Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 193. This week we will go over all the news and updates since the last weekly update. There’s been quite a few, so let’s dig in!

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Coruscant and Krittika releases

Bespin, the previous major update of the Raiden clients, was introduced in June 2021. It focused on resolving the issues related to the Matrix transport layer and introduced a limited amount of new features and optimizations. Immediately after the Bespin went live, the Raiden team started working towards next milestones: Coruscant for the Raiden client and Krittika for the light client.

On December 30th 2021 Coruscant and Krittika were ready and the Raiden team made the official releases. In addition to a number of very cool new features, the releases include stability, performance and reliability improvements to almost every part of the protocol. Opening and closing the channels became significantly less gas heavy, while with the introduction of the WebRTC to the transport layer, payments became even quicker.

For complete coverage of all the changes please check out the official announcement. If you still haven't tried out Raiden on the Ethereum chain (especially if the reason is current high gas fees), we encourage you to wait a little longer. Soon Raiden should be available on Arbitrum, where gas fees are much lower!

Development progress

As the official announcement states, with Coruscant and Krittika releases the Raiden protocol became feature complete. That means the technology is ready and the Raiden team can now focus more on the ecosystem growth and onboarding communities.

With that being said, further development didn’t stop. The main focus right now is getting Raiden ready for Arbitrum. Since Arbitrum is a slightly different environment than Ethereum chain is, some modifications to the smart contracts are necessary. Nevertheless, most features should work out of the box and we should hear more news about it soon.

Conclusion
This is it for the update 193. Moving forward we will continue the reddit updates, but they might not be weekly any more, depending on the amount of content there is to cover. Thank you for all the support and sorry for taking this long break :)

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Cheers!

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