Weekly Dev Update #79

2021-02-03 — 3 min read

THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 79, 26–31 Jan; Redeployed Testnet, final preparations in ASGARDEX, ZCash and Dogecoin bridges scoped, Litecoin, Bitcoincash support in XChainJs

Summary

The multichain testnet was prepared and deployed, but subsequently relaunched after a decimals-handling issue was found on Ethereum. It was then relaunched again, after Rinkeby Ethereum was found to be too difficult to get testnet funds (which are crucial to a well-functioning testnet). The new net is now synced to Ropsten. The team was successful in accumulating significant quantities in testnet assets (Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash) from a helpful community member.

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

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

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

The team are validating a few things relating to node churning as well finalising the wallet. Expect this later this week or early next week for public consumption:

public nodes can join
swaps/add liquidity from web interface
swaps/add liquidity from desktop interface

THORNode

Multichain patches, including some updates to Ethereum decimal handling.

Midgard

Work continues to prep Midgard V2 to handle Multichain requirements.

XChainJS

https://xchainjs.org

Litecoin and BitcoinCash were merged.

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.
ZCash: Scoped, rain-checked
Avalanche: Rain-checked
Dogecoin: Under Implementation — no blockers
Rootstock: Rain-checked
Zilliqa: Scoped, rain-checked
Monero: Pending Haven implementation
Binance Smart Chain: Rain-checked

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.

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

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://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 re-deployed. The team are stablising the net for public consumption.