Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 164. This week we will take a look at the new Raiden light client testnet release and we will also cover development progress in the other Raiden project repositories. Let’s dig in!

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Testnet Release - v0.16.0 - The Supreme Archer

After almost 3 months of dedicated development and the Chris release, the Raiden development team introduced v0.16.0 - The Supreme Archer testnet release last week.

The most significant new features include mediation fee support (both flat and proportional), initial sync optimizations, the user_deposit endpoint and general improvements to the transport layer and dApp. If you are not familiar with the mediation fees you can learn all about it here while the user_deposit endpoint allows users to interact with the UDC (more info about UDC can be found here).

If you would like to try out the latest version of the light client yourself you can do so by visiting https://lightclient.raiden.network.

Development progress

Other development updates include more improvements to the Matrix transport layer in the Raiden client repository, UDC support in the WebUI and general cleanup of all dependencies across all repositories.

Conclusion

This is all for this week. The new light client release brings new core features of the Raiden protocol to the light client while the full client requires additional work before it is ready for the next mainnet release Bespin. For any additional questions leave a comment and join our community on Telegram!

Cheers!

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