Weekly Dev Update #86

THORChain

2021-03-24 — 5 min read

Summary

Go/No-Go

THORNode ⏱ (pending public MCTN + 1 week stability
Midgard ⏱ (pending some fixes)

Web Interface ✅
Desktop Interface ✅

Chaosnet Release V0.19.2

Chaosnet Node operators sometimes get 300 slash points because they fail to send yggdrasil fund, and after that, bifrost consistently fail to send outbound transaction and cause node operator to accumulate large amount slash points until they restart bifrost. In this release apply a hard timeout (5 minutes) for keysign, if it take longer than that, bifrost will panic, and then it will be recreated by k8s cluster. This will make it self heal.

PR: https://gitlab.com/thorchain/thornode/-/merge_requests/1561

Multichain Resources

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

THORNode

Several bugs around synths were found and fixed, with the help of the community. Work on preparing a hard fork script was completed, with the intent to test a hard fork before Chaosnet. Finally, an improvement to Singlechain V0.19.2, which contains a timeout-panic-restart for the Bifrost to address a lingering bug

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

Midgard

Work continues to update Midgard V2 to handle Multichain requirements and fix any depth divergences. Some work to handle synths was also completed, however it is not yet fully integrated.

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

Pending IBC integration — Cosmos, Terra, Kava, Secret Network, Injective Protocol, Sifchain, Akash NetworkClients

BEPSwap Client

Numerous UI/UX tweaks based on community feedback

ASGARDEX Client

Work continues to prepare the client for Multichain Chaosnet. V0.0.8 is almost ready for release and has full ETH/ERC20 functionality.

ASGARD.EXCHANGE

Fully ready for Chaosnet

Community Work

The following tools receive regular updates:

ASGARD.EXCHANGE

Fix BCH errors that were happening on builds
- Update to how we’re handling balances. Previously, it was checking balances synchronously, and if one balance failed, it tripped up the rest. Now fetches balances asynchronously, noticably faster, and displays error if one of the balance API call fails
- Display USD input amount for swaps
- Started getting synths added to asgard.exchange
- Separated mainnet and testnet entry points for the explorer. Allows for clean CI for separate builds
- Fixed bug in state where some testnet endpoints were returning mainnet.
- Fixed bug on pools page of the explorer when pools were returned before RUNE price
- Updated volume chart to line chart instead of bar chart, added touchtip, changed up style
- Added external social links + link to single chain explorer to explorer

XChainPy

— adding necessary configs to packages to upload on PyPI
— testing some packaging tools to prefer one of them
— upload the packages that are not dependent on others, on test.pypi and then PyPI
— changing codes to use the PyPI packages instead of local packages

https://pypi.org/search/?q=xchainpy

Block42

Telegram Bot
- Doing some backend cleanup for the profit roll-up stats feature (ongoing)
- Preperation for Multichain:
— Add BCH and LTC monitoring
— Migration from midgard v1 to midgard v2 (ongoing)

New Synthetics Swapping App
- New project started here: https://github.com/block42-blockchain-company/thorchain-synthetics-swap
- Some design work (ongoing)
- Trying out API calls now (ongoing)

THORChain.org

— mobile prototype deployed
— mobile nav menu
— mobile post component
— desktop relative sizing adjusted and ready for deploy
next week:
— Homepage mobile layout
— mobile facebook like stories

RUNEYield.info

-Added Leaderboard https://leaderboard.runeyield.info and fixed two-days data lagging
- Created @rune_yield_bot for hourly tweet pools stats.
- Improve LP protection implement and report.
*For MCTN testing: (https://mctn.vercel.app/dashboard?thor=tthor1zzwlsaq84sxuyn8zt3fz5vredaycvgm7n8gs6e)

ASGARDEX Reskin

— upgarde rune pages
— safari fixes
— testnet color palette added
— usd value between swap pages
— tag, asset-input, bottom-actions, breadcrumb component update fix
— download keystore in seed phrase
— disconnection bug fixes
— fixing other invalid & bug labeled issues

THORChain Monitoring bot

• Midgard V1 & V2 unified interfaces including TX parser and historical pool depths and prices
• Changes and fixes for price and queue notifications to support Multi-chain environment
• New adapters to Runestake/Runeyield API
• New explorer URLs for all main chains (test and production)
• New address validator
• Mass code refactoring
• Avatar generator:
→ 1. New option: Green laser eyes using face recognition technology (example: https://ibb.co/rxzM6VT)
→ 2. Support for non-square input images
→ 3. It can now accept the image as an uncompressed document to bypass Telegram’s poor JPEG quality

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

RUNEStake && RUNEYield

RUNEStake can be used to see yield in THORChain liquidity pools.

https://runestake.info/

https://app.runeyield.info/wallet/walletlist

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

1 week of public testing is the absolute minimum timeline to reach MCCN by end of month. Likelihood of delays is high. Pray to Odin for a smooth launch.