Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 177. This week we’ll check what the Raiden development team was up to during the previous week. Let’s dig in!

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Development progress

In the previous weekly update we covered the high priority tasks the Raiden development team is currently working on. Those are the cooperative settlement and the WebRTC support. WebRTC support will significantly speed up the Raiden client (from currently 1-2s to complete a payment to sub second payments) while cooperative settlement will speed up the closing of the channel and settling funds on-chain.

There was significant progress in the WebRTC integration. The pull request which enables WebRTC in the Raiden client was opened and reviewed. The development team also worked on improved handling of scenarios where the Raiden client completely loses the internet connection. A patch release for Bespin which should include cooperative settlement and WebRTC alongside few other improvements, is already in the planning phase.

The Light Client team is working on the same features as the Raiden Client team in order to keep feature parity. Additionally, they are also preparing some cool features for the ETHCC conference which will take place between July 20th and July 22nd.

Conclusion

This is all for this week. The Raiden team is already working on new features and both releases look very stable so far with almost no bugs discovered. The DAI token network on mainnet is steadily growing and currently counts more than 100 unique addresses. Next week we’ll be sharing more details on Raiden’s ETHCC participation so stay tuned!

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Cheers!

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