Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 165. This week we will check the latest edition of the Raiden Pulse and also we will do our standard coverage of the last week’s development progress. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden Pulse #16

Raiden Pulse is the official bimonthly update on the most important news related to the Raiden projects. The 16th edition covers a little bit of everything, from development updates to new research efforts and hackathons.

Development updates mostly include what we've been covering in the weekly updates over the past 2 months. Matrix transport layer refactoring in the Raiden client and the continuous development of the Raiden light client. More details on why exactly the refactoring was needed can be found in the article.

Other updates mentioned include introduction of the iBlockchain research project. iBlockchain is a joint research project investigating IoT micropayments. The project is a collaboration between brainbot, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, with Bosch and NXP as industry partners. The train demo is an example project that was developed as a part of the iBlockchain project.

Furthermore, the Raiden Pulse also announces that the Raiden team will be joining the Scaling Ethereum hackathon that takes place from April 16th to May 15th. The Scaling Ethereum hackathon is organized by ETHGlobal and the main focus will be different ways of scaling the Ethereum ecosystem. More information about the Raiden participation should be available soon!

These are just some of the most interesting updates shared in the article. To stay completely up to date with everything in the Raiden project we invite you to check it out. Link to the article is available here.

Development updates

The Raiden development team is tackling the same meta issues as they did over the last weeks.

Refactoring of the Matrix transport layer progressed very nicely and we can see that 8 out of 9 tasks which are part of the refactoring are successfully completed (link). Also, the newest member of the development team is slowly getting on-boarded to the project and soon we can expect him to be a great help in wrapping up the Bespin release.

The light client team is quite happy how the latest testnet release is looking and they decided to start working on mobile applications for the light client. Early research of what needs to be done in order to release the light client on the App Store and Google Play was already started.

Conclusion

This is all for this week. Development progress looks promising and the Raiden Pulse is full of very positive and interesting news for the Raiden project. We invite you to join our active community on Telegram and for any suggestions leave a comment.

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Cheers!

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