network ecosystem by providing funding and advice. Last week they introduced their second grantee - Hub20.

Hub20 is essentially an open source, self-hosted payment gateway solution with Raiden integration. Details about the grant can be found in the corresponding medium article and if you are interested in Hub20, you can find additional info by checking out the Hub20 documentation.

Development progress

The Raiden development team is in parallel working on 2 major development goals: the Alderaan version of the Raiden light client and The Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off.

As it was announced in the Reddit post announcing participation in the Scaling Bake-Off, most of the new features and changes are made in a separate repository while smaller tweaks are introduced to the main repositories. Based on the changes we can see, it is hard to say what exactly the Raiden team is working on so we will have to wait for the demo.

In the Raiden light client repository, developers were working on mainnet smoke tests and the withdraw functionality.

Conclusion

To finish up this Weekly Update we’re happy to see Hub20 being supported by the Raiden Trust and working on making it easier to join the Raiden Network. Don’t forget to read up on the Raiden Pulse if you’re interested to see more about what the team has been up to. Leave a comment if there’s anything you're more curious about from this update or just Raiden in general, we love comments. <3

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Cheers!