THORChain release Testnet 3

Overview

The team are excited to announce the following details:

• Testnet is live again for testing at testnet.bepswap.com
• Testnet wallets can be generated using @bepswapbot on telegram

40,000 RUNE is still allocated for the Top 10 wallets that interact with the network as well as submitting Gitlab Issues.

An additional 20,000 RUNE to be shared with any user that builds functional products that are open-source and work with the network.

A screen cast walkthrough is below:

UX Improvements

Consolidated Home Screen

The following are the changes incorporated:

Single home screen with ACTIVE and PENDING pools available for review

STAKE and SWAP buttons available for each pool

New Swap Screen

Feedback from the community has resulted in a substantially simplified swap screen:

Single input box

Output field and output token selector

Swap Rate and Swap Slip shown in a separate area

Fees shown under Swap Slider

THORChain Improvements

The team spent the entire week bug-fixing the blockchain, as well as the Bifröst and TSS protocol. The following are some of the merge requests in support of this:

• [bugfix] Ignore non stdtx
• [bugfix] mark outbound as done more accurately
• [bugfix] fix bifrost pubkey manager
• [bugfix] pubkey mgr refreshes signer pks
• [bugfix] re-enable outbound memos
• [bugfix] panic when tss is frozen
• [bugfix] smarter thorchain block height querying
• [bugfix] clear markers on outbound
• [bugfix] bifrost add tss timeout
• [bugfix] don’t kill transaction if we don’t update last chain height
• [bugfix] txout outhash marks all tx outs

Towards the end of the week, the team stress-tested the protocol more thoroughly, by cycling 3000+ random transactions through the network in the space of a few hours in order to find bottlenecks and bugs.

What’s Next?

If Testnet 3 proves stable the team will focus on releasing another testnet that will allow potential THORNodes to practice joining and leaving, which will be a separate testnet to the one above.

The order of events are:
1) Testnet 4 — public nodes to practice bond/join/leave

2) Binance Chain Chaosnet >> will end in Ragnarok.

3) Multi-chain ASGARDEX chaosnet.

4) Multi-chain ASGARDEX mainnet.

THORChain Community

To keep up to date with the project, please monitor community channels, particularly Telegram, Discord and Twitter:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/thorchain_org
• Telegram Community: https://t.me/thorchain_org
• Telegram Announcements: https://t.me/thorchain
• Discord: https://discord.gg/V6pNp8A
• Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/thorchain
• Github: https://github.com/thorchain
• Medium: https://medium.com/thorchain