Welcome to the second episode of Raiden Pulse, your bi-monthly update on all things Raiden! Since Devcon4 made us delay this episode, in addition to September and October we’ll also include the first days of November (and Devcon) in this issue.

Devcon4

A large part of the Raiden team attended the yearly Ethereum developer conference aka Devcon, this year taking place in Prague from Oct 30 to Nov 2.

Besides the great opportunities to catch up, exchange of ideas and learning about progress and future plans of Ethereum and Ethereum related projects, we also had the chance to share our thoughts and updates with the Devcon participants by presenting on stage and hosting a workshop.

Lefteris talked about “Getting to a production ready PCN (Payment Channel Network)” covering updates on the Red Eyes release, insights into the Raiden protocol and client architecture as well as our challenges and learnings from testing and what is still missing to achieve “production readiness”. Have a look at his slides here.

Lefteris presenting Raiden at DevconIV in Prague

In the hands-on Raiden workshop, Jacob, Ulo and Paul explained how to get started with Raiden and how to use the Raiden API. We were overwhelmed by the amount of participants and the engaged interaction with the protocol. During the workshop, a network with more than 400 open channels was created by more than 100 participants. Thanks all for joining in!

Read #40 of the weekly GIT updates for a more in-depth summary of the Devcon talk and workshop. As soon as the videos of the livestream are available, we will share them with you, too.

Development Update

The team kept the weekly snapshot release rhythm and published testnets v0.8.0 — v0.15.1: Rising_Edge, Carradine, Janin, Protego Maxima, Mila 23, Gypsy Mushroom, Flawless Unicorn, Astir, Things to come and The Cave.

Starting from v0.13.0, support for Kovan and Rinkeby testnets has been added due to the Ropsten Constantinople fork.

The Raiden Network Explorer is now live, showing metrics and visualizations of Raiden Network.

A new version of the Raiden website is live.

Testing Raiden: The Scenario Player is finalized and new scenarios have been implemented to automatically test the Raiden Network.

A video walkthrough showing how to use the WebUI is now available on our Youtube channel.

Monthly GitHub pulse for September and October:

# Commits: ∼950 commits to master

# Pull requests: ∼370 PRs merged

# Issues: ∼235 closed

# Additions and deletions: ∼29,000+ lines of code added and ∼16,700 lines deleted

# Commits: ∼950 commits to master # Pull requests: ∼370 PRs merged # Issues: ∼235 closed # Additions and deletions: ∼29,000+ lines of code added and ∼16,700 lines deleted If you are interested in more in depth development updates, make sure to follow the [GIT] Weekly Updates posted on Reddit by u/BOR4 or u/Mat7ias.

People

We welcome Frederik (@luehrsFred) to the Raiden team! Frederik will be writing his Master thesis and supports the team with CircleCI integration.

We are excited to announce that cryptography researchers Prof. Sebastian Faust (TU Darmstadt) and Prof. Stefan Dziembowski (University of Warsaw) are now official advisors to the Raiden Network project. Both are part of the Perun Network project.

Events