Weekly Dev Update #75

Mostly a light update — the team took 1.5 weeks off over Christmas, except for whoever runs the twitter account.

Summary

The team continues prep the chain for Multichain, significant progress has been made on Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash support.

THORNode

Bug-fixes and improvements, as well as some changes for Ethereum.

• Make sure the asset put into MaxGas is always gas asset
• Resolve “Switch smoke tests to midgard-v2”
• Update swap queue logic to pick correct pool when target asset is RUNE
• Remove AccountCoin type so Account can hold account information become chain agnostic
• Refactor pubkey manager to support contract

Midgard

Work continues to prep Midgard V2 to handle Multichain requirements.

• only meta + bugfix
• Make config overridable by using env variables with the MIDGARD_ prefix
• Update txs endpoint and rename to actions

Devops

Continual improvements.

• Use basename variable with Digital Ocean
• Resolve “[FIX] AWS autoscaler in multi-zones”

Bridges

Actively-developed bridges will be reported here going forward. Bridges are commissioned once a team who can implement is identified and work begins.

• Bitcoin: Complete, edge case testing on live testnet
• Ethereum: Complete, prepping for testnet
• BitcoinCash: Complete, prepping for testnet
• Cosmos: Under review
• Haven: Under implementation
• Polkadot: Under implementation

Clients

BEPSwap Client

Numerous UI/UX tweaks based on community feedback

ASGARDEX Client

Work continues to prepare the client for Multichain Chaosnet.

Community Work

The following tools receive regular updates:

Telegram Bot

@thornode_testnet_bot

@thornode_chaosnet_bot

Twitter Bot

https://twitter.com/thor_bot

Delphi Defi Dashboard

https://defi.delphidigital.io/thorchain/chaosnet/network

THORChain Network Explorer

Continual Improvements, now with custom sub-domains for each net:

https://thorchain.net/

https://testnet.thorchain.net/

https://multichain-testnet.thorchain.net/

THORChain Official Block Explorer

https://viewblock.io/thorchain

THORChain Dashboard (ViewBlock)

https://dash.viewblock.io/d/thorchain

RUNEData

View historical yield and simulate future yield in pools:

http://www.runedata.info/

RUNEBalance

View current arbitrage opportunities in the pools

https://www.runebalance.com/#/pools

RUNEStake

RUNEStake can be used to see yield in THORChain liquidity pools.

https://runestake.info/

Trading Leaderboard

View the current leaderboard for traders on THORChain

https://leaderboard.thornode.org/

GrassRootsCrypto Youtube

GrassRootsCrypto consistently puts out great educational videos on THORChain, users should subscribe and bookmark the channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuC_PiCEsNIT6HH88r7vCsw/videos

Next Milestones

Multi-chain Testnet with Native Rune is deployed and being stabilised. The next milestone is to re-deploy with Ethereum, BitcoinCash and 0.40 update.

You can view the live network here:

http://18.198.92.45:1317/thorchain/doc/

Community

To keep up to date, please monitor community channels, particularly Telegram and Twitter:

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