Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 176. This week we will give a brief insight of the tasks that the Raiden development team is working on after successful launches of the Raiden Client Bespin release and the Light Client mainnet release. Let’s dig in!

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Development progress

The Bespin release introduced a number of improvements to the Raiden Client (read more about it in the official blog post). However, a couple of features were not completely finished in time for the release and the Raiden development team is currently prioritizing them.

The highest priority feature currently being worked on is finalizing WebRTC transport layer integration. The Bespin release contains code required for WebRTC but there are a few open tasks remaining before it will be ready for production use. Another high priority task is the cooperative settlement feature. Cooperative settlement will enable users to speed up the process of closing channels. This means lower delay between when users request to close the channel and tokens (previously locked in a channel) are available on the Ethereum L1.

The Light Client team is working on a few minor bugs discovered since the launch. Additionally, they are also preparing for the cooperative settlement feature in order to stay completely compatible with all the features available through the Raiden Client. We can expect for them to continue working on new features once all issues discovered post release are resolved.

Conclusion

This is all for this week. It’s been only two weeks since the Bespin release and a significant amount of the development team’s focus is dedicated to supporting both big upgrades. We thank everyone for their support and feedback about the releases.

Cheers!

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