Weekly Dev Update #89

2021-04-20 — 4 min read

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Summary

Launch

Chaosnet was launched on 13th April 2021 with a 500k RUNE cap which was quickly filled. The team are focussing on stability before raising caps further.

Multichain Resources

Testnet

Midgard: https://testnet.midgard.thorchain.info/v2/doc

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

RPC: https://testnet.rpc.thorchain.info(https://cosmos.network/rpc/v0.37.9)

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

Chaosnet

Midgard: https://midgard.thorchain.info/v2/doc

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

RPC: https://rpc.thorchain.info(https://cosmos.network/rpc/v0.37.9)

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

THORNode

A lot of fixes to achieve stability. No major changes to report.

https://gitlab.com/thorchain/thornode/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=merged

Midgard

A lot of fixes to achieve stability. No major changes to report.

https://gitlab.com/thorchain/midgard/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=merged

XChainJS

Stability and fixes for Asgardex requirements.

https://xchainjs.org

Bridges

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

Complete

Bitcoin: Deployed to testnet
Ethereum: Deployed to testnet
BitcoinCash: Deployed to testnet
Litecoin: Deployed to testnet

UTXO Chains

Dogecoin: Complete, will be activated after MCCN
ZCash: Scoped, rain-checked

Cryptonote

Haven: MSS complete, rain-checked until after MCCN since the MCTN is demanding resources to stabilise.
Monero: Pending Haven implementation

Custom

Cardano — Scoping
Polkadot: Demo’d, rain-checked until after MCCN since the MCTN is demanding resources to stabilise.
Avalanche: Rain-checked
Zilliqa: Scoped, rain-checked

EVM Chains

Binance Smart Chain: Likely after MCCN
Ethereum Classic: Rain-checked
Rootstock: Rain-checked
Arbitrum: Rain-checked

IBC

A development partner has been found and will begin building IBC bridges.

Pending IBC integration — Cosmos, Terra, Kava, Secret Network, Injective Protocol, Sifchain, Akash Network — currently scoping with Akash team.

Clients

THORSwap Client

THORSwap.finance is being maintained by the dev team behind BEPSwap.com. They carry over the same design plus all the UX learnings from BEPSwap.

ASGARDEX Client

V0.1 was released for Chaosnet

ASGARD.EXCHANGE

Fully ready for Chaosnet.

VanaheimX

Prepping for Chaosnet.

Community Work

The following tools receive regular updates:

RUNEYield.info Weekly Update: (12/04–18/04)

Released all-in-one support (Multichain, Singlechain and SushiSwap.)
- Fixed asset allocation section not displaying correct asset name
- Used web3.utils.toChecksumAddress for getting ERC-20 asset logo from TrustWallet.
- Resumed iOS app development. (Starting from basic detail with a direct link to web for detail.)

block42 Weekly Dev Report (12/04–18/04) 🚀

Telegram Bot
- Updates for midgard v2 for MCCN
- New version should be out soon

brokkr (Synths Swapping App)
- USD equivalent calculations
- Minor design revisions
- xchainjs integration
- Working on keplr wallet integration
- Working on documentation to explain Synths to users

You can follow brokkr updates here:
Twitter: @Brokkrfinance
Telegram channel: https://t.me/brokkrfinance

🌈 TRX1’s Weekly Dev Report (12/04–18/04)

Chaosnetleaders

• Deployed a new leaderboard for MCCN https://leaderboard.thornode.org/
• The old BEPSwap version was moved to https://leaderboard-bepswap.thornode.org/

aiothornode Python library

• Added MCCN environment
• Dependencies updated
• Bug fixing
• Deployed to PyPi (https://pypi.org/project/aiothornode/)

THORChain Monitoring bot

• MCCN support!
• Added fees for LP summary
• Improved USD/Rune price calculation
• Full pool state caching
• TLV as sum of MCCN TLV and BEPSwap TLV
• QA and bug fixing
• Network statistics daily notification (WIP)

MCCN Alerts: https://t.me/thorchain_alert
MCCN Bot: https://t.me/thor_infobot

BEPSwap alerts: https://t.me/bepswap_alert
BEPSwap Bot: https://t.me/thorchain_monitoring_bot

DEVOps Weekly Update (4/12–4/18)

cluster-launcher
Fix kubeconfig commands (make kubeconfig-provider)
hcloud
Upgrade kubernetes and update dependencies
kubernetes 1.19
kubespray 2.15.1
Switch to new dedicated AMD (CCX32) from Intel on worker nodes
Change kubernetes signing key
Replace host with load balancer in kubeconfig file
Digitalocean (WIP)
Update Kubernetes and dependencies
kubernetes 1.19
Increase cluster nodes to prevent volume constraint
Tests on k8s 1.19 and firewall/LB
Autoscaling issues
AWS
Tests & pre-checks on EKS module (14/15) with terraform (14/15)
Tests with new metrics-server deployment

thormon
Add dark and sepia color themes
Improve sorting and performance
Default to multi.chaos
Integrate solvency app (WIP)
Background health checks (WIP)
Improving deployments
Domain and DNS
Load balanced api’s

VANHAEIMX Weekly Update (12/04–18/04):

Asgardex Reskin:
— splash page is ready
— better build management over environments
— USD value showing bug fix
— UI/UX improvement

https://asgardex-splash.vercel.app/landing

Telegram Bot

@thornode_testnet_bot

@thornode_chaosnet_bot

Twitter Bot

https://twitter.com/thor_bot

Delphi Defi Dashboard

Upcoming Release for the 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://singlechain.thorchain.net/

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

THORChain Official Block Explorer

https://viewblock.io/thorchain

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

Trading Leaderboard

View the current leaderboard for traders on THORChain

https://leaderboard.thornode.org/

GrassRootsCrypto Youtube

- Just finished travelling
- Created Video for club house chat with detailed timeline
- Helping users on the chat
- Ready to support for launch.
- Creating scripts for new videos.

http://yt.be/GrassRootsCrypto