As per usual, here comes your bi-monthly summary of all things Raiden: overall development progress, product updates, event participation and all the other stuff that we’ve been up to in November and December! We’d like to thank you all for 2019, and we are looking forward to continuing development of the Raiden Project in 2020.

Development Updates towards Alderaan mainnet

Similar to the preceding two months, the last two months have mainly been used for testing as well as finding and fixing bugs. The goal of this is to get Raiden into a state where it is stable and robust enough to make it into a new release candidate and ultimately become the Alderaan milestone.

Alderaan will be the first integrated mainnet release coming with a service layer (monitoring and pathfinding service) together with new features (channel withdraw, source routing, mediation fees).

General Updates

Raiden Client: Since we are still in an intensive bug fixing and testing mode, we do not recommend using the latest release candidate v0.200.0-rc2 “Narcoleptic Neo”. This release has some known bugs, but stay tuned for the next testnet release, which we expect to be released soon and will fix these issues. All releases can be found on the Raiden client release page. For any technical inquiry please do not hesitate to contact the development team via our Gitter chat room.

Since we are still in an intensive bug fixing and testing mode, we do not recommend using the latest release candidate v0.200.0-rc2 “Narcoleptic Neo”. This release has some known bugs, but stay tuned for the next testnet release, which we expect to be released soon and will fix these issues. All releases can be found on the Raiden client release page. For any technical inquiry please do not hesitate to contact the development team via our Gitter chat room. Raiden Light Client : In response to the Raiden Client release candidate “Narcoleptic Neo”, the light client team released the first version of the light client that is compatible with the Alderaan smart contracts. Furthermore the light client now integrates with the path finding services and it also supports mediation fees. Lastly, as a huge UX improvement, Derived Subkey support has been added to the light client. This means that users don’t have to sign each individual message in the light client anymore.

In response to the Raiden Client release candidate “Narcoleptic Neo”, the light client team released the first version of the light client that is compatible with the Alderaan smart contracts. Furthermore the light client now integrates with the path finding services and it also supports mediation fees. Lastly, as a huge UX improvement, Derived Subkey support has been added to the light client. This means that users don’t have to sign each individual message in the light client anymore. Raiden Trust: The Raiden Trust has finished reviewing its first batch of applications and will shortly release communications about this. However, you can, at any time, apply for a Raiden Trust grant! Find all details about grant applications and guidelines here.

The Raiden Trust has finished reviewing its first batch of applications and will shortly release communications about this. However, you can, at any time, apply for a Raiden Trust grant! Find all details about grant applications and guidelines here. Raiden WebUI: There have been multiple small new releases of the WebUI. Most of the releases have mainly been fixing smaller cosmetic bugs. You can see a list of all releases here. v0.11.0 is the most significant of the new releases and it adds a bunch of nice UI improvements.

There have been multiple small new releases of the WebUI. Most of the releases have mainly been fixing smaller cosmetic bugs. You can see a list of all releases here. v0.11.0 is the most significant of the new releases and it adds a bunch of nice UI improvements. Weekly development updates: u/BOR4 and u/Mat7ias spent the last weekly update of the year making a summary of what happened in the Raiden Project in 2019. You can take a look at it here. As always, if you are interested in more detailed development updates, make sure to follow the weekly updates on development progress and other activities posted on Reddit by u/BOR4 or u/Mat7ias with the [GIT] label.

People

Unfortunately, we have had to say goodbye to four colleagues over the last two months. We are very grateful for all the hard work that Yoichi, Rafael, Tobias and Roy did for the project and we wish them all the very best in their new endeavors.

We would also like to welcome Sash to the team. Sash is our new designer and will be stepping in to fill Roy’s position.

What’s up next?

Everyone is working heads down to get the next mainnet release (Alderaan) out as soon as possible and we hope to be able to share some good news regarding this in the near future.

Event wise, we currently do not have a lot in the pipeline for January and February. We will be doing a workshop at EthCC and also plan on speaking there as well as at EDCON as some of the early bigger events this year. We are also looking for interesting hackathons to participate in and hope to see a lot of cool things being hacked on Raiden in the near future.

Please make sure to follow our Twitter feed for more announcements on upcoming events.

Join our team!

Looking for a new challenge? If you want to be part of an open ecosystem right at the technological frontier and happen to be as excited about payment channel networks as we are, please have a look at the open positions and apply or feel free to refer somebody.

Once again, we want to thank you all for a great 2019 and we look forward to a hopefully even greater 2020 together with you all!

All the best,

The Raiden Team