Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 166. This week we will take a dive into the Raiden team’s participation at the Scaling Ethereum hackathon and do our standard coverage of the development progress. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden @ Scaling Ethereum hackathon

Scaling Ethereum hackathon is the latest hackathon in the ETHGlobal series. It is an online event which focuses on different scaling technologies in the Ethereum ecosystem. The Raiden team is one of the sponsors of the event. In order to help hackers out in hacking on top of Raiden, the Raiden development team organized a workshop and created a list of cool hacking ideas.

The workshop was primarily focused on the core concepts of the protocol and the Raiden light client. André, one of the developers working on the light client, was presenting during the workshop. First, André explained the most important core concepts of the protocol and then focused on the implementation details of the Raiden light client. The final part of the workshop was reserved for Q&A. If you missed the live presentation don’t worry because a video of the workshop is available here. For any additional questions you can always reach the Raiden team in the developer chat.

Furthermore, if you are interested in hacking on top of Raiden, but you can’t come up with an idea, the Raiden team made a list of potential hacks. There are some really complex suggestions such as integrating Raiden with rollups, but also simpler ones such as building a Discord tipping bot. The list of potential hacks are here to inspire hackers and if you can’t find your idea on the list don’t worry, you can still work on it.

On Tuesday April 20th teams will be formed and hackers will start working on their hacks. We are looking forward to seeing all the new ideas that will come to life in the next 3 weeks!

Development progress

The Raiden development team continued working on the Bespin release and the first light client mainnet release.

We have some great news related to the Bespin release. The Matrix transport layer refactoring which is the biggest blocking issue for the Bespin release was successfully completed last week. Now, the Raiden development team can work on testing and prepare for the official release.

In parallel the development team also worked on minor upgrades in the light client repository and the Raiden services repository.

Conclusion

This is all for this week. The Scaling Ethereum hackathon is starting and we are eager to see the new hacks built on top of Raiden. For any questions and comments just leave a comment and we will get back to you.

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Cheers!

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