Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 161. This week we will continue to follow the latest updates from the Raiden Network GitHub repository. Let’s dig in!

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Development progress

Refactoring of the Matrix transport layer continued in the Raiden client repository. Handling presence in the internal state was successfully removed and the development team continued making changes. They worked on removing more user presence by handling and upgrading the Matrix package to the latest version which resolves some of the issues with the database communication Raiden client experienced previously. Since last week the latest member of the Raiden development team started contributing. Fernando is an experienced Python developer and will mostly be working on the Raiden client.

While the client team is tackling the Matrix issues, the light client team is pushing towards more features. In addition to working on test infrastructure and manual testing, they are planning out a mobile version of the light client dApp. How it currently looks can be seen in the comments of this GitHub issue.

Conclusion

This is all for this week. The Raiden protocol development and the technical difficulties are currently the highest priorities for the devs. It might be not the most exciting thing to follow, but it is a great contribution to the bright future of the project. Close collaboration with the Matrix development team is still ongoing and additional developers are being onboarded. Thank you for your continued support and if you have any questions, please reach out!

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Cheers!

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