Summary
Chaosnet was launched, with 11 node operators quickly moving from Testnet to Chaosnet to stabilise the network. Several community members staked into the first BNB pool, hitting the FUND CAP of 50k RUNE immediately. Several issues were encountered, but all hurdles crossed and the network has proved to be very stable.
Testnet 5–0.8.0
This fixed a Slashing Mistake and a feature to allow Node Operators to Bond in multiple transactions, instead of all at once.
https://gitlab.com/thorchain/thornode/-/merge_requests/1190
https://gitlab.com/thorchain/thornode/-/merge_requests/1189
Chaosnet Launch–0.9.0 and Binance Daemon Update
Chaosnet was launched, but a hot fix on Binance Chain meant Binance Nodes immediately crashed. Node Operators were pushed the fix in order for observations of Binance Chain to resume.
Testnet5 Rescue
In the rush for node operators to join Chaosnet, four nodes requested to leave, and three nodes just shutdown their machine without even a request to leave, resulting in a total of 7 nodes who had to be churned out.
Since this is more than 1/3 of the total and the churn logic gives preference to those who requested to leave, as a result of that, one or two of the three nodes which already shutdown stayed active and failed the keygen. Thus TN5 churning halted (not the blockchain, but just the mechanism for vault management).
As a result, the remaining TN5 Node Operators used the "BAN" tx in anger to remove these dud nodes. This cost them 0.1% of their bond, but they were able to remove the dead nodes from the network and resume churning.
As a bonus of this, the team discovered an arithmetic bug in how super-majority was calculated and subsequently patched that (it was off-by-one).
THORNode
Fixes, upgrades:
- Resolve “bump up version”
- update version to 0.9.0, so we can sync both chaosnet and testnet
- Resolve “[FIX] Slash node account by mistake”
- Merge branch ‘593-issue’ into ‘testnet’
Midgard
Fixes, as well as a new endpoints for more optimised balance and pool data queries. Push pool depths to memory for faster returns.
- Resolve “Replace number of transactions with number of events in /v1/stats endpoint”
- Resolve “Add mimir endpint to proxied whitelisted endpoints”
- Resolve “BUG: invalid stakers count in pools detail”
- Resolve “BUG: Negative SellVolume”
- Update number of events
- Fix staker count
Clients
BEPSwap Client
Numerous UI/UX tweaks based on community feedback
ASGARDEX Client
Work continues to prepare the client for Chaosnet.
Community Work
The following tools receive regular updates:
Telegram Bot
Twitter Bot
Delphi Defi Dashboard
THORChain Explorer
THORChain Official Block Explorer
Audits
A final infrastructure audit is planned post-Chaosnet.
Next Milestones
Chaosnet will soon be officially unveiled.
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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