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Raiden

<h4 align="center"> Fast, cheap, scalable token transfers for Ethereum </h4>

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The Raiden Network is an off-chain scaling solution, enabling near-instant, low-fee and scalable payments. It's complementary to the Ethereum Blockchain and works with any ERC20 compatible token. The Raiden project is work in progress. Its goal is to research state channel technology, define protocols and develop reference implementations.

INFO: The Raiden client and smart contracts have been released for Mainnet for the Alderaan release of the Raiden Network in May 2020.

The Raiden Network is an infrastructure layer on top of the Ethereum Blockchain. While the basic idea is simple, the underlying protocol is quite complex and the implementation non-trivial. Nonetheless the technicalities can be abstracted away, such that developers can interface with a rather simple API to build scalable decentralized applications based on the Raiden Network.

Raiden in a Nutshell

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Getting Started

Learn about Raiden

If you haven't used Raiden before, you can

Use Raiden

If you want to use Raiden:

Specification

Read the tentative specification for the Raiden Network to understand in detail how Raiden works. It is maintained within this repository.

Repositories

The Raiden Network is getting created with a set of tools, which are maintained in different repositories.

Core

Tools

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

Also have a look at the Raiden Development Guide and the Raiden Developer On-boarding Guide for more info.

License

Distributed under the MIT License.

Contact

Dev Chat: Gitter

Twitter: @raiden_network

Website: Raiden Network

Blog: Medium

Mail: contact@raiden.network

The Raiden project is led by brainbot labs Est.

Disclaimer: Please note, that even though we do our best to ensure the quality and accuracy of the information provided, this publication may contain views and opinions, errors and omissions for which the content creator(s) and any represented organization cannot be held liable. The wording and concepts regarding financial terminology (e.g. "payments", "checks", "currency", "transfer" [of value]) are exclusively used in an exemplary way to describe technological principles and do not necessarily conform to the real world or legal equivalents of these terms and concepts.