THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 80, 01–07 Jan; Redeployed Testnet, final preparations in ASGARDEX, ZCash and Dogecoin bridges scoped, Litecoin, Bitcoincash support in XChainJs
Summary
The multichain testnet was re-deployed with the latest fixes.
Midgard: https://testnet.midgard.thorchain.info
THORNode: https://testnet.thornode.thorchain.info
Seed Service: https://testnet.seed.thorchain.info
THORNode
Multichain patches, including some updates to Ethereum decimal handling.
Midgard
Work continues to prep Midgard V2 to handle Multichain requirements.
- efficient websocket handler
- Add rune/asset split for deposits and withdraws.
- Initial websockets implementation
- period based APY ; bugfix: dont fail network endpoint on no churn.
- Global stats field renaming; LiquidityUnits history
XChainJS

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
Twitter 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://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:
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.
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.
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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