Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 170. This week we will check the new Raiden client release and development progress in general. As for the results of the Scaling Ethereum hackathon, Optimistic Channels hack won the Raiden prize, but we will have to wait until next week for additional info on the hack.

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Bespin v2.0.0a1 - Berinjela

In the weekly update 168 we covered the introduction of the Bespin - Shinny release and how it would be used for testing on the Ethereum testnets. After 3 weeks of successful testing the Raiden development team decided it is time to move testing to the Ethereum mainnet. For this purpose they created the Bespin - Berinjela alpha release.

Bespin - Berinjela apart from a couple of bug fixes and improvements doesn’t introduce anything new. It’s main purpose is to help the development team in testing on the Ethereum mainnet.

Alongside Raiden client, a new version of services and Raiden service bundle were introduced as well.

Development progress

The majority of the week was dedicated to final testing and preparing for the mainnet testing. Soon after the Berinjela release was introduced the first bug was discovered. Debugging has already started and we should see a fix for it introduced soon.

The Light client team worked on automatic tests and a small feature related to connection to Ethereum. It is very positive to see that in recent weeks there were no serious issues discovered in the dApp or the SDK.

In the upcoming week we can expect for the Raiden development team to focus on mainnet testing of the Ethereum client and fixing any bugs discovered in the process.

Conclusion

This is all for this week. We are one step closer to the Bespin 2.0.0. release and depending on the success of testing on the Ethereum mainnet we should see it very soon. For any other questions feel free to reach out or join our community on Telegram.

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Cheers!

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