Summary
Testnet 4 Preparations
The bulk of the week was conducting numerous tests to validate the Testnet 4 (TN4) build, both for the chain itself and its infrastructure. The team finished testing and have deployed TN4. The team will prepare to brief new Node Operators to bond and churn into the chain.
A separate blog will be written on Testnet4 and the process to join.
THORNode
- Update logic to choose yggdrasil send out fund
- rebase all the changes from master to develop
- Choose signing party when vault get created or someone get blamed
- [feature] add queue API endpoint
- Ensure unbond request will be processed only when it is from original bond address
- [testnet] update testnet constants
- Testnet 4
- 520-issue remove active observers
- [refactor] improve constants upgrade process
- [feature] add version API endpoint
- [bugfix] tweaks to manager migrate
- multi-send , ignore those outputs that have different output address as the first one
TSS
Midgard
- Resolve “Fix: Block scanner”
- Resolve “chain proxies”
- Testnet 4
- Resolve “Clean time-based ROI”
- Resolve “Fix lint issue”
- Resolve “TimescaleDB memory leak”
- Resolve “Change pool endpoint status code”
- Resolve “Implement pools_history table”
Infra
- Update mocknet deployments internal network
- Enable thor-api
- Update doc
- Add set-version command
- Update readme
- Update script gas auto
- Update node status script
- Update deps
- Fix binance volume permission
- Enable config duplicate ip
- Update Bifrost default log level to info
- Update binance daemon image
- Add BNB metric dashboard
Clients
BEPSwap Client
Numerous UI/UX tweaks based on community feedback
ASGARDEX Client
Work continues to prepare the client for Chaosnet.
- Optimize `render` functions in tables #236
- Refactor CoinXYZ components
- Update Back button font
- Style AssetReceive screen
- [Issue 244] Asset-View: Re-position of “refresh” button
- Add Settings screen
- [issues/65] Extract shuffle words from mnemonic confir
- [issue-67] extract isselected method/snippet from mnemonic confirm
- Hide “Refresh” button on wallet settings screen #251
- Simplify usage of `Asset`

Community Work
A Cross-chain Defi Dashboard (starting with THORChain) is being built.
Audits
A final infrastructure audit is planned post-Chaosnet.
Next Milestones
Testnet 4 has been deployed and will be made public soon. Chaosnet is expected once testnet has been fully-validated in several environments.
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
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