Raiden Network: Getting to a production ready payment channel network
Duration: 00:22:13
Speaker: Lefteris Karapetsas
Type: Talk
Expertise: Intermediate
Event: Devcon
Date: Jul 2026
The Raiden Network is the payment channel network for Ethereum aiming to help scale Ethereum payment and all Dapps that utilize Ethereum for payments and rely on no on-chain side effects of the payments. There will be a small explanation of what is payment channels and a payment channel network, an explanation of the raiden network protocol and a demo of using Raiden (hopefully by then live on the mainnet). We will close with future plans, expansion of the protocol and showcasing potential applications.