Weekly Dev Update #76

THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 76, 04–11 Jan; Ethereum Router Upgradeability, Bitcoin Cash finalised, Synthetic Assets, Midgard tweaks.

Summary

Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash has been completed, Ethereum now has the ability to upgrade its Routing contract if a new one is deployed. Work has shifted to finalise the 0.40 Stargate update, which has been a significant refactor to re-write for the new protobuf encoding scheme. The team also continue to study and finalise the economic model for synthetic assets.

THORNode

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

• Resolve “[FIX] fee and slip for swap queue has not been calculated correct”
• ETH ERC20
• Update the gas strategy , not allow bifrost to spend more than MaxGas
• Resolve “[ADD] Add BCH chain client”
• Resolve “[FIX] Replace GETH custom build with standard ones”
• Fix contract env typo
• Update node status with new chains

Midgard

Work continues to prep Midgard V2 to handle Multichain requirements.

• Small rdm updates
• documentation updates
• Differenciate stats and stats/legacy
• API updates
• Make add_liquidity tx fields nullable.

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