Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 175. This week we cover another major release in the Raiden ecosystem - the Raiden Light Client mainnet release. We’ll check out what changes it brings, it’s features and how you can get onboarded and start using it. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden Light Client Mainnet Release - v1.0.0 - Ashvini

A week after a successful release of the Raiden client Bespin, the Raiden development team introduced the first ever Light Client release compatible with the Ethereum mainnet.

The most important feature of the Light Client is that it does not require users to run a Raiden node in order to use the Raiden network. The Ashvini release provides all features and security properties of the full client. A complete overview of the Ashvini release is available in the official blog post. The Light Client opens up a wide range of use cases since all it needs in order to run is an Ethereum enabled browser.

Getting onboarded to the Raiden Light Client is much easier than it is for the Raiden Python client. All you have to do is go to https://lightclient.raiden.network/#/home and follow the instructions. Please remember that In order for you to be able to receive payments you will need some RDN!

Conclusion

This is all for this week. Long period of development finally came to a conclusion, leading to stable versions of both Raiden Python client and Light Client available on the Ethereum mainnet. We would like to congratulate the Raiden development team on two successful launches in two weeks and are looking forward to seeing new dApps built using Raiden.

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Cheers!

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