Weekly Dev Update #78

THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 78, 19–25 Jan; Litecoin, new Testnet, final preparations in ASGARDEX, upcoming releases for Community Products, ethereum support in XChainJs

Summary

Synth fixes to multichain, as well as adding Litecoin. A new testnet was prepared and deployed:

Midgard: https://testnet.midgard.thorchain.info

THORNode: https://testnet.thornode.thorchain.info

Seed Service: https://testnet.seed.thorchain.info

The team are preparing the network and wallet for an orderly public rollout with support for BTC, ETH, BCH, LTC and BNB chains. Expect this later this week or early next week.

THORNode

Multichain patches, including some updates to synths (prefix, virtual depths, redemption whilst staged).

In addition, the need to attach a coin for deposit requests is removed (no need to send 0.00000001 RUNE for a withdrawal etc).

Litecoin was also added.

• Resolve “[FIX] Register message through amino”
• change synth prefix to ‘thor’
• don’t require coins for withdraw, unbond, or leave
• Resolve “[ADD] Add LTC chain client”
• allow unavailable pools to have their synthetic asset swap back to rune
• Add wait for eth contract deploy
• fix yggdrasil Return deduct gas twice for BCH and BTC
• update tendermint to v0.34.2
• avoid deduct yggdrasil return gas twice
• [bugfix] fix synth swap issues
• Patch reserve handler
• When binance block scanner failed to parse coin , it should move on
• Merge branch ‘761-issue’ into ‘testnet’
• binance block scanner move on if it can’t parse the coin
• 2x pool depths for calculating swap fees for synthetic swaps
• track burned non-native rune
• Update ETH smart contract , some event name changed
• Update repos path
• Revert “Merge branch ‘762-issue’ into ‘master’”

Midgard

Work continues to prep Midgard V2 to handle Multichain requirements.

• Minor refactoring of db update on startup.
• unique counts and 30d period
• Fix dockerfile
• Upgrade to tendermint v0.34.1 to match thornode.
• Add smoke and build ci steps
• Feature acsaba
• Bugfix: allow filtering by both txids.
• pull development changes to production branch

XChainJS

Ethereum was merged as a package. It supports Rinkeby.
Ethereum Fixes

BitcoinCash and Litecoin will be implemented next.

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: Deployed to testnet
• Ethereum: Deployed to testnet
• BitcoinCash: Deployed to testnet
• Litecoin: Deployed to testnet
• Cosmos: Under review — considering moving to IBC implementation
• Haven: Under implementation — work focusses on solving EDDSA MSig
• Polkadot: Under implementation — some hurdles to cross with bifrost state sync.

Clients

BEPSwap Client

Numerous UI/UX tweaks based on community feedback

ASGARDEX Client

Work continues to prepare the client for Multichain Chaosnet. It will be ready within the week. Node operators can BOND and monitor their nodes.

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. New card-style overviews.

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 and Bitcoin, Ethereum, BitcoinCash, Litecoin, Binance Chain and 0.40 update has been deployed. The team are acquiring quantities of testnet assets in order to seed the first few pools such that the network can be adequately tested by the public. If you can help the team acquire the following testnet assets, please reach out:

* BCH (testnet)
* ETH (Rinkeby)
* Litecoin (testnet)

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